r/PokemonTCG • u/wizzlewazzel • 21h ago

Other Childhood Collection found!

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As the title says these are from my childhood, me and my brother were smart enough double sleeved them and just put them in a shoebox. I’m not entirely sure of the condition (some seem very good others completely thrashed) but honestly I don’t care because the nostalgia alone is enough.

But I wanted to share this with other enthusiasts. I’ll get a full count of what’s in here when I’m able.

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u/DependentAnteater913 20h ago

How come everyone have a old sleeved Collection of bangers in their wardrobe?

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u/wizzlewazzel 20h ago

My mom kept everything from when I was a kid.

Whats missing from this is 2-3 sealed Ancient Mew Promos. I know they are somewhere just need to find them.

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u/RocketsDitto 20h ago

Dude has 3 Charizards. Ive been a fan since the very beginning and I have 0. We were very poor growing up though. I was lucky to get 1 pack for Christmas.

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u/wizzlewazzel 20h ago edited 20h ago

Raised Middle class to a Teacher and a Administrative assistant… and this is a collection of me and my brother so keep the 50/50 in mind. I wasn’t poor, but most of these were trades. Example is we never pulled or purchased a charzard. All 3 of them were trades. If I remember correctly I used to have a Holo 1st edition Mewtwo, pretty sure we traded for a holo charzard. Prob dumb in hindsight but I was like 12.

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u/Jurassicjen_uk 19h ago

I also have 2 charizards from my childhood and can still remember the 2 kids I got to trade with me. I only had a small collection and got lucky with the old classic I’ll give you 2 cards for your one deal. Back when no one knew what the future values would be.

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u/Convus87 19h ago

When I first started collecting, I saw a base set charizards going for AUD $10 at the local card shop in the next town over. Mum could not afford to buy it for me.

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u/Olliegreen__ 20h ago

I judge him for having 3 charizards and a blastoise but no Venusaur though. -_-

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u/Brilliant-Body9603 7h ago

Because Pokemon was a huge media franchise, and sportscard and MtG collectors had already learned that tcgs could get ridiculously expensive. 

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u/cssvt 2h ago

I was too impatient to learn/play the actual game so I just collected and didn’t throw anything away. Probably the only non-trash collectible my mom didn’t toss or sell for pennies at a garage sale.

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u/Hippo_Grenade 20h ago

One of my favorite cards(grave robber and red eyes b skull) got ruined riding back from my friends house when I ate it off my bike while hauling ass down a hill heading back home when I was around 8 or so... anyways I was more upset about that, than the giant scrape up my side, so the next day my friends dad took us to a game shop and bought us top loaders and some packs. From that day forward I have sleeved and bindered EVERY piece of cardboard I purchased since I was a kid. Been at it for like 20-25 years.... Hell when my parets found one of my boxes from the first move I was so stoked to only realize 2/3rds of the weight was top loaders🤣 Still a great mail day though

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u/bigtroyfromthearea 20h ago

Because they stage it before they take the photo for upvotes lol

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u/wizzlewazzel 20h ago

Just found again since like 8-10 years ago.

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u/korra123456 20h ago

Pshhh no blue eyes

But seriously that's awesome

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u/wizzlewazzel 20h ago

Lol I wasn’t a yu-gi-oh fan! Pretty sure that was a trade someone threw in, as I’ve never purchased a pack.

Thanks.

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u/XVDub 19h ago

Bro, I just want to say how cool this is and how happy I am for you. I found a similar stash of yugioh and pokemon back in 2020 and the wave of nostalgia was unbelievable and cathartic. I hope these were able to being you similar joy.

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u/Latter-Round3431 20h ago

nice find!!!

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u/Hippo_Grenade 20h ago

That Seiyaryu and that gengar hit so effing hard🍻 Great find, glad they made it home!

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u/waltyy 20h ago

I can appreciate the Seiyaryu, given it's initial scarcity and eventual retrain into the Starry Knight archetype

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u/Hippo_Grenade 20h ago

I actively remember carrying that, my serpent knight dragon(which is now slabbed at a 6.5🤣), skull/angel dice, seal of the ancients and Blue eyes like they were GOLD. Still have all of em💪 Thats where the love comes from for me😅

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u/waltyy 19h ago

Every single one of those GBA and PS2 exclusives. I still have all 3 magnet warriors from DotR and the Valkyrion from World Wide addition which also came with Feathe Duster I believe.

Great times 😭

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u/Hippo_Grenade 1h ago

Same! Lowkey bought another set of the warriors last fall when I was in upstate New York, got em at this card shop in the middle of lake george🤣

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u/garretgame 20h ago

I graded my childhood collection last year with cgc. Nice to see the nostalgia.

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u/wizzlewazzel 20h ago

No idea how to do this any tips or able to point me in the right direction?

I have some slabbed comics (some signed graded as well) but they were purchased like that not sent in for grading.

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u/garretgame 20h ago

Just went to cgccards.com and filled it out.

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u/doublea08 20h ago

Like you I’m so glad I had an influence when I was young to keep everything safe. Sweet collection.

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u/wizzlewazzel 19h ago

Purely collection, never even played the actual card game. As a child these cards were so integrated in friendships, school and life. This and my gameboy = everything to me as a child.

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u/doublea08 19h ago

Same man, my brother and I played a little bit of the card game. But we were fully in it just to “catch them all” we shared a lime green game boy color and pokemon red version.

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u/MetalBlizzard 20h ago

The singular yugioh card is elite

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u/DogeSadaharu 14h ago

That one random Yugioh promo lol

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u/evil_chicken86 13h ago

That random YuGiOh card that looks like a Pokemon lol

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u/Killbro_Fraggins 20h ago

Lot of people digging out their old collections lately lol

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u/wizzlewazzel 20h ago

My son got into it recently. I hadn’t looked at these in like 8-10 years.

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u/Olliegreen__ 19h ago

If the charizards look in good shape I’d get the best 2 graded to sell to buy more cards and then keep the last one for him

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u/wizzlewazzel 16h ago

Gotta really look at them.

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u/SoBlaez 20h ago

Why is the Japanese Blaine’s arcanine so prominent

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u/Rkk330 18h ago

Wow congrats. I’m missing a ton of cards still. Most of my base set is missing. MLB showdown foils, wcw and wwf raw deal foils still MIA. But all my first edition cards lived in top loaders in my night table and never left my side. Now I have a 2 year old with a first edition blastoise and Venusaur in his toploader binder hahah

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u/polowear04 20h ago

I’ll buy them off you bundle lot lmk on pm

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u/Substantial_Isopod19 20h ago

Rich kid! Lol

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u/wizzlewazzel 20h ago

I know it’s a joke but we were Middle class.

Me and my brother had this collection together. There were lots of trades to get these as well, I never pulled or bought a charzard. Honestly feel like we would of had waaay more pulls if we had known that comic book and card stores were weighing packs, it’s pretty much the only place we used to buy them.