Vivid Voltage Megathread

[null_user]

@dbmoney10

Vivid is the only modern set Iv opened up. The Holo artworks themselves aren’t bad, I just dislike the Holo pattern. Very unappealing to me

the vertical-line holos are straight trash/lazy.

VV is definitely fun to open and i plan to finish the binder, but these holos, and champions path holos, and all vertical-line holos are meh

[iisanaggie]

@slabsniper

@dbmoney10

Vivid is the only modern set Iv opened up. The Holo artworks themselves aren’t bad, I just dislike the Holo pattern. Very unappealing to me

the vertical-line holos are straight trash/lazy.

VV is definitely fun to open and i plan to finish the binder, but these holos, and champions path holos, and all vertical-line holos are meh

FWIW, many promo cards from tins, etc. have cosmos holofoil. I can’t really blame them on the vertical line foil pattern - 20+ years of printing cards and they’ve gotta change it up somehow. We’re occasionally going to see unappealing holo patterns. It’s certainly a step up from the S&M era - the oil spill holo pattern was hardly noticeable on many cards.

[krill]

@iisanaggie

@slabsniper

the vertical-line holos are straight trash/lazy.

VV is definitely fun to open and i plan to finish the binder, but these holos, and champions path holos, and all vertical-line holos are meh

FWIW, many promo cards from tins, etc. have cosmos holofoil. I can’t really blame them on the vertical line foil pattern - 20+ years of printing cards and they’ve gotta change it up somehow. We’re occasionally going to see unappealing holo patterns. It’s certainly a step up from the S&M era - the oil spill holo pattern was hardly noticeable on many cards.

I agree except yugioh has been changing up their holo pattern and has come up with some amazing holo patterns that Our honorable president most Pokémon holo patterns

[kyogre52]

Went to get some voltage with a friend yesterday. He lost his job due to lockdowns, so i got him a couple single blister packs to have a lil fun. I open all mine and got some cool things. Then he opens his 1st pack and pulls rainbow pikachu from a single blister. Now he wants 300 bucks for the card i originally paid for lol not my lucky day.

[nppokemon]

Vivid Voltage has been my unluckiest set in history lol. Its been rough, and I may just hold out my urge to open for Shining Fates now

[fresco]

Anyone knows about any upcoming reprints for this set?

It’s pretty hard to find in stores.

[argon]

@fresco

Anyone knows about any upcoming reprints for this set?

It’s pretty hard to find in stores.

When they realeased they went for 120€ almost instantly. I wanted to wait until they’re available for ~100 like normal booster boxes. They are 150+ now.

[fresco]

@argon

@fresco

Anyone knows about any upcoming reprints for this set?

It’s pretty hard to find in stores.

When they realeased they went for 120€ almost instantly. I wanted to wait until they’re available for ~100 like normal booster boxes. They are 150+ now.

I know i was waiting for a re stock to occur as well so i could buy them but they seem to be sitting in that range of 160-180 which is madness for newly released set.

Thats why i wanted to know if theres any date or if this will be the norm for the near future.

[krill]

@krill

@iisanaggie

FWIW, many promo cards from tins, etc. have cosmos holofoil. I can’t really blame them on the vertical line foil pattern - 20+ years of printing cards and they’ve gotta change it up somehow. We’re occasionally going to see unappealing holo patterns. It’s certainly a step up from the S&M era - the oil spill holo pattern was hardly noticeable on many cards.

I agree except yugioh has been changing up their holo pattern and has come up with some amazing holo patterns that Our honorable president most Pokémon holo patterns

Just realized it censored to “our honorable president”. Such stupid censorship, just ban political talk not censor a common word in the English language

[sandmantheenless]

@krill

@krill

I agree except yugioh has been changing up their holo pattern and has come up with some amazing holo patterns that Our honorable president most Pokémon holo patterns

Just realized it censored to “our honorable president”. Such stupid censorship, just ban political talk not censor a common word in the English language

hol’ up wut? I want to try out the censor thing.

Our honorable president

trumps

T.r.u.m.p.

[serpintaxt]

@fresco

Anyone knows about any upcoming reprints for this set?

It’s pretty hard to find in stores.

I’m a retailer and I’m expecting to get about 10% of my order this coming week with the rest of the 90% order I put in next month. Hope this helps

[fresco]

@serpintaxt

@fresco

Anyone knows about any upcoming reprints for this set?

It’s pretty hard to find in stores.

I’m a retailer and I’m expecting to get about 10% of my order this coming week with the rest of the 90% order I put in next month. Hope this helps

This helps indeed, thanks!

[doublefelix921]

@serpintaxt

@fresco

Anyone knows about any upcoming reprints for this set?

It’s pretty hard to find in stores.

I’m a retailer and I’m expecting to get about 10% of my order this coming week with the rest of the 90% order I put in next month. Hope this helps

That profile picture haha.

That is good to know, thank you. Really looking forward to the release

[doublefelix921]

FINALLY returned from France and got my hands on three english packs! Opening now, will post the spoils…

I’ve been in europe the whole lockdown and am so so happy to be back with my collection lol. All the cards I didn’t even remember I bought.

[doublefelix921]

Update: I think I had some beginner’s luck. In the three packs,

-Rainbow rare Orbeetle
-Full art VMAX Darmanitan

and some nice reverse holos.

Hafta say, though, one of the reverse holos was Trubbish… The heck is trubbish?? I can’t see people loving or admiring a trash pokemon. It kind of seems like they just looked around the room to think of the next idea for a pokemon. Then again, I’m not the first to say this.

In other news, I’ve never heard of the majority of the pokemon I got xD

[akabane]

The scarcity of the RR Vmax Pikachu seems to be declaring itself as raw and psa 10 prices are going up quickly. Awesome card, I feel like for a lot of the people who got back into collecting in 2020 this will be a signature card for them.

[professorstephen]

@akabane

The scarcity of the RR Vmax Pikachu seems to be declaring itself as raw and psa 10 prices are going up quickly. Awesome card, I feel like for a lot of the people who got back into collecting in 2020 this will be a signature card for them.

Quite nice for a change that the biggest English set “chase” card of 2020 ends up literally being a big chunky Pikachu instead of a Zord.

Spoke to my distributor today (UK) and a small Vivid Voltage booster box restock (maybe a reprint, who knows) is scheduled for mid February, same time as Shining Fates. Expensive month!

[crios711]

@akabane

The scarcity of the RR Vmax Pikachu seems to be declaring itself as raw and psa 10 prices are going up quickly. Awesome card, I feel like for a lot of the people who got back into collecting in 2020 this will be a signature card for them.

I think you have a lot at PSA right now, the price of the 10 was about 800 near release, i suspect this card will retrace to that price again.

[fresco]

@akabane

The scarcity of the RR Vmax Pikachu seems to be declaring itself as raw and psa 10 prices are going up quickly. Awesome card, I feel like for a lot of the people who got back into collecting in 2020 this will be a signature card for them.

It will retrace for sure, is not sustainable but for once i think this card does deserve to hold at least certain price.

[akabane]

I was expecting some downward movement like the CP Charizard but it seems that the pull rate on the Pikachu is much worse. Raws had gone down to the 200-250 range and are now regularly selling at about 400. Will be very interesting to see where it falls once the reprints slow down and the PSA backlog of these catches up!