QotD: What is your limit to species collecting?

General
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Pikachu:

  1. I only collect the TCG cards
  2. I’ve excluded cameos (hard enough as is without including the Pokémon Illustrator and trophy cards, haha)
  3. I collect all languages and variations for the first 25 years (up to February 27th, 2021), and after that only:
    1. All English Pikachu in every variation
    2. One of each non-English exclusive artwork (e.g. Japanese promos or S. Chinese cards), without caring about multiple variations
    3. Only exception are the Base Set reprints, which I still get in every language and variation
  4. I’m primarily focussing on officially released cards, with all unofficial ones (unofficial stamped cards; repeating misprints; print run variants; sample/prototype cards; etc.) as nice-to-have bonuses

Seviper:

I collect close to everything that features Seviper, so very small limits (see 3.1 and 3.2). :person_shrugging:

  1. All TCG cards including all languages/variations
  2. All TCG cameos in all languages/variations
  3. Everything non-TCG if it features a Seviper: non-TCG cards; stickers; pogs; posters; figures; plushies; etc. etc. Basically everything, no matter how small the Seviper cameo is, with the only exceptions being:
    1. Items that feature the entire gen 3 (or gens 1-3, or perhaps even all Pokémon) - e.g. the Hoenn playmats or Pokémon Roadshow poster
    2. Although I make some exceptions on rare occassions, I’m not going after any unofficial custom made stuff from Etsy and alike, and also avoid knock-offs of existing products (e.g. Chinese Wei Toys Seviper figure that’s a copy of the Data Carrier figure without its base)

Links to both of these collections (Pikachu split up into multiple parts) can be found in the main post of my collection thread, to give you an idea:

And I can also refer to my WTB threads, to give you an idea of some items I’m still missing (ignore some of the unrealistic prices):

Greetz,
Quuador

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