quuador
September 15, 2019, 8:34am
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Ah yeah, completely forgot about those. There should also be ones in Danish and Swedish for this Tyranitar Half Deck , which I would love to see! I’ve never seen the Spanish ones personally (and didn’t even knew it was released in Spanish), but I have seen the English and Italian ones before.
Two other cards which comes to mind after seeing the three sets mentioned by @gemmintpokemon above, which were originally rumored/planned but got cancelled, are the BW77 Pikachu and BW78 Raichu in English. To quote Bulbapedia for these unreleased cards:
Pikachu and Raichu were planned to be released in the Plasma Freeze Three Pack Blisters , but due to the cancellation of an English Landorus Box, BW Promos Landorus and Druddigon were issued in the Blister Packs instead of Pikachu and Raichu. Because of this abrupt change in products, there was not enough time for this promotional card to be repurposed into a different promotional product and remains unissued.
On July 21, 2014, Pokémon.com updated their card database with images of all 101 BW Black Star Promos , releasing images of the two previously unknown promotional cards falling at BW77 and BW78. By the end of the night, however, the official site had removed any trace of the Pikachu and Raichu cards. They are still visible and available in the Pokémon Trading Card Game Online .
Update: Pokémon.com has since removed these two promotional cards across all languages from their database.
The official Pokémon website has posted into their card database all of the BW Black Star Promos. Revealed in this update were two promotional cards that haven’t ever been revealed because they were originally cancelled: Pikachu BW Promo 77 and Raichu BW78. These promotional cards were originally going to be release in the Plasma Freeze Blisters, but were ultimately cancelled and never made available otherwise.
Around the time Plasma Freeze was being released, there were plans to release a Landorus Box to the English audiences, containing BW Promo 79, Landorus. This box, which was actually released in other international languages, was extremely similar to the unpopular Emerging Challenges Box . Because of this, distributors did not show any interest in the product, and it was eventually cancelled. However, knowing that the Landorus Promo was going to be a sought after card by the TCG audience, The Pokémon Company International instead repurposed the Landorus promo and released an alternate version of the Deoxys Box ’s Druddigon promo into the Plasma Freeze Blisters , kicking out the Pikachu and Raichu promotional cards shown below. This redistribution happened much too quickly for the company to repurpose the Pikachu and Raichu promos, thus leaving them unreleased. This is also the reason why Druddigon comes in both a Cosmos Holofoil and a Tinsel Holofoil.
I do wonder if any got ever printed, and later on destroyed; or if it was never printed in the first place, though.
And then there are also all those Japanese Sample prints of course, as well as this unknown Wailmer promo:
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