Quuador's Collection - New Pikachu from 2018 and 2019

[Quuador]

Small update with some new Pikachu.

First an update I did post in another thread, but forgot to post in my collection thread. So I’m just gonna quote myself:

@Quuador

The Raid Battle Pikachu VMAX trio.

These Raid Battle Jumbo cards were first revealed in August 2020, alongside Alcremie and Drednaw. Then first used at Worlds 2022 in London, although not sure if and how many were leaked from there.
In late 2022, stores received an email stating they could register to receive demo decks, on a first come, first served basis. Stores that registered would also receive a Raid Battle kit, alongside Pikachu, Drednaw and Alcremie Cosmos holo promos. So each store that registered for this received 3 x 3 Raid Battle Jumbo cards (the three different HP variants) that weren’t meant to be distributed to players, and 20 x 3 Cosmos Holofoil promos.

These cards were also distributed in French and Italian, although I only cared about the English ones personally.

PS: They’re slightly larger than TCG Jumbo cards (unfortunately, I have to look for new sleeves + toploaders ),

And here some pictures this time:

Next two cards from 2018 and 2019 respectively, which I’ve been unaware of since only very recently.
The first is a miniature Japanese Lightning Raichu-GX Starter Deck Pikachu, from the October 2018 volume of the CoroCoro Ishiban magazine, released on August 21st, 2018. Thanks a lot to @rabby250 for making me aware of these SM-era Mini Decks, and also to @queendrifloon for linking me the auction for the entire Zeraora Mini Deck, after I was unable to find it myself.

And finally, a repeating misprint on the French Reverse Holo Hidden Legends Pikachu. All Reverse Holo cards from this French set had repeating misprints where they’d have the English Reverse Holo instead. On most Pokémon cards, like Pikachu, this resulted in a holo shift at the Weakness and Resistance Energy symbols, as can be seen in the photo below. This I was unaware of before, although I have seen it before on Pokémon with larger attack texts or Ability, like this Jolteon or this Electrode, where the error is more noticeable.

Greetz,
Quuador