I hate that they actually became valuable over the years. I gave all my Pokémon cards (and my crystal game boy color) to some kid in my neighborhood when I out grew them. I at least hope he had fun with that stuff.
Always has and always will be people only to collect, in anything. Right now I rarely see a graded magic card, even in card shops. Magic is to play, not collect imo, but as hasbro tries to woo collectors, the game gets more expensive and harder to just play.
Yup, gave mine to a neighbourhood kid that I babysat.
Honestly, over the years I think I’ve come to sour on the whole notion of collecting things as a hobby.
It’s one thing if you’re collecting stuff that no one wants and will be junked otherwise, or are collecting things to restore them and get rid of them again, but collecting stuff that is either highly desired or potentially used, just to collect it and have it sit there, feels really wasteful and self indulgent.
i had a first edition Charizard that was stolen at a sleepover (dumb ten year old me wanted to show it off). then the rest were stolen by my sister when I was in college where she cut them up to decorate her binder.
don’t know how many still survive but I’m pretty pissed
That first edition charizard though, so universally contentious. A core childhood memory was battling a neighborhood kid, he wagered his charizard and I put up machamp + gyarados holos. Winner gets the pot. We do the battle, I won, then immediately this kid snatches the charizard off the table and took off running all the way down the street back home with it.
I never got the card, and that’s how I learned there is no justice in this world. Was way before they were worth anything more than sentimental value.
That’s the opposite of me… when I was in my early 20s and worked retail, a lady at my store saw my Pokémon hoodie and was like “my kids outgrew Pokémon, do you wanna buy their stuff for cheap?”
I go over there and there’s four containers (two of them Pokémon themed backpacks) full of minis, plushies, and more. I asked her how much and she’s like “ehhh fifty bucks?” I have never said yes so quickly in my life.
As I’m leaving, she’s like “oh do you want their cards for another forty?” And busts out three albums, complete sets of base, jungle, and fossil, with some other sets at the end. Base set had a bunch of first editions (not Charizard, unfortunately… just regular foil.)
I still have everything she sold me, 18 years later. I dunno if I can ever sell them.
I hate that they actually became valuable over the years. I gave all my Pokémon cards (and my crystal game boy color) to some kid in my neighborhood when I out grew them. I at least hope he had fun with that stuff.
That’s the fate pokemon cards were created to have. To be played with and loved until they’re a fuzzy faded piece of trash in their 4th kid’s closet.
Nowadays far more people seem to collect to sell then to play, its why graded cards are so common. Sucks MTG is heading there too.
Marjorie Taylor Greene is absolutely a fuzzy faded piece of trash
What Pokémon is she
Muk Trubbish Garbodor
https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Garbodor_(Pokémon)
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Haha, normally I see her and think magic the gathering and get confused. Makes for some great headlines though
I knew a bunch of dudes that did that with Magic cards back during revised. They would collect alpha, beta, and unlimited cards only to sell.
Always has and always will be people only to collect, in anything. Right now I rarely see a graded magic card, even in card shops. Magic is to play, not collect imo, but as hasbro tries to woo collectors, the game gets more expensive and harder to just play.
I had a friend who sleeved and foldered all his cards even back in fourth grade, some 20+ years ago.
He did well anyway, but I’m sure he still has that collection and it must be worth a fucking fortune.
Yup, gave mine to a neighbourhood kid that I babysat.
Honestly, over the years I think I’ve come to sour on the whole notion of collecting things as a hobby.
It’s one thing if you’re collecting stuff that no one wants and will be junked otherwise, or are collecting things to restore them and get rid of them again, but collecting stuff that is either highly desired or potentially used, just to collect it and have it sit there, feels really wasteful and self indulgent.
That’s how I feel about things that are created specifically to be collectables.
Personally I collect cameras, some of them in order to use, some because they are nice to look at, or have interesting history.
Everyone did that, that’s why they’re valuable now
Mine were stolen at church camp. I had planned on keeping them until they were worth something.
i had a first edition Charizard that was stolen at a sleepover (dumb ten year old me wanted to show it off). then the rest were stolen by my sister when I was in college where she cut them up to decorate her binder.
don’t know how many still survive but I’m pretty pissed
That first edition charizard though, so universally contentious. A core childhood memory was battling a neighborhood kid, he wagered his charizard and I put up machamp + gyarados holos. Winner gets the pot. We do the battle, I won, then immediately this kid snatches the charizard off the table and took off running all the way down the street back home with it.
I never got the card, and that’s how I learned there is no justice in this world. Was way before they were worth anything more than sentimental value.
I don’t think you were the dumb one to trust people who you were at a sleepover with.
Learning that some people don’t have morals or empathy was a bitch as a kid. Egoistic fucks.
My mother THREW THEM IN THE TRASH as a punishment. 25 years later and I’m still pissed.
That’s the opposite of me… when I was in my early 20s and worked retail, a lady at my store saw my Pokémon hoodie and was like “my kids outgrew Pokémon, do you wanna buy their stuff for cheap?”
I go over there and there’s four containers (two of them Pokémon themed backpacks) full of minis, plushies, and more. I asked her how much and she’s like “ehhh fifty bucks?” I have never said yes so quickly in my life.
As I’m leaving, she’s like “oh do you want their cards for another forty?” And busts out three albums, complete sets of base, jungle, and fossil, with some other sets at the end. Base set had a bunch of first editions (not Charizard, unfortunately… just regular foil.)
I still have everything she sold me, 18 years later. I dunno if I can ever sell them.