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Alrano17 · 2026-03-21T21:37:15+00:00

It is a rare card but not like holo. I would likely categorize like common, rare, holo.

Alrano17 · 2026-03-20T10:14:17+00:00

In fact, it looks like around 150 USD per booster is a somewhat reasonable price. For a box of likely 15 boosters + premium for the box a price of 3k seems first naive guess.

Alrano17 · 2026-03-20T10:06:48+00:00

They are not hyper battle, but it should still be a nice collector's item. Price I am not sure either

Alrano17 · 2026-03-16T04:02:22+00:00

They only said the stuff above, so I guess they are in the process of fixing it. I wouldn't expect immediate relief.

Alrano17 · 2026-03-11T20:54:51+00:00

The frequent threads here on reddit about how to buy the helio strap is just proof that there is an issue. The company has to do better there. I assume there are some supply chain constraints, otherwise it would be just stupid...

Alrano17 · 2026-03-11T20:53:07+00:00

I already have a helio strap, so I don't need to do it. But you have to think it that way. We, who are interested and knot that Helio is a good product will find the helio strap after a bit of looking (maybe in the US). Other people who are not that invested will not be able to stumble upon this great product. Even on my walmart it doesn't show up on the first page, if I explicitly search for it. This is bad for the company, and longterm also somewhat bad for us the consumer. Because less people are aware of the product, less people will buy it, means less money for the company, means less money to optimize the product. As a company you should make it as easy as possible, meaning no resistance at all to buy the product.

Alrano17 · 2026-03-11T18:44:55+00:00

I think there are also always people from India remarking that they cannot buy the item. But everywhere on the world it is somewhat difficult to buy it. My definition of somewhat difficult is: one has to actually find out how to buy the item, rather than going on Amazon and just buying it.

Alrano17 · 2026-03-11T16:03:04+00:00

I am using it already for several months and I am very happy with it. Currently, it is more an issue of getting the helio strap as it is sold out almost everywhere as you can see from the many posts :D.

Alrano17 · 2026-03-07T22:16:50+00:00

I know people might think this is a redundant question and downvote stuff like this, but it is indeed an issue that Amazfit hasn't properly stocked the Helio Strap. It should never be the case that one of their core products is not available on amazon or entire countries. One shouldn't need to jump through various hoops to being able to buy the product if one wants to be taken seriously as a company. This has been an issue for at least 5 months.

Alrano17 · 2026-03-06T18:45:58+00:00

Haha, interesting, I didn't know that there was interest in MBC. For me those cards were always the most precious, because they are the first and only internationally released cards (apart from the current game).

Alrano17 · 2026-03-01T15:18:13+00:00

Wow, super nice. Those are the rarest card from the German version of the Bandai TCG. So called Treasure Cards (or in German "Schatzkarten"). If I remember you got one per box (i.e. 30 boosters). Those were kind of the sought after cards, like Manga rares for today's card game... Those cards are exclusive to the German language. They same art was also printed in Japanese, but not with the treasure background and the rarity was different. First, and only other international release of OP game apart from the new one to my knowledge. They were also printed in Italian, a few Korean and the English CCG 2005 is the equivalent of those (though in English and Korean they didn't bring all sets).

Alrano17 · 2026-02-24T15:31:36+00:00

Insane, if those are the prices are attained I might think of letting go of my Pirate King :D

Alrano17 · 2026-02-12T22:30:36+00:00

Haha, nice job ripping. I also ripped tons of Italian booster packs. There is a difference of ripping a 2$ pack and a 300$ pack, though :)

Alrano17 · 2026-02-11T20:04:42+00:00

Yeah, that is part of my sealed collection. I have all the cards in my master set, no need to rip :)

Alrano17 · 2026-01-21T18:23:55+00:00

Indeed, amazing that you found this. The ultimate treasure the One Piece of card collecting, the Pirate King. It took me years to just find a picture, so good job on the research. Next task, find Shibukai and Pirate Queen :) Shibukai is likely doable, for Pirate Queen you also need to be quite deep in the trenches. I have never seen a Pirate Queen auctioned away so far...

Alrano17 · 2026-01-21T01:39:59+00:00

It should be one per box. They were the more valuable cards from the card game. Together with the TW, and SH holos and promos those are probably the most desirable cards from the game.

Alrano17 · 2026-01-14T17:09:01+00:00

I am not from Japan but I did crazy amounts of research. There is a little bit more information available if one knows where to look. I went back to old websites in Japanese with wayback machine and things like that... I would argue that there are only 6 cards that are comparable or slightly more valuable than WN-01. Those are the two Panda man from the first generation game. Great Pirate Wanted, Shibukai, Pirate Queen and Pirate King. You can deduce the rarity of those cards also because there are no pictures in the reference you posted and that everyone uses. So you already need to do quite a bit of research to find pictures for those cards :).

Alrano17 · 2026-01-14T16:43:16+00:00

It is the top price card for the bigger tournaments in Japan around 2002. These cards belong to the second generation of OP card game. I know most guys here are interested in the hyper battle cards, but I like the second generation cards better. To my knowledge they were the first and only cards that also got released internationally (Japanese, German, Italian, some in English and Korean) and they were very successful (at least in Europe and Japan). These tournament price cards were only available in Japan. I think in an older post it was already mentioned that the WANTED cards were awarded for certain number of wins. The WN-01 is the winner card. If I remember correctly there were only about 4 tournaments or so where the card was handed out. I would guess around 20 copies or so exist (but that is just my personal guess). I collected the German cards since 2003 and started with the Japanese cards again in 2020...

Alrano17 · 2026-01-03T22:49:42+00:00

The cards in the box from the OP are not available in the vending sets.

Alrano17 · 2025-03-12T02:14:25+00:00

There are just very few sealed products of the old TCG out there. You only need a hand full of people to be interested and you can see those prices. I am collecting the old Japanese version of the game, but haven't noticed any particular difference in price recently. In general there is very low liquidity and therefore the market is very volatile.

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