I’m really fond of vintage blisters although theyre getting quite expensive to collect 
. I love seeing the old designs they’d do for the backing.
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I’ve been intrigued with blisters lately. I very much like how the old blister layout remained consistent from base all the way to b&w. It allows for some OCD approved collecting.
Booster boxes have had some changes to layout and art in that time and they don’t look very good displayed next to each other imo. The modern booster boxes are just so boring and lame, whereas blisters have the same cool look throughout most sets.
However you are then subject to some sets having a “good” pack art selection and some slapping random crap on their packs with blisters
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I love collecting vintage blisters as well, but the problem is that eventually the glue holding the cardboard and plastic together will inevitably wear out. Kinda makes them all ticking time bombs.
Is it inevitable though? That is a concern of mine but I wonder if its more a product of having just the right (or wrong) environment to cause that. Is it an exposure to a higher temperature that wears it out or is it fluctuations? Is it just certain batches that are more susceptible than others?
Even the oldest blister is only ~30 years old. So nobody really knows unless someone has studied the materials science of that glue on that cardstock (probably not)
All of the lifted blisters I’ve owned and have seen come from someone else who didn’t store them well
What did you see that qualified as “not storing well?” Were they stored in a hot environment, or in a fluctuating one, high humidity, out in the open/exposed to sun?
Mainly just people who didn’t put any thought into storage because the items were worthless when they got them, and they were only in storage because the other option was either trash or opening them.
Thrown into large bins and tossed into attics, closets, basements. Places that don’t have proper insulation that any modern house would have. I can’t imagine that’s the best place to store fragile paper based collectables, but it’s all just a guess
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I think it’s awesome collecting the sealed packs, I wish I would’ve got the art set for Base, Jungle and Fossil when they weren’t a bajillion dollars. It’s just fun holding the sealed pack.
I’ve just kept mine in the Card Saver 1 and team bag sammich others have showed on here before for a few years now and it’s been working great. Once the bag gets smudged and dirty just put a new one on and like new. That binder idea is really cool.
I definitely want to at least have one sealed pack from each Scarlet & Violet set and maybe Sword n Shield.
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which set do you guys think has the best artset? A lot of them seem to just have random mons slapped on there
could be its own poll I guess
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Undoubtedly these two. Metagross is a little random but why not, he’s at the right beach and he’s a supercomputer on legs. For Tpci, that’s pretty thorough.
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Dragon or tmta
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Hard to choose but it’s between these 2 for me.
Putting my nostalgia bias aside then it would probably be heart gold and soul silver, they are all pretty nice looking
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Neo Discovery is my favorite aesthetic
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Yeah but no espeon kills me
Same with jungle. It’s like they have a perfect trio to use and then they pick one
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Agree! Should have replaced Smeargle with Tyranitar, IMO. Hate that Xatu wasn’t a holo and Forrestress was
there is only one to rule them all, the clash at the summit series by arita :
this is god tier then there is tier 1 which is heartgold soulsilver L1 :
also rulers of the heavens :
Tier 2 is the arita illustrated sun&moon series (gg end, tag bolt, night unison, full metal wall, sky legend, remix bout etc)
Tier 3 is the like of eevee heroes
Everything else, honestly, is just generic computer generated pokemons without any artistic vision and is not worth holding in my opinion.
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I went all in on booster packs rather than cards after watching how many were being ripped. They are finite and I wanted to preserve the history since few have done so with such detail.
It is an absolutely insane rabbit hole if you try to collect them all across all languages. I spent 2-3 years researching Base set and have settled on around 35 variants. Many didn’t even have photographs online so I hypothesized they existed and trolled eBay until they appeared.
I have these two guides up:
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I sometimes forget how amazing the Japanese HGSS/Legend era booster designs were. Along with the Japanese E-Series (especially from E2 to E5) and some others (VSTAR Universe, Rulers of the Heavens, (jpn.) Jungle) they are peak booster design to me as well.
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For sure. This or Sugimori JP Base.
Thanks for sharing!