Language exclusive holos are interesting to me because they stand out as a moment of uniqueness across distributions. I’m always curious why a card gets preferential treatment and want to document known language exclusive holos here. Shoutouts to @c0ll3ct0r for inspiring me to start this thread here and to @Drew12 for suggesting the neo additions. Kindly comment any other language exclusive holo cards that you know about!
This is awesome! Will you be doing English exclusives as well? There are two more cards for neo, Aerodactyl by Shin-ichi yoshida and Celebi by Kizuki
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Will add any exclusives suggested here 
Will get Aerodactyl and celebi up soon
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Additional ones that come to my mind would be the Spanish DPP Shiny Pokémon and the Korean exclusive DP era holos.
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I think there are some from every era.
Just as an example, in ENG Stellar Crown there are 6 exclusive holos; Cradily, Carracosta, Alcremie, Grimmsnarl, Melmetal and Bouffalant.
In Paldean Fates, there are 7; Magmortar, Heat Rotom, Exeggutor, Xatu, Mabosstiff, Gholdengo and Cyclizar.
In Paradox Rift there is Volcanion, Xatu and Deoxys.
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Thanks for the heads up! I’m not sure how to source non-JP EN scans, do you have a resource for those?
Not sure if there is any one place that has them all (tbh I don’t even know if there is a complete list for the Korean ones). @Rockets_rares can probably help with the Spanish ones. Another thing that I remembered is that some cards got French exclusive holos in their McDonald’s sets.
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Are you referring to checklane holo promos? Checked the set card deoxys and it looks non-holo
Okie, good to know. I assume that France has had multiple years of macdo promos, do you know which year that was?
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Thanks for posting! Great idea to have these all in one place to admire, Also very interested in collecting the Japanese ones myself 
The Aqua VS Magma ones are my favourite of the bunch 
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I assume that France has had multiple years of macdo promos, do you know which year that was?
It was 2013.
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Thanks for making a post. I was taking screenshots of the cards you all were talking about last night lol
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There are so many S-Chinese exclusives it’s unreal. It’d take hours to post all. I’m sure someone will do it eventually though!
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It was 2013. Here is the eevee, this is the only language in which the dark explorers artwork has a holo. This photo also has a language exclusive reverse holo
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Thank you for sharing! Would you be able to create scans of those cards? I ask because it would greatly help me source these images!
The reverse, happy to. The regular I can try, it’s just in rough condition. Let me know what you need. You can also check my pinned collection if you need others
I’d like a portrait scan like the other cards listed in the gallery, condition isn’t a problem!
If you have other non-en, non-jp language exclusives for scan I will gladly take them!
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Fossil mew kind of fits in here in that it’s a holo you can pull from the Japanese pack but not the english
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Time to break out the Slowpoke binder! cracks knuckles
French-exclusive McDonald’s promo confetti holo 2018 & 2019
Chinese-exclusive reverse holos
Portuguese-exclusive HGSS Saturn Holo courtesy of @Rockets_rares – this Saturn holofoil only shows up in some Portuguese HGSS-era cards, and on some Lucario and Manaphy from the DP Trainer Kits
Chinese-exclusive holo CS4.1c 002/004
Japanese-exclusive holo sv4a 036/190
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