Whats in the box??!!
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Sometimes you save the best for last.
I began collecting the 1997 Bandai Carddass Pocket Monsters set back in, well, 1997. It only took me another 18 years to finish it.
Last week, I obtained the final card I needed to complete the set. (And, in my opinion, it’s not only the best-looking card in the entire set, but one of the nicest Sugimori illustrations ever.)
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I never got into the non tcg sets until I saw this set. The artwork in this set is phenomenal, then you have the two extra cards which completely capture sugimori’s style and the time period as a whole. And Charmander still has his little spike on his back!
Out of curiosity how do you display/store this set? I tried finding more of the “carddass” 6 card pages since they were pretty loose in the standard 9 card pages.
Beautiful card, but why does Bulbusaur look so jealous? 
Stunning piece of artwork. How much do they go for these days?
I came across this in the old storeroom today…
It’s a store countertop display for the Pokemon Trainers magazines that were sold in the late 1990s/early 2000s. We had a couple of these next to the cash register in the Japanime toy store. I hadn’t remembered saving this, so my heart skipped a beat when I saw it.
The empty display looked a bit lonely, though, so I decided to reunite it with some old friends.
I really need to spend more time sorting through my storeroom. Who knows what else I might find!
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That display box is AMAZING! I’m highly interested in old pokemon store display-type stuff, so if you are looking to sell, dont hesitate to contact me!!!
Again, thanks for posting!
Yeah, thanks for posting, I love old stuff like that 
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I love the illustration of that Charizard on the magazine cover. I think that’s one of the best depictions I’ve ever seen. It’s awesome to have the display box to go along with those magazines.
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Ah, good old Y2K. Life was simpler back then …
We didn’t have “social” media and smartphones to distract us. A clunky thing called GeoCities was the top destination on the Information Superhighway, and The Facebook was still just a glint in some Harvard student’s eye. So, we spent our weekends not online but in the real world, going to things called “activities.”
One of those was the August 2000 Pokemon Kids World, an event held at the Sunshine City high-rise complex in Tokyo’s Ikebukuro district. Sponsored by Toys Я Us, tickets to the event were free, and participants received several goodies, including a booklet in which they could collect rubber-stamp impressions of Pokemon characters.
A great time was had by all. I’d tell you more about it, but right now I have to go check my Twitter feed …
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It’s Pikachu Time!
(And Elekid and Lugia Time, too!)
I’ve mentioned these watches before, but until now I’d never gotten around to posting images of them. They were a CoroCoro premium promotional item distributed in 1999 in advance of the release of Neo Genesis. I was fortunate to obtain several of them, and gave them as gifts to my top wholesale clients.
Nearly two decades later, they are still keeping precise time!
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Hi Japanime, I am currently doing research on these type of promo cards and found out the other variant (ANA Airlines Promo). I understand that the passengers were physically handed the ANA Airlines Promo cards. But are there any physical differences on the card between the ANA Airlines Promo and the All Nippon Airways?
I am look at here: www.pokemonprice.com/CardsForSet/8a2613fc-bc1d-483a-bf7a-324087d2b1f3/1999-pokemon-japanese-promo-ana-airlines
You reacted to a thread last updated 5 years ago… ANA stands for All Nippon Airways, so it is the same promo
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It’s 2021, and I’m back!
(I decided to skip 2017 to 2020 for reasons that should be obvious.)
My vault is getting ready to undergo a dramatic transformation from storeroom to a gallery space. (At least, that’s my hope.) So I’ve been spending a lot of time cataloging all of the Poke-odds and Poke-ends, and snapping a few photos along the way.
Long-timers know I have an affinity for old Pokemon ephemera. Today I came across these two “Pokemon Center News” pamphlets, tucked away in a folder that probably hadn’t seen the light of day since the early 2000s.
Each of them folds out into four sections, one of which contains news about the latest TCG releases. (The Christmas 1998 pamphlet heralds the “Red and Green” gift box!)
I’m thinking of having them framed for the gallery 
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Great idea. Would love to see it when I visit,
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If you make another trip to Japan, Gary, I’d be honored to have you visit my place. (We just won’t talk politics, haha!)
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Welcome back! 
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Hey, old friend! Glad to see you’re still here, too!
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I’ve posted pictures of Pokemon cash-register “hangers” before, but these are the only ones I remember seeing that promoted the TCG. (The others were for video and CD releases.)
We never had a chance to use these hangers in the Japanime Toys store, though, as our entire shipment of Southern Island cards was sold out within hours of being delivered to us on the release date — July 17, 1999.
So, the hangers got stuffed into a box, only for me to happily rediscover them more than 20 years later.
As you can see, there were two hanger designs — one for the Tropical Island subset, the other for the Rainbow Island subset. And they are die-cut to mimic the palm-tree shape of the Southern Islands set symbol.
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@japanime Love it, keep it coming! You always have such great piece many havnt seen before
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