I started this year with collecting Pokemon cards again, I had given away my collection from when I collected in 1998. I think I quit after Team Rocket came out. After that my relationship crashed, stuffing me with a huge debt and I lost interest in collecting as I had to pay shit off.
At the beginning of this year I came across some streamers and fell in love with the illustration cards and started to look in to how much it would cost me to collect the cards with art I love. Welp, I knew scalpers were crazy when the news hit about the rampant storming of the Pokemon merchandise at the Van Gogh Museum. I was looking in total disgust how grown people, started foaming at the mouth to get their hands on Pokemon items to flip for triple or quadruple the price online. Also the gifted Pikachu card is sold online for insane prices.
I had to displeasure to deal with scalpers when it came to releases from Volks in the doll community. Some lowlife paid people to stand in line to get limited release dolls to later flip online to people who weren’t able to get any because of these rotten scalpers.
I have no love or scalpers, Reddit has no love for scalpers and because some Pokemon cards go for insane prices, criminals target them. Looking at you, Logan Paul, you larper-trash.
My own collections are steadily growing with me going through big bulk from online sellers or physical store. If it is too expensive, they can keep it. ٩(ˋᗣˊ*)و
My favourite artists I am trying to master set are: Yuka Morii 56/273, Asako Ito 21/36 and Tomokazu Komiya 25/278. I don’t know if I every will complete the Yuka Morii and Tomokazu Komiya sets as there are many rare and expensive cards in it. The various Ditto cards are super rare of the Morii set.
But it is fun when you find a card that you do not have in your set yet. Exhilarating even.
Because the Japanese, Korean and English version of the Snivy & Venusaur GX is too expensive I opted for the Italian one. Found a lightly played version of the promo and I am so happy to have this full art in my binder. The same seller had quite a few old cards that I still didn’t have in the Yuka Morii set, some having a poor quality but a steal for €0,50. ( ˶°ㅁ°) !! Making my set now 56 cards obtained of the 273 out there.
My poor hubby knows nothing of Pokemon and I am slowly filling him in to the wonderous world of Pokemon, he has watched me play Pokopia and starts to recognise some characters like Pikachu, Bulbasaur and Ditto. Even when I was flipping to my binders, he remarked I know that trashbag, pointing to Trubbish.
I doubt I will get him crazy for Pokemon, but he is sweet enough to join me on my quest for cards or plushies.
Again, I am hooked. 〜(꒪꒳꒪)〜