Official Pokemon 25th Anniversary Thread

crios711 · 2021-01-13T20:39:34.000Z

Those jumbo cards are cool, but I really hope its either a mash of jungle, fossil and team rocket or Neo set mash for the anniversary set.

fazool · 2021-01-13T20:45:54.000Z

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thymeee · 2021-01-13T20:47:19.000Z

serpintaxt:

pfm:

I’ve heard this claim multiple times but what’s the source? Also isn’t it unusual for them to be non-holo if they are mcdonald’s promos?

it might be true, the pokebeach article about it shows a card with same numbering x/25 but is holo like you noted
www.pokebeach.com/2020/09/special-25th-anniversary-pokemon-tcg-set-releasing-in-february

That looks like the mcdonalds holo pattern. Could be true.

As for the jumbos and the jumbo binder, they look cool and I will for sure try to add them into my collection if all rumors are true.

kaldoverde · 2021-01-13T22:48:57.000Z

krill:

Am I the only one that doesn’t want reprints? Something like shining legends redoing the shinings was amazing and far better than if they just reprinted the old shinings. Homage to old sets is fine but god do I hate straight reprints of cards.

Unless they reprint the Japanese Vending or VS sets in English I have zero interest for any other reprints.

genosha · 2021-01-13T22:58:31.000Z

Anything that is Pokemon.com / Pokemon Center exclusive is a terrible product and only caters to the US market. European, South American, Aussie collectors all are of no interest to TCPI

haggiscollects · 2021-01-13T23:08:54.000Z

Wake me up when they announce some good Japanese promo’s

pokemon_matt · 2021-01-13T23:17:04.000Z

Of everything announced so far, I’m mostly excited about the Levis collaboration!

There’s a sentence I never thought I’d say.

fresco · 2021-01-13T23:51:53.000Z

genosha:

Anything that is Pokemon.com / Pokemon Center exclusive is a terrible product and only caters to the US market. European, South American, Aussie collectors all are of no interest to TCPI

When have these markets be of interest to TCPI (i am from those markets)?

mthursty · 2021-01-14T01:35:19.000Z

genosha:

Anything that is Pokemon.com / Pokemon Center exclusive is a terrible product and only caters to the US market. European, South American, Aussie collectors all are of no interest to TCPI

Couldn’t you say this about the Japanese Pokemon Center exclusives? I eat that stuff up and go through a bunch of hoops to get the products… So I wouldn’t necessarily say people aren’t interested in region exclusive products.

Hold on… I read that as if external collectors were not interested rather than TCPI not interested in external collectors…

akabane · 2021-01-14T01:48:04.000Z

qwachansey:

What if I told you… The press release mentions multiple times of more surprises in store… That we already know a special anniversary set is planned for the Fall… And that no, these Jumbo cards are not the sole TCG anniversary product.

Yea it’s wild to see some negativity, this is all great news for the hobby! It’s going to be a great year

lebleu · 2021-01-14T03:17:12.000Z

I can’t wait! 20th anniversary was so good it brought me back into the hobby. Now having Pokémon as a big part of my life and being a part of the 25th will make it that much more special.

Anticipation of anniversary event rather than stumbling into it. Will be nice to see the other side of the coin!

crios711 · 2021-01-14T06:06:25.000Z

The Vmax zard looks like SV107 out of SV122. I wonder how many are full arts but the SV is def bigger than hidden fates.

connorc · 2021-01-14T08:17:22.000Z

yessssssss i can’t believe pokemon has been around just around the same length of time that i have. so excited to celebrate this. i’ll be thrilled with anything and everything tpci does, tbh

genosha · 2021-01-14T09:25:40.000Z

mthursty:

genosha:

Anything that is Pokemon.com / Pokemon Center exclusive is a terrible product and only caters to the US market. European, South American, Aussie collectors all are of no interest to TCPI

Couldn’t you say this about the Japanese Pokemon Center exclusives? I eat that stuff up and go through a bunch of hoops to get the products… So I wouldn’t necessarily say people aren’t interested in region exclusive products.

Hold on… I read that as if external collectors were not interested rather than TCPI not interested in external collectors…

No, no. I really meant it as if product X is only available on Pokemon.com and not available on alternative ways outside the US than the whole 25th Anniversary is a failure. Pokemon.com is totally country locked for anyone outside North America and you really have to dip into middleman services to get the same product, for 300% the price. I was okay with certain product being NA only (like the XY-series boxes with the figurine in it, other regions only got the key chain or pin) because the promo-card is still available for reasonable pricing.
Japanese Pokémon Center are different, their product is not catered at the non-Japanese market. While product at Pokemon.com or the US Pokémon Center IS for the non-Japanese market. Europe still doesn’t have a Pokémon Center, nor official website. And if we do get it, shipping will be crazy because TCPI won’t have the logistics to setup 5 different warehouses to make sure Timmy doesn’t pick the French packs for someone ordering from Germany.

Either way, I already said in an other topic that I predict the 25th Anniversary product to be full with Charizards and Pikachus because those bring in the $$$. Be ready for 4 or more full art rainbow rare of each. Or, because it is still TCPI; just an English print of Shiny V with worse pull rates.

Quuador · 2021-01-14T09:39:26.000Z

pfm:

mthursty:

These will be the McDonald promos.

I’ve heard this claim multiple times but what’s the source? Also isn’t it unusual for them to be non-holo if they are mcdonald’s promos?

Can’t help with the source, but regarding the non-Holo part: the last two French McDonald’s sets that were released in France were separated from the other languages, and contained both non-Holo and McDonald’s Holofoil cards. They also contained more cards than the other McDonald’s set: 40 - or 80 if you count both version - instead of 12.

bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/McDonald%27s_Collection_2018_(TCG)
bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/McDonald%27s_Collection_2019_(TCG)

So it’s plausible the same applies to these 25-stamped cards regarding the non-Holo cards, since they’re in French.

Then again, these came from US-printed products, so I would assume these French cards were intended as Canadian releases, which did have the regular 12-set McDonald’s cards in French, instead of the 40-card versions. So in that regard it’s still a bit odd indeed.

(Below a preview of my upcoming French part of my ‘Pikachu around the World’ series. )

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These two above are from the French McDonald’s 2018 set, one McDonald’s Reverse Holo and one non-Holo, both numbered 17/40.

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The first two are from the French McDonald’s 2019 set, in McDonald’s Holofoil and non-Holo, numbered 20/40. And the third one on the right is from the regular McDonald’s 2019 set (numbered 6/12), for which this French version was released in the French-speaking regions of Canada and Belgium.

Greetz,
Quuador

trainerdlyellow · 2021-01-14T11:51:09.000Z

qwachansey:

What if I told you… The press release mentions multiple times of more surprises in store… That we already know a special anniversary set is planned for the Fall… And that no, these Jumbo cards are not the sole TCG anniversary product.

I’d say, teach me the way of the Chansey senpai!

pokecollectoramy · 2021-01-14T13:55:12.000Z

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq8Kn6mhUxA

We’ve got dates

nish · 2021-01-14T13:58:08.000Z

pokecollectoramy:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq8Kn6mhUxA

We’ve got dates

Stop. You can’t do this to me this early in the morning

serpintaxt · 2021-01-14T14:00:03.000Z

genosha:

mthursty:

Couldn’t you say this about the Japanese Pokemon Center exclusives? I eat that stuff up and go through a bunch of hoops to get the products… So I wouldn’t necessarily say people aren’t interested in region exclusive products.

Hold on… I read that as if external collectors were not interested rather than TCPI not interested in external collectors…

No, no. I really meant it as if product X is only available on Pokemon.com and not available on alternative ways outside the US than the whole 25th Anniversary is a failure. Pokemon.com is totally country locked for anyone outside North America and you really have to dip into middleman services to get the same product, for 300% the price. I was okay with certain product being NA only (like the XY-series boxes with the figurine in it, other regions only got the key chain or pin) because the promo-card is still available for reasonable pricing.
Japanese Pokémon Center are different, their product is not catered at the non-Japanese market. While product at Pokemon.com or the US Pokémon Center IS for the non-Japanese market. Europe still doesn’t have a Pokémon Center, nor official website. And if we do get it, shipping will be crazy because TCPI won’t have the logistics to setup 5 different warehouses to make sure Timmy doesn’t pick the French packs for someone ordering from Germany.

Either way, I already said in an other topic that I predict the 25th Anniversary product to be full with Charizards and Pikachus because those bring in the $$$. Be ready for 4 or more full art rainbow rare of each. Or, because it is still TCPI; just an English print of Shiny V with worse pull rates.

Just to add clarity, the 25th binder + jumbo packs is definitely not exclusively pokemon.com , I was able to put an order in with the distributor yesterday, so all TCG stores + brick and mortar stores should have it. So hopefully you can get it easily

kingboo64 · 2021-01-14T14:01:43.000Z

pokecollectoramy:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq8Kn6mhUxA

We’ve got dates

Can’t wait for the next snap competition!