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One of the main reasons I like topps cards now is because they have art directly from the tv series and movies. Re-watching the series and movies as an adult isn’t the same as seeing them as a kid, but looking at Topps cards sort of is because I can instead remember the way I viewed them 25+ years ago
I’ve already completed the Bandai Carddass set, so not much collecting left on that regard:
Currently I’m mostly getting all Seviper in any non-TCG card, so I’ll likely continue with that.
Although if the TCG cards disappear completely, it would take away a lot of the fun tbch, since that’s my main focus and also gives me the most nostalgia. I never collected any non-TCG stuff as a kid.
I have negative interest in all non-tcg cards so I wouldn’t collect them but would I collect something else?
Figurines stopped being fun as a kid. 99% of the other miscellaneous pokecrap from my childhood was only bought when idiot kid brain couldn’t find packs but had to buy Pokemon. Some of the stickers were nice I guess. I do love the game covers despite always keeping mine stashed away, but I’ve never collected them and beyond buying a sealed PAL Stadium 2 I don’t think I ever would. Loved my magazines too, again not something I’d collect.
+1 for postcards. Some of them are so well done and have so much character. The others would then easily be carddass, specially anything related to anime.
Along the same line as this - I would collect playmats and deck sleeves if I was allowed to stray away from cardboard! Those are far more interesting to me! Haha
TCG cards form the vast majority of what others collect, so if you take them away the community would shrink massively. That is to say, it would be much less fun collecting anything without people to share the fun with.
Having said that, I’ve bought more non-TCG items the last couple of years than TCG cards. Mainly postcards, but also posters. To reiterate what others have said, I think the art/price proposition is really good.
Of course people collect cards for many more reasons than just the art, but I think that is my primary motivator.
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