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@tradingcardfox
Petition to ban redemption cards from products. I don't care if it may not even be worth much nowadays, it's kinda annoying to see an expired redemption instead of the product you're meant to get.
And that doesn't even take into account sports redemption cards. I know Topps expanded their redemption window to 10 years, but this was well beyond that.
Does being on the Ace Spec(trum) make this card more powerful to me, as a demisexual?
I am not immune to Bulbasaur propaganda.
I was at a card show earlier today, and while I didn't have as many bigger trades compared to other shows, sometimes the smaller ones bring more joy to collecting. I traded a Paradox Rift Garchomp SIR for the Topps Bulbasaur, and someone who was asking about the burger king Bulbasaur looking to sell I actually traded a couple graded cards (mid-grade Mewtwo EX and a CGC 10 Japanese full art Galarian Clodshire) to get it.
One of the things I've gotten better at in recent years is better appreciating trades, especially in not getting hung up too long on "shoulda/woulda/coulda" mindset of "but will it be worth more down the road?" Not perfect at it, but certainly better at it now than when I focused more on baseball/sports cards.
A piece that whisperlocked(.bsky.social) drew of my fursona, Bloom. It's so awesome that they incorporated my love for trading cards into the warmup sketch, and I adore how it came out!!! Sharing here because this will be the new header for this blog, however often this ends up being updated.
Happy Holidays to you and yours!!!
So I was at a flea market yesterday, and I came across a decent-ish lot of Webkinz trading cards (between 2007 and '08 depending on the series). Never got into that sort of craze - being like 13 or 14 probably had something to do with it - but always struck my curiosity. It was about 5 packs of each, and opened them out of curiosity.
Some of the better cards in terms of rarity, though only had 1:9 chance pulls, and it threw me off that you could pull foils from this set. (Snapshots, Curio Shop, and sparkle sticker). Some other good stuff from it too, but may be better to show certain cards individually on fun short posts rather than clutter longer posts talking about the opening of it.
All in all, in terms of collecting and opening for the fun of it, it's a great thing to have come across. (and PS, does anyone know if the code cards are still valid? I wanna say I doubt because it was well over a decade ago, but who knows.)
The man behind Mario himself essentially retired from voicing Mario in official games last week. I'm glad we got to hear him for as long as we have, and that he was able to get a chance to step back and admire his work. I've always known Charles Martinet's voice as THE Mario voice, but his voice acting went well beyond one role. While I'm curious how Super Mario Wonder will go, I look forward to the new directions all around.
Topps releases a set every year [since 2006] called "Allen and Ginter". It's essentially their brand for both baseball stars/legends as well as other pop culture stars (or other curiosities) at the time of release. It also shares the same name as a tobacco brand from the late 1800s, who basically was responsible for the first trading cards released (but as inserts/ads to the tobacco, and was usually stuff like animals, nature, or locations rather than people in the early years).
This particular card is from the 2019 set, and one of the cool things Topps does is they'll get pieces from a shirt (or other artifact the subject wore/used) and put it into the card itself. "Game used jerseys" are one of the more common additions to cards - being a sports card company for the mostpart - so it was so cool to have something that, even if it could've been a brief moment of wearing a shirt for a day, was a part of his life. There was an autograph card from the same year that I hope to get one of these days, but I'm keeping my eyes out for one to be reasonably available.
Keep at the fun, Charles, and we'll be rooting and "Wahoo!"ing for you along the way all the same!
I got two packs from a local shop of Disney's Lorcana tcg, and I dunno if this counts as a hot take: but it's another case of Disney being too hyped up.
It was $11 a pack, and not to say the cards aren't good quality in terms of art and all; a foil Lilo was my favorite card of the bunch, and here are some of the other cards I enjoyed seeing most out of my pulls. But hard for me to recommend the product at this price point for casual fans.
It hasn't been released in big stores yet (planned for Sept. 1st), so maybe whether they mean anything beyond rarer cards and foils will come in due time - but coming from the world of knowing Pokemon (usually $4-5 packs), Lorcana seems like it's pushing in a Magic the Gathering direction as a more premium gaming experience as it is. [I don't know that game's gameplay, so forgive me if it's an error in comparison].
Yeah $11 a booster is absolutely absurd and a part of me hopes that's the new release/pseudo pre-order timeframe premium or something considering some stores are still waiting for their product at all.
Only time will tell, but I kinda hope that's the case in retrospect. Even half the price feels like a proper retail value, and while I get demand is high as heck, it feels rude as a casual fan if I need to pay twice a retail price to check a release out.
But who really knows how popular the game itself will be nor how much Disney would produce once officially released. Coming from baseball cards, I know of the original "Junk Wax era" of the late 80s and 90s, where companies basically overprinted all sorts of wax packs of cards (sports, TV/movies, and other interests/properties among others) to high hell and back because demand was high at the time, but the demand can only be there so long. Wouldn't be surprised if we're near, if not already at, a second coming of "junk wax", especially with how many sports and Pokemon releases we've had in recent years, let alone how much of each main release is printed; I can only imagine how all the other card companies beyond the main few add to that, TCG or not.
I got two packs from a local shop of Disney's Lorcana tcg, and I dunno if this counts as a hot take: but it's another case of Disney being too hyped up.
It was $11 a pack, and not to say the cards aren't good quality in terms of art and all; a foil Lilo was my favorite card of the bunch, and here are some of the other cards I enjoyed seeing most out of my pulls. But hard for me to recommend the product at this price point for casual fans.
It hasn't been released in big stores yet (planned for Sept. 1st), so maybe whether they mean anything beyond rarer cards and foils will come in due time - but coming from the world of knowing Pokemon (usually $4-5 packs), Lorcana seems like it's pushing in a Magic the Gathering direction as a more premium gaming experience as it is. [I don't know that game's gameplay, so forgive me if it's an error in comparison].
One of my favorite Pokemon purchases from last week at a card shop that's like 10 minutes from me. I'm a fan of Eeveelutions, and I took French from 7th grade through high school, so it's great to have a cool card in a language I can at least understand the basics of (besides English of course).
I recognized the style as the secret rare and shiny vault pose, but even though Sylveon is my favorite Eeveelution, I cannot deny cuteness.
Go figure my first post intended for here I accidentally posted to my main blog, but now you know the parent blog of here (if you didn't see my blog description)
Hello all! Repurposed blog take two!
I wanted to make used of my 3rd blog spot (I know it's technically unlimited, but why keep an idea I'm gonna unuse anyway?)
But this is a blog I've been meaning to do for a while: sharing my love of trading cards! I know Pokemon and sports are a lot of the big attention anyway, but seem to be shared by those who either want to share only the biggest hits they have or cards/methods that'll get them the most profit. My ideal goal with this blog:
A lot of cool stuff in my collection, some cool stuff I'm sure I'll come across in the future. But hoping that I can embrace the fun. Sure, furry is just a part of me otherwise, but why not embrace it? May not be relevant, but they're cool beans, and it's cool to share with everyone.
