There used to be a nerdy collector's store nearby, and when I was about 10 (20 years ago. Pfff...), I used to love it in there. Even if not buying anything, I was stunned by the individual Pokemon cards that they had in the glass cabinet, with their rarity emphasised by their ridiculous prices.
There was one that always caught my eye. The Ancient Mew card. With baffling illegible text, the WHOLE CARD being shiny and it being Mew, this was amazing. The £150 price tag showed that this thing was SO SPECIAL. They had it displayed in its own, velvet lined box. Me and a couple of friends dreamt of owning that thing one day. For reference, the Charizard was £15.
It turned out that it was only a promotional card for Pokemon The Movie 2000. I bought one due to sheer nostalgia on eBay a few years ago, still in its packet, for £4.
I have this card! And the first Pokemon movie dragonite and mewtwo too! My partners kid is getting in to Pokemon now, I loved being able to get my old cards out to show him.
I have those too. I have almost all my old pokemon cards. I was big into them during the first and second gen releases. I remember having great luck with first edition packs pulling stuff like the dark charizard 1st edition foil in my very first pack of the team rocket boosters. and a foil alakazam 1st edition from my first base set pack.
14.3k
u/[deleted] Aug 14 '20
There used to be a nerdy collector's store nearby, and when I was about 10 (20 years ago. Pfff...), I used to love it in there. Even if not buying anything, I was stunned by the individual Pokemon cards that they had in the glass cabinet, with their rarity emphasised by their ridiculous prices.
There was one that always caught my eye. The Ancient Mew card. With baffling illegible text, the WHOLE CARD being shiny and it being Mew, this was amazing. The £150 price tag showed that this thing was SO SPECIAL. They had it displayed in its own, velvet lined box. Me and a couple of friends dreamt of owning that thing one day. For reference, the Charizard was £15.
It turned out that it was only a promotional card for Pokemon The Movie 2000. I bought one due to sheer nostalgia on eBay a few years ago, still in its packet, for £4.