I can understand the floating in space holo thing but idk… those sugimoris are the original hand drawn watercolor artwork for those pokemon. The background doesnt need to be flashy because the focus is on showing you the pokemon. It reminds me of the spritework from the older games. The commons get the artwork but just seeing the rare pokemon was the treat. It just brings me back to a simpler, more basic time where there was joy in that alone, it didnt need to be anything more
Its just like old games or comics, sure the art or graphics arent always the greatest by todays standards, but theyre still interesting and enjoyable to look at imo
Even some vintage non 10 grades are going kinda dummy. I was checking out my Pop Series 5 Mew PSA 6 (corrected back) to see if it was maybe regradeable and noticed for the first time that it had holo bleed, went to check its price: last month $295 best offer. I bought it for $120 like 3 months ago, which felt like an overpay at the time since recent solds at that time were like $80-90. Checked on some of my other Mews, the Japanese Expedition PSA 8 and 9 also had crazy recent sales that were double or nearly double of what I bought them for only 2 months ago ($115 and $275 respectively). Seems like some impatient new buyers are just buying whatever’s in stock, regardless of past history in sales, which feels bubbly to me, especially when non 10s are doubling in price within just a few months.
My impression is that popular species in general (even some B-tier ones like Mew, Lugia, Gyarados) got definitively more expensive.
I also noticed some growing prices on delta species (category, not the set) plain holos, even for raw LP cards of historically overlooked Pokemon like Beedrill. Terrible.
