I was browsing the internet looking to find some pictures of these and came across this video! From what I have gathered in my 2 years and 1 month of collecting, these blisters are pretty rare and hardly ever show up! I cant believe this dude came across a factory WOTC shipping box full of 24 of them. I wish I could understand what the heck he was saying to get the story on it. Anyone know what language this is? And if so perhaps give me an interpretation??! Anyway I was thrilled to see this many pretty minty examples of each artwork of this scarce blister, I hope you all enjoy it too!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC5Ahu_FC1I
He’s speaking in italian (which I don’t understand) so I’m wondering if this was a local pickup/find - would be interested if anyone can translate in the event he mentions how he picked these up!
My Italian is not great but using the subtitles it looks like he’s saying he got them from eBay. Hopefully someone more fluent can confirm, though!
Yeah, it’s italian.
The video was published on the 5th of June 2014…so it is not recent.
Basically he said that he bought these packs some days ago(remember the date…) from a guy on eBay.
He said that he opened lots of this kind of packs in the past because Cardgame-club (a tcg seller) had these packs until two years ago(so it was the 2012).
At the end of the video he says that he will probably keep 12 packs for himself, and that the other 12 packs will be for sale, so if you were interested you could send to him a private message (remember…2014 
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Hope this helps 
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P.s. Italian is my native language.
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Yeah I’ve been patiently waiting for any number of these to surface for the last 3 years. Literally the only thing I’ve been able to find is the video you linked and a few random pictures on Google image search from several years ago.
This is the only language that the team rocket set was packaged as blisters and I’d imagine that knowledge was not known (or cared about) back when the blisters were distributed. If any of them are still surviving I would say the number is extremely small and God knows what one would sell for today.
Thanks for the translation! I’m gonna message him and see what happens haha.
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No problem! 
Let us know if you find something! 
Originally I thought they were only produced in French and Italian. But I haven’t seen French ones so now i think they were only produced in Italian. I do have a set I bought a year ago from a French blister collector, unfortunately the plastic had yellowed, but I’m still grateful in owning a set nonetheless.
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Yup, they were only Italian! I really would like to know why that is. Care to share a picture of your set? That freakin rules! What’d you pay for the set??