I was wondering if anyone could help share some knowledge on the different languages that Pokémon Celebrations was released in. I did some digging and found on Bulbapedia that they had the following languages:
I also know that there was a Korean Pokémon Celebrations set. But are there any others in any other languages that aren’t listed?
Also, forgive my ignorance, but for the Chinese release, was there just one release or two? I’m not sure if it came out in both Cantonese and Mandarin. I sometimes see Traditional or Simplified Chinese, but Bulbapedia was a little confusing, and I don’t know much about Chinese.
The 25th anniversary collection was only released in Traditional Chinese as it’s own set, since that was before Simplified Chinese cards were even a thing. Some cards were released in Simplified Chinese, they were available in a Pokéball box which included one random Pikachu card and one random Legendary Pokémon card (the classic collection wasn’t released in Simplified Chinese afaik).
not sure if this is helpful, but Portuguese in particular had a unique foiling pattern for the classic collection where they used the VMAX HR glitter instead of the confetti glitter which makes it probably the most expensive/desired language variant
Whoa thats pretty cool what they did! I am currently in the process of finishing a binder page for a certain card and can’t wait to see it when the Portuguese version comes in
Cantonese and Mandarin are “spoken Chinese” which are not used to distinguish printed materials such as cards. Chinese printings are distinguished by “written Chinese” which is either Traditional or Simplified Chinese.
The main set was (almost) released in both languages, with Traditional Chinese released in the same set as Japanese and Simplified Chinese split across the following products (and Professor Oak never released):
See the table below for a full language mapping:
Card
T.Chi.
S.Chi.
TPCi
Pikachu
FA
S8a
1
CSD
1
CEL25
5
Mew
S8a
2
CSD
2
CEL25
11
Professor’s Research (Professor Oak)
S8a
3
N/A
CEL25
23
Ho-Oh
S8a
4
CSD
3
CEL25
1
Lugia
S8a
5
CSD
4
CEL25
22
Groudon
S8a
6
CSD
5
CEL25
17
Kyogre
S8a
7
CSD
6
CEL25
3
Dialga
S8a
8
CSD
7
CEL25
20
Palkia
S8a
9
CSD
8
CEL25
4
Reshiram
S8a
10
CSD
9
CEL25
2
Zekrom
S8a
11
CSD
10
CEL25
10
Xerneas
S8a
12
CSD
11
CEL25
12
Yveltal
S8a
13
CSD
12
CEL25
19
Cosmog
S8a
14
CSD
13
CEL25
13
Cosmoem
S8a
15
CSD
14
CEL25
14
Solgaleo
S8a
16
CSD
15
CEL25
21
Lunala
S8a
17
CSD
16
CEL25
15
Zacian V
RR
S8a
18
CSD
17
CEL25
16
Zamazenta V
RR
S8a
19
CSD
18
CEL25
18
Pikachu V
RR
S8a
20
CSD
19
SWSHP
143
Surfing Pikachu V
RR
S8a
21
CSD
21
CEL25
8
Surfing Pikachu VMAX
RRR
S8a
22
CSD
22
CEL25
9
Flying Pikachu V
RR
S8a
23
CSD
23
CEL25
6
Flying Pikachu VMAX
RRR
S8a
24
CSD
24
CEL25
7
Pikachu V-UNION Top Left
RRR
S8a
25
S-P
109
SWSHP
139
Pikachu V-UNION Top Right
RRR
S8a
26
S-P
110
SWSHP
140
Pikachu V-UNION Bottom Left
RRR
S8a
27
S-P
111
SWSHP
141
Pikachu V-UNION Bottom Right
RRR
S8a
28
S-P
112
SWSHP
142
Professor’s Research (Professor Oak)
SR
S8a
29
N/A
CEL25
24
Mew
UR
S8a
30
CSD
25
CEL25
25
Pikachu VMAX
RRR
S8a-G
6
CSD
20
SWSH4
44
The Classic Collection was only released in Traditional Chinese.
My guess is they created the template while it was still Gen I and just applied the same template to all pages which need a language list.
There were no official Chinese translations from TPC until the mainstream games were localized in Sun & Moon, so before that the translations considered to be “official” were from publishers who were authorized by TPC to release the anime series in their regions. Due to this local release policy, Cantonese (in Hong Kong) and Mandarin (in Taiwan) each had their own translations, which is why Bulbapedia listed both in the first place.
Applying the language template intended for anime to TCG can be very misleading though as we already mentioned in this thread, so might have to ask the staff there if they want to fix that.
I think the question’s been answered already, but I remembered @yamahap45 collected some Classic Collection cards in all languages here. You can see how each language did their foiling (with some discussion of the Portuguese foiling if you scroll down somewhere).
Celebrations was released in Occident in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian & Brazilian Portuguese. It included both the Celebrations set and the Classic Collection set.
25th Anniversary Collection was released in Japanese. Also in Korean, T-Chinese, Thai and Indonesian.
The set was also released in S-Chinese via a product (being Oak’s Research Unreleased). But that was explained by Rabby. Thank you so much!!! I’ll take notes of everything!!!
Classic Collection:
Promo Card Pack 25th Anniversary Edition was released in Japanese. It’s basically the Classic Collection set
– It was also released in Korean, T-Chinese, Thai and Indonesian.
– Cards in T-Chinese were distributed via promotional events or specific products.
– Cards in Thai were distributed in 2 type of boosters: The first one has the same design as Japanese and you can find all cards (except Venusaur, Blastoise, Charizard and Birthday Pikachu) and the other booster was released via 25th Year Pokémon TCG Exhibition (Cards available are Venusaur, Blastoise and Charizard). Birthday Pikachu in Thai was distributed if you purchased a Star Birth booster box.
About variants. I’m not sure if these sets included “Reverse Holo” … I’ll try to search more
For Japanese/Korean Celebrations/25th Anniversary, is there a Dark Sylveon V? I’ve never seen one so I’ve always assumed they just didn’t get it. I do know that the other it exists in Thai, Indonesian, and traditional Chinese at least.
No. There are rumors that participants of Worlds 2023 received a list of banned cards (i.e. cards released by TPCi but not TPC or vice versa are not allowed in Worlds), and in that list Dark Sylveon V was listed as Japanese promo 195/S-P which is why someone wrote it in Bulbapedia, but currently I don’t know any Worlds participant who can prove such list exists, and - even if the list is true - promo cards 194/S-P to 207/S-P were never distributed.
Professor Oak and Mew listed in the table are the only secret cards in this set, so you can just copy the whole table to Excel or Google Sheets to get the full set including secrets on a spreadsheet.
About variants. I’m not sure if these sets included “Reverse Holo” … I’ll try to search more
to finally have one with silver borders