Celebration Fanfare will no longer be an Asian exclusive!

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As the title states, Pokemon is releasing the Celebration Fanfare in non Asian languages!
I would assume this is more than just English.

The Ace Trainer Rewards program celebrates Trainers who participate in tournaments in CP-earning regions and operates on a CP threshold, meaning there is no limit to the number of players who can earn rewards. For the 2025 season, these rewards include a Play! Pokémon-stamped Celebratory Fanfare, a Pokémon TCG promo card previously exclusive to Asia, and an exclusive deck box and card sleeves in Pokémon TCG Live.

https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-news/2025-pokemon-championship-series-update-ace-trainer-rewards

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Is nothing sacred anymore?

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Hate this. Can’t English come up with something of their own? They’re so lazy

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I actually love this artwork and am pretty happy it comes in English!

I don’t see why this is a true problem, as this is gonna be for tournaments, not for us. Pokemon dosen’t do unique artwork for tournaments like that, so I kinda fail to see your disappointment, although understandable.

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TCPI has failed to create any meaninful unique artwork for the English userbase for as long as I can remember. All they’ve done was add stamps to shit.

Fanfare/opening ceremony was another unique Japanese promo series that had a fun, limited print distribution. Why can’t there simply be unique english artwork for a tournament or otherwise? I know that English collectors will take whatever they can get, but come on. Just create your own thing for once.

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Is it not because TPC gave them nothing unique to work with? They handle all artist commissions, TPCi only packages and distributes

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Is it not because TPC gave them nothing unique to work with? That’s my complaint. There’s never anything unique for English. Ever.

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Special Delivery promos are unique. I spend 3 seconds thinking of cards

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That are English-exclusive so far this era

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The entire Call of Legends set as well

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Forgot about the felt hat. Thanks for pointing that out. I just wish we’d get more of this and not more limited promo Japanese cards now getting converted. Loved when China was blessed with this as well:

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One step forward, 2 steps back I guess.

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Imagine how much chinese people are complaining about are exclusives, I think we can all agree though that Japan needs to start spreading the promos let some other countries have some random promos.

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China has had the most exclusive stuff lately. Japan has really been lacking on exclusivity the past few years.

When this type of discussion occurs, I often state that Japan is the mothership. The rest of us are just foreigners

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They are the mothership I just wish that they would spread some of the promos around that we don’t get, maybe it would even drive prices down a little, idk I just wish there wasn’t so much exclusivity, (also china deserves some exclusivity with how little pokemon they did for a while)

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I am confused. Japan hasn’t really seen anything exclusive the past few years after having 25 years of exclusive stuff all the time.

If anything English is taking over with exclusive promos

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I was thinking about it and I think that your right, for some reason I thought that they had more promos in the last few years, now I’m realizing that I am getting old and it’s no longer 2018, guess they have slowed down on Japanese exclusives

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This is Traditional Chinese, so for Taiwan and Hong Kong, not mainland China in this case.

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You should be happy because otherwise this would be the next art on the chopping block. Japan has been nerfing every exclusive art avenue they have.

I think every single sealed battle prize has become Nemona with the same stamp.

Other nerfs include Gym Promos (3 of the 7 cards are now reprints), CoroCoro (latest one became a reprint) and probably more I can’t recall.

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Not directly on topic but “you should be happy” must be the least empathetic and in the low end of helpful ways to react to someone’s issue

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Are the Greninja and kingdra full art promos English exclusives too?

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