That’s amazing, I was thinking potentially that they would have had something to do with the gameboy version of the TCG seen as they were software based but it was still based on the trading cards. Or maybe they had something to do with the card creation such as image placement?
I also found it interesting that earlier in this post it was said that the ones like mine with the card to the right were prototypes. Where as this one seems to be an actual company.
It seems like there must have been a few copies made this way then! Yours looks like the mew has very similar damage to the prototype version I posted before. I asked Steve if he remembers any reason for change of design but he doesn’t. I’m just wondering if design was changed to avoid damage to the card.
Yeah possibly, I thought mine may have been a prototype but the guy I bought it from said he purchased it from the pinnacle software owner. Then Steve has confirmed it too so who knows. Very interesting story though. Would love to see some more for comparison. But I’ve only ever seen the ones in this post.
Thanks for sharing! Has the same issues around the edge of the card too.
I might send a picture with info to CGC and see what they would regard it as.
I still want to say it’s heat damage… but maybe it’s wishful thinking, because I don’t want to have to collect this card!
I’ll update you guys when I know more 
Added an additional edit to the bottom of my original post. Another example was brought to me this week, seems like now a couple have been sold recently they are all appearing out of the woodwork!
I have this now, got it in an auction 
its so nice in person!!!
Congrats on picking up something cool! Welcome to the forum, hope to see your collection at some point.
Curious how much I went for this time round?
can we appreciate the Comic Sans font usage on this? 
plastics hobbyist here. Though far from giga knowledgable, I can at least make an educated guess. To me this at first glance would make me think its some type of poured epoxy resin. What makes me think this is the following.
First your photos are quite helpful to diagnose this. It looks to me like a back piece was poured and allowed to cure in a mould. Then they placed the card inside. Since these were hand made, this is certainly what accounts for the inconsistency to what side the card is displayed on. Now, there are lots of different types of resins. And I honestly don’t know that much in the chemistry end. But The thing with most resins is that they cause an exothermic reaction when the two parts combine and it begins to harden. This is notable. This and the slight expansion and contraction is likely what has caused stress cracks to appear around the card in these things. The card doesn’t expand and contract like the rest of the material. And assuming this is how they did it, it can also explain a few other aspects here. Its entirely possible that the the epoxy soaked into the card somewhat before the resin set. This may have had some effect. But What I absolutely feel has happened here, is that the epoxy resin is in some way reacting with the holofoil. There is no way the UK just printed less than a full holo sheet with some magical special holopattern. No, you can see its just the normal cosmos pattern. While inside the resin, due to reacting directly with it, due to some potential degassing inside the pocket the card created, there is a reaction going on. However another explanation is just that the way its laying on the card is causing a visual distortion. Microbubbles degassing from the card could also be part of it as the resin soaks into the card too. Any number of things could be happening here. And I do believe its resin, there is an organic bubble of air around most of the promos, and again, followed by cracking over the card. This would not be how I’d expect acrylic to turn out.
If this were acrylic sheets, I’d actually find that interesting but it would be different, and there would actually be no seam. Typically when you want to mate two pieces of acrylic you would apply a type of solvent that dissipates and creates a seamless bond and essentially makes the two pieces into one. However you’d have to have a itty bitty baby slice of acrylic sheet and it would be 3 pieces, the middle one with a gap for the card to sit inside of, and we can see there are stress fractures around the card more consistent with a poured plastic than mated pieces. Also the fact that there is a noticable seam makes me think a two step pour of a curing epoxy resin.
Again i may sound all certain, but I’m at best a noob. This is one man’s opinion. From there they just would have CNC’d the words on it.
thats all folks. If you want I could take the pics to my local plastics store and ask a grumpy old man there about what they think.
EDIT: Yolo, I’ll take the pictures into the plastics store when I have a chance and ask what they think about the situation.
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Hello All! - I was tipped off about this post, I was lucky enough to see this in person last year, Stephen and I are relatively local and and he had heard about about my online store and agreed to meet me to show me some of his cards, packs, etc.
Met him at local hotel near me and I was gobsmacked when he pulled that out of his bag, I recall i think I was actually asking around the Lowpopping discord perhaps 2-3 years ago for offers on it for him, but we never got anything materialise,
Nice to see its surfaced!
okay so I made my trip to the plastics store. Dude didn’t flinch in saying yeah thats not acrylic, thats resin. Didn’t want to make any assumptions and said he’d need it in hand to really get a good look to know what was going on anymore than that. But it was clear that the damage to the card was due to the card wicking up the resin while it was still liquid. This explains all the weirdness about the card inside.
Anyhow, there you go. Its not acrylic.
I still have the one that Steve presented to me as one of their main distributors back then. The one I have doesn’t seem to have any damage to the card at all. I still work for A B Gee now.
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