Unfortunately this is the only part of modern sets with a consistent style. I imagine RR ex’s are designed this way for player recognizability
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It’s also easy to forget who the main target audience for these cards actually is 
I still think they look shit though.
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This Beedrill isn’t CGI though most of the RR cards this generation are.
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Looks CGI enough to this boomer!
So uh.. is this an unpopular opinion or not? I’m still not clear lol
I personally think these are bland, soulless and fairly ugly (with few exceptions that by pure chance look decent).
This trend of “Pokemon breaking out of the artbox” was already atrocious in DPPt, but at least they were the actual chase cards back then, with ton of sparkle due to the cosmo holo, sometimes a cool pose.
Not sure why they chose to persist with even worse iterations of that, they all look the same to my Pokeboomer eyes: do kids/people even collect these?
How original. Better add some glare.png or random leaves. That surely improves the aerodynamics of Venusaur
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The ex submissions for Illustration Contest 2024 showed that SV/M Pokémon ex are actually a full art illustration confined translucently by a half art design. I think what will change most people’s minds is converting to cosmos holo because the underlying composition was intentional (apart from assigning more 2D illustrators ofc)
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Seeing them all together is just awful
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I think the general consensus amongst most adult collectors is that they suck.
I know they were amongst the worst ranked during inertG’s polls of certain Pokemon.
Even the ones that were hand drawn, despite being few and far in between, I don’t recall them getting many votes on E4. I do like those though- mostly from the likes of kawayoo, Nisota Niso etc.
Do kids really like them though? I don’t have any kids to know. And as for “growing out” of them, there’s a lot of love on E4 for the ugly CGI ex and Lvl. X cards, so maybe the same would happen with kids from BW era onwards.
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Tbf, the two Venusaur ex, while generic are decent and on-model. The 4 XY era ones are abominations that are so ugly- and there are a lot of them.
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Remember guys, art is subjective, beauty in the eye of the beholder, and therefore no hierarchy can be made. My opinion is that cgi RRs are as good if not better than those uninspired ARs, and my opinion is just as valid are yours. Thanks for listening.
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woah relax ok
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Because of all the AI slop, you can’t gleam anything useful from reading the listing description half the time… or more. It’s not a rule, but this is the Unpopular Op thread.
See, if you read my listing, you might not need photos at all… or those who DON’T want to look at the exquisite photo details. I also take great photos for the literally challenged, so I got both parties covered. 
Sir, I don’t believe we should (E)Raticate flying types based on our hatred of AI listings 
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The art of collecting full vintage English sets in binders, as we used to know it, is a dying thing of the past. Old news maybe, but can’t help but notice the decline of this ex- staple of the hobby.
The high price of bulk means you aren’t even going to start certain eras unless you’re seriously motivated. The chase cards have become seriously expensive too, which translates into a tendency to keep them slabbed even if you own them, while the rise of species collectors means that people have simply started to prefer a different kind of challenge/approach
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Yep. I coincidentally had a talk with my colleagues the other day. In that past you’d have a set of ~100 cards with 10-20 holos to chase. And now a set can contain 500+ cards with all variants, and you’d have hundreds of Secret Rares, some of which are worth hundreds of even thousands of USD in this market despite it being a new release..
I don’t think it’s an unpopular opinion tbh. Ten years ago, I would see loads of set collectors. But nowadays, I rarely see anyone mention they completed their set, or are collecting a certain set (for the SwSh/SV eras I mean - there are still loads of WotC era set collectors).
Greetz,
Quuador
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I have a friend in the hobby I’ve known for 20 years now who would collect every set in a binder and is seriously struggling these days. One of his issues isn’t even cost but the fact you can’t even fit a complete set in a single binder anymore because of the size of them.
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If anything, Normal type shouldn’t exist lol
Flying type makes sense. Aint nothing normal about a Lickitung or a Ditto lol
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I was going to add that a lot of random cards are graded now. Much more people prefer that to the binder.
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