So although I agree with Scott that the stamp on that FA alt art doesn’t look very good, it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s real… TCPi has never been really good at stamps, despite using them 24/7… (e.g. Reverse Holo stamps during the ex era sometimes cover parts of the art).
the black outline for the Pikachu logo seems to be thinner than the ones from the other cards and the editing it’s pretty bad, so if it’s real definitely someone got his Photoshop Expert title from a raffle
You know the text in the corner of 1999 Tropical Wind that says “Tropical Mega Battle”? Something like that is what they should use to identify the set.
It’s even even bigger foul on the alt art because it doesn’t at ALL fit with the style of the rest of the card.
I know this is a promo to help kids discover the TCG and also pretty low cost for that reason (15$ for 40 booster packs if Im not wrong?) but how cool would it be if TPCi treat this as a Celebrations set with reprints from older sets that fits in the Halloween or spooky theme? I mean… how cool would this be?
They could release for the first time outside Japan even the Scream promos, or even better, do a Pikachu-cosplay card based on their official vampire Pikachu design. I mean, why not be a little creative?
Apparently this is the full set. Honestly, Pikachu and Cubone seems to be completely out of place between the rest of the cards (and the Pikachu artwork was reused also in the McDonalds promo…). But hey, Gengar line and yarn Zubat are pretty cool. It could be much, much better (why there are just a few holo cards?) but anyway, at least this will be a cheap set to collect.
the card selection aside of the typing (mostly ghost pokemon) it’s just lame. A few days ago I found some art they made for other Halloween promotions and… it’s on another level (and yes, even the pumpkin logo seems to be the same so this is basically a low-reprint set with no actual creativity behind it)
Pikachu because its pokemon and its gotta have it.
Cubone fits better than you think. For one, the story of the pokemon and its dying mother is pretty sad/grim and fits the Halloween theme. Oh, and its wearing its mother’s skull!
I said that when I picked Marowak for the Halloween set, but a Cubone fighting card it’s so random in this set, doesnt match the rest imo. At least they could pick another one and change it’s typing.