It's a bit hard to find a high-rest picture, but you can get an idea from this picture:
Those are delightful! I especially like all of the detailed foliage in the jungle one.It's a bit hard to find a high-rest picture, but you can get an idea from this picture:
So each row of these cards takes their art from a larger image. These images were also printed on post cards that came with the complete set. Sorry some are so small, just pulling from Google.
Ah, okay. That's funny. People don't usually call Unlimiteds second edition. That's usually what people accidentally call Base Set 2. Sorry for the mix-up.
Some of them are from way back in the day, but about 10 years ago I decided to fill the holes and get those six sets completed. The majority are in great condition, although there are some I would like to replace at some point. (My Jungle Clefable is terrible, lol.)
You're thinking of the aptly named "Jungle" expansion. This was the first set to follow the original base set.
This can vary with condition, especially Base Set, here's about what you're sitting on.
Easily Rocket.
Depends on which ones! If they were from sets, they probably made it over. But if they were promos, which sounds like what you're describing, probably not. Wizards could not meet release schedules and released very few promos in this time period.
Yes, please come back and post! It would be my pleasure to look over them with you.
Thanks for the roundup. I don't plan on selling at the moment but it's nice to know. It's funny, the Gym sets are actually my favorites, and the majority of those are in excellent condition.
The gym sets have incredible art. Rocket's Scyther is an all-timer and I really love the holographic trainer cards. First of their kind!
Oh neat, I would like to see more gym leader cards like this if there are anyI sold my classic cards a few years ago which was a nice relief to know they were still desirable. I also tried to get back into it after moving to Japan and seeing how robust the card game market is here but just could never stick with it. Personally don't like the artwork of the new cards but I was happy that I could get rid of them easily once I snapped out of it.
Though collecting the various cards for Erika was a fun few months of going to different shops when I traveled to different towns and what not. The trainers featured with their signature pokemon was a selling point to getting me back in the collecting but once I realized they were not continuing the theme it was easy to drop again.
definitely my favorite gym leader since I was a kid.
Good to know. Not familiar with the collector parlance myself.
I feel you. I have a particularly painful memory of parting with a Venusaur as a kid. If only we knew then what we know now. Oh well.
Totally. I still have some unlimited stuff from that base set stuck in a folder A half world away. It'll be nice to visit them again when I finally get home
I remember your thread! I actually couldn't remember if I posted in it, but it looks like I did. I'm glad you finished your collection.
Somehow I lucked into a collection of miscut cards, where I can align the sheet. Holographic to boot!
Sadly I didn't finish my collection... YET. One day dammit.
Pokémon like Clefairy and Jigglypuff are fun to watch because they were Colorless, then they got the Fairy typing, but now they've gotten rid of Fairy and all Fairies are now Psychic, so we now have them in all these three typings.
Poison types also went from Leaf to Psychic to Darkness.
This is so sweet, thank you so much for posting.
Ah, sorry, yes, I see what you said now. I am dyslexic and somehow got something different when I first read your post. I apologize, wishful thinking!Sadly I didn't finish my collection... YET. One day dammit.
A great thing about Japan is that if you have a hobby, there is a store dedicated to it. Hell there might be a dedicated block to just one thing. Pokemon cards are no different. There's a ton of dedicated trading card shops, and you can also find cards at recycle and used good shops.
Now most trading card shops only have new stuff. It's the nature of the trading card business. Many places have old cards, but just a random assortment. For Pokemon cards, there are cards known as 旧裏面 or "old card backs". These were the card backs for the Gen I-II cards before they switched to a design they still use today. Base - Rocket, which I was collecting, all have this card back.
Some card game shops have a little section for 旧裏面 cards that is a completely random assortment. You might even have to ask the clerk if they have them. At the store where I bought my Charizard card (plus several others), they were hidden behind the counter in a binder that they let me flip through. Other times they are out in the open, but in a cardboard box that you have to flip through. It's likely that the majority of the 旧裏面 cards are actually from Gen II because I'm sure a lot of collectors snatched up the Gen I cards, but I was still impressed at how many cards I just picked out by hand from a store.
I got a lot of these from a store called BIGMAGIC in Ikebukuro which I recommend. I don't know what their old card stock is like now, but when I went I felt like I hit the jackpot. They also have some rare cards on display that are fun to look at.
Probably the best Pokemon card store in Tokyo is Cherumo. It's very tiny, but they have a great selection and a lot of unusual and interesting items. Mostly new cards, but they do have quite a large selection of random old cards as well.
Surugaya's Trading card shop in Akiba also has a nice selection but the prices are a bit jacked up since it's aimed at tourists. LOOK AT THIS NONSENSE:
Though if you are going to buy Japanese cards, the best way to go is online like Yahoo Auctions. Prices might be wacky, but it's definitely a lot easier than store hopping and digging through countless cards just to find one you might buy. I doubt those stores get a fresh stock of old cards frequently, what they have is what they have. But it's still cool to just walk into a store and hey, here's a bunch of 20 year old trading cards just sitting in a box.
[edit] I realized I never answered the question about prices. Common cards can be cheap, like 100 JPY. Even holographics only set me back maybe 200-700 JPY each. Though I am not a real stickler, as long as it isn't completely scratched up and there's some shine still on it I'll buy it. Online can be all over the place, though you can get good deals if you buy bundles or sets instead of individual cards.
Yeah. I can't watch PokéTubers. It's like the content is specifically designed to make sure I don't enjoy even a single second of it. It's either boring, annoying, or deeply upsetting.
I'd watch a few here and there in the past just to get a closer look at some rare or valuable cards, but yeah it's all obnoxious.
Yup it's not as cool as they'd like you to think, and I'm not memeing here when I say think of the children, buying entire stocks is just so selfish and definitely a big reason why prices are super inflated these days. Plus besides all of that, it's like peak YouTuber screaming and feigning excitement and just the whole thing is annoying and what I hate about YouTube and the internet. Pulling a rare card out of a random booster or even one box is cool, buying multiple boxes to get that card, what's the point, might as well just buy the card itself at that point!
I wouldn't say worthless, besides, all of the memories are the most valuable thing! So nostalgic, reminds me of being a kidLol not gonna lie I got a lil' excited looking at this thread and browsing some ebay prices. My cards are in pretty rough shape as we used to do some stupid shit with them as kids and I carried them in my pocket. This is pretty much worthless.
Oh the Team Rocket series were fun
It's a bit hard to find a high-rest picture, but you can get an idea from this picture:
So each row of these cards takes their art from a larger image. These images were also printed on post cards that came with the complete set. Sorry some are so small, just pulling from Google.
I have the complete set and the binder they came in with the corresponding artwork. I'm going to take pics of the more interesting stuff in my collection later today and I'll include those so you can see them.
It's not worth anything monetarily in that condition, but I'm with Javac here. Having your own childhood cards, even as just a sock drawer novelty, is a special thing you can't buy. Something most collectors deal with is that no matter what they spend their money on and what they collect as adults, they will never get back what they lost from when they were kids. Considering a lot of what motivates adult collectors is nostalgia, that's a big deal.
I had very bad luck with boosters when I was a kid, especially base set boosters. I can't tell you how often I got Computer Search instead of a "real" rare card. I had one friend whose luck with boosters was out of this world. At one point, he had four Charizards. This was unprecedented. No kid had what he had. Kids would trade their whole collection for one Charizard. To have four was a cosmic impossibility to a nine year old. One day at the local Pokémon League I was actually plotting to steal one of his Charizards when he was distracted. As I was trying to build up the nerve he suddenly starts sobbing and crying and spilling his binder out on the floor - he'd been robbed. Someone stole his Charizards. The employees running the league pleaded to the group for whoever took them to return them. They even threatened to disband the league if the person didn't come forward. But nobody did.
Are those card savers a requirement or just a recommendation? I've sent several cards in to PSA and never used one. I can't imagine they'd require you to use a certain sleeve.
You should post them! Maybe there's something special in there.
This is a great mixed lot. Thank you for posting it. You also have some valuable stuff in here. Let me call some stuff out.Hey thanks! i took some piccys. The first 4/5 pages are Shiny ones, the rest non. Not sure how interesting it is but here:
Great pictures! Those 1st Edition cards are worth money for sure. Small double digits on most of them, but Dark Charizard is $300-$400 and Dark Blastoise is $80-$100. Dark Dragonite is pretty predictably $80-$100, but it can fluctuate.
