Yeah it’s pretty much impossible to have nostalgia for limited promos and trophies. Because that would mean as a kid you were actively hunting them down in the pre internet times. Or you were competing and winning them.
Obviously you can have big respect for their history and impact but it’s not the same as nostalgia
Unique sheets like the double print or disco holo test are much more interesting after they’ve been cut.
Right through the heart.
Yikes. This should be very unpopular imo 
Really late here but I read all the debate further up about Crystal Charizard and “bad” Charizards, and I have to chip in and say that Charizard ex from FRLG is far worse than most mentioned! It has borked anatomy, a broken-looking neck, and just looks totally wrong the more you look at it.
I had a NM copy in my collection until recently when I realised I was only keeping it for what it is rather than because it was a good art. Sold it for close to £400 and don’t miss it at all.
Base set charizard bad. Enough said.
Charizard in general bad.
Trainer cards good.
do people think the new gray is better?
so strange how time works. We long for gen 5 designs now…
I think the new grey is better than SOME yellows. But I’d have preferred a dull-yellow or black to make the cards pop. Banana Boat yellow always bugged me though.
edit: Also, I actually really like many of the designs from the S/V gen. As time goes on, simple designs have to give-way to more complex ones. They can’t make another generic Korba, so they make a Seviper. Then they make a Serperior… Sandaconda… ?
Otherwise, you get Digglet… Wigglet… Jigglet… Twigglet… after just 4 generations.
For me, it was THIS trubbish:
w/in this series:
To be fair, the mighty Ooyama carries this art imo. I like this card but I still don’t like this Pokemon (or a lot of Gen 5 > designs).
There are other instances of cards in newer sets where I don’t really like the Pokemon involved but the likes of Komiya and Kanda make a good art in general out of it.
Trading cards aren’t investment opportunities.
They’re an investment opportunity in your happiness :^].
A true unpopular opinion well done.
Then why are most of my cards worth anywhere between 10% and 1000% more now than what I bought them for? 
Also, what TrainOfThought said ^ at least you posted in the right thread lol
some think one $20,000 card is worth more than 100,000 $10 cards.
boggles the mind.
For some people, there time is more valuable to have one expensive card instead of a bunch of junk bulk cards.
Labor cost to sell those 100,000 junk cards is insane. Plus shipping each one individually eats away at the value.
TP you are looking at it in gross sales only. NET profit is what matters in a business.
The one $20,000 card might only be available for 20k a few times. Where $10 cards will always be available.
