PichuFan's Pichu collection - 82/124 PSA 10

Some of them have arrived. :grin:

Italian Professor Elm’s Lecture league promos:

The two new Korean cards I ordered before Christmas:

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Tracked down the French set:

https://instagram.com/p/B7-rhGtAprr

I believe I have all variants of this card now (Japanese, Korean, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish), but I’m not sure if it’s been released in Portuguese.

Also picked up a non-glossy back hole-punched e-Reader Pichu/Hoppip set which I only found out existed about 2 weeks ago:

https://instagram.com/p/B7-ux-OAbXe

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It’s been a while…

https://instagram.com/p/CANzPVmFxQK

https://instagram.com/p/CBvIcK_F7ub

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I had to make this into a gif, this was such a good feeling. :grin:

Edit: Yes, I’m aware it’s “Kindergarten” and not “Kindergarden” - oops!

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This is amazing! I always wanted to get every azurill, marill and azumarill card but havent gotten around to it yet

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I’ve been focusing more on other languages recently and have added the following:

2/2 Polish Pichu cards (both from Mysterious Treasures, released in Poland in 2012):

https://instagram.com/p/CCgMrRXFOAW

The new Chinese Professor Elm’s Lecture card from China’s Legendary Clash set released in April, meaning I’m also 2 for 2 on Chinese cards featuring Pichu:

https://instagram.com/p/CC8jCnalFki

I had completely missed the two Pokémon Fan Club cards from Thailand’s Ruler of the Skies set released in November last year which made tracking down the full art version a bit of a pain. With those and the Professor Elm’s Lecture card from Thailand’s Legendary Clash set I’m now 3 for 3 on Thai cards featuring Pichu:

https://instagram.com/p/CDvtL4mllqJ

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I love your collection! It’s great seeing so many foreign language cards.

How do you store/display your non-graded Pichu collection? Do you keep them all in card savers/toploaders or do you put them in binders?

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My plan is to eventually put them all in their own language-specific binders but for now they just exist as a big stack of card savers with their country codes written on the back of each in case I forget which is which.

I’m tempted to send a few over to CGC once that’s an option from the UK, but we’ll see.

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I’m trying to track down all of the relevant magazines before posting pictures of individual cards from the 2009 Design Contest set, but here are the ones I have so far:

https://instagram.com/p/CCqSzP1FA3t

https://instagram.com/p/CCvCo9QFZAs

https://instagram.com/p/CC6TkpClYpU

Here is one of all the Pichus from the 2009 Design Contest set and a few more Spiky-eared Pichu cards:

https://instagram.com/p/CC-lQHDlszu

And as something non-TCG I also picked up the WonderCon 2020 flocked version of the Pichu Funko POP!:

https://instagram.com/p/CEG9rtYlUPr

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I managed to track down both the regular and reverse Holon Phantoms Pichus in PSA 10 in August, which was great:

https://instagram.com/p/CEAHPOalpnt

https://instagram.com/p/CE1aEowlEY8

I finally picked up the last GBA Gum Card I was missing:

https://instagram.com/p/CEr2aRKFcT_

Also picked up this miscut chap which I’ve shared before but I’ll put it here to keep everything in one place:

https://instagram.com/p/CEoq5pLl9tU

All in all August was a pretty good month!

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@pichufan congrats on the new additions!

Also it’s absolutely teriffic that you have the fitting magazines to go along with the Design Contest cards! Stuff like that really ties a collection together and makes it unique (as if your collection wasn’t unique already :wink:).

But good lord, are those Japanese magazines flashy haha.

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If anyone’s interested I’ve updated my blog today to include a new article about one of my favourite items from my collection, the 042/DPt-P Pichu: 042/DPt-P - Sapphire in a Bag of Diamonds.

This follows a high profile collector on Instagram this week posting about an upcoming set of high-end cards they’re planning on auctioning off. Alongside a Snap Poliwag, 2005 Victory Medal and Kamex Computer Error, pictured next to a 2006 Championship Arena was a very much out of place 042/DPt-P Pichu card. The blog post explores why this is popular for the wrong reason and why it should be celebrated for something completely different.

Here is the teaser I put up on Instagram for it:


I realise I’ve not posted here for quite some time, so here are the highlights for those of you who don’t already follow me:

https://instagram.com/p/CG7k-lklwnl

https://instagram.com/p/CHPiOV6lh27

https://instagram.com/p/CLKFvYUF0xO

I also recently found a very minty Dengeki Pichu - which I should probably also write about on my blog. The only issue it has is slightly wonky centring on the front. I’ve not shared this anywhere yet, so enjoy:

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Don’t forget about the Meiji Gold Card

Sorry I’m not sure what you mean?

Absolutely hell of a post! Congrats on every Japanese card!

I think he means one of the following Meiji cards:

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Correct.
There is a Silver, Blue and Gold Variation
He only had the Silver and Blue so I am making sure he knows about the gold one

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Unless there’s another version I’m not aware of, both of those are silver. The one with the red logo is from 2000 and the one with the black logo is from 2001:

https://instagram.com/p/B\_aQQc5lx1x

http://instagr.am/p/B_aQQc5lx1x

You might be thinking a gold version exists because of an eBay listing a while ago which was claiming there to be a gold foil version but it was just a filter applied to the listing image.

I’ve got a stack of blue foil Meiji Pichu cards with PSA right now trying to upgrade that 9 to a 10. :blush:

There are then 30, 40, 50 and 60 HP variants of this card: www.elitefourum.com/t/pichufans-pichu-collection-82-124-psa-10/21925/35 - I actually finally picked up the 50 HP variant from Mercari just 3 days ago: www.mercari.com/jp/items/m80908642444

After that I believe there may be a few Meiji Pichu stickers but I’ve not really been looking for stickers until very recently.

Meiji did release a gold set in 2000 but Pichu was not part of that: i.redd.it/fnehiodprnh41.jpg (not my image).

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Bro!! I looked at your collection super awesome! Love everything about your collection and love seeing all the pickups from plates to cards everything is amazing. Here’s a card you might be missing from the carddass anime collection.

Don’t let the front fool you!! Check out the back of the card!! This card shouldn’t be hard to find but just letting you know :blush:

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I am indeed missing that one - I only saw the back of it for the first time about 6 months ago but since then the only copy I’ve found for sale has been $60. I hoping one will show up in Japan for $5 at some point.

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Here is a picture of the Meiji Collection
You’re missing the Gold Version.
Here is my Pikachu Gold Silver and Blue. It is the same for Pichu

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