Thick/Thin is not a new thing...Proof Inside

[joakimstore]

If you care too much about the thickness of a stamp on a pokemon card you need to seek professional help, change my mind.

[EnlightenedBulbasaur]

@joakimstore

If you care too much about the thickness of a stamp on a pokemon card you need to seek professional help, change my mind.

Define caring “too much”?

It’s just a matter of preference, like anything else in this hobby.

[joakimstore]

@EnlightenedBulbasaur

@joakimstore

If you care too much about the thickness of a stamp on a pokemon card you need to seek professional help, change my mind.

Define caring “too much”?

It’s just a matter of preference, like anything else in this hobby.

ok.

[algo]

@joakimstore

If you care too much about the thickness of a stamp on a pokemon card you need to seek professional help, change my mind.

Couldn’t the same be said about spending thousands of dollars on mass produced cardboard? It’s a type of variant that matters to some and not to others. Live and let live

[seeingdouble]

@joakimstore

If you care too much about the thickness of a stamp on a pokemon card you need to seek professional help, change my mind.

We literally collect 20 year old pieces of expensive cardboard intended to be a used for a child’s game. Not only do we pay crazy amounts of money for said cardboard, we also pay a company to tell us what condition our cardboard is in, and encapsulate our cardboard in plastic.

Pretty sure we all need to seek some level of professional help.

[mossdeep]

@seeingdouble

@joakimstore

If you care too much about the thickness of a stamp on a pokemon card you need to seek professional help, change my mind.

We literally collect 20 year old pieces of expensive cardboard intended to be a used for a child’s game. Not only do we pay crazy amounts of money for said cardboard, we also pay a company to tell us what condition our cardboard is in, and encapsulate our cardboard in plastic.

Pretty sure we all need to seek some level of professional help.

you forgot the part where we put that plastic cased cardboard into more plastic, into more plastic, into a box, into a safe - all of which after we take pictures to upload to instagram so other people can type and to justify wasting thousands of dollars.

[fourthstartcg]

you’re all feeding the troll

[pokemoncardproject]

@seeingdouble

@joakimstore

If you care too much about the thickness of a stamp on a pokemon card you need to seek professional help, change my mind.

We literally collect 20 year old pieces of expensive cardboard intended to be a used for a child’s game. Not only do we pay crazy amounts of money for said cardboard, we also pay a company to tell us what condition our cardboard is in, and encapsulate our cardboard in plastic.

Pretty sure we all need to seek some level of professional help.

Feeding the troll or not, that was hilarious.

[KingPokemon]

@joakimstore

If you care too much about the thickness of a stamp on a pokemon card you need to seek professional help, change my mind.

Crazy or crazy like a fox? I guess I need professional belp​:crazy_face:

[KingPokemon]

@fourthstartcg

you’re all feeding the troll

Joakim just needs a boyfriend someday.

[jameskray]

@smpratte

To add the context to that necro post, when I still hadn’t discover punctuation, I was referring to the origin of the terms. Similar to “Shadowless”, its a collector term, not something official from WOTC. Back then thick/thin was super niche. Now its more accepted, and the market dictates the value!

And cool spreedsheet Gary! Always nice to see data.

Be interesting to see in 10-15 years time if 4th print or UK print base set would be the same

[EnlightenedBulbasaur]

@jameskray

@smpratte

To add the context to that necro post, when I still hadn’t discover punctuation, I was referring to the origin of the terms. Similar to “Shadowless”, its a collector term, not something official from WOTC. Back then thick/thin was super niche. Now its more accepted, and the market dictates the value!

And cool spreedsheet Gary! Always nice to see data.

Be interesting to see in 10-15 years time if 4th print or UK print base set would be the same

I mean, there already are *some* people with a specific interest in collecting the 4th print.

If you’re talking about the sheer amount of interest, the 4th print is never going to hold a candle to the 1st print.

[joakimstore]

@KingPokemon

@fourthstartcg

you’re all feeding the troll

Joakim just needs a boyfriend someday.

Hopefully one day

[1by1collector]

When was it ever not a thing?

[slippingjimmy]

@jkanly

I had no idea there was a “fat stamp” term that was used

I always thought it was a bit odd calling the “1” thick or thin, especially when there are already less colloquial terms available in typography, such as “bold” or “light”. A bold stamp or light stamp would additionally be more related to the circumstance of their production anyway. I guess the current terms are more catchy though.

This, please. I’d be okay with calling the stamp thick or thin but describing the “1” is just wrong.

[pfm]

@1by1collector

When was it ever not a thing?

1998

[jameskray]

@EnlightenedBulbasaur

@jameskray

Be interesting to see in 10-15 years time if 4th print or UK print base set would be the same

I mean, there already are *some* people with a specific interest in collecting the 4th print.

If you’re talking about the sheer amount of interest, the 4th print is never going to hold a candle to the 1st print.

I meant if one day 4th print will be the same as shadowless course never hold up to shadowless 1st edition

[tuftse]

Hey Gary, would you say one is worth more than the other?

[KingPokemon]

@seeingdouble

@joakimstore

If you care too much about the thickness of a stamp on a pokemon card you need to seek professional help, change my mind.

We literally collect 20 year old pieces of expensive cardboard intended to be a used for a child’s game. Not only do we pay crazy amounts of money for said cardboard, we also pay a company to tell us what condition our cardboard is in, and encapsulate our cardboard in plastic.

Pretty sure we all need to seek some level of professional help.

We’re not spending crazy amounts of money on cardboard. We’re keeping memories alive. When and if the time comes where that no longer matters, then you can move on to…whatever;)

[KingPokemon]

@tuftse

Hey Gary, would you say one is worth more than the other?

The Thick have always been in shorter supply so I’d say they deserve a premium.