Not just the foils. If you compared the cards now to the WOTC era cards, notice that the old cards were way thicker and harder to bend. Now just one little mistake and your card has a bad crease.
the aura is with me8 said:On every single full art Zekrom I've seen so far (Even the ones fresh from the pack.) they all have a DENT in the top left corner. TPCI, you dissapoint me.
carlitosbob said:sorry to necromance, but I do have some good news.. I had posted about having contacted them about my nin mint full art pulled from a pack, and they actually responded. I an screen cap the email, but here is a copy/ paste
"Dear Carlos Duran Jr,
A solution for your issue has been suggested.
I am sorry for the delay in this response. If you can forward along your address, I can see about sending some replacement packs to you. We are unable to replace specific cards as we do not have singles of all cards.
The following Customer(s) have been CC'ed:
Question Information:
Question #: 15182-***
Date Created: 5/10/2011 3:06:51 PM
To update or check the status of this Question:
Go to: http://support.pokemon.com/link/portal/15182/15227/Ticket/***
Log in, and you will be automatically taken to the Question page.
If you have general questions, please direct them to [email protected]."
the *'s are just me blocking out the ticket #'s.
I take this as good news, anyone else contact tpci? Anyone else wanting to contact them now for future issues? They ask for a scan of the ard and a scan of your receipt (my guess is to prove that it's not like a month old card or something)
ogeray said:BW is a throw back to Base set. Holos back then were "plain", with the pokemon as the main highlight of the card with simple colored background design holo.
Vulpix Yolk said:I hope that they fix these holo, they should go with something that doesn't warp the card. The older sets didn't have this problem, they need to do whatever they were doing back then. Where I live we get the effects of the Holos warping the worst because of the climate, so some holo straight from Black and White packs, are so warped that they aren't legal in tournament, because if you sleeve it into a deck it is considered a marked sleeve because it can't lay flat. That is ridiculous, I am sorry. I don't even see why they switched the holo, it looks awful anyways, the older ones were much more appealing to the eye.
Oh and about the weight thing, that is good to know, but still as a competitive player, I don't always have a week to flatten out my cards before a tournament, playtesting time and whatever, it shouldn't have to come to that.
viper.fox said:The curving can be easily fixed with weight and cold storage (just a general cool area) for a few days/up to a week usually. Even some of the older JP holos had that issue, around the Rocket through the Neo series due to the weight of the foil, but again easily fixed with a bit of weight.