The Original Pokémon Trading Card Series Is Returning As A "Premium" Set

I’m the target market for this. I regret selling my originals and wish I still had them. I also don’t play the game at all.

Honestly will likely buy a few packs and see what I get. There’s nothing like that fresh pack of Pokémon cards smell 👃

@ChromaticDracula Same. In addition I like the old design more. I think I will get a box and play with my son

Look like this will cost £200. This is similar to what Hasbroken did with Magic the Gathering last year. One of several mistakes that nearly broke the company.

Looks like it's just three preconstructed decks that are sold in premium packaging

Man I bet the rapper logic felt pretty dumb for buying that Charizard.

This was the only thing in the entire presentation that was remotely interesting. I like the idea of having a simplified, pre-built set designed purely for playing. But I don't exactly want an OTT premium package, which is sadly what this looks like.

@riChchestM I got the same prediction. Pokemon sure loves the premium markup on the cards.

Seeing those OG cards takes me back to when I'd go to Pendragon (games and hobby store) and spend my Fridays and Saturdays, playing the trading card game against other Pokemon fans.

I saved all my holographic and hid them in my dads attic when I was 14. I remembered where they were years later around 30. And had my dad look for them and send them to me. It was like seeing old friends, seeing my Charizard card again was a great feeling.

Will this reduce the value of the original original cards?

I have the original 151 cards except trainer cards, I have them all, even most promo cards from the movies.

If it comes with a full set of the original run of cards, I'd be pretty tempted. I never really got into the TCG besides collecting a few cards, though, so if I did buy it, it would just end up sitting on a shelf.

@Nickinator No. Basically nobody plays with the old cards anymore, so they're just collector's items. And for the very few people who do play retro card formats, Charizard isn't even a viable card; only Blastoise is competitive in the Base-Fossil sets.

I may have my originals. But I may double dip in the future for Nostalgia sake.

Honestly I really like the damage markers in this set.

Still have mine. Went up to Fossil/Jungle set and got a few Dark/Rocket kinds too. I really enjoyed the game, but almost nobody I knew actually played back in the day just collected if anything. I even won a few of the badges in the first trading card tournaments! God know how I persuaded my Mum to take me to Brighton to compete, but she agreed and made it a whole day out for the family. So, the original set is special to me. I like to get the folder out and look at the lovely artwork from time to time. Weirdly, kind of like a photo album to me. Each one brings back memories of people and places.

@Nickinator I don't think so. These new ones will have something on them that distinguishes them from the older cards.

If there’s a set that contains the entire base series without having to rely on blind packs, then I could be tempted. Even better if there are enough cards in the set for building virtually any deck that we like with those classic cards.

I’d love them to go all the way through to the Gen II cards, which I also loved, but I don’t have a single one in my collection, apart from a couple of promos from the VHSes (and I seem to remember getting a promo Misdreavus from an Australian kids magazine back in the day).

@Thedude3445 : Spamming Venomoth and Nidoking in the GBC games (and Dark Arbok in the Japan-only sequel) were my go-to ‘mons. I was easily able to cream most NPCs in my first attempt with that strategy.

The classic Charizard card is “cool” and all, but I think it’s grossly overrated mainly due to it having the highest base damage output (plus the art is among the best in the base set).

What is on these new classic cards that distinguishes them from the originals?

@Uncle_Franklin A different back, which makes them novelty items only. You cannot use these with other cards at all. You might as well use fake cards or proxies.

@riChchestM

hmm. not sure then who this satiates really.

@BlueBCA Agreed, it would be nice to have a simple way to just play the game with people without everyone needing to build a deck, but there's no way I'd pay £200 for it if that really is how much it costs. I guess theme decks are still the best thing for that purpose.

@riChchestM Well at least it's not $1000 USD for the MTG 30th anniversary rip-off like last year, lol

I know they'll likely fly off store shelves when they inevitably drop, but I confess to being slightly interested. Enough that if the price was right, I'd buy a set for playing with friends and family.

But if the price ends up to be ridiculous (which I fully expect) or the scalpers beat me to the punch (which I also fully expect), I'll just stick to the GBC games.

I'm seeing 35,000 yen reported for this, so I'd expect to see around $300-$350 in the US for this.

I'm interested but not at their "premium" price, why not do some reprints in their Fossil or Jungle set instead. They've already re-released Base set before.

I find it funny they're making these cards, yellow border and all, for nostalgia sake, yet they are getting rid of it in the upcoming expansions.

@riChchestM You can use them with each other, which is the intent. The original cards have absolutely no change of winning against the newer cards anyways so if they have different backs, you can use them again against an opponent with the same classic reprinted cards.

@Uncle_Franklin My teen daughter who collects the cards because she loves Pokemon but doesn't play the cards. She has a binder full but this OG ones are too pricey so I will help her nab this set for sure.

@Shredderlovespizza

cool beans.

Finally Charizard will be mine

Didn't they do this like... 7 years ago?

Tcg games these days have become a game made for the deaf. Not a single word was spoken. At least Yu-Gi-Oh annouces their moves play by play.

@Gravitron holy moly. You are probly sitting on a mint fortune.

@BenRK yup that’s exactly what I was thinking of. It’s even dumber because that was a whole expansion and not just one premium set.

@burgerkingsauce I think I still have my collector box and most of the set too.

I don't even really play P:TCG anymore, but if it comes with that case, playing field, counters, and roulette marble spin for heads/tails like shown in the video...? I'll be on this day one! That just looks too sweet to pass up.

I bought tons of Poke'mon cards back in the day. My brother barely bought any cards at all and got a Charizard card and I was so jealous. He finally sold it for $230.00 several months ago on eBay. I must have one!

@Travisemo007 It's not that impressive but definitely worth a couple thousand. I don't think I'll ever have the heart to sell them though.

@riChchestM Ever since Hasbro has bought up WotC everything has gone down the gutter.

They nearly destroyed MTG overnight with the 30th Aniversary rip-off last year and recently nearly destroyed the entire DnD franchise overnight with the leak of OGL 1.1, which literally nearly broke the internet and Hasbro / WotC had to finally back pedal on it and reverse these insane plans, before it was too late (if it isn't already, as people's trust is gone and they just expect them to change course and push it through anyway in the near future).

If Bank of America's warning last year wasn't enough with the MTG controversy, now after the DnD OGL 1.1 debacle, Bank of America has classified Wizards of the Coast as unacceptable risk to investors lol.
WotC is going to be pretty much toast, if they don't take some drastic action and fire that nutjob CEO at Hasbro or even better, break from Hasbro altogether.

This is fantastic. I will probably buy a set

@BenRK They have actually done several reprint sets that feature a bunch of old cards, including one just two years ago. This might be the first one to feature all of Base Jungle Fossil sets though, since 2002's reprint of almost all of them.

@Gravitron heyyy that's allot of money to me lol. Like another car XD. THO I whole heartedly agree, I can't part with mine either, too much sentimental value. Really wouldve been better off coming up with your idea of attic storage tho. My sister stole all my holos, dumped them out of their sleeves and put abunch of stuff on top of them and damaged alot. Tore me up 😭 I got most of them back tho. But their value is almost priceless now thx to her greediness. At the time they would've been 6 years mint (or near mint for ones that were trades)in sleeves. As of today they wouldve been 22 years in valuable conditions if the incident didn't happen.

@Travisemo007 Yes thankfully I hid them from myself throughout all of high school and most of my 20s when I would've sold them like a doofus. It's surely the only thing I've managed to keep since 1996. Luckily I never knew how to actually play the game so they are in fairly good condition and now are all sleeved up. If I do ever sell them I'll probably keep Clefable because that was my first holo. Sorry yours got screwed up.

@Gravitron yeah, I'm sorry too 😩🙃😭lol. I only collected them mostly. At least the Holo foils always went straight to sleeves. Alakazam was my first out of my first booster too!. I was nieve tho around 8. Traded it to some older kid at daycare for a Holo Machamp he said was more rare. He lied lol. Charizard was my 2nd. I've kept that seperate from them all hidden seperatley too, mint as day 1. Sadly not first edition or anything.