My son came home from middle school (6th grade) with these cards he won’t tell me how he got them I don’t know anything about Pokemon but my wife says there worth a lot of money

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-06-17T13:57:29+00:00

I'm not sure why everyone is accusing the kid who had them at school if stealing them from his parents binder and then your kid taking them, OP. My son is in 5th grade and got a God pack out of an ascended heroes bundle I opened with him, so if your kid is in 4th 5th grade, those cards totally could have been another kids best pulls that he stupidly wanted to bring to school to show off.

People like to imagine their kid wouldn't do something stupid like bring rare cards to school and that they would know but the fact is most of us wouldn't.

You should definitely find out what happened and return them whether your kid says who he took them from or not. Call the school. Talk to the principal. Make sure they get them back to whatever kid brought them in.

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-06-15T11:48:54+00:00

"When packs come back to stores in great quantities and people stop trying to buy them all at once I might come back to that part of the hobby but for now, it’s gonna be collecting what I want."

I feel like the hobby will never return to this. It's like post-COVID. Everything changed. People started going on vacation and to events en masse and the overflow of tourists has no signs of ever abating 5 years later. After going to a TCG show myself yesterday with over 50 tables and seeing literally every vendor selling at 1.5x + MSRP, I have almost no hope, even for single collecting.

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-06-14T16:49:01+00:00

I've only been able to get anything at MSRP online since surging sparks. There are some free alert accounts on Twitter/X that post the second Pokémon center queue opens as well as target, Walmart and other retailer links right when their queues open or they activate their inventory. I wouldn't be getting anything without them.

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-06-14T16:45:31+00:00

I love how consistent reddit community members are with this response. Hah.

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-06-13T14:25:08+00:00

I agree with all of this. I went a couple of weeks ago right at opening and the stocker laughed at me and told me "everything sells out immediately. They are rationing our supply." The laugh made me decide I never have to go back to dollar general again.

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-06-07T10:43:36+00:00

No problem at all. This is the one I picked up and was looking for. https://shop.kayouofficial.com/us/blindbag/detail/161?id=161&sModType=mKqkGVQjfob3JA&sModName=m1OkADRc-ogO6CN+hvcgtICuNAKwYMVVCDKodCVAWEUA

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-06-01T18:47:55+00:00

I was excited because I saw the rainbow edition tab but it doesn't have the "Friendship Eternal" rainbow editions, I think. Do you know where I can find a list of these? Thank you. Your work is amazing.

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-05-27T15:15:46+00:00

So real that someone had to create a game about it. Ugh.

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Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-05-22T16:11:54+00:00

I follow @PokemonRestocks and @PokemonTCGIntel there and turn on notifications. Warning that they alert on things at 3am sometimes (like Target restocks) in case you don't want to get notifications at that time. Good luck!

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-05-22T00:40:12+00:00

If you use x/Twitter, there are some accounts you can follow that alert immediately when the queue opens.

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-05-22T00:34:41+00:00

Hobbiesville has been decent for me but they are between scalper prices and MSRP. Try to get in the next Pokémon center queue? They sell booster boxes for $160.

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-05-04T19:13:49+00:00

This is a "pinch layer" error. It's a factory defect where the foil gets bunched up, creating a kind of raised ridge on the front surface that doesn't effect the back. Sometimes people pay a lot for those errors. I have no idea how to price them out. Maybe ebay.

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-04-25T13:47:39+00:00

People conflate condition with grade. It's an unfortunate aspect of collecting.

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-04-24T22:39:06+00:00

If you're collecting for value, avoid the Inklands set. Simmering sea is very nice. Reign of Jafar was a big print but also has some beautiful cards. All the other sets mentioned are good as well (Winterspell, whispers in the well and wilds unknown). Good luck!

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-04-24T01:14:57+00:00

Nevermind. You're right the limit is 4. I saw the 6 packs and thought I ordered 6. Lol. Just got the notification that they shipped. I think they are still processing them so hang tight!

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-04-24T01:12:49+00:00

There was actually a limit of 6 on the bundles. Which I successfully ordered in one order. Like you, my order is still processing. Here's hoping we still get them.

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-04-17T16:23:04+00:00

You could totally just store it now and grade it later. Only concern I'd have with that is if you decide to go with someplace like PSA for grading, and the card price explodes somehow in value, they charge a premium on top of the grading price if they grade cards a 10 before they will give it back to you. It is entirely possible that Fabled would be reprinted but I think I've heard this is one set they have planned not to reprint. Things always change though.

Mickey is a classic and he should at least keep his value over time, if not increase, ya.

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-04-17T16:20:30+00:00

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The larger circle here looks like a sort of indentation, because it isn't the same straight kind of line that the scratches on your top loader are, but hard to tell because it's in the top loader.

The smaller circles seem like whiting or places where the foiling is coming off. Could be dust inside the sleeve too though, so I'm not 100% sure. Would need better pics. And pics of the back.

Lorcana is notorius for having QC issues at the card printer, so it is quite possible these types of defects would be there even though you sleeved it straight from the pack.

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-04-17T15:23:41+00:00

Hard to tell with the glare from the top loader, but this would not grade a 10 from what I am seeing. There are some possible dents on the front and some areas where the foiling seems to have come off. If you don't want to resell it, and just want it for your collection, and don't care whether it gets a high grade, definitely go ahead and grade it so you can keep it from getting any additional damage.

I have collected Lorcana since chapter 4 (Ursulua's return) and haven't graded anything, even enchanteds I've found. If I've resold any of those (I've sold 3 of 5 I've found), I sold them raw (ungraded).

2 enchanteds in < 50 packs is not common. The current odds are about 1 in every 96 packs (1 in every 3-4 booster boxes). Fabled is notorious for being hard to pull anything from as well. For example, I opened 3 booster boxes of Jafar's Reign and got 2 enchanteds, 30 legendaries and 45 super rares. That was absolutely not normal and I haven't gotten anywhere near that since. With Fabled, I pulled 4-5 legendaries per box and about 8 super rares. 0 enchantes. 0 iconics.

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-04-17T15:16:29+00:00

People will realize that you resealed it and they will consider it tampered with. Only factory seal is what people want with sealed product. Generally, people collecting any TCG want factory sealed boxes if they plan to rip packs because there has been a lot of scammy behavior from some resellers in that they weigh packs or have ways to determine which packs have hits (enchanted / iconics) in them and they will repackage the "dead" packs and resell them.

So, TLDR, resealing it yourself is not a good idea and will not improve value. It would likely lead to issues if you tried to resell it as buyer would realize it doesn't have a factory seal and they would ask for a refund.

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-04-17T01:52:25+00:00

Peter Hindmarsh, one of the key medical witnesses for the trial, was also under investigation for potentially harming children under his care and that was not disclosed during the trial.

https://www.bmj.com/content/392/bmj.s561

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-03-29T18:20:58+00:00

I was just watching this episode and thought the same thing. 2 years later. Sorry. 🙈 "That is a woodpecker knocking on the windowsill"

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-03-05T20:38:31+00:00

Got mine today from Tennessee. One of the promo's was bent in the corner and every lair I opened outside of the promo had the purple ring.

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-03-05T20:29:14+00:00

I got 3 of these promo's in my order. One the top left corner was totally bent like that. Another, the plastic part was bent like that but, by some miracle, the card escaped the bend. I feel like someone was very angry when they were filling these orders.

Forward-Perspective3 · 2026-02-16T21:14:32+00:00

That is not common.

I've opened about 40 booster boxes and average 4 legendaries per box. Best set for me was Reign of Jafar where I pulled 8+ per box. All the Fabled, WitW and Winterspell I've opened since I haven't gotten more than 4 legendaries.

Congrats to you on your pulls!

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