English Rocket Set 2000 - Master Misprint Guide

2000 Pokémon Rocket Set English - Master Misprint Error Guide

A 125+ photo guide for the corrected misprints in the English Rocket Set. The goal was to include the highest quality photos possible of the significant repeating ink misprints of the set. Thanks to everyone whos’ errors or photos contributed to this project! Hopefully this will be a useful resource for everyone to learn, collect, and discover more errors for years to come! Please leave comments, suggestions, or questions below.
Created in a single day of hard work October 23, 2025. Collaboration between @misprintjeff and @JoshsOddCollection

Here are links to the other misprint lists: (Base Set List) (Jungle List) (Fossil List)

Dark Arbok (2) - “Holoshift Dark Arbok” - White Layer Shifted Left - Unlimited




Dark Arbok (2) - “Blue Streak Dark Arbok” – Yellow & White Ink Obstruction - Unlimited





Dark Blastoise (3) - Cyan Ink Printer Hickey - Unlimited



Dark Dragonite (5) - “Nonholo Dark Dragonite #5” - Design Error - 1st Edition & Unlimited



Dark Charizard (21) - “Black Obstruction Dark Charizard” - Black Ink Layer Obstruction - Unlimited












Dark Charizard (21) - “Red Tail Obstruction Dark Charizard” - Magenta Ink Layer Obstruction - Unlimited




Dark Magneton (28) - “Black Obstruction Dark Magneton” - Black Ink Layer Obstruction - Unlimited



Dark Slowbro (29) - “Black Obstruction Dark Slowbro” - Black Ink Layer Obstruction - Unlimited




Charmander (50) - “Black Dot Charmander” - Additional Black Ink - Unlimited



Diglett (52) - “Dirty Face Diglett” - Additional Cyan Ink - Unlimited




Grimer (57)/Sleep! (79) - “Grimer/Sleep! Connecting Obstructions” - Cyan Layer Obstruction - Unlimited


Machop (59) - Insufficient Black Ink - 1st Edition & Unlimited




Meowth (62) - “Butcher Knife Meowth” - Black Ink Obstruction - 1st Edition






Slowpoke (67) - Cyan Ink Printer Hickey - 1st Edition & Unlimited




Rainbow Energy (80) - “Black Obstruction Rainbow Energy” - Black Ink Layer Obstruction - Unlimited



Special Set Errors:

“Holo Bleed Obstructions” - White Layer Water Obstructions - 1st Edition










“Missing Yellow Ink Holos” - Insufficient Yellow Ink - Unlimited








“Low Black Ink Holos” - Insufficient Black Ink - Unlimited




















“Speckled Black Nonholo Rares - Additional Black Ink - 1st Edition & Unlimited






“Gold Border Stain Uncommons” - Additional Gold Border Ink - Unlimited








“Yellow Ink Stains” - Additional Yellow Ink - Unlimited






























“Grey Stamp 1st Edition Errors” - Insufficient Black Ink - 1st Edition








“Smudged 1st Edition Stamp Errors” - Additional Black Ink - 1st Edition






Honorable Mentions:

“End of Holo Roll Dark Charizard (4)” - Unlimited



“UV Coated Spectratech Foil Test Prints (Double Sided NFC)” - Unlimited








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Brilliant! Thank you @misprintjeff & @JoshsOddCollection for making all your hardwork accessible to others, a guide just like this started my error journey. :pikasmile:

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Really cool to see - thank you for compiling!

Love the “extra-dark” dark Slowbro :ok_hand::ok_hand:

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Thanks as always for the great compilation of repeating English misprints for a set!
Cool to see that the grey ink error also occurred on that Prerelease Dark Gyarados.

Although I was aware of most of them, some are new to me. I for example didn’t knew there were so many yellow ink strain errors in the Team Rocket set, even though I do have one saved picture of one of those that isn’t above yet (not mine, otherwise I’d removed that red circle so it could be added to the pictures above..)

Also, if you want more examples of the test print, here are some pictures of the Golbat Spectratech foil front + Dugtrio Cosmos holo back I saved:

And here is the uncut sheet from CGC’s article, in case someone interested in seeing that:




Greetz,
Quuador

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Awesome guide as always.
I know not all of these meet your level of significant. But I’ll throw these out as well as I have seen repeats of all these cards. The knife Meowth is pretty easy to find, and the slowpoke has the same hickey on 1st edition as well

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Nice thread - I’ll be on the hunt for a Machop!

Have a signed one

Doubt I’ll find one of them slowbro’s.

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Thanks I appreciate it. And thanks for the recommendations this is what I need! I’ve seen the Dark Blastoise hickey before, the Meowth knife obstruction, Dark Dragonair, and I used to have a copy of the Slowpoke hickey. I’d be willing to add those 4 forsure if I can find at least two different photos of them. I’ll search the FB group and see how many show up. Are you able to send me photos of each card without the circles and possibly a closeup of the error? You could also message them to me on IG if thats easier for you.

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Quuador you’re very welcome glad you enjoyed it! And thanks for sharing the extra test print example and the additional photos of the uncut sheet for everyone to see! I’ll add this extra test print example right now.

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Thanks a bunch for making articles like this! It’s super informative, and it’s always fun to learn about errors in general. Also great to have images of the different errors.

Again, appreciate all the effort :slightly_smiling_face:

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PSA recognise the Charmander Black Dot Error now :blush:

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