Hello everyone! I finished cataloguing my card collection earlier this year (I mainly put it together in the late 2000s) and figured it was about time I signed up. I may have had an account back then with an old email address but I’m not entirely sure! It’s been so good to revisit the memories and keep up to date with the hobby again. An endless stream of YouTube videos from the likes of TCA Gaming, smpratte, Gem Mint Pokemon, Pokemon Classics etc. has made for wonderful viewing
I collect Japanese cards as I’ve always found them more visually appealing than English, and of course a much wider range of exclusive cards! I’ll never have a Pikachu Illustrator, Trophy Kangaskhan or Tropical Wind, but I think I’ve put together a decent collection. I’m hoping to get a lot of it graded one day, so am keeping a keen eye on developments with PSA…
Currently trying to put together a complete Japanese Eevee Heroes set. Feel free to wish me the luck (and money) needed for that
I’m Harm, currently a more casual collector that chose an awful time to start collecting again because prices are through the roof but I’ve always been into the Pokemon TCG (used to have a ton of older era cards that have unfortunately been lost) and I’m interested in getting a bit more serious about the hobby by learning as much as I can about cards, the history of the TCG, etc.
I’m a big fan of Yuka Morii’s artworks and am hoping to collect all the cards she’s done. I hope one day she starts signing cards again so I can send some to her.
Also a big fan of Pichu and want to start a small-scale Pichu collection since I’m aware there’s a bunch of super rare cards I know I’ll never get my hands on.
Hey just joined idk why really , excuse the odd name choice. I just came up with it and thought it was funny. I assure you It has no actual relevance…so I first started Collecting in 1999 until I got a first edition charizard jacked from me before I made it home with it ,lost interest in collecting for over 20 years because of that day , eventually let someone just have the binder I had full of holos and commons not thinking they would be so valuable one day , all of them were first edition. Fast forward 25 years, a friend got me into it again somehow, unfortunately ,and I’ve already wasted more money than I like to think about… so I’m pretty ignorant to most things Pokémon related because I quit acknowledging Pokémon’s existence completely for over 20 years ,I got out of it before the unlimited expansions of the base set even released…so I guess I’m here to learn a little more so I maybe will waste less money when I’m impulse buying cards thinking I’m investing but really I’m getting ripped off ,more realistically
My name’s Andy and I’m (obviously) new to the forum. Have only relatively recently got back into collecting after a long hiatus since childhood (32 years old now). I was hoping somebody please might be able to kindly direct me towards a good thread that details/assists in identifying fake or counterfeit cards being sold online; I’m looking to purchase some 1996 Carddass Bandai cards raw, but am worried (after having read some things lately) about being ripped off and sold a fake.
My name is Dion, Have recently got in to collecting after my son started to show interest in pokemon. So we do it together now, collection isn’t that big yet but he we need to start somewhere.
Hi I’m Shane, got back into collecting last year using my childhood base set collection is a springboard. Working on collecting played binder sets for fun of WOTC era cards. Been listening to a bunch of collecting podcasts including PokemonRadar’s, PokeNav and Geeked Out Collecting. Excited for Celebrations and enjoying learning the history of the hobby!
Hi It’ your favourite unpopular pokemon trainer here, James! I have watched smprattes videos for a while but decided to finally join now.
I collect most types of cards. Alternate arts, commons, promos, old and new, you name it and I probably have an example of it in my binders. English is my favourite because it’s easier to access but If there are Japanese only cards I like I make a note to get them.
Looking forward to meeting you all. I will have my main forum post in my signature which I will update frequently on my acquisitions.
Welcome Andy. For 1996 and 1997 you can just go off the set lists, and buy cards that match those correctly. Not saying someone couldn’t potentially create good looking fakes of those cards, but as of yet I haven’t personally seen any out there.
Fakes are usually either just bogus cards that aren’t on any set list so are easy to avoid, or are the ones that PSA and BGS in their negligence have fallen for themselves; which is the cards that are usually 1998/99 carddass animation cards with a bogus holo sticker over the front. The scam is about getting PSA to find a spot in the registry for the card, by using the back of the card and its branding as a reference. Like one I saw in a PSA slab sell for over $1K on ebay recently. Apparently they don’t always look at the cards they’re supposed to be grading they just look at the back and assume the front is real even though pidgey and ash are on the back and charizard is on the front; they just labeled it as the same set number as the ash and pidgey card smh.
You can see examples of fakes in the thread link below.
I collect Pokémon items since 2016 and mostly sealed japanese booster packs. I am French and at the beginning I started collecting French booster packs, got some (like 1st ed Fossil and Base Set artsets) but quickly got interested in japanese packs. I loved their artworks !
So my goal was to get all booster packs from base set to World Champions Pack. Some of them were already very hard to get like WCP (of course !), Web, and some ADV or PCG packs (1st ed Mirage Forest and Miracle Crystal were a nightmare!).
I stopped my collection after I got all these packs because of the money I spent on them.
But at the end of 2020, I started to get a new interest in collecting because I discovered the existence of the holy grail unlimited World Champions Pack ! I knew I had to get one and put a lot of effort, tens and tens of hours and hundreds of people contacted in order to find one !
And now I am still here trying to find some cool items and information about some obscure items we do not really know a lot about (like the unlimited WCP)
