Yes, there were some exception to junk wax, but certain manufacturers made pretty much exclusively junk. For example, Donruss 1990 baseball is always what I think of when I think junk wax. Idk if Donruss made anything worth while for much of the late 80s and early to mid 90s.
You can still buy boxes for peanuts
https://ebay.us/m/8kssFH
well psa 10 is like 15k or something 
the investor bros cant tell its not english
oooo thats a fancy one
If Pokemon does a PMG series I will be so poor
I thought I was in the recent purchases thread for a minute and almost passed out
Also 1997 metal universe was never junk lol it was ultra popular and full of chasers even back then
When I win the lottery, there will be signs…
Yeah all of 97 metal universe was great, I meant it as an example there were sets/cards in the timeframe that weren’t junk.
Thanks, so is it really fair to call it a junk wax era?
I know nothing about sports cards, but surely not every card in previous eras was not junk. Like modern sports cards is surely filled with junk.
Seems like the term may have been misused by people who don’t understand the differences in the minutiae? Like rarity types, companies involved, type of releases etc
I think it’s fair to call it the junk era. There are late 80s and 90s football and baseball boxes that you can buy sealed today, in infinite amounts, for $30 each.
Are you referring to people who call this era in Pokemon a junk era? In that case, yeah I think it’s overstated. With only one manufacturer for Pokemon, and the supply demand issues we have, I don’t see a reality where you can buy even S&V base for $50 at any point in the next 20 20-30 years. I use S&V base as a semi random example for less desirable sets.
I think the fixation is on a junk card era than a junk sealed era. Nearly all modern bulk cards are hyper abundant, their prices stagnant or near worthless, and virtually no one will wait 20 years for them to go up like WOTC (which was technically also a junk card era)
I feel like there are posters here who never interact with modern cards who think that modern chase cards individually are in the millions or some absurd larger number when they see 11-12b cards printed when the reality is that 90 to 99% of that are just bulk cards and energies.
Take a SWSH Evolving Skies booster box with say 10 “hits”. That’s 2% of the 396 cards in the booster box spread out between 105 cards of RR rarity and above. As you said, 98% is not worth anything now and will never be, so it’s not like there’s some artificial bubble that will implode their value. It was junk out of the gate and everyone knew it.
Then we get to the rest of the cards and if things continue as normal (which I don’t think it will, but that’s a society wide problem not Pokemon related) the most sought after cards will not be going to zero.
I agree that there’s a lot of fluff in sets that generally speaking nobody is going to want in the future. Think we started down that path a while ago when sets got so big. Big sets+record print numbers year after year just makes it worse.
I get differentiating between a junk sealed era and junk card era, I think there’s enough good art and desirability to stop it from being generally considered a junk era as a whole like late 80s/90s sports
well moonbreon alone is like 15k pop that alone is like 5x the entirety of wotc psa 10 holo
Dear Reddit, it’s 23rd August 2025 mid-bull market and TCG Classic is floating around £140 below MSR-PEE. Now then, no moaning when it increases in price if you didn’t buy it.
How do we know the platform is legit and not a front to inflate public perception?
we know nothing anymore, you can only buy using what you are personally comfortable with. HL is a 10k box to me so I would never buy it even if we had a dozen confirmed sales at 36k
Same, but $4K.
You could pull reverse holo Gorebyss tho
That pays the house and I get to keep the guaranteed Ün. Everybody wins.
