Not a problem at all, you aren’t the first and you certainly won’t be the last!
I always say it’s a matter of time before a species collector goes all language, so keeping them as a reminder is a lovely idea.
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Hi, welcome to the forum! And yet ANOTHER Haunter collector. Our numbers grow.
Citrina already answered you, but you’ve got a long road ahead. In all the time I’ve been collecting, I haven’t seen a single unlimited XY8 out and about. I only have it because @bbobrob spotted one and grabbed it for me.
That said, other collectors in this very thread have found them in the time since, so it’s definitely possible. Just keep going and you’ll get there.
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Thank you and thank you for your incredible spreadsheet! I’ve started to convert it for my wife’s leafeon master set!
It’s gonna be a long road but it’ll be fun. I was able to snag the English Paradise resort card for a fairly decent price, and I’ve grabbed the base set variants to really start my set. Just gotta get them in the binder and get my proxies in!
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@dextersarus eeveeteam’s guide here is one of the best ways to go about searching for these difficult unlimited cards. And the earlier you get comfortable with possible daily searches, the better (luck favors the prepared!) 
If I remember right, I found the circlehunter’s unlimited Haunter searching just “ゴースト” (very general search term of just “Haunter”) on Mercari Japan and trudging through the listings. I ended up finding it in a small Haunter lot that had no mention of XY at all.
I also like how this collection thread has become the de facto hang out for all the Haunter species collectors 
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looool aww here we go again. I have literally the opposite missing from you
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THE HAUL IS HERE.
Featuring a little shiny Gyarados print! Please excuse the lighting, it’s a little scuffed at the moment. I would like to thank in particular the wonderful eBay seller “kaleidum_tcg” for expressing their interest in my collection and supplying me with that unlimited MF at the top left.
We have here the two from Start Deck 100, all three from Ascended Heroes, and both of those pesky Mirage Forest variants from a few posts ago. This brings me ONCE AGAIN (but really for the first time, technically) to 100% completion of my English and Japanese goal.
I have some binder management to do, so no updated photos of that quite yet.
That said, I am now reconsidering the Fossil 3rd print’s place. I do not currently at the time of posting consider it part of the main collection. But…I feel like I should. And because I need to shift some cards around to make room anyway, maybe this is the perfect time to start the search. I welcome any input on this. So far I’ve only managed to find them slabbed, which I’m NOT interested in. Definitely something to consider. (EDIT: NOT A CONCERN ANYMORE!)
(ignore the fact that Phantasmal Flames is the last set I have listed internationally, shh)
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Thank you for the tips this will be a massive help and I am totally prepared for the long haul on this one.
I’ve bought some of the random non tcg stuff I think my fav is the monopoly card I’ve also gotten a couple cool custom proxy cards of our boy that I really like the look of, just need to get some time to actually put it in the binder!
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again!
Just as a heads-up, there’s a seller on Ebay US (COMC) that has some Russian cards. Unfortunately, not the reverse holo, but the non-holo Russian Haunter is available. I don’t do all languages, so I don’t know how the price compares, but it seems reasonable enough (enough that I picked up some Russian cards myself some time back ).
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This is probably the lowest I’ll see it for tbh. During a failed group buy thread a while back, the Russian seller wanted something like 120 for both if I’m remembering correctly.
Dutch and Polish would be really neat to complete as well, but what a horrible time for a US buyer to try.
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Quick update! I’m pretty bad at doing these and actually showing off the spoils because everything gets tossed into the binder immediately, oops.
HOWEVER:
MIRAGE FOREST IS NO LONGER A PROBLEM.
This was actually much easier than I anticipated. It also means that my celebration a while back about completing EN/JP was premature, but we’ll talk about that more when my next target arrives.
Soon.
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You have a 1999-2000 haunter on the way?! Very nice… the guy who was gonna sell me one just stopped responding so that fell through 
Oh well one day!
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Ah, that’s extremely unfortunate. I hope you’re able to find one again soon. I was lucky to have one of our fellow Haunter collectors approach me with an ongoing listing, and I jumped at it immediately.
I’ll keep my eyes open, the least I can do is pay it forward.
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1st Ed SH1 and unlimited 0AM hopefully on the way… And will be able to mark complete…! (until perfect order, lol)
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Wee update on few nabs this year.
So nice to see 5 new haunters over ASC and POR. Finally got the 1999-2000 and the A53 varriant.
Still missing 3 big ones, 2 small ones:
Holo EX legend maker
Holo Legendary Collection
Holo Skybridge (63)
Reverse ASC
Reverse POR
Hard get bigs in good nick, and a decent price.
Will grind away hopefully complete the English MS this year!
Great work on all the collections love to see people getting their chases XD!
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I have this German one spare, that I bought it one night…not really checking fully .
German 41/99 Arceus
It’s so clean as well 
It doesn’t feel fake but it lacks the collection bottom right, but it’s hard find references.
What you think?
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Not sure what you mean with “collection bottom right”, but this card is perfectly normal, definitely real and not missing anything.
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Hell yeah, you got this. However, I think you might be missing a friend for that bottom right.
Also, the big one is imminent. Like, going to pick up the card now. Big excited!
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I’ve said this before, but it’s ACTUALLY done, for real this time.
A while back, I claimed that I completed my collection of all Haunter cards and cameos* in both English and Japanese. And though this was a true statement to my knowledge at the time, I learned some time ago that I’d been missing two code variants from the Japanese “Mirage Forest” set. Shortly after deciding to pursue those two, I thought back to that pesky Fossil third print and wondered if my decision to exclude it from the goal was spiritually fulfilling. Turns out, it wasn’t.
I convinced myself to go for it. One of the growing number of Haunter collectors who found their way here, dextersarus, messaged me a very short time later with a listing for one, saying they didn’t feel like going for it yet. I jumped at it.
BEHOLD:
I began this collection journey on December 6, 2016 after finding my old cards in the closet. In April of 2018, Quuador compiled a Haunter + cameos list for me. Hard to believe that it’s been so long since then! Thanks as always for being the first real supporter on the long road ahead.
With this, and I say this to the absolute best of my knowledge and am happy to be proven wrong again, my English and Japanese sets are now complete.
English: 71/71
Japanese: 56/56
Total: 127/127
*There are some reasonable exclusions that I’ve documented in my spreadsheet. The two big ones are the following trophy cards
- “Gourgeist” from the 2015 Art Academy Contest
- “Acerola” from the 2019 Extra Battle Day event (as well as its Traditional Chinese reprint from the Dreams Come True Collection)
…both of which feature Haunter as a cameo. It would not make sense to me, either mentally or financially, to pursue these. Additionally, there are several misprints and test prints that have caught my eye over the years, which I similarly have no hope of acquiring:
- Fossil 1st edition, yellow stain error (this one hurts)
- Fossil unlimited, Cosmos foil
- Expedition Matchprint (LOL, LMAO)
I think my next step is to start filling out some new languages. I’d like to start small, since there’s only a few Russian/Polish/Dutch sets to track down. I may require a middleman for much of it though, so any guidance there is appreciated.
The full binder as of today:
And the long-awaited “everything else” photos:
(god i hope the gallery function works properly)
Thank you all once again for being here. Having people here to share the journey with is a hell of a motivator, and I hope this helps motivate my fellow Haunter hunters to continue their journeys.
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ahh yayyy!! the full binder spreads are 
congratulations on the milestone!!!
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Great, congratulations! And good luck with slowly expanding the collection to other languages!
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