When Sini asked me for my address, this was not what I was expecting. 
Birthday gifts from @xzini , @azulryu , @deleted, and @qwachansey ! This was such a pleasant surprise when I opened it just yet. Thanks a lot Sini, Devin, Stéphanie, and Eddie! I love it.
Greetz,
Quuador
Yay! Happy that you got the package safely and liked it 
Another extended/altered Base Pikachu arrived today. This one is made by doodlesandtee of Instagram. Pikachu relaxing at the edge of a small river.
Greetz,
Quuador
Time for another ‘Pikachu around the World’ post. I will quote what I said at the top of the previous part:
The first part we did last time was for the Traditional Chinese Pokémon TCG language. This part can be found here. Today, we have the second language, which is a pretty small one with just six released Pikachu cards. It’s my own native language, so it therefore wasn’t too hard to track down these cards, and it was also the first Pokémon TCG language I completed for my Pikachu collection:
Let me start with a picture of all Dutch Pikachu cards again. The Dutch portion of my Pikachu collection is complete.
The first Dutch set was the Base Set, released on February 24th, 2000 (source). This set was released in both 1st and unlimited edition in Dutch, although the unlimited edition print run had a smaller print run from what I’ve heard.
In addition, there were a few products accompanying this Base Set release: 2-Player Starter Set; Overgrowth Theme Deck; Zap! Theme Deck; Brushfire Theme Deck (translated Kreupelhoutvuur lol 
); and Blackout Theme Deck.
The Base Set contained the 58/102 Pikachu, in both 1st and unlimited edition:
The second Dutch set released was Jungle, released somewhere in 2000 (I couldn’t find a release date). This set was also released in both 1st and unlimited edition, and contains the 60/64 Pikachu card:
And the third and final Dutch set that was released was Fossil (again somewhere in 2000, but I don’t have a release date). This set didn’t contain any Pikachu cards. The Fossil set was the final Dutch set, and starting from the Team Rocket set, cards released in The Netherlands were released in English, which still holds true to this day. Also, the Dutch unlimited edition Fossil set was very short printed, so pretty hard to find.
As for promos, there are only two Dutch promo cards, both coincidentally being a Pikachu. 
The first one is the Dutch WotC #4 promo, released as one of the nine cards of the Pikachu World Collection 2000 set. As mentioned earlier when we discussed the Chinese releases, this set of nine cards was released at the Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, in September 13th, 2000, and features a golden Pikachu tail shaped stamp at the left-hand side.
The second Dutch promo is the same card, but without stamp. This card came with some copies of the Dutch DVDs and VHSs of the second Pokémon movie (thanks @poketrade for the info), which was released in October 2002.
One interesting thing, is that the other three WB promo cards haven’t been printed in Dutch. Only this Pikachu was printed. When I first heard about this, I figured the reason was because they already had the card layout ready to go due to the Pikachu World Collection 2000 release. But when I put the two cards side-by-side (see the second picture below), you can clearly see the texts of the first attack and inside the block at the bottom are translated differently (although the meaning is still same). The used font also seems slightly different. And the weakness, resistance, and retreat costs at the bottom are in lowercased on the stamped version, but title-cased on the non-stamped version.
And that’s it. A brief summary of all the Dutch released Pikachu cards.
The next language we’ll discuss is going to be English. Considering the size of that upcoming part, I’m not sure yet when this next part will be posted, but at least know it will be coming in the near future and will be one big wall of text and pictures lol..
Greetz,
Quuador
Hi @quuador,
Just had a look at my dutch dvd’s that I recently bought and well… I am confused for sure!
As you can see the front mentions a Pikachu promocard is inside, but it looks like it displays the world collection one with the gold tail stamp? (Also see the attack name, looks like “Opnieuw oploaden” and not “Nieuwe lading”).
I think it it’s pretty impossible that the Pikachu world collection card would be included in a dvd. So I think the regular dutch one was included but it is displayed incorrectly on the case.
@poketrade Oh, thanks a lot for the info! I see the picture of the regular Dutch Pikachu promo (without stamp) is also displayed at the second movie on the (offline) website pokemon-paradijs, which I have used A LOT of times as a source for information before I knew about Bulbapedia. So based on that page, and your VHS, I can only conclude the Dutch Pikachu promo without stamp indeed was released with the second Pokémon movie DVDs and VHSs in Dutch. So my friend probably misremembered, or it might have been released differently in Belgium than The Netherlands?
Either way, thanks a lot for the information. I’ll edit my post above to fix it.
Oh, and is there a release date on that VHS somewhere?
Greetz,
Quuador
Glad I could help!
I purchased my DVD from someone in the Netherlands (and I am Belgian, but so the DVD originates from the Netherlands unless I am not the second owner).
And I didn’t know pokemon-paradijs went offline! Sad! Now I feel old haha
This is really heartwarming - Happy Bday, Kevin
Vermot 2018 French Pikachu trio completed:
Some may remember I posted the green one earlier in my collection thread, with the following information:
Some corrections from above:
Some additional information I was given:
Although they’re unofficial releases, I still like these kind of obscure and unique cards. And given the low amount made, and event/history attached, I thought they were nice cards to add to my collection.
Greetz,
Quuador
In other news: what do these four Pikachu cards have in common:
(A heavy played English Jungle Pikachu; the English PokéCreator Pikachu; the Japanese 207/SM-P Pikachu promo; and the French Vivid Voltage Pikachu Vmax Hyper Secret Rare.)
They’re my 1st; 500th; 1000th; and 1500th Pikachu cards in my collection (excluding altered cards)! 
I just surpassed 1500 unique Pikachu TCG cards in my collection (1505 right now to be exact). The French Pikachu Vmax Hyper Rare, which arrived the day before yesterday, marked my 1500th Pikachu card in my collection!
Greetz,
Quuador
Congratulations! It’s really great seeing your impressive collection develop alongside the major informational contributions you put forward.
Ooh! I know! I know!
They’re all Pikachu cards. 
Congratulations on the milestone!
Haha, I knew someone would say that. They’re also all Pokémon TCG cards. And they’re also all in my possession. And they’re also all in that single picture. Etc. etc. 
And thanks! 
Greetz,
Quuador
Congrats on an incredible and legendary milestone!!!
Incredible! Great work @quuador, what a collection!
Absolutely amazing @quuador, And you still have the time to write fantastic advice and information.
Thank you and here’s onto 2000!
Pikachu Pantheon @quuador . Phenomenal my friend. Bravo! Cheers!!!
Here’s to the next goal of 1600 even though they need to make more to fit your masterful collection!
Oh hey man, it’s time to update your signature…
Congratulations @quuador. Really impressive milestone. Thanks for sharing, very happy for you.
Cheers!
Congratulations on 1500 Quuador! Amazing collection and amazing information to go with it as always, thank you for that.
I’ve just added release years to my Pikachu checklist, so I now know how many Pikachu TCG cards were released per year (official releases only - so excluding Sample prints; misprints; etc.)
| 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |
| 4 | 7 | 14 | 37 | 60 | 23 | 16 | 34 | 38 | 41 | 39 | 40 | 48 |
| 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | |
| 45 | 60 | 16 | 31 | 10 | 50 | 65 | 124 | 144 | 75 | 234 | 141 |
As I mentioned a few times before, 2019 was f-ing crazy in terms of the quantity of Pikachu released cards… You also see it started being 100+ from 2016 (when Pokémon GO was released) onward, with the exception of 2018 as a quiet before the 2019-storm…
For 2003-2009 there were between 30-50 Pikachu TCG cards each. The 16 of 2011 and 10 of 2013 were apparently quieter years.
Note that I started collecting Pikachu cards in 2015, haha. 
Also, 2020 isn’t over yet, so perhaps some are added before the year is over (like the upcoming Thai set of December 25th which most likely contains the four Vivid Voltage / Amazing Volt Tackle Pikachu cards, which isn’t in my checklist yet).
Here also a cumulative total amount, counting both forward from 1996 and backwards from 2020:
1996: 4 2020: 141
1997: 11 2019: 375
1998: 25 2018: 450
1999: 62 2017: 594
2000: 122 2016: 718
2001: 145 2015: 782
2002: 161 2014: 832
2003: 195 2013: 842
2004: 233 2012: 873
2005: 274 2011: 889
2006: 313 2010: 949
2007: 353 2009: 994
2008: 401 2008: 1042
2009: 446 2007: 1082
2010: 506 2006: 1121
2011: 522 2005: 1162
2012: 553 2004: 1200
2013: 563 2003: 1234
2014: 613 2002: 1250
2015: 677 2001: 1273
2016: 801 2000: 1333
2017: 945 1999: 1370
2018: 1020 1998: 1384
2019: 1254 1997: 1391
2020: 1395 1996: 1395
As you can see, somewhere mid-2016 is where it can be halved right now. Which means roughly the same amount of cards have released from October 1996 to mid 2016 as from mid 2016 to right now. The last ~3.5 years had an equal amount of Pikachu released cards as the first almost 20 years. 
Ugh.
Ah well, it was interesting to have actual numbers now. I already knew there were more Pikachu TCG cards released since I started collecting mid-2015 than in all the years prior, but now we have actual numbers to see how crazy it really is.
Oh, and I’m curious (although definitely don’t look forward to it!) how many will release in 2021, since it’ll be the 25th anniversary.
Greetz,
Quuador
