The rarest item in my collection is most certainly my Tropical Mega Battle No. 1 Trainer in its original trophy display case. Most everyone here has seen that one, but here’s a link for newer members who might want to check it out:
However, as primarily an “odds-and-ends” collector, there are other items in my collection that I value even more. Most of them are ephemera, though others were apparently built to survive for generations to come. For instance, this one:
This credit-card sized, gold-colored metal “Licence” grants me passage to a secret vault on the third floor of the Pokemon Center store in Hamamatsucho, Tokyo. There, I am allowed unfettered access to the printing plates, original artwork, audio recordings and other archival documents related to the production of the Pokemon TCG.
[SPOILER: Click to show](javascript:void(0);)SpoilerOK, I made all of that up.
In all seriousness, this is the only one of these licenses I have ever seen.
Funny thing is that I bid on it not knowing what it was, lol.
I would’ve loved to get them, I hate that I’m missing the Gyarados one, haven’t found one yet, only one I did find gave me issues when bidding on Y!J and it ended up going at a sweet price, I hate myself for it.
