EP 6: Yearly collection tour review

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Theo and Judah tour their collections - This will done once per year at the end of the school year.

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Rocket Returns. As a podcast! Welcome to today's episode. This is a great one that we really hope you enjoy. Once a year, towards the end of the school year, we're gonna drop an episode about our collections. We're gonna tour our collections, talk about our favorite cards, things we bought, things we sold, and memories we made. We're gonna start it off with my collection, then transition over to Judah's and end it off with some thoughts. We really hope that you enjoy this episode. Okay, let's get started with my collection. So my collection is divided up into two main parts. I have the briefcase, not a normal place to store Pokemon cards, and I have a binder. Hey, that's a pretty normal place to store Pokemon. Except the binder can hold, let's say your binder holds 360 cards. I'd say that's about average. Um, my binder can hold almost 10 times that. It's a massive binder. So we'll go on to that after this. So my briefcase used to be the pride and joy of my collection. It had all my good cards, and it's where I stored everything. But I slowly started moving stuff away from it and into the binder. So right now there's not a lot. My binders or my briefcase is divided up into six parts. So I actually keep most of my energies in the first part. It's um, I don't really care about energies. They're not my favorite, but I do like to keep one of every type of energy because I do think that some of them look pretty cool. But that's not really the main part of my collection. And there were some actually pretty good energies, some fairy energies that I had, but I transitioned those onto my binder. Like my- Yeah, you'll begin to see that the briefcase was for stuff that just random cards. The binder is for cards with purpose. Yeah. So the next section is literally just bulk. Um, uh, I have a weird habit of top loading and sleeving all my bulk, and I don't know why I do it. I just started doing it and I've never been able to stop. So I don't know why I have that, but I do have a ton of that. The this the third section of my binder is also, you guessed it, bulk. It's just a bunch of random, fun little bulk. And and some of the cards are actually pretty cool, but nothing expensive. Yeah. Like, I fought like there's just one Pikachu, Raichu, oh, Judah, how do you pronounce that? Oh, uh, Toj Tojamari. Tojamari, I can never pronounce that. I just got um oh, I was about to say I just got one of those graded, but no, I didn't. Yeah, it's really cool. And um, and I love all the cameo cards. Judah, have you seen that new like thing that just happened with the Eevee from Evolving Skies? I actually have a copy of it, and it went from 20 cents to like 73 just because there was a little Rayquaza in the background, and that made it, um, and that made it way more expensive. The reverse holo was way better though. It went from like maybe a buck to $15. All just because it had that little um it it had a Rayquaza in the background, which is really cool. Either people love their Rayquazas, or they love their Eevees, or they love both of them on the same card. Can't tell. The next section is my trainer bulk. Now, most of these are really, really bad. There are some there are some great looking cards. In fact, I love some of the bulk. Like, I guess this isn't considered bulk, but Judah, have you seen any of the Pokemon fan club cards? No. Oh, if you're listening to this, after you stop, go and look at tons of the Pokemon fan club cards. Some of them are actually pretty expensive, and they're all then they all have amazing artwork. The only good card I have in my trainer thing is a Grimsley's is a Grimsley's Move. Grimsley's Move. Grimsley's Move, which I pulled from a Phantasmal ETB. Um, but it's just an ultra rare. Next, in the second to last section of my binder, I have sports cards. Why do I have sports cards? Because my dad used to have them and um and he gave them to me so we could transport them to my local card shop and see if they were worth anything. They weren't worth much, maybe a hundred dollars in total. He had plenty of actually pretty expensive cards, but they're all in such bad condition that it doesn't really matter. But that provokes an interesting thought. If I know that some of my cards are really expensive now and I keep them in and I keep them very well protected, what are they gonna be worth when I'm 50 years old? 900 billion dollars. Yeah, I'm gonna- Every single one of your bulk is gonna be a billion dollars each. Sure. And your binder will be like 20 cents. And then your box will just be like insane. So I also in that um, but what I mainly store in there is just protection. I have card sleeves, top loaders, even some magnetic cases that I just use if I find cards that need them. And I think that if you're if you're going around to card shows or even just shops, bring card protection in case you pull something or you've or you um buy a card that you don't think is protected enough. You never know if someone may give you like a free card or something. It's always better to have a protected. Yeah. Even if it's like 20 cents. Actually, no. Even if it's like only like $2. Only. $2 cards are still pretty good. Yes, they are pretty good. Out of $10 packs. Okay, that's fair. Um, in my final section, I have more sports cards. These are the ones that can't fit in the binder. I am not a sport, I didn't know nothing about sports cards, but I'm pretty sure these guys are tall are called tall boys or something. Tall boys. Tall boys. I don't know. I I don't care about it. Boys named tall cards. I don't care for sports cards. I think that they're interesting, but they're not the greatest invent but they're not the greatest investment. They do seem like fun though. Pikachu never tears ACL. Yep. So, in there I also have the dice set from the um from the phantasmal UP um, not UPC, I wish I is there no, there's no phantasmal. Yeah, there is there is there's a Charizard UPC. But that is a mainly Phantasmal Uh, I guess. Many UPCs don't have only one set. The 151 UPC. I'm saying, no. Well, obviously the 151 UPC, the prismatic UPC. Um, but I think the Team Moltres UPC may have other stuff than just Destiny Rivals. Well, I guess, but some other sets have been. Okay, yes, it is mainly just a Charizard UPC, but it's it's got some phantasmal. I think that Charizard is probably one of the best Charizards of Mega Evolution. I think it is the best, but there are some pretty other there's some pretty cool other ones. So in ha so I just have the dice set. I never learned how to play the game, but I'm interested, and I might learn it later. The final stack is my stack of good cards. Now, when you hear the stack of good cards, you might think, oh my god, these cards are great. I don't think there's a single card over a dollar. And that's just because I transitioned over to my I transitioned most of my good cards over into my binder. Like, in my stack I have a Rotom V, uh Ninetales. Uh I really like the art on this Ninetales. It's the one from Mega Evolution. It is not full art, but it is super pretty and one of my favorite non-secret rares. Also, do you think Ninetales is Ninetales or Nintales? Because I've heard it both ways. It's definitely Ninetales. I mean, yeah, but I've heard it's Nintales. Well, if you look at the spelling, it's uh it's spelled like almost like nine. Not that's not I spell nine, but it's almost like nine, and then tails. Oh dang, I'm looking at that wrong. So it's yeah, so it's literally spelled nine tails. I know, but nin tails. But I guess you could English is weird. English is weird. Then there's a ton of twenty-fifth anniversary stuff. I think that's about the time I got into Pokemon approximately, so I have a ton of stuff from there. Like, from that I have a Xernez, is that how it's A Zerneas. A Xerneas. You're you're way better at pronouncing Pokemon than me. A Cosmog, a Zekrom, and uh Ho-O. Um, there's also I applaud that. Thank you. There's also a Mega Mantrike EX that I pulled from Mega, along with the Mega Obama Snow EX. I think that everyone has pulled this Mega Obama Snow EX. I haven't. I have no- But I have pulled that Mega Mantrike. I see it like everywhere. It's so weird, it's like a 50 cent card. There's also a Kyroger. Kyogre. Kyogre. I'm getting better. Um V, and it's a it's an okay card. It's just a regular V. I also have a Chansey that I love. It's the one from 151. I have duplicates of it. And it's also one of my top three non-secret rares ever. I also have a Magikarna V that I love. Um it's just a regular Magneria. Magneria, jeez. Magikarna. A N Zorok EX from Journey Together that I pulled. I've actually had some pretty good luck with Journey Together. I've pulled like a few, um, I've pulled so many IRs out of it, and I haven't opened that many packs. Then I also have the Gengar from 151, which is inflated to the moon. It's just a $2 normal holo foil. And the um and the reverse holo is $9. Well, it's a little bit under. And it's gotta keep going up. It's a normal Gengar. Fun fact, in Japanese 151, the uh the Master Ball Gengar is more expensive than the Charizard. It's $300, $320, or $380. No, it went up to um $90 to $396. What? And it's literally a normal card, Master Ball. And the Charizard is $394. Which is ridiculous! It it there's no way it's just like sustainable to have a crazy card like that. Um just like Master Balls aren't even that terribly hard to pull. Like, they're they're hard to pull, it's not easy, but they're not $300 card or $400 card hard to pull. So it's time to move on to the binder. Ma this binder is massive. It's a six by six, and so that means it holds 36 cards per page, and I forget the exact amount of pages it has, but I know that it holds approximately 2,500 cards, give or take a few. Which is ridiculous for a binder. It weighs so much, and it's um, and it's almost half of my size, which isn't actually saying that much, I'm pretty small. But um, on the very first page when you open up my binder, I it starts with my Pokedex. My Pokedex, um, well, if you if you're unfamiliar with what a Pokedex is, I'm trying to get one card of every singular Pokemon. It's more of a side project for my bulk, but it really helps me appreciate the um Pokemon that I wouldn't normally appreciate as much. And I've and um it's but it's not the biggest project, and it's by no means the Pride and Joint of my collection. Like, on my first page, I'm missing one, two, three, four, I'm missing five cards. But only a few, but um, but that doesn't mean that all the cards are good. This is also the place where he puts his non-151 expensive cards. So, uh if you flip to a random page, you can find EX's, you can find um a uh you could he has a uh a limited um base set war turtle. Mm-hmm. Um it's not bad cards. It's literally he finds a card. This war turtle is the definition of a binder view card. Oh wow. Yeah. If if you guys can't see it, which you probably can't, unless you have security cameras in our house. Yeah. Um, it's like looks fine from the front, but when you look at the whitening on the corner. It's terrible. It's like destroyed. But then I'll just point out the hits from every page. So, on the page one, I got a Mega Venusaur, a Charizard worth six bucks, a B drill. If you watched the last episode, you know where that B drill comes from, but I'm not gonna spoil it, cuz You gotta watch it. Yep. Especially you Poke um. Uh no, no, no, no, no. We are not spoiling that. Comment B drill on the video, and that way you'll get the secret joke. So there's also a Team Rockets Nidto King, which I feel like is another card that everyone pulls. There's also a 25th anniversary Pikachu, which sounds like, oh, that's a pretty good like $40 card, but it's scribbled on and it's in bad condition. On the second page, I have a Team Rockets Persian EX and a Japanese 151 polyworld. It's um, but because Japanese boxes, the anti-gambling laws of Japan make it so kids can't gamble. There has to be, but in America, it's just random chance, but in Jap but in Japan there has to be certain hits. So every card is way less expensive in Japanese, and that's why. Because you're guaranteed a hit in almost every package. Well, not every pack. You're guaranteed like three or four hits a box. I think an SIR a box or something. Yeah, I think it's an SIR box. Anyway, there's also a Mega G-three-I think it's three IRs or one SIR a box. There's also a Mega Gengar EX that um that I pulled from Phantasmal, which is another card that I feel like everyone's pulled. But this is like the one card that usually when you get the evolutionary line of a Pokemon from one set, it looks all nice and the artwork kind of connects. But the Ghastly is more of like a cartoon drawn, the Haunter is more of like a like a low poly render, and the Mega Gengar is just an EX. So I don't really like this that much. It's not as good. So, um, on the second page I have a Tops Chansey worth a couple bucks. It's technically not a Pokemon card, but I'll count it. Then there's also a Eevee promo, which I love so much, it's so cute, and um and a and a Gyarados GX promo. But after there's a couple celebrations cards and a Dragonair and Dragonite from um Base and Fossil. The Dragonair is worth $15 and the Dragonite's worth 20 for 23, I think. Um, but after that, there's not much. There's a Wabafett V worth a couple bucks, and uh Mega Hair to Cross, um Gen 3, there's a Dustrox IR worth a couple bucks, and a $13 Wailord IR that I pulled from Journey Together, along with a Mega Camera Upt, which we pulled in an episode soon to come. Um there's also a Keldon that someone gave me in the card show that I went to at the previous episode. Again, you should watch that, and a melodic EX. There's also the Kyogre and Groudon from Celebrations, which is kind of like the non-Fill art version of the Double Crisis ones. Then there's uh Miss Magis EX. I cannot pronounce that Pokemon. And a Mamoswine EX. It's uh pretty it's well as you can see, there's not very many crazy things in my binder, but in it's mostly just bulk. Skipping a couple pages, there's um there's uh Keldo V and a Pangiro Love Ball from Ascended Heroes. Then there's a Mega Zygarde EX from Perfect Order, how could how'd you guess? And an Oracle from Phantasmal, along with the Volcanion EX. Right now we're in Gen 7 for perspective. On the next page I have my my third and final um not favorite non-secret rare, which is the Phantasmal Mimikyu, along with the along with a B-word GX, which is one of my first cards ever. On the next page, I have the Hops Woo from Journey Together, which I love, and the Toxtricity from Phantasmal, that I also love. Then on the next page, there's uh Penurchini EX and a Dreepy IR from Ascended Heroes. There's also a Rapid Strike Urshifu V, that is one of my that is one of my first cards ever, along with the B-Ware. It was probably my most powerful card a long time ago. Then there's the Chardette promo from Char Cadet. Char Cadet promo from the Phantasmal ETB. And the Sedluge ES. Sorolage, wow, you're so good at this. From Surging Sparks. There's also the Claw. Cloth? Claw from Scarlet Violet. And a um and a palafin from Paldea Vol. Yeah, maybe Paldea. I don't know what that's from. Then getting on to the final page, even the bulk goes thin. There's uh Koridon EX, and that's pretty much it, ending off the Pokedex. There are a couple empty pages just in just for when Pokemon releases new expansions. But then we get on to the biggest and bestest bestest part of my binder. If you don't know what it is and you haven't been listening well enough, it's the 151 Master Set. On the first page, of course, there's the Venusaur Charizard Blastoise, worth actually a few bucks. The Charizards, I believe, is the second most expensive, or maybe the first expensive, regular EX. The Mew's really expensive. Then as you flip through the pages, it's pretty full of bulk. But I'm missing a lot of um reverse hollows. But it's but there's still a pretty good amount of cards. But I'm sure that's not what you came for. You came for the secret rares. On um I have two pages of secret rares, but one of them has pretty much nothing. Well, only what? Only seven cards from the secret rares. On that page, I'm missing the Bulbasaur, Ivysaur, and Squirtle illustration rares, but I have the Charmander, Charmelea, More Turtle, and Caterpie IRs. If you can't tell, this is the most expensive part of my binder. On the second page, in my best page, I am missing the Psyduck and Manchoke IR, and I need the Charizard, Wigglytuff, Alakazam, Mew, and Daisy's help ultra rares, but I do not need any of the SIRs or gold cards. I have the Pikachu, Nidoking, Polyworld, Tangalia, Mr. Mime, Omanti, Dragonair, and Dragonair IRs, and the Venusaur Blastoise, Arbok, Ninetales, Golem, Gank, Kangas, Khan, Jinx, Zaptos, Bill's Transfer, and Erica's Invitation, along with the Giovanni's Charisma Ultra Rares. Out of the SIRs, I have the Venusaur, the Charizard, the Blastoise, the Alakazam, the Zapdos, the Giovanni's Charisma, and the Erica's Invitation. Uh, you'll know that I just got that Erica's invitation from the card show in the last episode. Finally, I have the Mew, Switch, and Basic Psychic Energy from the Gold Cards, and just uh and just a 151 code card for fun. On the next page, I have another amazing project that I love. My drum roll, please. Fairy Energy Master Set. This is um a master set that I thought I had completed a long time ago, but it turns out that I'm missing a couple cards. But at the card show, which you should really watch that episode, I picked up one of them. I have the most expensive one is a Burning Shadows one. Shout out Deep Pocket Monster. Um, for worth about $80 right now. But none of the other ones are that expensive, but I know that they're definitely gonna go up. On the next page, I have my coins. I don't think I have anything super notable. I have the Charizard coin from the Phantasmal ETB. I have the Pokemon 30th Anniversary coin, which is which you'll also see in an episode upcoming. And on the next page, I have a really fun thing. This is where I keep my collection of ETB card sleeves. Now, I really love the art on these things, but none of them are really worth much. But that's not why I collect them. I usually just carry around a um a bunch of extra sleeves that I already have, and I trade them out with kids for new ones. I have so many amazing ones, and I have sets like Generations, Evolving Skies, and even legendary treasures um just in the ETB sleeve form. And it's really fun to have a little piece of history from all these sets that I wouldn't be able to get my hands on otherwise. And the final page of my binder isn't really that crazy. I have some code cards. I just started this collection about a week ago, so there's pretty much nothing in there. I have Paldea Evolved, Perfect Order, Mega Evolution, Surging Sparks, and Twilight Masquerade. Oh darn, if I had just sold all my code cards, I could pretty much fuel that entire collection. Eh, it's not one of my biggest collections. Notable uh mentions in my binder include my collection of Injustice. Cards, which I um which I kind of collect, but I don't like buy them. I just played the arcade game when I've had the chance. And my dad's old football cards, football, baseball, and baseball cards and stickers, which again we use my mega binder to transport them to the card shop. Well, that's my collection. Um as of this morning, its market price was approximately, keep in mind this is just an estimate, and some cards are damaged, $2,324.17. Which I think is amazing, and it's one of my favorite things. To stay updated on my collection, check out the link in my description. Now we're gonna move on to my collection. I can't wait to see what you have. So here it is. First, I'm gonna start out with my non-Pokemon stuff. So I um check out last video to see what where I got it, but I have this cool little Gengar, uh, 3D printed Gengar, which is my signing Gengar. So I have signatures from Beard Dad. I have signatures from um Pokebeard, I have signatures from a cute little kid who was um who was in line with me to see um Beard Dad. And then we also have the signature of a really nice vendor who's interested in the podcast, and we really hope you're listening to this right now. Yeah, shout out to you. You know who you are. Yeah, but you don't know me. Maha ha ha. Okay. Another cool thing that I have that's not really expensive is I have this um deck box. Um, it's a steel deck box. It's pretty normal, except for I got it in France. So it's all French. Mm-hmm. Cool. Um, okay, so and um I have one more non-Pokemon thing, and that is this um, you saw the inj- or you heard about the injustice cards that Theo had. Well, I have one, it's a Scorpion, it's $150. Yeah, it's an excellent card. It's a game, like a card that you get from a game. Yeah. It's $150. Um Theo is silently cursing me for my excellent luck. And he would be wrong. It's not the excellent luck, it's the fact that you spent $800,000 and you're bound to pull something. So next are my you know, when you open um ETBs, you get um the um you get like the promo. My tip for you, for all you collectors out there, never open it. There's a a case with the promo inside. Keep the promo inside the case. It's I know it's gonna look good in your binder, but it's always more expensive sealed. So I have the Alakazam from um Phantasmal Flames. Or sorry, Mega Evolution. Mega Evolution. Mega Evolution. I have the Snorlax from um 151. And I think I have it and Zekrom, which I think is also from Mega Evolution. It has the Mega Evolution promo like station on it. I don't know. I think it's from Phantasmal. No, Phantasmal's the Charet Charlat. Char Cadet. Char Cadet. What is it from, actually? It's some it's one of the Mega Evolution set. Oh, oh, it's from Ascended Heroes. Ah. Okay. So those were those are my mementos from the boxes that I opened. And next is um next are my cards that aren't in a or no. Next is going to be my seal, or not my sealed. Not your sealed. My trade binder. These are all cards that I don't really care about. A lot of them are 290, but there are a few expensive ones. So the Gaia Como, the Blanks Pikachu. It's uh the 25th anniversary. It doesn't have writing on it, so it's pretty good, but it's in bad condition. Kingler V Max, the Charmander promo, which is a really good one from OBF. Um, the Shadow Rider Calyrax V, Deralodon V-Max, uh Palafin, um, a bunch of normal stuff. Nothing that too interesting. I'm going to point out the ones that I think are interesting. So the Noivern Break from uh Breakthrough. Break should be more expensive, in my opinion. They're pretty cool. Um, the uh pill-up from I think it's an EX set. Or no, it's Diamond and Pearl. It's a Diamond and Pearl set. And then Espion V Full Art that I pulled from um uh what's it called? From Evolving Skies. Next is a Dark Haunter from a Neo set, uh, but it's unlimited. So darn, darn tootin'. Um, hmm. There's one that I really like on this page, which is the Spirit Tomb um Trainer Gallery. It shows a Spirit tomb following this little Japanese girl in a kimono. It's really, really cool. And the Japanese girl, I can't tell if she's being attacked or if she like owns it. And then a dudo from uh Base Set 2. Keep in mind, I have a lot more cards besides these. These are just the ones that are noticeable. Next, I have a Cafe Master, which is nothing too interesting about it, except for that it's a misprint. It's Crypt on the top, crimped. And then a de and a Diolka Level X promo from Diamond and Pearl, which is one of the best cards in here. Um and two Raquaza EXs from uh I think they're from XY. Um, next I have the first edition Jungle Jigglypuff, which is such a cute card. One of my favorites. Um, and some uh fairy energies that do you need any of these? Let me check. Um let's see. No, the ones that I still need are from the Wigglytuff trainer kit, and though that one's from Generations, and those are from Sun and Moon. Ah, okay. But thanks for offering. Well, next is a wimple or worp wormple from um, it's from one of the early EX sets, because it still has the barcode at the bottom. Well the E-card sets. No, it's from an EX set. Oh, it is. Because none of those symbols are Expedition, Sky Ridge, or Aquapolis. That's cool. I didn't know that they had this. Yeah, the first few sets I think use those. Um anyway, and I have the Flying Pikachu V and Surfing Pikachu-Vee, both 25th anniversary. Um, next I have hmm I have a Burger King um plat I have a plat a card that came out with platinum, the Glacion with a platinum stamp. It's actually just a Burger King promo. And a surpl um slurpuff that I pulled from uh Sended Heroes. That's a video that's coming out soon, or an episode. Yeah. Um and next, on this next page, I have the normal surfing Pikachu from Evolutions and a NATO uh reverse holofoil from Dragon Frontiers. Wow. And then I have a Starpator from Diamond and Pearl base set, which is $20. Um, and I have the Gengar Hollow and Gengar Reverse Hollow Master Set of the two Genghars from 151. So $2 and $8. Wow. Pretty good cards. Um next I have the Abra from Base Set 2. Um keep in mind, there are there are definitely more cards in here. I'm just pointing out the ones that I like. Um there aren't very many on this page, but I guess my collection of shinies. Baby shinies. Yeah, baby shinies. Actually, oh yeah, except for the Bisharp. Um, and then there's some pocket, there's a pocket monster of the Jigglypuff. Oh, that's awesome. And then a Melmetal EX that's in um French. Nice. So I'm gonna, and then the next page, there's a Venusaur level 51, which is a $20 card. Wow. And then my Pokemon Go. And then here are my energies. They're all, none of them are like um basic energies. These are all rare energies from sets 2011, 2005, 2007. Um, they're all pretty normal except for I3 from base set German. Wow. The energy is spelled E-N-E-R-G-I-E. So they're German base set, which I never knew existed. And then I have one energy from um one of the gym trainers sets. Nice. So that's all that I have in my um in my um trade binder. Now let's move on to my more expensive cards. My slabs. The first two aren't actual slabs, but they're in a slab-like case. It's the Dark Doug Trio first edition from Team Rocket, which, if you don't know, is one of my favorite sets. I love anything Team Rocket, although I didn't really like Dustin Ribus very much. Um, I think that's I think it's just overpriced. Yeah, I think it was better when it was like actually not super expensive. Like a $500 booster box from a pretty new set, it's a bit much. It's an awesome set, not worth the price. And then I have a Charizard pre-release from Vivid Voltage. So it's the uh the stamped Charizard. Next, I have a few um Japanese um Beckett graded, a 9.5 um Flapple SCR, which is what they call in Japanese, from V Max Climax, um, a 9.5 Gem Mint um Sword and Shield Um Rock Ruff CHR from VMAX Climax, and a Gem Mint 9 um iridescent Arcana Japanese Magneria V. Just a normal V. My next cards are the pride and joy of my slab collection. I don't really have a lot, are the Charizard V Max from the Shiny Vault of Shining Fates at a 9.5. It is a beautiful card. That's like probably I don't think anyone knows what set it's from, but if I showed that to pretty much anyone, they'd be like, oh yeah, that's Pokemon. Um, and this card I sent in to get slab with PSA took five months. I just sent out another one at the card show. Check out that episode. Is my Hissamin Gravelith from Twilight Masquerade, PSA 10. I got it, it's it's a $20 card normal, $200 card PSA 10. And I got it because I have the parent that goes with it, the $170 paron that goes with it. And then last, I don't want to say but not least, I think it's one of the third, it's my third best, is just a normal um CGC Kingdra from EX Team Rocket Returns at a near mint plus 7.5. Now, you may be thinking, why on earth would you have a 7.5 card from some random EX set? And that is because I have decided I'm going to try to master EX Team Rocket Returns. This set is the set of the Torchic Gold Star. The set of the Trico Gold Star. I'm probably not gonna make it very far, but at that card shop, they actually had a lot. So I got this $33 um Team Rocket Returns Drowsy, a Ratata, and a Sand True. I got the Sand True for $18. It's a $50 card. Wow. And then I got a normal Team Rocket Swabi Fett non-hollow. I also fett is one of my favorite Pokemon, so it's um, so it's great to see it so old. And um, and it's and honestly, it's such a funny Pokemon, and it's so and it's so fun to see some mixed in with other cards in a binder. Yep, and it's a Team Rocket classic. Yep. Um, next I have a um Topps card um from an Eye of a Sore from Topps, two out of twelve, and it has crypt sides. Um and then next I have a Gengar from it's a Gengar Trainer Gallery that it's a $60 card. Pretty sure it's gonna go up. Got for $55. Really great deal. Yeah. Um, next is the Charizard EX from 151. Both me and Theo have this card, just proving that this super expensive card literally everyone has. And it's so hard to sell and it's so easy to buy. I wouldn't say it's easy to buy. Everyone has one. Yeah, that's true. Next is my Dark First Edition Dark Blast Joyce from Team Rocket. And then my Dark Gyarados, first edition from Team Rocket, then my first edition non-holo Lapras from Fossil, and then a Psyduck from Team Rocket Returns. In a reverse holofoil would have been $220, but it's not. It's fine. And then I have a Dark Vaporeon first edition non-holo from Team Rocket, a Dark War Turtle first edition from Team Rocket, a Vaporeon Non-Hollow Unlimited from Fossil, and um an alapros holo from Fossil. Next, moving on to my electric types. If you haven't noticed, so far most of them have gone in type order, with an exception of the Team Rocket Returns cards. First, I have my Jolteon Non-Hollow Unlimited from um Jungle, then a first edition Pikachu from Jungle, Red Cheeks, um, and next, um, a Mega Manatrick, EX, and a Heliosk. Next, I have the second most pride and joy of my collection. Um is first my Koro Koro Comics Mew um promo. I don't know if it's a promo, but it's from the original Pocket Monster came out in 1996. It is the best card in my collection. Next, I have my Mew. Um, my Ancient Mew came out in 2000, year 2000. Um, next uh Chimchio, Screamtail, and Iron Valiant. Nothing that crazy. Next, I have a Timber and Greninja, nothing too big about that. I used to have the Umbreon Um V from Evolving Skies. Better known as a Stairbrion, which I sold. But now I just have a normal Umbreon EX from Prismatic, a Raichu and a Lolan Raichu GX tag team, and a Mega Gengar EX. Um, and then I have some decent um dragon types, uh, Dragapult, and then uh Tutsagari Tutsagiri. Oh, and then I also have um this beautiful card. A Dialga EX from Phantom Forces. One of the best, the best Dialga ever created, but it's in such bad condition that PSA won't even grade it. So it is such a binder card, but heavily damaged is still $400. So if someone's trying to complete Phantom Forces, um go in the comments section um because I think I'm looking for someone to sell it. So and and since it's damaged, it'll be pretty easy. Yeah. Um next I have uh Teropagos EX um from Prismatic, um, an SIR, which I pulled. Mm-hmm. Wow, that's nice. And then I have the Eevee um one gold star um from Twilight Masquerade. Beautiful card. I have um another Eevee Japanese from uh from Prismatic, the SIR. Then I have an um a TojaPee from Expedition and an Eevee first edition from Team Rocket. And I have another Tojipee, first edition from Neo Genesis, which I just sent out to get graded. And I think it might be able to get a 10 or at least pull off a 9. Next on my trainer card, I have Perrin. Probably one of the most expensive trainers in the Scarlet Violet era. $170. Next, I have a Tate and Liza, pretty cheap sun and moon card, around $40. And then I have a um a penny from Paldei and Fates. And a Professor State of Vitality. All of these are full art or SIR. Next, I have a Toy Catcher in the secret box, um, nothing too big. And then here are my non-Pokemon um brails, the Scorpion from Injustice, and then I have an Emercole, the Ares Torn from Magic, which, if we have anyone in the audience who plays Magic, I have a really good Eldorazzi deck and a bunch of really good Eldorazis. So yeah. Um, and that's all for my expensive deck. I pretty much sold a lot of it um to get some really good stuff. So, and now we're gonna move on to my favorite part of my collection. Drum roll, please. Keep going. Let's keep going. Every second counts. My hands are okay. Sealed! Woohoo! I have an epic sealed and opened collection, actually, because I like to keep the boxes that I opened. I actually opened a 151 UPC when it was $300. I wish I kept the box. I didn't. So, first I'm I have my Pokemon Day 2026 collection. Nothing too big, but it's Pokemon Day. Next, I have my first partner illustration collection, series one. Um, and I have two packs of Scarlet Violet 151. Next, I have a Prismatic Evolutions surprise box. Beautiful box. I got two of them, opened one, and I pulled the Teropagos out of it. And next, I have a special Pokemon thing, which is um a Roaring Skies pack with five random cards behind it, selling for $200 in a mint. It sadly is not mint. Um, next, I have my collection of um ETBs. First, I have a Black Bolt UT U ETB ETB. Black Bolt ETB. And then after that, I have a full master set of Paradox Rift Pokemon Center ETBs. Um, so I have the the Paradox Rift with that one Pokemon and the Paradox Rift with that other Pokemon because no one knows what they're called. Um because they're all like ancient whatever. Um next I have two boxes that were made when Pokemon just started. Burger King boxes. Basically, doesn't sound like a lot, but these Burger King boxes hold a card plated with 25 karat gold. So they're pretty cool. And next um is my Ascended Heroes ETB sealed, and then my best collection! The best thing I own in my collection, an Evolving Skies ETB $500. I got it for $300, so it was a pretty good deal, but it's it's crazy. And then I I also have the boxes that I opened, and most of these I opened this year. So first I have the Mega Charizard UPC, the Sword and Shield UPC, um, a prismatic evolution surprise box, another another Evolving Skies UPC, uh Prismatic UPC. Um I I don't have I didn't open this, but I have the box for a 1v1 UPC. Or not UPC, um ETB. I said Prisma. Um and um I have Twilight Masquerade, Stellar Crown, Silver Tempest, um, um I have Chilling Rain. J just a f just to name a few. And my final collection is that whenever I open a UPC, when you or ETB, when you open them, they have a little book that keep all the the names of all the cards in them. So I that's how I know what sets I've opened. So I have the Twilight Masquerade one, and if you flip through it, it has every single card in the set. It's really cool. So Sword and Shield, Prismatic, Um, Evolving Skies, Uh, Paldean Fates, Stellar Crown, Perfect Order, Ascended Heroes, Mega Evolution, and Surging Sparks. Wow, that is an amazing sealed collection. Um, I noticed that most of your boxes, you probably bought them pretty cheap, but then they just went up and up and up. That's uh the goal of collecting. Um, you buy the box knowing it's gonna go up, and then it does, and then you're happy. So um to finish it off, the grand total of all that put together into one thing, all my cards um together are lead to a grand total of $7,318 at day of release, according to the thing that I use, which is Collectar. Um and he does log condition. I do log condition. So, um seven thousand dollars. That's absurd. That's my collection. Wow. Well, those are our collections. We'll see you next year, and hopefully our collections will be so much better. I have no idea what will what could what the future holds. And I'm super and I'm super happy about my collection now. I can't believe what could possibly be in the future. I'm Theo and I'm Judah, and we'll see you, trainers later. That's most of our episode. But if you've seen our previous episodes, which you should have, you know that at the end we put in some bloopers. We only have one for you today, but it's a very good one. We're gonna start it off with my collection, then transition over to Judah's and finish with some clothing socks. Clothing socks. With clothing socks.