My first appearance & film card got their grades from PSA! Pretty happy with these, the first appearance was what I expected & the film card came out a bit higher than I thought.
Can’t wait to have them back so I can display them
My favorite card here has to be the 2002 McDonald’s promo Slowpoke, it’s a Japanese exclusive. In fact, the entire first page features lots of vintage Japanese exclusives, and I find it so joyful to look at.
The hardest card to find was Unlimited Holon Research Slowking, it took me a few months of checking every day. Of course, as soon as I found it, 3 more popped up on eBay lol.
Big congrats! They look amazing all together like that. My favorite is probably the one featuring Pikachu and Totodile with the apples. I see you have both version of it.
And I completely forgot about that Poké Maniac card, haha. Both funny and weird to see that supporter card among this collection.
Btw, unless I looked passed it, I think you’re missing the Wiglett FA with Slowpoke cameo shilling on the island in the back? Luckily not a hard card to get (in Japanese/English at least, not sure about other languages).
@Quuador I love the Wiglett cameo! I keep an art set of cameos in a separate section of my binder, which I shared here. Recall and Poke Maniac are the exception because Slowpoke is so central to the card artwork, so I keep them in my master set
Ah, that makes sense. I thought the Slowpoke/Slowbro/Slowking cameos were mixed in after I saw that Trainer and the Poké Maniac. Seems like I forgot about that earlier post of yours, since I did apparently like it. Mb.
Never getting tired of seeing all the different art from a certain species next to each others, especially when the slows have so much great art in every era! I’m glad i have been able to include a lot of slow arts in multiple of my goals too but in addition to that i had to make an artificial slowpoke (+psyduck) page to get some arts i otherwise couldn’t fit in any of my collections
Awesome to see the Japanese master set! Slowpoke has so many graet Japanese exclusives (and so many good arts in general). And I never tire of seeing code variants x edition variants for Japanese. Seeing so many of the same (but different) cards lined up just looks satisfying
For the Error collection: this Prismatic Evolutions misprint Slowpoke. It recieved the all-over foiling of a Poke/Master Ball, but without any of the texture! Thank you @biirdbots for the heads up on this one. The foil is smooth like his brain
I am so excited to have this card in my collection: a well-loved Dutch Unlimited Fossil Slowbro! After months searching all over Dutch Facebook groups and connecting with various Dutch collectors, it’s finally here
Unlimited Dutch Fossil had a very limited number of packs printed. The majority of Dutch Unlimited Fossil cards come from Theme Decks, and unluckily for me there are no Slowpokes or Slowbros in the Theme Decks.
There are a few dedicated Dutch collectors who go after this set (such as @frisianlunatic ), and many of them have been quite helpful in the search, including the awesome Facebook person who sent this Slowbro my way.
Feels very good to hit 75% Dutch in the All-Languages Spreadsheet
These four cards represent all of the Slow cards released in Dutch. It may seem simple with only four cards, but it was challenging to acquire the Dutch Unlimited Fossil cards in particular. Fossil was printed in Dutch, but by the time Unlimited Fossil was printed, they made very few packs and had mostly switched to English cards.
After months of posting on Dutch Facebook groups looking for the Unlimited cards, the search is finally complete!
I want to also thank @frisianlunatic for the 1st edition Slowpoke & Slowbro, as well as for keeping me in mind for his Unlimited Dutch pack opening, even though no Slow friends were inside that particular pack.
Much congratulations! It has been an incredible year so far and your updates always make me happy. You have been really persistent with these hard goals and it has been paying off. Great work! Thanks for sharing.
Also a shout out to @doomrai because a few months ago, she joined a Dutch Pokemon Discord server to hunt for the card with me. While that approach didn’t pan out I’m still grateful for the help