Hi there!
Finally decided to make an account after lurking for a few months !
I guess i’ll write a short presentation !
I’m from France and my love for pokemon started when i was 7 with pokemon blue and the cartoon however the generation i’m most fond of and have the best memories of (card game and video game) is ruby/saphire/emerald.
Roughly 6 years ago i started slowly collecting the cards again, buying packs but never thinking about collecting the older sets that i loved as a kid (i guess at that time, i just assumed they would be out of reach… What a bad decision!)
So here i am now slowly buying back my childhood like many of us here as psa8-9’s depending on price.
I’m trying hard to stay focused on the ex rarity cards of the EX era 2003/2007.
The sales data thread for ex era was a huge help, and i thoroughly apreciated reading through people’s journeys collecting. So, why not join?
I’m looking forward to interacting on this forum! !
The important part is that you enjoy what you’re doing, and @Rath , it seems that you are! I’m glad to welcome to the Fourum, and best of luck with your collecting journey!
If you wanted to start a collection thread of all of your cards, the perfect place for it is linked here: Collecting ThreadsEdit Just realized you had already made a collecting thread
Or, if you mean the PkMn at the bottom of our posts, they are art of our signature: It can be found above, but I’ll link in a sec…
See Pfm’s post below.
Hi all, I joined back in 2020 and made a few posts here and there, but never formally introduced myself.
Like a number of us, I got into Pokemon through the first games (Blue version!) and was also collecting the TCG back then. I remember one Christmas, my parents let me purchase a number of Base set packs, so I placed packs individually on my forearms, one on each forearm, and tried to pick the “heaviest” packs, and I eventually pulled a holo Charizard! (which I ended up trading for like 10 - 11 holo rares). Aside from my Pokemon Blue cartridge, though, all my childhood collections (TCG and TOMY figures) are gone now.
I didn’t really get back into Pokemon until a few years ago, when I picked up PTCGO during the Crimson Invasion release. I really enjoyed messing around with the in-game economy and thought it might be fun to look into buying/selling the actual cards too, so I took the dive and started buying/selling cards around the time of the COVID boom. It was fun sourcing cards and having these pretty neat cards I didn’t even know about (e.g. delta species cards, e-Readers) pass through my hands, but it wasn’t until recently that I thought that I’d actually like to try to build a collection again.
I’m a pretty frugal person, so small collection goals will work for me for now: some artist collections (mostly focusing on bulk/cheaper cards) and Hoppip/Skiploom/Jumpluff cards. I also have it in my mind to collect Chinchou/Lanturn and Wooper/Quagsire, but I’ll ease into it. It’ll probably take me a while before I can feel comfortable dropping hundreds of dollars on a single card, but we’ll see!
Another thing I’d like to eventually share with others here are my Pokemon crafts! I’ll probably make a thread at some point, but I like to crochet, needlefelt, and embroider/cross-stitch (but mostly crochet). I have it in my mind to try to make some backgrounds to go with my crochet pieces to take Asako Ito-esque pictures, but I haven’t undertaken this project yet.
I look forward to participating in this community!
