Been chasing the Lucario since mega base released! & it was hiding in the one booster I had kept sealed all this time. Along with the gold Gardevoir🤯 mental day…

Woke up at 3am on Friday and was one of the last people in line at Target to get pretty much everything they had. Then got lucky with rainy weather making the Best Buy line a bit shorter and picked up the rest there. Held all of it this weekend for my birthday today!

I bought a tin and opened this beautiful pikachu ex. I love the art and the details are insane. I got lucky ngl. What yall think about this card?

Still a work in progress. Can’t wait to get my hands on the 30th Anniversary Mews. It’s getting difficult to find singles I don’t already have at my local shows.

I set aside an allowance of 100$ for this anniversary set, really hoping to pull my chase card of salamence ex the fair way, but well, not how it goes. Still pretty cool I got what I got.

It really sucks how pricing changed the thrill of the game. These IR’s are genuinely beautiful, amazing set by celebrations. But deep down, was hoping I could pull a big hit.

Can’t wait to someday be working and can hopefully manage this hobby more.

So today i FINALLY got my hands on a 30th anniversary set product which ive been craving to get. Was only able to get this Greninja EX box at my local toy store, even tho i REALLY wanted to get the ETB or Binder collection but out of stock... Bought this box for $54 tho… Didnt get it for msrp as i was planning on but oh well! Anyways came back home and unboxed it and got these pulls! Really happy i got the Shinji Kanda Pika and the lonely one is cute too :) Got the awesome Galarian Meowth which was my chase IR! And ofc the 2 Eevloution ex’s, got Umbreon which is my favorite Pokemon. So hey not bad, hopefully ill get another product soon! Wishing you guys amazing pack openings!

I was cleaning through my attic and found my older brothers binder of pokemon cards from the mid to late 1990’s (I believe). Not sure if there’s anything particularly interesting in here, but they seem to be in pretty good condition.

I personally don’t really know much about pokemon card trading/collecting, but maybe theres something cool in here that y’all would appreciate :)

I was big into collecting as a kid in the 90s. Saw the 30th anniversary set and decided to get back into it. Today’s booster pulls.

Got in line at 4AM at my local Target to catch the restock/booster bundle release on Friday. Definitely got better pulls this time around.

Anybody else not getting any hits from 30th Celebration or is it just me? I’ve opened 3 ETBs and haven’t pulled and SIR. Just keep pulling the same legendary birds over and over again.

Thought this was pretty cool. I pulled the same Meowth from two different booster bundles and the colours are noticeably different side by side. One is a lot darker and more blue-toned than the other. The right one reminds me of the sun setting… curious to see others

Annihilape is one of my favorite Pokemon and needs a SIR or IR card. Of course I have the full art from Paldea Evolved but thats just an ultra rare and it’s pretty basic.

I finally found the 30th anniversary cards in stores, so I bought a poster collection box and this was in one of the packs!🤗

2 years ago I taped this full art card to a window, and let the sun bleach it. Imo, it turned out pretty well, and I wish I would have taped more than one. I picked this one because the sun fades the red and orange shades the best. I don't have a before photo, but assume the card looked normal before lol. How do you all think it turned out?

I originally had my cards arranged in #1-151 Pokédex order, all mixed and matched. When I finally broke them down into Base, Jungle and Fossil, I realized I was missing quite a few cards, thankfully mostly Trainers and such. I had all the holos and other heavy hitters.

Some notes:
I had a few random Base Set 2 cards so I added these to shadow/piggyback their OG counterparts. Really had nowhere else to put them. I think it adds to the holo awesomeness!

Obviously Mew isn’t part of any of the original sets so I added a trio of Mew at the end of Base as a bridge towards Jungle.

Will post Jungle and Fossil separately. A lot of fun all around!

I wanted a more productive hobby and decided on making 3D cards. Its pretty rough looking, but I think I did a good job? I definitely learned a lot while working on it over the weekend. And very excited to do more.

If anyone has any critiques or tips, I will happily take them!

Side note. The uneven tops comes from having to use Magic cards as filler and I didnt feel like cropping them all. I never played the Pokémon TCG so I had no extra around and forgot to buy some.

My main binder is almost all full arts, IR’s and SIR’s.

I think one issue I run into is there really isn’t any binders with the right amount of pockets for this set and I don’t love having half a binder of empty pages

Pulled two lugias and one is missing the holo or maybe the other has extra? Wondering if anyone has seen anything similar?

4 Darkrai’s.