It’s funny to see who dictates the culture of this hobby to the general public. It’s driven almost exclusively by people that have preexisting influence outside the hobby before they decide to join, rather than coming organically from the grassroots of the hobby. This is just another brick in that wall. I can see why this trend really frustrates people.
I will say though that I really don’t care about all that noise. I collected when it was cool in the 90’s and collected when it lame in the 00’s and collected before and after the Pokemon Go bubble and collected before the hypebeasts and influencers got into it and I’ll still be collecting when they are gone. These people are only as relevant to you as you make them. I hope the show is great but whether it crashes and burns or somehow draws in droves of people, I’ll still be here doing the same thing and completing the same goals.
If it is more about rarity and history over x card is expensive because its expensive ill watch it. Im just really not keen on another speculator money driven show. Definitely see potential though. There are so many great stories in collectibles. Just dont want a ticker showing how much cards are being sold on ebay for popping up all the time like a cheap youtube channel.
Goldin seems to have be around for awhile and sold a lot of collectibles, primarily in the Sports cards realm so it would be cool if they bridged how some High Value Sports Collectors have added to their collection of high end collectibles with Pokemon Cards, and note their interest in acquiring these Cards. Or if focus of the show is on the culture of collectibles, particularly the increased desire for the Pokemon and japanese drawn cartoons, that provide nostalgic childhood memories/collectibles they come back for, could make for a good show. A higher appreciation for collectible’s artwork, historic cards (some found in older collections as well), rather then encouraging pawn/flipper vibe would be great for the hobby.
If the netflix sole focus is auctioning, an emphasis on bulk buyers, and or Walmart flippers, yawn. Will be interesting to see what Goldin/Netflix direction takes with the show. Goldin 1 job, encourage people to Bring The Money.
This sounds like it could be interesting if they pick actual knowledgeable/experienced people to represent the pokemon TCG, but I have a sinking feeling we’re going to somehow end up with collectibles guru shilling a raw shadowless caterpie for 50k
From what I’ve read, the show is entirely centered around sports collectibles. It will feature one episode that is either centered on pokemon or mentions pokemon tangentially. I don’t expect this to create any waves in the pokemon collectible space but I hope I’m wrong!
Brent Montgomery’s Wheelhouse entertainment is going to do this show. Stoopid Buddy Stoodios is going to do Aoki’s Dominion X NFT show. I’m guessing we will see crossovers here as the Vegas empire continues to grow. I’d be intrigued to know what deals have been penned behind the scenes.
Think this will be a genuinely enjoyable show and something like it is needed.
Also Netflix has over 200 million audience which means there is potentially exposure to 10x more people than our favourite boxer brought in October 2020.
Not to mention Goldin likes to hype things up and present them as an investment opportunity.
If this doesn’t have a huge effect on the market I’ll be surprised, you can’t get much bigger exposure than this.
Charizardballer69 is gonna be trading those PSA 7 Fossil Muks for Lambos by the end of 2022
