Lamincards were cards made of plastic, with most of the background being transparent.
They looks like the Magic Message Cards.
They were released by this italian company, Edibas Collections Srl, which also made lamincards from other media through the years.
Pokemon series should have been 6, and I can confirm that some if not every set has been printed in italian, spanish, french, german and english.
2004 Pokemon Advanced Lamincards Collection
(these are the exact same artwork as future 2006 hoenn edition but with the background put vertically behind the pokemon instead of orizzontally)
UPDATE I stole the image of a binder (not full but still, it’s original material) so we get a confirmed release date: march 09 2004.
UPDATE I’ve found other images of the binder, none reporting the “special edition” in the logo and with different coloration. So I guess trying to put all together, the first image with yellow background is a fake one. And the right one is the above with the blue background. Also the checklist confirming the 386 cards.
UPDATE: I’ve stole another binder. This time I inverted this with the previous release.
This is not the 386 full 3° gen edition, it’s the one with the extra horizontal cards.
UPDATE actually seems I was wrong, this “new collection” is the re-release of the 2004, as can be seen from the actual binder pages. (same checklist, copyright: 1996-2006).
EDIT given the new infos, I think the wiki here is wrong, the horizontal beautifly is not from the new collection but from the special collection.
Also, the front page of the binder scanned here is from the 2004 without the “new” printed on it, while the back is correct, with the 2006 date.
And here I lay exhausted wondering why there are some that don’t fit anywhere above.
They sold so well that they noticed even at Topps. In countries where they were distributed, their trading card sells were having dips. We didn’t affect habitual players, but the youngsters prefered to collect our cards because they were pretty. The results was the communication that they wouldn’t have renewed the license because lamincards were affecting the core business of an important partner of them.
Grazie ancora per questa fonte e chiedo perdono se la traduzione non è proprio accurata, ma l’ho tirata giù di fretta
For context, these were the dragonball ones. Probably their best work, pretty sparkly in person. I bet that pokemon would have looked great with holo backgrounds, but unfortunately we’ll never know.
I agree for the gold edition (it was dbz series blue?)
But then having the same card that could happear in red holofoil, blue holofoil, diamond holofoil, all with the same pattern… and the fact I didn’t really understood the rarity at the time…
that thing got me out from the dbz lamincards… it was getting too much.
But having something that resembles meiji embossed here, in europe… would have been a thing.
What a missed hopportunity…
I have yet to see any English Seviper, so at this point I kinda doubt they exist. I’m also not sure if each of the four different Seviper versions I have here, have been printed in the other four languages (German, French, Italian, Spanish), but I guess that’s possible.
The ones that looks the same… are actually the same but in different language.
the 2004 is from the PAL collection because of the copyright and the vertical background, even if it’s not spotted on the main post,
the 3 stock is from 2006 PL, as can be seen,
the one with the red rounded background is from 2006 PL Special Edition (because it’s the only one with that particular background, like the 2004 is the only vertical one),
So, yeah, for the orizontal ones I’m starting to think they are the 2006 New Collection.
And I assume the square ones are just a national variant of the 2005 collection, which don’t feature gen3 pokemon (and looks pretty the same to me comparing what I can see).
Like this should everything comes back, right?
Need just to understand which releases outside the 2005 has been printed in english and where the hell is left the first 2004 release I can’t find anything about
Heyyy, so the square ones are the english variants. There is no english ones with the rectangle size and no other language has the square size apart from english. Also the Special Edition 2006 was exclusive to Italian language. They were popular in Spain too, I really wonder why grading companies dont grade these, they are 100% legit.
These are the ones I have in my Mewtwo collection. Missing the French and Spanish versions but those are the easiest to get for me since Im in Spain. You can appreciate the different in size with the english ones. Out of my own personal experience, hardest to find were the english version and the german version. Good night
This was funny to notice, i thought i had matching pairs of all my lamin cards and perhaps all possible variants but when i took this photo i noticed that my “veleno” cards were of different language. The missing grimer was straight on ebay to buy but i didn’t find that missing italian muk so another one to search for in future
Hello! I have three lamincards that i got around 2015~ I’ve done some research and was able to find other slowpoke and beautifly cards, but i haven’t found a copy of my mew. i’ve found a german print of it on an old blog site, but the link to the auction for it is broken and i can’t find anything else, but here they are:
Welcome on E4, glad your first message goes on my thread,
As for the Mew, it looks like it’s from the 2005 series BUT from the source I’ve used, and a YouTube video of a dude opening the binder, it appears not to be listed. So it’s either a super-secret promotional-tied release or either from another set.
May I ask you a picture of the back?
Looks like it’s a spanish copy, maybe from the copyrights we can dig further
im not home at the moment but i can explain how i got them if it helps. like i said it was around 2015, i had gotten them from a girl with a few other older pokemon cards. all i remember is that she had gotten them from an older sibling. she doesn’t remember anything about them so thats where my story ends
if it is a 2005 release then the card would already be 10 years old when i got it. and about it being a promotional: i noticed it was the only card that didnt use official sugimori art, instead its looks exactly like mew in the gen 1 anime/first movie which could be for a reason.
additionally, heres the post about the german cards i mentioned
Yep, they are that old, even if the story is confused I don’t think this is a fake.
Since it’s old and it’s a single card it could be found in pack, gained in a trade, even bought at a garage sale (I Remember buying a few, more than 15 years ago).
When I get home I try to see for something more
incase the text isnt clear, the bottom part says:
(Pokemon Logo) (Lamincards Logo) (Edibas Logo) (Mundi Cromo Sport Logo)
Copyright 2006 Pokemon. Copyright 1995-2006 Nintendo/Creatures Inc/Game Freak Inc.
No special symbols or anything, the back looks exactly like my other lamincards.
