Efour Weekly — July 19–26, 2026
By the numbers
- New topics: 52 | New posts: 1,081
- Active users (by likes): @smpratte, @koala, @D3F14NC3, @c0ll3ct0r, @Dyl
- Most active category: collecting
- Most liked post of the week: @qyy92’s collection debut (29 likes, first post)
- Standout thread: 30C 30th Celebration set — 39 new posts, capped by an undocumented rarity surfacing mid-thread
The Logan Gravity Well
I’m here on da scene, and dis week the forum had one big sun dat everything else orbited around. Logan Paul’s CoroCoro documentary dropped Thursday and lit up the thread within minutes. The initial reaction split predictably — skeptics who hadn’t watched it versus a surprisingly warm consensus from those who had. @smpratte noted that Logan had been reaching out to E4 members for Coro research months before release, undercutting the pump-and-dump read before it could take hold. The majority view settled around the video being genuinely well-produced, whatever youse think of the man behind it.
The more interesting argument was about what comes next. The PSA 10 glossy Pikachu question hung over everything — @tidaldreams called it essentially impossible, @kpod made the case that even a verified 10 wouldn’t mechanically lift lower grades the way bulls were hoping. @pfm landed the sharpest needle:
You could have taken any old back card or set and given it a professionally produced documentary + a 1 hr long video from one of the world’s biggest influencers and it would have spiked in price.
The Japanese market thread got pulled in too, with @Will getting tagged for a months-old prediction and playing it cool. The gravity well was real.
The Mew Nobody Asked For (And Now Everyone Wants)
The 30th Celebration set thread had been humming along with full card reveals from @koala — a clean spoiler compilation, community approval broadly positive, minor complaints about the gold border on reprints. Then Saturday morning @koala dropped something that reframed the whole thread: a newly discovered rarity, a B/RGB Mew illustrated by YOSHIROTTEN, carrying no 30th stamp, a card design unlike anything current in the TCG, and a rarity designation nobody had seen before.
The authenticity debate was real but short-lived. @inertgeometry laid out the sheer complexity of faking it — custom foiling, correct artist style, proper set construction knowledge — and @bk2021 pointed out the artist’s own 2024 RGB exhibition matches the rarity acronym exactly. @koala also confirmed additional video evidence with the Pikachu guarantee pack visible. The forum moved from is this real? to how many are there? fast. Whether there’s a matching RGB Mewtwo or Pikachu waiting in the set is now the open question heading into the September 16 release.
The Quiet Arrival
Some collection posts generate noise. Qyy92’s debut thread — tagged japanese, error, charizard, collection — generated something rarer: genuine awe. Kusajima PSA 10s, a Korean cosmos Umbreon, a Portuguese Saturn holo, ADV Mewtwo ex specimens with swirl placements that @Quuador admitted made him feel like he’d been outpatienced on his own specialty. The thread pulled reactions from collectors who don’t react easily.
The longer you collect, the less amazed you tend to be by collection posts… Yet, this collection still floored me.
@Paradox also posted a Gen 4-focused collection the same day — LEGEND, Prime, and LV.X cards assembled with clear affection — and @bbobrob quietly completed the reverse Expedition set they’d been building since before prices climbed, with holo energies added as a finishing touch. Three collections landed in 48 hours, each one dat kind of post dat makes the forum feel like what it’s supposed to be.
What the Market Actually Thinks of Southern Islands
A straightforward price check on sealed Japanese Southern Islands — six packs, $2,500 asking price — turned into a useful little document of how price memory distorts collector judgment. @brendantheclayboy remembered buying them sealed for $20 a piece. @banks had seen individual non-Mew packs on Mercari for ¥9,000–12,000 last year. @Dyl paid $250–285 for two complete sets between 2022 and 2024 and said plainly that ownership was making it hard to evaluate current pricing fairly.
@smpratte, who’s been buying these sets sealed for nearly twenty years, provided recent eBay comps and confirmed $2,500 is on the upper end of current range — not an outrage, but not a deal. The thread is a clean snapshot of a set that climbed while people weren’t looking, and a forum collectively recalibrating in real time.
Dat’s da week — Meowth out, and if youse got a sealed Glossy Pikachu hiding somewhere, now would be a real good time to check da binder.