Questions regarding vending and JP card kogas ninja trick

[wotcfetish]

Hi E4 Pros, some random Questions i asked myself in the last week.

1: Is the Koga`s Ninja Trick in Challenge from the Darkness always the corrected version?
Ofc the revised version is more valuable ( kinda strange for me) but i hoped to get the banned Version.
Is the Kogas Ninja Trick Card always the Corrected version in the Japanese Boosters? Different Prints?

2: I would like to know the Printrunend of Vending Series 3, on Bulbapedia theres is only the description giving the Release date but not more( November 24th, 1998) I assume they didnt print Series 1 in the same Time they started series 2 , or? Would be cool to know since the ending of Series 1 or 2 is kinda logical when seeing the Releasedate of the next series.

3. When they put the Sheets into the vending Machines, was it like Sheet 1 on top and Sheet 36 on the bottom or in reverse whent hey fill in the stack of 1-36 sheets? or did they put 36x one type of sheet in the machine?

4. How to reach out for a specific card without everyone know you like it and make a fortune with your Passion for it?

Ofc i tried to find the Answer before i ask, but currently only with a little bit of luck ,reaching some old Youtuber, i could find an answer for 3. Since its not guaranted i ask it anyway =)

If You have the Answer, my Weekend is instantly 20% better ;D

[octaane]

@wotcfetish

Hi E4 Pros, some random Questions i asked myself in the last week.

1: Is the Koga`s Ninja Trick in Challenge from the Darkness always the corrected version?
Ofc the revised version is more valuable ( kinda strange for me) but i hoped to get the banned Version.
Is the Kogas Ninja Trick Card always the Corrected version in the Japanese Boosters? Different Prints?

In japan, they did not change the artwork. When the card was printed for international release, the artwork was changed. There is no english version of the card with the actual omote manji (reversed swastika that people easily mistook for an actual swastika).

2: I would like to know the Printrunend of Vending Series 3, on Bulbapedia theres is only the description giving the Release date but not more( November 24th, 1998) I assume they didnt print Series 1 in the same Time they started series 2 , or? Would be cool to know since the ending of Series 1 or 2 is kinda logical when seeing the Releasedate of the next series.

So, there are 2 answers here. 1) there is no “official” end to the print run of the vending series - this is because they were put into vending machines, and whenever the people who stocked the machines ran out of stock, that was it. The vendors could not get any more of, say, vending series 1 because the pokemon company stopped selling them. There was likely a print run of several months before they stopped production - but stopping production doesn’t mean that the vending machines actually ‘stopped’ selling the cards - you get what I mean, right? 2) its not like vending series 1 was not available in vending machines anymore when they started selling vending series 2 - there was overlap between them because in some areas, vending series 1 may have not been sold out, like it was in some other areas. Same goes for vending series 3 - they printed them for a few months, sent them to vendors/companies that stocked the actual vending machines, and whenever the last vending series 3 was actually sold in the machine, that was it.

3. When they put the Sheets into the vending Machines, was it like Sheet 1 on top and Sheet 36 on the bottom or in reverse whent hey fill in the stack of 1-36 sheets? or did they put 36x one type of sheet in the machine?

I’m not sure how the actual machine worked, or how they loaded the sheets, but the sheets were given to the buyer at random by the vending machine. For what its worth, the vending sheets were distributed to vendors in numerical order - i.e, 1-36. Whether whomever stocked the vending machines randomized the sheets by shuffling them, or if the machine had its own process, is unknown. If any other efour members could chime in on this, this would be great.

4. How to reach out for a specific card without everyone know you like it and make a fortune with your Passion for it?

Ofc i tried to find the Answer before i ask, but currently only with a little bit of luck ,reaching some old Youtuber, i could find an answer for 3. Since its not guaranted i ask it anyway =)

If You have the Answer, my Weekend is instantly 20% better ;D

You can’t. Pokemon is extremely popular and the market is competitive. Whatever aspect of the cards you like - art, the artists, certain kinds or rarities, etc - collect that. Research it online, get to know what the prices should be, and then hunt for it on ebay, facebook marketplace, mercari, yahoo japan, etc. If you want to make real money - buy valuable cards - namely holos, ex’s, secret rares, gold stars, shinings, etc - there are so many types of valuable cards out there - and hold on to them long term. Plan on sitting on cards for a decade or more before selling. Everyone has an opinion on how to make money in pokemon, but this is a simplified explanation of how many people do it.

[wotcfetish]

@octaane, Thanks a lot for your Answers!
Espacially the Vending Part is fantastic to know!

Iam not sure if i understand Nr1 correctly:
So if i open a Challenge from the Darkness Japanese Booster Pack its always the Version 1 or 2 ? or is it even possible to get both variants with different printruns of the japanese boosterpack?

[muk]

@wotcfetish

So if i open a Challenge from the Darkness Japanese Booster Pack its always the Version 1 or 2 ? or is it even possible to get both variants with different printruns of the japanese boosterpack?

You either get the original swastika or the censored one, depending on when the pack was produced. The swastika one of course came earlier. But as far as I know, there isn’t a safe way to tell early from late printruns apart by just looking at the booster.
I think I once heard that the censored, later version is actually more rare. But the more common, earlier swastika version is (understandably, imho) more interesting, desireable and valuable.