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Even if it were Japanese, they had no issue sticking Primarina on sleeves with Lacey last year and still give that line no cards...

I wasn't mocking you WPM, I just don't trust their ability to actually solve their problems in any satisfying way. Remember when their solution to printing more Van Gogh Pikachu was sending 10 copies to local stores and it barely did anything? We're about to enter the oft-mentioned "6-8 month"...

For the third time, I'm going to need more than words. We're entering month 6 of this and 2 million people were in queue for Destined Rivals preorders on Monday. Sorry this strongly worded letter isn't doing anything for me

I don't think Jessie and James were gonna be a tipping point for a set that already has Cynthia, Misty, Ethan, Steven, Marnie, Giovanni, Mewtwo.....

Surging Sparks had 1 (one) highly valued card when it first dropped and Journey Together and Destined Rivals aren't even out yet so it's kind of hard to make any comment about their values. The latter two are also caught up in the wake of Prismatic and everything else that's been going on...

Journey Together has almost no Gen 1 Pokemon in the spotlight and the booster boxes are still marked up to the highest value they've been in 26 years of the game. 151 was also very easy to obtain for nearly a year after it was released. Out of Prismatic's 17 cards worth $100+ on TCGPlayer, only...

2025 was a great time to quit. Things aren't going to get better. 2 MILLION BOTS IN QUEUE And no, what's been going on for the last 3-4 months doesn't "happen every couple of years." Even during the worst of the pandemic, a booster box of a set that was just coming out wasn't $250. Singles of...

Yeah sorry I have to go with Jon on this one, Pocket definitely has played a role in what's going on today. Things started going crazy in November with Surging Sparks, right after Pocket dropped on Halloween. There was a marked increase in TCG collecting when Pokemon Go dropped in 2016 and that...

How silly for players to want to collect every card in a collectible card game What's next? Catching every Pokemon??

Yah that "they want to make money" argument has rapidly fallen apart these few months when they've done nothing to let collectors actually give them money. But hey we can spam digital sets every month and still make bank.

Why do they even bother with the physical TCG at this point? It's clear Pocket is getting all of their attention. 🤢

That's just every set now until TPCi wakes the hell up and does anything. Don't know how people are excited for this. Bots were already crashing the Pokemon Center site yesterday in anticipation of Destined Rivals preorders that didn't even launch yesterday. We aren't getting this set.

Well yeah. Why would Rayquaza be sharing spotlight with Rocket's Mewtwo?

Yes, wouldn't it be nice if TPCi did something so that we had more to discuss than how rotted the hobby is? Oops, oh well.

The sad part is that Prismatic Evolutions's pull rates were better than the entire year's worth of sets that came before it, as SIRs got bumped up to compensate for the lack of art rares and Pokemon full arts. We just can't recognize it because there's still over 30 SIRs and the set is never...

TPCi inspires no confidence in me after the last 4 months. They have no ability to gauge what's going on or to predict really obvious things that will drive up demand (like Pocket launching, or Prismatic Evolutions being based around Eeveelutions) and they've done absolutely nothing to address...

Absolutely not. Journey Together's booster boxes are like $220 on the secondary market right now (which is about 2x what it used to cost to buy a booster box of a new set 4 months ago) and have been sold out on Pokemon Center for months. I have zero excitement because Journey Together looks like...

"If Pokemon is too expensive, quit the hobby"? TPCi is doing a great job at mastering the capitalism this poster seems to love so much if this is our takeaway.

Or hey maybe TPCi could just actually print sets to meet demand so people don't have to pay $8 on TCGPl*yer to buy a booster pack of a new set. I've been buying a booster box of every main set since 2011. $210 for a booster box on the secondary market for a brand new, massively produced set...

Considering the point of this forum is to discuss the state of the TCG, and the state of the TCG is bad and worth complaining about because YOU CAN'T EVEN GET THE CARDS THEY'RE SHOWING OFF, no I will not take a nap for a year. :)