Unpopular opinion - Different perspective: Gold star dogs

Because no one really cares. If the product were phones, or something more mainstream then perhaps. But since its pieces of printed cardboard, no one is going to be prosecuted.

Id even say that the “pokemon community” at large doesn’t care either. No one is Not going to buy the cards. Its mainly just a talking point.

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After learning this I’m definitely sticking to the trr starters. I always wondered why the prices didn’t reflect other gs with the dogs.

FTFY

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I guessed that since the employee that stole MTG was persecuted he would too.

to summarize, what do you think was the source of these batch and what was its purpose?

if they were “promo” they should have something different frome the pack ones right? so that might prove “my theory” wrong.

@nickrama, Its ultimately speculation. We know they aren’t legitimate. From that most assume they were meant to be destroyed, or someone printed them. Either way they definitely weren’t promotional.

Worth noting that the prices of these gold stars dogs have started to move up this year. Anyone else see this?

It’s very possible only parts of the sheets were damaged which normally get confiscated. Then they were retrieved by someone who cut out the ones that weren’t affected. That could explain why a full sheet never appeared.
As you said though, speculation which can be fun;)

that indeed was my intent, look at this story from a different angle to see whether we could come up with the solution to this riddle, not just the fact that this batch was acquired in an illegittimate way, but why they were printed altogheter :blush:

I don’t know the exact time the video was released, but I don’t think it was ever worth the hassle to prosecute him. Especially as no one was a victim of his crime (besides a large company, a japanese one at that) and there’s no real evidence that they were indeed stolen.
And printing 5000 extra copies is not that hard as an employee.

I think it depends on the company you’re working at. I’ve worked at different printing facilities and my coworkers either didn’t care what I did at my machine at all or would’ve even encouraged me to take a few cards home if I told them they had value to me.

Besides that 5000 cards is not that much work. There could be approximately 100 cards per sheet, that’s 50 sheets and a high end machine can print around 200 sheets per minute. That means it’s 15 seconds of work. I’ve worked in a facility where we had the cutting machine right next to our printing machines so that would have made it easy for me to do the whole process on my own.

Something like this may have gotten harder in the past ten years with high speed cameras installed in machines and tracking everywhere, but as far as I know cheaply made toys are sometimes made with old machines (assuming this from some footage I saw a while ago about panini stickers, they were printed on some old machines from the 1960s, since the quality doesn’t have to be that good for toys).

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that is definetely an interesting insight

In my experience people in the factories I worked at were nosy af and would rat you out for the smallest thing XD one company I worked at was a cardboard factory and sure making something extra is quick and easy enough even with old machines, but people would quickly be asking questions. Not to mention if you made extras the stock numbers would be off causing complaints from the warehouse people too.