Shipping is pretty cheap or free. Other languages of cards are higher up in price for a booster box. Chinese and Thai, which also seem to be a little tough to find or get. Never got to open them so no idea what pull rates on those are like, or what the quality is. Spanish, French, and German are all the same as the international releases so I haven’t bothered with collecting them. A fun fact with Korean Evolutions/CP6 is their holo cards in that set use the plain cosmo foil instead of the star foil like the english cards had.
1 Like
That’s solid. I may give this a try – thank you for the tip! 
1 Like
I think my biggest unpopular opinion is that generally speaking I vastly prefer the Grass starters in each gen, and tend to think the Fire ones are the worst (mostly because they all feel too similar, whereas grass and water tend to feel more unique to me). There are exceptions of course, and that’s not to say I dislike the fire ones - just like them the least.
If I were to order by favorites by generation, it’d look like:
Gen 1: Bulbasaur > Squirtle > Charmander
Gen 2: Totodile > Chikorita >= Cyndaquil
Gen 3: Mudkip > Torchic > Treecko
Gen 4: Turtwig > Piplup > Chimchar
Gen 5: Snivy > Oshawott > Tepig
Gen 6: Froakie > Chespin >= Fennekin
Gen 7: Rowlet > Litten > Popplio
Gen 8: Grookey > Sobble > Scorbunny
Which totals:
Grass: 5 1st place, 2 2nd place, 1 3rd place
Water: 3 1st place, 4 2nd place, 1 3rd place
Fire: 0 1st place, 2 2nd place, 6 3rd place
One of my friends also tends to prefer grass, but for the most part I feel like grass gets largely ignored in favor of fire/water, which is too bad. But to each their own 
10 Likes
For Gen 3, I’m assuming you meant Mudkip? 
2 Likes
Lol yup I sure did, nice catch 
just fixed it
2 Likes
Ash’s father is not Giovanni.
2 Likes
Oak is too obvious, Giovanni doesn’t make sense. Sevii Island Silver is the most plausible, but I don’t think it’s him either. In the Moltres episode he looks like an older man but the guy in the Rapidash flashback looks like a 20 something. Ash is only supposed to be 5 ish years older or something, and even if we discount his agelessness, the years since leaving Pallett still doesn’t amount to the age difference.
I’d say unknown, but Oak for the memes.
1 Like
It’s simple, really: Ash has no father because he is shrill and insufferable. If Ash was my son I would also be absent.
3 Likes
The Celebrations stamp really isn’t that bad. It’s commemorative, and is an extra way to show that this is a special set (set apart from your standard set).
5 Likes
This is Ash’s true father
9 Likes
Oak explains a lot on the show.
1 Like
Let us not forget Spencer Hale in this candidacy, any man worthy of being imitated by an Entei is obviously a Chad:
3 Likes
I always ascribed to the fsn theory that the pokemon world is set after a great war where the majority of adult men died. So thats why ashs father is absent.
2 Likes
Yea it could be quite the opposite for me sometimes. For example I was buying up a lot of holos and ex’s for the ex sets a couple of years ago. I just about completed ruby sapphire because it was so cheap and it was a pretty fun set to complete because of how stress free it was just picking up the cards here or there for cheap.
1 Like
I strongly dislike the new pokemon art - can’t stand it and doesn’t get me excited in the slightest. Now get off my lawn and let me enjoy my WOTC collection.
6 Likes
This isn’t the “boomer takes” thread. Enjoy your WotC collection while you can, grandpa. The future is now
2 Likes
Is this unpopular? I feel the same way, although I took a hiatus from Pokemon at Gen 4, and only recently returned to the scene.
1 Like
I don’t think this is unpopular at all. There have been some really bad/lazy Pokemon designs in the last few generations
I apologize to anyone who may be offended by this post because their favorite Pokemon is a stack of gray bricks.
1 Like
To be fair, every generation has its share of bad and lazy designs. Recent gens have been exploring more ideas of inanimate objects as Pokemon because they’ve made so many animals already. And before you ask why they made a cup of tea Pokemon before they made a flamingo Pokemon, I will ask you why they made a bunch of vines into a Pokemon before they made a whale Pokemon.
5 Likes
Not sure if this is a truly unpopular opinion but I know its probably 50/50, and this is to counter a post I just saw:
Pokemon designs are not getting more lazy, less creative, or less unique, they’re just not nostalgic. Kanto specifically had some of the most basic tier designs of any generation to date. Legit plain ass animals, rocks, and plants all the way from gens 1-3.
I think people are just blinded by nostalgia, and if Kanto mons came out today, the same people would tear them to shreds.
6 Likes