Why do you always make posts like you are on drugs and act like wierd kid?
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Because either heās a weird kid on drugs
Or
Crazy like a fox;)
Or
The e4 mascot
Honestly though, heās a great kid:)
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I honestly donāt even understand a single post of theirs.
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because im a special miracle child!!! Its really quite simple, all revealed below
i like to have fun, make people lauph and not remain so robotic in personality, not that its anything wrong with that but it is boring and no fun. Its just who i will always be.
p.S if you dont understand my humorerbz or native language then you have no soul or are artificial intelligence, or perhaps have the personality of a carrot 
ā¦see what i did there? Nevermind, one day you will understand, all it takes is timeā¦ But yeah in short i am a miracle child who predicts the future and am related to joseph king of dreams, accept im like pokesynd king of pokemon predictionsā¦ there will always be those haters out there who appose my greatness, but deep down inside im sure youll realise just as so many others didā¦ THAT i am a living god.
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I received my copy yesterday and skimmed through it a bit and want to give my first thoughts on it for you all. Just some quick notes that Iāve gathered after going through for it half an hour.
This a very cut and dry, straight to the point kind of book. It has no personalized experiences with the hobby, no retrospect or history of the hobby aside from the set content. It kind of feels like if someone threw all of the TCG info on Bulbapedia into a book honestly. Iād be kind of curious to see how much of this was seriously him sitting in front of Bulbapedia and trying to slightly reword everything.
The book goes through all of the sets ever released and highlights the top 5 most valuable cards per set with a checklist of every card in each set, but doesnāt list the value of every card in the set.
One thing I want to mention though is that so far the prices are actually somewhat accurate which is nice. You can tell that some of the prices have clearly gone up a few dollars since the time of writing, this is to be expected with making a printed price guide. Along these same lines is that in the early WOTC sets he doesnāt distinguish or even take note of the fact that 1st ED cards have different values when stating card value. For example, Charizard 4/102 from Base Set is always showing the unlimited price and doesnāt note the value of a 1st ED shadowless copy, Alakazam 1/102 is always a $10 dollar card and not the more valuable 1st ED copy, etc. He mentions earlier on that 1st ED cards are usually at a higher price point but only says specific prices if the scan of said card is a 1st ED copy.
I also didnāt see any information on PSA or getting cards graded which leads me to believe this book is meant for newcomers or people who arenāt quite as seriously into the hobby as those of us on here.
This sounds like a really negative ādo not buy thisā type of review but if youāre like me and you simply enjoy physical copies of information then this isnāt a total loss. Just saying donāt expect anything more than a quick write-up of each set with products released for it and a checklist.
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Nice reviewā¦
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For clarification, there is a page or two where he does mention grading but all card prices always use the unlimited pricing. Going back and reading what I posted made it seem like thereās 0 mention of grading and 1st Edition.
My experience with Pokemon and copyright.
My brother released an iOS app around 2009 that was essentially a pokemon collecting checklist. Used images of PokƩmon in the checklist.
It was high quality, but literally made no money.
PokƩmon sent notice to Apple for copyright violation, and the app was removed.
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Great review! Pretty much what I suspected (and wrote) after seeing the handful of sample pages that I shared a few days ago. Basically, the book appears to be a lazy rehash of Bulbapedia.
Any chance you could take a picture of and share the copyright page?
Edit: I was able to find a screenshot of the copyright page. Note the disclaimer in bold text: āThis book is not authorized, sponsored, endorsed or licensed by Nintendo of America Inc. or The Pokemon Company International.ā
The Fair Use doctrine can certainly be argued, but it will still be interesting to see if action is taken.
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If you guys remember the Pojo books and magazine from back in the day they also published a 20th anniversary āunofficial ultimateā book last year and thatās still available for sale. It has information on literally everything: TCG, video games, anime and movies, toys, etc. and TPCI never cared enough to do anything about that. What will be different with this book instead of that one and some of the others that slip under the radar?
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Itās free exposure to the cards and history for the Pokemon company. They will make more money through people buying their merchandise off this book than the seller does in the long run no doubt.
Iām surprised he printed out a book honestly. Even since he first started doing videos I felt like he was just plain and reading off the internet, trying to get attention and being the guy that says " oh that person opened 1000 packs Iāll do 2000 packs to be better at it. The videos of him receiving cards also had me at like please sound a little more excited at getting cards people are giving you but I hear is ok cool thanks for the cards moving on now.
Pokemon wont care as long as they make the money off it, if they find the material bad or they believe it will sabotage the franchise then they will take action. If they dont see it as anything worth it then they wont care. A company that made 1.3 billion in retail sales last year still undermines their own brand
I think if we started small, with just the first WOTC sets, this could already be super valuable. As resources permit, the listing can expand. I mean I would love to have access to latest market valuations on 1st ed, shadowless, unlimited, and up to Neo Destiny evenā¦
Honestly he seems a bit different, and that is probably why he sounds that way. Also, when you get to open thousands of packs a year, and tons of free cards, I guess it wouldnāt be as special or exciting, but mostly he just sounds strange.
If you fast forward through the video his body does not move an inch.
Hilarious.
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I donāt think he blinked more than 3 times either, strange stuff. I wonder if heās naturally that way or if heās incredibly uncomfortable being on camera like that?
Iād say a little bit of bothā¦
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From what Iāve counted, he has a total of 7 blinking points (BP) throughout the entire video.
BPs are as follwed:
1 - 1:37 (1 min and 37 seconds of not blinking from start of the video)
2 - 2:05 (28 seconds of not blinking from previous BP)
3 - 3:01 (56 seconds of not blinking from previous BP)
4 - 3:05 (4 seconds of not blinking from previous BP)
5 - 3:57 (52 seconds of not blinking from previous BP)
6 - 4:18 (21 seconds of not blinking from previous BP)
7 - 4:56 (38 seconds of not blinking from previous BP)
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He sounds a little less strange in his older videos. Heās been streamlining his presentation and part of that is the odd way he delivers his lines. Itās weird, but the exact same every time.
If it wasnāt for primetimepokemon thereās a fair chance I wouldnāt be in this hobby at all. Good luck to him 
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