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Thank you. And yep, that is the card that was given to me at the cinemas when I was a kid. I hadn’t seen the first movie in theaters (although I did see it on TV later on), but me, my parents, and little brother did go to the second movie in cinemas, where we received four Moltres cards (two for me, of which I traded one for a Zapdos; and two for my little brother, who traded one for an Articuno). When I first saw the Moltres (I think I was 8 at the time) it quickly became my favorite artwork of all Pokémon TCG cards, which still holds true today.
When someone on Efour told me this Moltres artwork is Holofoil in the Japanese Pokémon Web set I immediately bought both a raw and PSA-10 graded copy, and that was basically the start of my small sub-collection you see in the link. I graded the card I received as a child last year for nostalgia sake, and am actually surprised it came back as a PSA-4, since I was expecting a 2 with a small chance at a 3.

Right now I’m just looking for a sealed Japanese 1st edition Pokémon Web booster pack with the Moltres (and possibly a quad-10 CGC-10 one day), and then I’ll consider this collection complete.

Greetz,
Quuador

Awesome story! Thanks for sharing. That holo version is sick. Did you eventually trade him for that Articuno? Is your brother still collecting today?
I don’t think that my experience with Pokemon cards would have been nearly as enjoyable without my brother (then and now).

I indeed did. I traded my Neo Revelations Raikou for his Articuno promo. That way I had all three promo legendary birds, and he had all three Neo Revelations legendary dogs/cats.

But no, he isn’t collecting anymore. He gave me his collection in 2019. The only thing he currently ‘collects’ are books from Japanese writers and manga. Learning Japanese is currently his biggest hobby.

Greetz,
Quuador