That handkerchief is sweet! Banpresto has some pretty obscure items form the 90s.
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We’re taking a break from the overwhelming number of Japanese collectables introduced so far, and today’s item is instead a very familiar one to European collectors. 
The Pokémon Kraks were released by Panini in September 2006 across several European countries, including Spain 
, Italy 
, and France 
. They were circular mini-blocks with three symmetrical bumps around the edges, and they were used to play a game by launching them at targets. 
They’re still extremely common nowadays. And I mean extremely common - you can often find tons of them for less than €1 per Krak, which makes the complete set of 120 a great beginner collection in its own right.
A total of 14 colors were released: Dark Blue, Blue, Dark Green, Green, Turquoise, Dark Purple, Purple, Red, Brown, Orange, Pink, Yellow, Lime, and Transparent. Theoretically, every Pokémon could exist in every color, but each Pokémon had certain colors seemingly preassigned to it. We don’t know the exact logic or reason behind these color combinations.
For most species, you’ll find a handful of common colors - usually around 4-6 - and those are what you’ll see most of the time. But there are huge differences in availability between those common colors and rare variations.
Take Scyther, for example. It’s commonly found in Dark Green, Green, Turquoise, Purple, and Red. But across all the other nine “rare” colors, I’ve seen a total of just 12 Kraks ever 
. And that’s after doom-scrolling Krak listings daily for months.
I know of other species collectors who are trying to get all 14 colors (shoutout to @Quuador with 12), but to this day, I have never seen a complete 14-piece set. Especially if you’re based in Europe, completing all 14 colors for a species would make for a really cool side quest!
And if you happen to pass by one of those non-TCG bazaars on a Sunday, take a quick look - you never know if a green ninja is waiting there to be found! 
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We are officially in the double digits (!!!), and today I will be covering the rest of the Japanese arcade series blocks. 
In the beginning, there was nothing… and then Pokémon Battrio was born. 
Back in 2007, Pokémon Battrio became the first Japanese arcade game where an actual physical collectable was dispensed from the machine as players interacted with it. And those collectables kept coming, with more than 25 series released over the next five years.
The circular, Poké Ball-themed discs are still relatively easy to find, and while there are many colors (not just white + red), usually each item only has one variation. Scyther had five different artworks released, and the only particularly niche one comes from a set called “Best Selection”. 
It reuses artwork from some of the previous series, but adds a tiny “BS” right next to the number. If you don’t know to look for it, you’d probably never notice the difference! So go check whether your favorite Pokémon was part of this set - you might have a new item to add to your collection. 
10 Battrio Explosive Double Moves
09 Battrio Kyogre and Groudon
10 Battrio Challenging the Myths
08 Battrio Mysterious Mew
08 Battrio Mewtwo’s Challenge
09 Battrio Best Selection
Battrio’s legacy was then picked up by Pokémon Tretta (2012 – 2016). These were rectangular blocks, released in different colors for different series. Once again, though, there were no variations within a release - each puck only came in one color.
Just like Battrio, Tretta was eventually released in several other Asian countries. Strangely enough, though, while the language on the machines was localised, the blocks themselves remained in Japanese. That must have been a pretty strange experience for the kids playing them! 
Scyther has six Tretta blocks, with one being noticeably harder to find: the green “Safari Zone” promotion.
13 Tretta The New Powers
13 Tretta The New Powers
16 Tretta Mewtwo Max Voltage
15 Tretta Mega Rayquaza
15 Tretta Mega Rayquaza
14 Tretta Safari Promo
I already covered the third generation of these machines, Ga-Olé, but after that came Mezastar (2020 – 2024). These were oval-shaped blocks, similar in size to the Ga-Olé ones, but lacked the amazing Poké Ball variations, and we were back to only collecting the designs themselves. 
Scyther only received a couple of these.
Starting in 2025, Mezastar was introduced to a number of Asian countries, and these versions do have English, Korean, and Taiwanese text. However, those regions haven’t caught up with most of the Japanese releases yet, and Scyther isn’t available in any of them for now. 
And while the rest of Asia catches up, Japan has already moved on! The latest iteration of the arcade collectables is called Fenda (2024 - present). So far, this is the only Scyther released in the series - but hopefully, we’ll get a new one soon! 
23 Mezastar Double Chain Series 4
21 Mezastar Super Tag Series 1
25 Fenda Best Tag Series 3
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Money, money, money. It makes the world spin. But it also makes a collector happy - especially when it comes in the shape of Pokémon coins. 
Those fall into two different categories:
First, we have the TCG coins - thick plastic discs produced by The Pokémon Company and used to play the actual Pokémon TCG. Over the years, countless sizes, colors, and designs have been released for many different Pokémon, but somehow, Scyther never really got the recognition it deserved. 
Luckily, with the global Pokémon 151 release, China introduced some really cool country-exclusive products, including the three Collect! 151 Coin Sets, released in 2025. A total of 10 colors were released for each of the original 151 Pokémon. My only pet peeve is that some of the colors - most notably Yellow, Gold and Bronze - are way too difficult to tell apart. Orange 
, Brown 
, or Pink 
would have made much more sense.
But considering these are the only Scyther TCG coins ever produced, I’ll happily take whatever I can get.
Collect! 151 Coin Set Wonder (Green, Purple, Light Blue)
Collect! 151 Coin Set Hope (Blue, Silver, Gold, Secret)
Collect! 151 Coin Set Gather (Red, Yellow, Bronze)
And then we have the actual coins. Well… not literally “actual coins” - you can’t buy anything with them. 
But back in the ’90s, Japan seemed fascinated by the idea of putting Pokémon characters on metal collectibles. Several different series were released, many of them included stats or other information either around the artwork or on the back, but the different series weren’t interchangeable. 
Scyther was part of most of those, including a couple of sets with variations in them. The Bandai Metal Coins series were released in both Silver (regular) and Gold (rare), for all the other Gen 1 Pokémon. Later, Meiji released another coin series featuring Pokémon and their signature attacks. The fronts are completely identical, but the backs feature different text. Most Pokémon received multiple versions, including Scyther’s Swords Dance (65 HP) 
and Cut (45 HP). 
97 Bandai Metal Coin (Silver, Gold)
98 Meiji Metal Coin (Swords Dance, Cut)
97 Banpresto Metal Gold Coin
99 Hasbro Pokemon Battling Coin
97 Tomy Monster Collection Coin
Meiji also produced a special cardboard coin holder that was a reward for mailing in specific items, according to the requirements of the promotion 
, but I still dont have this one in my collection. It has all the available coin back versions printed on the back of it, in case you are wondering if you have all the released coins or if something is missing.
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Chips. Pogs. Tazos. Caps. Every country seems to have a different name for these little circular things, and there are hundreds of different series out there. 
To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of collectibles that feel so random, but I did my best to document (and buy) every Scyther I managed to find. For simplicity, I’ve split them into two groups: Mains (English + Japanese) and Others (European / Asian / Latin American).
Today, we’re starting with the Mains. 
This first group covers the two main TCG languages - English 
and Japanese :jpnan:.
While the Japanese releases are a little easier to figure out (but by no means easy), the English ones are… well, not always actually English. Many European languages use Pokémon names exactly as they appear in the English version (only German and French translate them), so simply seeing “Scyther” doesn’t tell us much about where a chip comes from. Instead of focusing on their origin, I’ve included here the original/iconic series - the ones that became the foundation for many of the translated versions released around the world. 
00 Pokémon Tazo
01 Flippo Surprise (Sticker)
01 Flippo Powerplay (Lenticular)
02 Tazo League
02 Tazo League 2
99 Hasbro Poké Ball Blaster (Europe)
99 Hasbro Poké Ball Blaster (USA)
99 Hasbro Poké Ball Blaster (Walmart Exclusive)
The second group is the already-mentioned Japanese chips 🇯🇵.
Being from the Pokémon country, Japan has had these releases documented quite extensively by collectors before me. While some series are pretty obscure or have interesting variations (like the rare holo Chara Spin metal chips), most Gen 1 Pokémon usually appear in most series, so tracking them down becomes more of a checklist game. 
The most frustrating ones to find are definitely the Banpresto Battle Chips. So far, I’ve documented 11 different Scyther releases, but I only own… 3 (2 are in the photo, and one is currently on its way). 
96 Carddass Chip Shooter
96 Tomy Cyclone Batomen
99 Tomy Cyclone 2 Super Batomen
97 Meiji Hyper Ball Chip
97 Banpresto Chara Spin Menko
03 Patchono Menko
98 Banpresto Battle Chip 3
98 Banpresto Battle Chip 2
19 Pokemon Fan Playtime Appendix Menko
98 Shogakukan Yochien Appendix Menko
06 Shogakukan Youchien Appendix Menko
There are many more that I do not own currently, but will be available on the database once it goes live!
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You thought today’s lot was a bit too obscure? Prepare for even more randomness! The Others are here - discs from Europe, Asia, and Latin America that most certainly have nothing in common. No planning, no cooperation, just companies printing money off the Pokémania craze at the beginning of the century. 
First up - the European releases. These are by no means all of them, but they should be a good starting point. While some are simply translated reprints 
of the OGs (like the green Tazo variations ), others are completely unique. Most notably, the Dunkin Boomer Lenticular discs (top right), which actually have three almost identical variations, with only minor logo/position changes depending on the country they were sold in. There’s also a fourth Johto release, which is the rarest and includes a Scyther/Scizor disc, but so far I’ve only ever seen a photo of it.
01 Gigan Tazo (Spain)
00 Dunkin Boomer 3D Chips (Dunkin Logo)
00 Tazo 2 (Spain/France/Greece)
01 Tazo Sticker (Spain/France/Greece)
01 Tazo 3D (France)
01 Tazo Attack (Poland)
01 Tazo Attack (Spain)
01 Pokemon Caps (Spain)
01 Pokemon Caps (France)
99 Hasbro Poke Ball Blaster (Greece)
Then there’s the Asian and Latin American group. At least these are a bit more original when it comes to their designs and shapes.
The Indonesian/Thai ones had the Spinner and Smasher series, with different games that the strangely shaped discs were used for. In Korea, the Ddakjis also varied quite a bit, ranging from thin paper discs to thick rubber/plastic blocks.
And lastly - Latin America, the birthplace of randomness. Most of you are probably familiar with the rather creative use of trademark laws 
:balance_scale: there, but even the items that were actually licensed still have that unmistakable LatAm bootleg vibe, lol. 
07 Tazo Lazer (Mexico)
01 Cambia Taso (Colombia)
21 Tazo Chiki Balls (Indonesia)
01 Tazo Smash (Indonesia)
01 Tazo Spin (Thailand)
22 Ddakji Again Tiles Series 2A (Korean)
?? Ddakji Rubber Chip (Korean)
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Let’s end week 2 with a bang! 
The last category of chips I have to show you is board game pieces. And while we’re here, let’s include all the other board game cards as well, shall we?
Those circular chips all come from a couple of board games by Tomy - the original ’97 Master Trainer and the ’00 Gold & Silver sequel. They were first printed in Japanese, as usual, and then translated into English by Hasbro. After that, different producers got the license to print them across Europe - Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and even Greece 
(the only non-TCG language in the bunch).
The only one missing from this photo (to my knowledge) is the Brazilian Portuguese version, which I managed to find recently to complete the big family. 
I do have a strong pet peeve with the print quality, though. It’s SO hard to find a centered disc. Like… did anybody even care about that back then?! 
01 Hasbro Master Trainer Gold & Silver Board Game (Trainer)
01 Hasbro Master Trainer Gold & Silver Board Game (Pokemon)
99 Hasbro Master Trainer Board Game
00 Tomy Master Trainer 2 Board Game (Trainer) (Japanese)
00 Tomy Master Trainer 2 Board Game (Japanese)
97 Tomy Master Trainer Board Game (Japanese)
Master Trainer Board Game (German)
Master Trainer Board Game (French)
Master Trainer Board Game (Italian)
Master Trainer Board Game (Spanish)
Master Trainer Board Game (Dutch)
Master Trainer Board Game (Greek)
Now, the board game cards. IRL, I’m not a fan of board game nights, but for some reason I absolutely adore this photo. It took so much research to track these down among the 100s of games released over the last 30 years (most of which are badly documented, or not documented at all). I still remember how excited I was when I found out that the ’05 Master Trainer Edition from the US had a French counterpart with two languages on it. My first board game variation! 
Then there were the two days I spent browsing through 100s of Japanese Karuta set listings, trying to figure out which cards each set contained. I now have photos of 20+ of the 29 sets I’ve seen, so if anyone else is banging their head against that particular wall, I’m happy to help. 
And even after all that research, sometimes a completely random unidentified card just appears out of nowhere, like the one that later turned out to be from the Airsh Board Game, found in a bundle with a fan with Rumble Reshiram on it and a pair of spoons. Go figure!
07 Pokémon Diamond and Pearl 10th Anniversary Board Game
00 Pokémon Silph Co. Board Game
04 Pokémon Aim to Be a Pokemon Master Board Game
05 Master Trainer Board Game (English)
05 Master Trainer Board Game (Canadian)
16 Karuta Sun & Moon Set (Color)
16 Karuta Sun & Moon Set (Black)
08 Media Factory Airsh Board Game Expansion
And then there are the poker cards. I don’t know how I feel about them. I mean, they’re part of maybe the only card game in the history of the world that’s more popular than Pokémon… but that also makes them so prone to bootlegs. One of the very first Pokémon items I remember from my childhood was a bootleg poker card set, and somehow that makes me resent them just a little.
Mama may have raised a resenter, but not a quitter! 
I’m doing my best to collect these too. I even printed some proxies to keep track of what I’m missing, because so many of them look incredibly similar. I’ve already scored some of the most exciting ones - the couple from Japanese comic appendices in the ’90s, and I’m sure the rest will show up sooner or later. 
96 Pokémon Red Deck
98 Pokémon Yellow Deck / 98 Pokémon Blue Deck
00 Pokémon Gold Deck / 00 Pokémon Silver Deck
04 Pokémon Fire Red Deck
06 Pokémon Center 10th Anniversary Deck
99 English Green Mini Deck
98 Televi-Kun Appendix Deck
?? Shogakukan Youchien Appendix Deck
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Week 3 starts a little late, but it’s bringing the heat! 
Before we finally move on to the ever-popular “standard-size cards” category next week, I’ll spend the next 7 days covering all the “flats” I have - non-standard-size stickers, mini cards, and everything else that doesn’t quite fit into the traditional card format. And what better way to start than with my home continent? European stickers and mini cards are here!
Let’s start with the well-known cards. Stacks by Panini and Flipz by Artbox are probably the most common non-TCG Pokémon collectibles in Europe. They’re cheap, and they’re everywhere. Other than the fact that the original Stacks series had a French variation , there isn’t too much I can add here. Oh, and the Pokémon Stadium Action 3D cards were actually released in Australia 
, but they fit nicely with the Euro/English ones in the photo.
99 Pokémon Stadium Action 3D
06 Staks Series 3
00 Action Flipz Series 1
02 Staks Johto League Champions (English)
02 Staks Johto League Champions (French)
Now, for some spicier facts.
Did you know that the Italian Yoga cards actually had FIVE print runs? Yeah, me neither - until recently.
- The first print run had the symbol “n°” before the Pokémon number.
- In the second print run, this was changed to the more universal “#” symbol.
- The third print run added a fixed third slot on the back, which was left empty for Pokémon with one- and two-stage evolution lines.
- The fourth print run removed that slot, but also changed the colors to much more saturated versions of both the yellow and the blue. The difference is especially easy to spot in the “Yoga” logo.
- And then came the fifth print run, which experimented with rounded corners. These were actually done manually by workers in the factory!
The experiment was approved, and later Gen 2 cards were set up to have their corners automatically rounded on the production line. Pretty cool little piece of trivia! 
99 Pokémon Yoga Cards 1st Print (Italian, n°)
99 Pokémon Yoga Cards 2nd Print (Italian, #)
99 Pokémon Yoga Cards 3rd Print (Italian, 3rd Row)
99 Pokémon Yoga Cards 4th Print (Italian, Dark Blue Logo)
99 Pokémon Yoga Cards 5th Print (Italian, Rounded Corners)
And finally, take a look at this photo.
There are some pretty cool stickers here - the two variations of the Chupa Chups lollipop stickers, the rare Crazy Dipps one (there may or may not be an even rarer version branded “Crazy Planet”, but most of that series is something of a myth).
Now, forget about all of those. Look at the pale orange-background sticker in the middle. That’s where it all started for me. The first time I ever saw Scyther. And it was love at first sight. 
A flying, slicing green ninja - what more could a 7-year-old kid want?!
This Chipicao sticker album from 2001 was the first (and one of the very few) officially licensed Pokémon series ever released in Bulgaria 
. The stickers came randomly packed with a chocolate croissant 
, which I remember costing 45 stotinki (roughly the equivalent of 67 euro cents today, adjusted for inflation). That might not sound like much, but at the time in Bulgaria, it was a luxury treat for a kid. I only got to have one once a week.
I have no idea how I managed to complete the entire album. It took me months of trading stickers for whatever I could find. Looking back, I genuinely believe that these stickers were so valuable in my childhood eyes , and that the process of finding them was so long and exciting, that they single-handedly made me the collector I am today.
Nowadays, I’m lucky enough to be able to afford a bit more than a weekly 67-cent croissant. 
But I still don’t get excited simply because a card is expensive. In fact, I kind of hate that side of the hobby - turning collecting into a spending competition has always sounded incredibly dull to me. What I value most is that niche, obscure item that I did not even know existed, and, perhaps even more importantly, the process of discovering and documenting it! 
99 Artbox Series 1
05 Merlin Ultimate Sticker Series 7
00 Chupa Chups Crazy Dips
01 Chipicao Pokemon Series 1
01 Chipicao Pokemon Series 2
00 Chupa Chups Series 1 (White)
00 Chupa Chups Series 1 (Gray)
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Japan gave us way more mini cards and stickers, so I had to split them across two different days. First, we’ll cover the cards, more commonly known as Menko. 
There were many different series, each with its own style and purpose.
The lenticulars were mostly produced by Meiji as part of food promotions, including cocoa milk and chocolate snacks. The rectangular ones were printed by Amada as part of the Kakumen Retsuden series, which spanned multiple years. One of the things I really like about these is the variations. The pink-background Scyther series, for example, has two different versions - one with a green back and one with a red back. 
Something I get asked about quite often are the three holo mini Menkos on the bottom row. These were released as an appendix reward in the Shogakukan Youchien kids’ magazine. Each of the Gen 1 Pokémon, along with some Gen 2 Pokémon, had these. Since they were part of a promotion rather than a regular release, they’re some of the cooler Menkos in my collection. 
09 Ensky Diamond & Pearl Hyper Sticker 3D Collection 6
01 Meiji Milk Cocoa Promo
97 Meiji Milk Cocoa Promo
99 Meiji Chocolate Snack Zoom-Up
04 Amada Advanced Generation Kakumen Retsuden Series 3/4 (Green)
04 Amada Advanced Generation Kakumen Retsuden Series 3/4 (Red)
05 Ensky Advanced Generation Kakumen Retsuden Series 1
97 Jumbo Carddass Chip Shooter 2 Half-Chip
99 Shogakukan Youchien Appendix Menko
97 Shogakukan Youchien Appendix Menko
00 Shogakukan Youchien Appendix Menko
There’s one series that deserves a whole page to itself - the Game Boy Mini Cards, also known as Bros cards. These were released through gachapon machines and came in boxes of 10. And they are tiny! The first time I saw one in person, I actually laughed. But over time, I’ve really come to appreciate them for how unique they are.
There were many different series released, and Scyther made seven appearances across them. Each series had both a regular and a holo version. I’m only missing a couple of the later series, which weren’t printed in particularly large numbers due to Pokémon’s declining popularity at the time. 
A couple of notable facts are worth mentioning:
The GB Pocket Cards Anime Collection series from 1998 had its holo cards printed on white-backed cardboard 
instead of the usual simplified-stat backs. It almost looks like something was peeled off the back, but don’t worry - that’s exactly how they left the factory!
The GB Pocket Cards Base Final Collection, also from 1998, had a very special third variation - a plastic card with a transparent background instead of the usual cardboard. It’s not particularly hard to find, since these early series were printed to the ground, but you need to know it exists before you can start looking for it. 
97 GB Pocket Cards Base Set
98 GB Pocket Cards Anime Collection
98 GB Pocket Cards Base Final Collection
00 N64 Card Stadium Collection (#10)
00 N64 Card Stadium Collection (#51)
00 N64 Card Stadium 2 Collection
03 GBA Card Collection 3 Ruby and Sapphire
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Japanese Pokémon Stickers. This may be the most generic-sounding category in the whole project, but trust me - there are some absolute gems in there! And it’s the biggest day yet: 36 items (and more are on the way!).
We can’t talk about Japanese stickers without mentioning Amada. This multi-year, extensive series had so many sets and variations released over the years that it could easily be a standalone collection by itself. 12 different Scyther were printed across the various releases, with some featuring unique holo patterns or artwork that can’t be found anywhere else in the world! 
There’s an ongoing discussion about the first series (the one with the orange background) having a possible first-print variation. The differentiating factor is the paper on the back - in most cases, it’s white, but some stickers have a more yellowish paper. 
Sadly, some stickers have yellowed simply because of aging, so even though the first print is believed to exist, it can be difficult to confirm whether a particular copy is actually one of them.
96 Amada Hyper Sticker Collection #123
97 Amada Hyper Sticker Collection #326
97 Amada Hyper Sticker Collection #382
97 Amada Hyper Sticker Collection #400
98 Amada Hyper Sticker Collection Attack Set #189
98 Amada Super DX 1998 #D72
00 Amada Hyper Sticker Collection 3 #540
00 Amada Hyper Sticker Collection 4 #653
00 Amada Super DX 2000 #D198
04 Amada ADV the Strongest Seal 5 #443
07 Ensky Seal Sticker Special Sheet 2 #W70
10 Ensky Diamond & Pearl Hyper Sticker Collection 12 #1055
I also have a page dedicated to other notable square stickers. They follow a similar pattern, although they’re much less standardized. Tahhato, Lotte, and most notably Topsun produced series after series of these. There are a few interesting variations that are very easy to miss:
Part of the 1998 Topsun sticker set was released right around the time Topsun was rebranded to Toppu, which resulted in a couple of different prints - one with “Topsun” and one with “Toppu” printed on the back paper. This also happened with other Topsun products from 1998, which we’ll cover in future categories. Sadly, Scyther was not part of this sticker group.
The 1999 Topsun (now Toppu) sticker set also had two versions, but this time the difference was on the front. For most Pokémon, it is simply a more zoomed-out version - as you can see with the two similar Scyther next to each other in this photo. But that wasn’t the case for all of them. These variations are really easy to miss!
23 Lotte Scarlet and Violet Wafer Stickers Series 2
23 Tohato Pokemon Chocolate Flavor
23 Tohato Pokemon Horizons
11 Ensky National Pokedex Pro
04 Meiji Snack Stickers
98 Toppu Seal Gum
99 Toppu Seal Gum Johto (Small)
99 Toppu Seal Gum Johto (Big)
97 Topsun Seal Gum
05 Bandai TM Collection Series 8
?? Tomy Battle Pieces Collection
00 Showa Note Seal Collection Series C
And lastly, as is usually the case, we have the “Others” page.
I do have the Japanese bread stickers here. 
These are very low-effort, white-background stickers that have been printed in 400+ sets over the last 30 years. They come with certain types of sweet bread and are used by kids in Japan as part of their breakfast - basically an alternative to the Chipicao croissant from my childhood that I covered yesterday.
The other one I really appreciate is this rectangular holo from Meiji. It was a reward from a pack of biscuits 
back in 1997, and because the sticker is so flimsy, very few have survived in good condition until today. It’s actually the only Scyther copy of this sticker I’ve seen in the last year - which is pretty unusual compared to most of the others in this category.
23 Daiichi Pan Deco Series 200
23 Daiichi Pan Deco Pikachu Pound Cake Series 6
19 Daiichi Pan Deco Series 172
00 Daiichi Pan Deco Series 17
00 Daiichi Pan Deco Series 15
98 Daiichi Pan Deco Series 3
99 Sapporo Ichiban Collection Stickers
03 Sapporo Ichiban Advanced Generation
?? Pokémon Center Sticker
?? Tomy Battle Pieces Collection (Non-Standard)
97 Meiji Biscuit Metallic Stickers
98 Bandai New Pokémon Encyclopedia Seal
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After yesterday’s overwhelming number of items, today we’re taking a break with a much smaller category - the international minicards and stickers.
Most of the items I’ve found in this category come from two countries - Korea 
and Argentina 
. (I don’t bother with the Peruvian bootlegs, but they deserve an (un)honorable mention.)
Korea had the Ddakji series - square-shaped cardboard minicards that span multiple generations of Pokémon. They’re not documented at all and can be incredibly difficult to identify and track down. I’ve only ever seen a couple of Scyther cards and have managed to get just one of them, but I keep checking daily. 
The other big Korean non-TCG series is the bread stickers. They took what Japan did with the original concept and iterated on it. While the first releases (the second row in the photo) were fairly generic, later versions started adding Pokédex numbers, the Pokémon logo, and new designs - even changing the shape of the stickers. It’s not a huge difference, but it makes them feel much less casual and more like a proper collectible. These are currently very popular and relatively easy to find, but the older versions from before 2010 are much trickier to track down. 
Argentina has a bunch of licensed series (as well as some popular unlicensed ones), and there are a few accounts that made content about them, but I haven’t found a good way to source those myself. A friendly collector managed to find a few Argentinian Scyther pieces for me, but the only mini sticker I have is this orange one, which came from the inside of a chocolate bar pack. 
Thanks, @papafrankgod !
?? Ddakji Tiles (Korean)
23 Striking Sticker Gold Plated (Korean)
26 Photo Booth ID Sticker (Korean)
00 Arcor Chocolate Stickers Series 2 (Argentinian Spanish)
99 Shani Pokemon Big Bread 1 (Korean)
99 Shani Pokemon Bread (Korean)
26 Samlip Pokemon Bread 30th Anniversary (Korean)
22 Samlip Pokemon Bread (Korean)
24 Samlip Pokemon Bread Series 2 (Korean)
24 Samlip Pokemon Bread Pixel (Korean)
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We’re almost at the halfway point of this daily project, so it’s time to get controversial! 
I really don’t like sheets of paper featuring multiple Pokémon. Sticker sheets, posters, etc.? Miss me with that! I much prefer when Scyther is the main character of an item, rather than just one of many random images slapped together. It gives the item much more of a collector’s piece vibe. 
And this rather unusual (for a species collector) take of mine is on full display in the way I collect my stamps - I actually remove them from the sheets! I just love the look of all those tiny Scythers lined up next to each other, and being able to fit them neatly into a binder is an added bonus.
That said, for research purposes, I’ve saved all the sheet photos and will post them here. If you want a great resource to browse through yourself, check out: Pokemon Shogakukan stamps .
As for Scyther specifically, the only notable and easy-to-miss detail is that there are two stamps with very similar designs (the first two in the main photo). One is slightly more zoomed in and was released on two separate sheets: the Feraligatr sheet and a mini promo sheet featuring just four stamps. The rest are pretty straightforward, although the Stadium set looks absolutely amazing!
Public Service Announcement - Stamp sheets from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, along with those from other obscure countries you might come across, are confirmed bootlegs.
00 Pocket Monsters Feraligatr Sheet
97 Pocket Monsters Green Sheet
98 Pocket Monsters Mew Sheet
98 Pocket Monsters Blastoise Sheet
98 Pocket Monsters Pikachu Sheet
98 Pokémon Stadium Scyther Sheet
98 Pokémon Stadium Cloyster Sheet
98 Pokémon Stadium Pikachu Sheet
98 Pokémon Stadium Electrode Sheet
99 Pokémon Stamps Promo Sheet
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Just want to say this is such a cool project. I look forward to reading your posts every day and learning about some new part of your collection!
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Agreed! I’ve been going down my own non tcg rabbit holes and it’s awesome to see such a well catalogued, informative and extensive collection.
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I appreciate it, guys! Sometimes I wonder if it’s helpful enough for others (the main idea behind the daily project), but I hope that in the future more people will benefit from it.
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We enter the final stretch of the last non-standard week with the oversized flats! 
This category combines everything that is bigger than a regular binder pocket (I’ve added a TCG card for reference). These are items from various different series, usually not intended to be collected, and I’ve split them into English/US 
(today) and Asian :jpnan: (tomorrow).
The Priss Print stickers (bottom left), for example, were meant to be stuck to a mirror or window (including outside) and are printed on a fabric-like cloth/paper material. There is also another sticker in the photo - the green-background one by A&A Global - which is similar to a regular paper sticker, just bigger.
Another subcategory is postcards.
The only one shown here is from the Peruvian brand Nevaratte (back when they had an official license for a few years), but there are many more included in tomorrow’s Asian post!
The most notable item is the Candy Planet card. 
These were mass-produced in the US, but Scyther is notoriously hard to find for whatever reason. Even cooler is the undocumented rare Canadian release 
, with the main difference being the “Gotta catch ’em all” logo printed in French in addition to the English version, as required by Canadian law. It’s one of the few items I prioritise, but I’ve only seen a few Pokémon pop up on eBay over the last year. 
00 A&A Global Industries Vending Sticker
99 Candy Planet
23 Scarlet & Violet 151 Mini Tin Card
00 Navarrete Postcard (Peruvian)
99 Priss Print Series A
00 Pokemon Scratchees The Flame Pokemon-athon
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Oh lord i’m so behind on checking your updates with my somewhat fluctuating hobby time, i probably have to split my posts as there’s so much stuff i want to react to
I love to see people going for kraks but even though i love all the variant games i’m actually this time somewhat thankful that they don’t concern me, even if some of them are easy to find the task to find every single one feels incredibly daunting, and when it’s combined with the fact that they lack the same level of display potential compared to metal and keshi figures they would feel like a super wide detective task for items i would store in a box anyway the site and photos when someone goes for them are so nice, and i especially like that you’ve included the missing colours as blanks as they work really well as placeholders
One category where i’m a bit salty my boys were not included are the battrio and tretta tags, even if they do share the same limited displaying features than kraks. But i like the looks of especially trettas and how unique they look even if it’s just one variant per tag. I also have to say i stared at the best selection battrio tag for way too long before finding the difference, i’m indeed one of those who would have had zero chances of realising there’s a different variant existing
But the coins are where it gets exciting again, i share your saltines that my boys never got any tcg coins during all these years (even if i kinda undestand it unlike scyther who actually was loved), but the chinese 151 coin release is probably the most interesting non-tcg release in many years! Most of the variants are really pretty and if one has a way to get them straight from china apparently not that difficult to get, but oh damn how it bugs me that those three colours are so similar looking ones, especially gold and yellow. Like i messaged you i had to purchase the yellow ones again as the seller had included gold coins instead of yellow ones and i really can’t blame them. The colours you mentioned would have been much better fit, or colours like dark green and dark purple as there anyway was two different blue ones too
Other coins have also interesting ones, the meiji coins themself aren’t that interesting for me but the holder is one of my single favourite items in my slime army, the aesthetics of it and the way to display the coins are absolutely brilliant. I didn’t check your site but were you aware of the language variants of the hasbro coins? I’ve also seen the tomy coins in different colours but they do have a pretty strong feel of recolouring, not sure if you have any deeper understanding of those.
With pogs and tazos tho i share your thoughts, the randomness and absolutely massive amount of them is slightly repulsive and a reason why i don’t have that many of those even though i got a specific binder for pog-like items. I’ve prefered to get some japanese pogs unpeeled as they make quite nice display pieces. But like i messaged you the board game pieces are where it starts getting exciting again and the master trainer chips are something i’m getting more and more excited!
Dispite all the bootleg shenanigans i have very very strong feelings towards poker cards and the original green/red/blue/yellow poker cards were one of my first non tcg mini collections that i was super excited to complete, i did have high hopes my boys where included in toyota netz deck too but that unfortunately didn’t happen. Also thought i’d mention just in casw that some of the gold/silver ones have a numbering variant where there’s a letter after the number but that only applies to some cards so probably not anything concering you.
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Love the detailed feedback @joponnes !!!
Yeah, kraks are incredibly cool, but they do sit in a box :x And the BS Battrio - lol, it took me months to notice before another collector pointed that out to me, haha!
I was not aware of other language variants of the Hasbro Battle Coin game! I actually did a bit of digging, and you are right! Another great addition to my collection, thanks to you, my friend! Do you have a list of all the available languages, or should I start researching it from scratch (I have only seen German so far)?
And the Tomy coin colors, I think, are either set for a few select Pokémon or custom-painted. In any case, Scyther should not have a colored version.
Also, can you show me an example of the letter/number variation in the poker cards from the Japanese decks? I have not seen it before (or did not realise it lol), and I would be interested in checking for Scyther Variations. Here are the Japanese deck cards I know of, if it helps you:
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Day
This post is coming a bit late, but the #sm30aPocalypse hit us hard earlier. If this is your first time seeing the code “sm30a”, lucky you! If you know the pain, contact me, I may be able to help - even luckier you! 
Anyway, as a continuation of yesterday’s EU/US oversized flats, I present to you - the Asian group! 🇯🇵
I’ll start with the more popular ones. Here we have the Pokémon Center My151 and My252 promotion stickers, as well as the Simplified Chinese transparent sticker/card by Blokees. Or at least, we Scyther collectors got it from the Blokees figure box. I’ve started seeing a bunch of these cards around, though, including ones for Pokémon without a figure release (I think), so maybe they’re distributed in a different way as well? 
Then, a nice little (no pun intended) variation - those Nagatanien circle menko actually exist in two sizes. The big ones came with a curry box 
, while the small ones came with a hotcake box.
There were a few series with better designs and even holo variations, but Scyther only got this one release.
18 My 151 Campaign
19 My 251 Campaign
25 Blokees Classic Version-L Sticker (Chinese)
98 Nagatanien Curry Menko (Big)
98 Nagatanien Hotcake Mix Menko (Small)
05 Bromide Advanced Generation
07 Bromide Diamond & Pearl
Now, one of the lesser-known series - the Corris mini sticker books. I still don’t know which side is considered the front and which is the back, but both sides have Scyther, so here are some double-sided comparisons. These come in sets of three, connected by a perforated edge. On 1 side, they have 1 big and 2 small stickers, while the other has some information and a themed print. 
There is absolutely no documentation for these. Ever. Finding a list of the released sets is a chore, but at least they’re cheap, and usually spending a couple of hours scrolling through Japanese listings is enough to find most, if not all, of them.
20 Coris Sticker Book (Holo)
20 Coris Sticker Book (Version 2)
20 Coris Sticker Book (Version 3)
20 Coris Sticker Book (Version 1)
23 Coris Sticker Book
And lastly - two types of even bigger items (the biggest I can comfortably fit in my non-TCG 2x2 ring binder) - calendar pages and postcards.
The calendar pages come from a series of yearly Pokémon calendars where each page was dedicated to a different Pokémon (seemingly at random). There were at least seven editions, but they’re pretty hard to hunt down because of that randomness, so I only have three. Before and after this period, the official calendars sadly weren’t produced in this Pokédex-style format. 
The postcards are a subcategory I’ve learned to appreciate, even though I completely ignored them at first. I currently have four more Scyther cameos flying to me, but none of them are the rare holo version that looks so majestic. I honestly can’t imagine sending someone a card like this only for it to get scratched in the process…
99 Banpresto Postcard 136
09 Pokémon Character Daily Calendar Page
99 Banpresto Postcard 170
05 Pokémon Character Daily Calendar Page
06 Pokémon Character Daily Calendar Page
26 Mega Festa 30th Anniversary (Korean)
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Awesome thread / collection!
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