EP 10: Set Critic: Team Rocket

In this episode Theo and Judah review Team Rocket with positive impressions.

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Rocket returns. As a podcast, welcome to today's episode. We really hope that you enjoy. We're doing the final set critic out of base. That of course being Team Rocket. Team Rocket was an amazing set that introduced dark cards and the Team Rocket cards. We really hope that you enjoy this episode. But wait, before the episode starts, we can't wait to tell you about a brand new deal. If you want to support a small podcast trying to grow, now you can. In our description, you can sign up for Rocket Plus, which allows you to get all of our episodes on Sunday instead of Friday. But that's not the only way you can support us. You can also do generous donations to help our podcast grow and produce as much content as we can, even more. Yes, we would really appreciate any support. It's so helpful for a small podcast. Remember, every donation counts, so it doesn't matter how much you do. Or how little. The most expensive card is the Dark Charizard with a full market value of $4,864. There were 82 cards and one secret rare. Did I hear Secret Rare? That's right. Team Rocket was the first ever set to have a secret rare. Now, lots of Japanese sets actually had secret rares first, but this is the first English secret rare ever. Team Rocket actually came out in 1997. Well, it was called Rocket Gang in Japanese, but it took almost three years to release in English. Yep. Well, let's get started with our favorite card. Judah, do you want to go first or do you want me to go first? I want you to go first. Okay. Much shorter, Gemroll, please. My favorite card is the Nightly Garbage Run. I said my favorite card is the Nightly Garbage. Okay. Thank you. The Nightly Garbage Run is a really cool card. It has like this giant almost rube gold, not really rub gold, but like a robot kind of picking up trash and sucking up bottles. And it's so cool. Because it's it's just like this robot um doing stuff. And there's actually a surprisingly little amount of futuristic technology in the um cards. There's plenty, so much in the anime, but the cards don't actually show a whole lot of it. And it's so cool to see this like robot picking up trash. Judo, what's your favorite card? Well, my favorite card is really again. We did this in base set too. Scyther! JK. Oh, yeah. Dark Dugtrio. Oh yes. I love this card. Um, it's Dugtrio going to someone's house. Yeah, it's so cool. I love Dugtrio. It's like I have this card actually. It's like a Dugtrio bursting through the floorboards. Yep. The floor birds. The floor birds bursting through the floor birds. Wow, that's actually like a really cool card. And I love how like as the Dugtrio um goes up, you can see like a lamp falling over and a cup falling over, like cracks spreading throughout the house. Yep. Doug Dark Dugtrio really is evil. Cause sinkholes and everything. Yeah. Honestly, I think that Rocket has some of the best art out of the base era. Oh yeah, for sure. But not a doubt. And, um, but I still stand by my claim that the holofoil cards aren't as cool. Like the most expensive card is the Dark Charizard. Sells for $350 normally and $375 in the first edition, which isn't that much of a markup. It should be a little more. Which, speaking of holofoils, this set was the first set to have trainer holofoils. The Here Comes Team Rocket, Rainbow Energy, and Rocket Sneak Attack all had holo versions. This had never been done with Pokemon before. Yeah. But the dark if you look at the Dark Charizard, it's kind you can kind of see a shape of um with it, but it's mainly just hollow. But you can kind of see the story of the non-hollow one. It's Charizard kind of peeking out from behind a little um corner. And Judah, I can you go onto the Dark Charizard non-hollow for me? And look at his wing size. The Dark Charizard. Oh my god. Yeah, they're tiny. They're they're like so weird. If you go onto like the base Charizard, the wings are like big and full and like an actual bird? Charizard's a kind of a bird. I used the these a dragon. Yeah. But like, at least it's actual wings. That if you look at the Charizard from base, it's like a skeletal wing structure with almost green like um skin, like f flaps. But this one, it's just orange skin flaps. I'm gonna go look at I'm gonna go look at uh modern Charizard. How about the Obsidian flame Charizard? Boo. Okay, Judah. Judah's an obsidian flame chainer. It's it's not the greatest set, but it's not like I like the ETB. Okay, yes, so it's terrestrialized, but you can still tell that the wings are like um have the bone structure and then the thing draping down. So my theory is that it's the dark Charizard that has that wing. Here, let me look it up. Dark Charizard. Um yeah, I actually think that Dark Charizard just like naturally has different wings. Huh. That's really cool. Another thing that I noticed is that there aren't that many types. A lot of the newer types, like dark type or steel type or fairy type, which doesn't exist anymore, R.I.P. Um, those were invented in later sets. So, but the thing is, Team Rocket, all these dark cards are all poison type, psychic type, all these types. So that's why there are a lot of cards like the Dark Viplume or the Dark Arbok. Yeah, the Dark Arbach, which are poison Pokemon, are actually grass types because Grass was actually associated with uh poison back then because poison didn't exist, so actually they weren't associated. Yeah. That's really cool. So, speaking of dark cards, this was the first set to include them. I think they're probably just an older version of Team Rocket cards, right? Yeah, probably. This is technically a Team Rocket set, but there's no Team Rockets Pokemon, so I think that dark is the right substitute. The lore behind dark cards are most Pokemon were nurtured and taken care of properly, so they just developed normally. But what but dark cards are meant to explore. What happens if a Pokemon grew up wrong or had a traumatic life? This then they would evolve into a dark Pokemon, like the card like the Pokemon on the cards, which you can notice subtle differences, like the wing shape of the Charizard. Well, another thing is when you look at the um when you look at the original Rocket Gang, the cards um at the beginning of each card is a wa, i, um, which I'm pretty sure. I'm I'm learning Japanese. Um anyway, so but those but those letters put together translate to dark or evil. Or not dark. They translate to like evil or cruel or um words like that. But in um English, they don't say evil Charizard. Bad Blastoise. That would be kind of awesome. That would be amazing. Or yeah, they don't say bad, bad Ryahchu. They say dark. So I wonder why that is. Uh well, I think it's just the difference between Japanese and the English language. There are tons of differences like where you put its or something. So I think that it's just a difference between languages, and Japanese can't be perfectly translated into English because grammar is a little bit different. Well, for other words maybe, but a word so obvious, they probably would have just said evil or dark dragonite, but they purposely changed that. There's no way they accidentally wrote down the wrong word. Yeah. I think they purposely changed it. Uh-huh. I I agree with that, but I think it's just not grammar. I guess if Japanese people just like speak differently than English people, and it might sound okay in one language, but not another. I guess. But the dark cards are pretty cool. Like the Pokemon are more gloomy, and you can tell that they have more of like a tragic backstory. Yeah, you they put like the um the the little V in between their eyes, they're like, they're mad. Wait, what card has that? Um kind of the dark slow bro. A little bit. Oh. Yeah, I see that. And the dark dark trier, actually. The dark dark chair actually has the V. Oh yeah! That's really good. That's so funny. But some of them just look downright evil. Like the dark dragonair, it just looks really evil. Uh-huh. Oh yeah. You know, this is a weird way of like, what is the yeah, so it's like a dragonair kind of floating in the sky. But it has like jet black eyes. Yeah. And it looks mean. There's like lightning in the background. It looks like a bully. It probably is. Yeah. Whoa, the dark dragonite is actually really cool. Um, not the hollow version. The hollow version is cool. Is this the first instance of Dragonite? Um, I don't know. Actually, wait. Um I don't think so. I'm looking up right now. So, let's see. The first right, of course, there was a. Yeah, there's one in fossil. I actually have the non-hollow, but it's really cool. Picked it up at a card shop. It's pretty awesome. Yeah. No, I actually pulled it out of a pack of fossils. That's that's cool. Yeah, I know. I um yeah, I'm I just casually open fossil packs. No, if I had a vintage pack, I would keep it sealed. I don't think there's any doubt about that. Yeah. There there is great hit rates, but most of those vintage packs, the most expensive card is a lot less than the um than the one pack. Yeah, than the one pack. I hate sets like those. They're just so bad. I can name a few. Yeah. That's why modern sets are great. Because you can pull a great card out of a cheap pack. Yeah. So now we're going to move on to cards that were banned. Now they're you may be thinking, oh, cards that were banned from tournament, which there is one of those, or cards that were just banned. No, for cards that are tournament banned, I don't know a lot about those. Judah, which card was banned from tournaments? Well, the card that was banned from tournaments was the wait, it's the Profess Professor Oak's Revenge. Interesting. I don't really know why, although it's kind of an OP card. Yeah. Discard a card from your hand in order to play this card. Your opponent shovels his or her hand into his or her deck and then draws four cards. And cards like that are still getting banned today. Yeah, you can't play that at a competition. Yeah. But it's so I don't really know why specifically it's banned. But it is banned. Yeah, I think it's just good. Yeah, it is a really good card. Yeah. So for cards that were banned because of other reasons, there's a few. So cards that are banned doesn't mean that they stopped printing them. It means that the Japanese release has um had them in one way, but the English release had them in a different way. Moving on to the Japanese set Rocket Gang, it was released on November 21st, 1997, has 65 cards. The most expensive card is still the Dark Charizard, but it's $190 instead of $300. It's always affordable. It has a full set market value of $723. Now, hopping down a quick rabbit hole here, you might notice that a lot of Japanese hits are way cheaper than their English counterparts. And there's actually a really good reason for this. Japan has strict anti-child gambling laws. So when you get a random chance to pull a card worth of money out of a pack, that becomes a little iffy with the government. So, um, the Japanese government mandated Pokemon to include a certain number of hits per box. And because there are more hits circulating, that means that each hit is worth a little bit less. So the first card that was banned is the Dark Cadabra. If you look at it, there's actually nothing wrong with it. Now, I know that I just said that they would change it in the English version, but they didn't change this one in the English version. They changed it for the next 20 years. The Dark Cadabra in both um English Team Rocket and Japanese. In Japanese it's worth $2.62. And in English it's worth $1.98. Actually, a little bit cheaper, which is weird. But um the reason that this card was banned wasn't because of the artwork. It was because Kadabra is bending a spoon, a signature move of famous magician Uri Geller. Now, Uri actually sued Nintendo for um for infringement on his likeness. Of course he did. Yeah. And Dark Kadabra wasn't in any set for probably 20 years. I know that there's one in 151. I'm pretty sure that's that's the earliest occurrence, right? I think. Here, I can check actually. Uh the national Pokedex number of Kadabra is 64. And I see tons of cards. There's actually an awesome one from Vending the Scene Series 3. But oh, I see one in Paldean Fates. Then I see one in Shiny Treasure, which is just Yeah. I see some Mega Evolution. I see some Twilight Masquerade. But um, if you look at it, you'll notice that since Team Rocket, it's always just been holding a spoon, never breaking it. Every single picture is just of him holding a spoon. And the reason why they brought it back is because Early Geller said that he was sorry, and he was a little bit more selfish at the time he did that. He admitted to being more selfish at that time. So he allowed Nintendo to keep using Kadabra. And I honestly think 151 would have been a way different set without it. Because it wouldn't have been 151, it would be 150. I don't know. No, 1-1. Yeah. 50. So that card was banned for uh yeah, not like a bad reason. Now there was another card that was. It was banned for a bad reason. In the likeness of keeping this PG, I'm not gonna say exactly what's going on. But yeah. Basically, it's the Grimer card. In English, there's nothing wrong with the card, because they fix it. But in Japanese, the card looks almost exactly the same, except for one thing. Where Grimer's eyes are looking. Again, in the intent of keeping this PG, I'm not going to. Yeah. I'm not gonna say why it's banned, but it definitely got banned. And if you have the guts, look up the Grimer, look where its eyes are looking. Okay? I'll give you that. You just told exactly what it is. Yeah, but I didn't tell actually exactly what it is. I mean, it's it's really bad. It's bad. It's bad. So now we have an interesting discussion. Julia, do you think that this is the best set in base? Yes. That was fast. Okay. Why? I'm really sorry, all you base set lovers. You can only love base set for pretty much two reasons. Price of cards, which I'm sure is most people's, and nostalgia. That's the big one. The thing about bass, the reason why it's so expensive, is because of all the nostalgia. Everyone grew up with bass. Most of the people watching this probably did. Yeah, if you look at our Spotify metrics, it's a little disturbing. It is. I'll we'll say that. Not because of like not because it's like 30-year-old men, but because um, you know how when it like asks you. Yeah. Judah Judith, let's not share much about our audience. I imagine that's not something that we should share. I'll just tell you, it's disturbing and everyone's a little bit older than you would expect. Or they just put in the their age as like 1894, like I do. I I don't think I've I've barely ever told the truth about my actual age. Yeah, don't don't do it unless it's like on a public. Yeah, don't do it unless it's like Apple or Google or like a big company. Don't sign in with your actual age on a random thing. Spotify's like the edge. It's a trustworthy company, but it does share your age info with whoever you listen to. So it's not if you are making a podcast, whatever app you use, you have to be honest with your name. With your age. Yes. That is a requirement. Yes, we are we are not lying about our age. Now we're not gonna tell you our age, but we're not lying about it. Wait, I forgot what we were talking about. We were talking about the Grimer, right? Uh no, we just finished with the Grimer. You are explaining why um team is the best set base. Okay, yeah. I'm really sorry, all you base set lovers. Yeah. Base set introduced Charizard. That's awesome. I love Charizard. Um Jungle introduced Norlax. Fossil introduced Gengar. Okay. I mean, that's really awesome for like later, but it's not a very cool card. Team Rocket has some of the coolest artwork. Coolest cards. No, it may not be the most expensive, but it's second. Now, I did notice that you missed one. Uh no, nope, that's not a set. We don't count that as a full set because it's just a reprint. It is just a reprint. So it doesn't count as it. There are only this is the fourth set. Yeah. Base set two is interesting. Watch her episode. Uh at your own risk. No, no, deal. Okay, yeah. Watch it. It's pretty funny because we have basically nothing to talk about. It's just bass. Yeah. So I partially agree with Judah on this one. Definitely the best set in base is either base or team rocket. Now, Team Rocket did introduce secret rares, dark cards, and Team Rocket. Which dark cards are basically like Team Rocket's like Mewtwo or something. So it introduces um pronouns before the Pokemon. Yeah, it's it's I love Yeah, it's the first Pokemon team's prefix prefixes. But my opinion is Bass is a better set. Nope. J Wow, Judy even didn't even let me hear me out. No, you're wrong. Five seconds. You're wrong. Bass is a better set simply because of nostalgia. Bass is the first set ever. It started everything, and the original is almost always the best. Um, Disney, I'm talking to you. Yeah, you you need to learn that lesson. Stop at three. Three is like the hard stop for sequels. You're working on Toy Story 5! I mean, like, what's it called? Um Tw um Frozen 2. That was good. You can't make another Frozen. That's gonna be good. Make something new. Yeah, like Base Set 2. Wizards, Pokemon, base set 2 is horrible. It's like it's not a horrible set. It's just not an original set. It's just capitalizing off of the success of base. I mean, yeah, it really isn't a horrible set, though. If you put base at 2 had the same prices in a normal in like Mega Evolution, it would be a great set. Yeah, that'd be like better than perfect order, mega than maybe better than Mega Evolution. Because the second most expensive card isn't worth much. But well, it's still worth the $119, but that's almost like a fourth drop. But anyway, Rocket is a better set, but it doesn't have any nostalgia factors. See he said it. Wait. Now, it is an old nostalgic set, but nowhere near the nostalgia of base. If people were used to cards looking like this and Team Rocket and then Bass released today, Team Rocket would be a better received set. But it's just because base was the first set ever, that kind of gives it some bonus points. Right? No. Why not? Because it just doesn't. Well, it's not about what's the most nostalgic. It's not about what what's the most expensive, it's about what's the best set. Yeah, and nostalgia and price feed into that. Fine. I respect your opinion. Even though it's wrong. Whoa. Cool down. Rocket is a great set though. Like I am picking a winner, but it's like um it's like trying to ask which is which is a better thing, like um, team up or evolving skies. They're both amazing sets, and I know your opinion, Judah, and you don't need to say it again. Uh he likes evolving skies more. Um but they're both really good sets, and there is a winner, but they're both amazing, so that it's not that big of a deal. I guess. Yeah, they're both they're both really good sets. Fine. Thank you. Yeah. So I know that we touched on this um a little while ago, but Judah, there's no dark Venusaur. In there is a Dark Charizard, there's a um Dark Blast choice, but why where's the Venusaur? I mean Well. Hmm. That's actually a really good question. I don't know. Why is it? Why is there? Um, I'm looking it up right now. Why is there not a Venusaur in Team Rocket set? So, let's see what I'm seeing. It's um Nintendo, so Venusaur was excluded from the original Team Rocket set because they were gonna feature it as a promotional card. So basically, Venusa Dark Venusaur was permit was printed in 2002 for best of game. Oh! That makes sense! That dark Venusaur! It comes together, okay. So they didn't do it because they were saving it for later. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, that's actually a nice move by Nintendo. The original Final Evolutions of the Kanto starters are really popular, and you could draw up attention by having a popular Pokemon um be part of a promo. Yep, that's true. So this is interesting. I'm gonna read the blurb on the back of the booster box. When you found the booster box of Team Rocket, on the back you could find a little bit of info on the set. So for all the times you get to find. Yeah, so so common. I see those like all the time. Okay, so what I'm seeing is the blurb is Team Rocket's on the loose. The number of criminal incidents involving Pokemon has been on the rise. Some suggest it may have something to do with the rash of Pokemon kidnappings that have been occurring recently. Pokemon breeders believe that to properly raise and evolve a Pokemon, you have to treat it with love and attention. But what happens if a Pokemon isn't treated properly? Will it evolve differently? What's the secret behind this new threat to Pokemon and their trainers? Now, if you're that pretty much describes Team Rocket. Yeah. And like what they're talking about with um if they don't if they aren't treated properly, that's dark Pokemon. Um, I actually think that that's like really interesting because if you look on the back of modern booster packs, there's stuff pretty similar to this. Um, I I don't know, Judah. Do you know if the blurb like relates to the um anime? Like, was this happening in the anime? What were the sets tied to what was happening in the anime? I don't know. I don't think so. It would be cool if they like released sets for what was going on. Um, so I was w I've watched a little bit of the anime, not like a whole ton. And Team Rocket comes in in like episode 16 or something. So I'm gonna I'm gonna Google something. When um when was episode 16 of Pokemon released? Okay. So it was released July 15th, 1997. Wow. Now that might rule it out for the English set. Oh yeah. However, our Rocket Game was released on November 21st, 1997. So it actually might tie together. That would be really cool. Wait, did it? Um, I think. That's really cool. Yeah. Oh, oh! Here's it later premiered in the United States on February 14th, 2000. When did English Team Rocket come out? About April 24th, 2000. So I mean like I feel like that tracks. Huh. It's actually really cool. Yeah, does um which Pokemon sets coming out tie to that anime? Um so they don't. Oh. So they always tie to the main video game. But there are specific yeah, Pokemon Horizons is so yeah. So pretty much the answer is no, they don't, but the release of those sets in episode 16 is a little uncanny. Um, well, that's sad. Yeah. What episode is Team Rocket introduced? It was oh, it's actually episode two. Oh. Wow. Well I guess that they come in later. If any of you guys are planning on opening some Team Rocket, now we're gonna talk about the hit rates. Now I doubt anyone's gonna be opening Team Rocket, but it would be really cool. You don't know, we have some um pretty cool listeners. So, yeah, I I bet I bet there's I bet we have one listener that's like really cool and has a crazy Pokemon collection. No. All of our listeners are really cool. Oh yeah, I'm sure. Well, I I mean, one of them is a really crazy collection. All of our listeners are really cool. I I bet one of our listeners have opened something insane. I mean I bet all all of our listeners definitely have a nice Pokemon card collection. Yeah. So, um, basically the hit rates for the regular holos were the exact same. One in three. Which is really good hit rates, right? Yeah. Especially for like an $100 card. Although I don't know if it's worth the price of opening three packs to have the chance of pulling one holo. Yeah, it's it's definitely not worth it. You're better buying the singles. Like, how many hollows are in base? Many hollows are in base. So, 16. So that's one in three to get a holo, but then it's another one in sixteen to get a special holo. So, whatever that is is how likely you are to pull the Charizard, and you're much more likely just to buy it. One in sixteen packs. And also the fact that one pack is almost as expensive as a turn. It's one in sixteen for every specific holo, but you also need to do one in three to see if you're getting a holo. Yeah. Yeah. It's just not worth it. Yeah, it it's it's not. But that's not the only hit. Now there's secret rares. And secret rares, no one knows the exact hit rates on the Dark Ride Show. But most people speculate it's somewhere between one in 54 to 1 in 108 packs, which is so rare. And it's not even the most expensive card. Yeah. I mean, is it what, $80? Uh, it's 95. But it is $200 in first edition. I mean, technically, if you open a first edition pack, I would be sad if I pulled that. Because I would have made, what, a third of my money? It's still a cool thing, because well, like, I think that that is that rarer than a modern SIR? Like, SR. Modern SIR, I think, is like one. It's for Sun did Heroes, I think it was like 100. Um, one in 81. So actually it's about the same. I mean, yeah, same rarity. I mean, it's probably cheaper than a modern SIR, though. Especially a good modern SIR. It's actually kind of surprising. Well, I mean, like, it's vintage, so the prices are a little bit weirder. And they're and you can't really compare an SIR to a holo, because it's like a completely different era. Like, you're pull you're we're talking about the difference between a $200 pack and an $8 pack. Yeah, that's true. Uh-huh. So, but the the hit rates are still pretty good for like a like most vintage hit rates are good, and I feel like they've gotten worse and worse and worse. Well, because every time someone pulls a first decision Charizard, it's one less first edition Charizard in a pack. Yeah, that makes sense. But Whereas, like, sets like Mega Evolution, they are still printing those. Yeah, they are still printing them. So that's like Mega Evolution, like, I even Perfect Order. Perfect Order is a pretty bad set. It's still like a bad set, but there's not many expensive cards. That's gonna go up when it stops printing. That's just the fact. Like, even Rebel Clash, which is probably one of the worst sets ever, in 20 years it's gonna be an expensive pack and maybe even expensive cards. That's just how it works. So, most of these cards were actually not selling for a crazy amount when the set come out, when the set came out. Most like people would sell commons slash uncommons for a buck. Now, that's not crazy. That's about the price that they're selling for today. Like, here, I'm gonna look at a random uncommon, the coughing. The coughing sells for 53 cents, which um which is a pretty good card. Like the cheapest card in Rocket, sorry, I am sorting by number, not price. The cheapest card in Rocket is the coop is the goop um gas attack, selling for 39 cents. Now that is a pretty cheap card, but for the like least expensive card in a set, if I go to a modern set, let's say Ascended Heroes, and I sort by least expensive, let's see. It's telling me it's the Weevil selling for three cents. Wow. Now practically fortune a fortune. No, the weevil does the market price of three cents, but I'm gonna go on TCG player, and I have a feeling that the listings are gonna be closer to one cent. Like the cheapest listing, yeah, it's selling for one cent. But for Team Rocket, the Goop Gas Attack, unlimited, not first edition, but first edition is still less than a dollar, which is rather surprising. Yeah, it's I is it the only cut first edition card less than a buck? Yeah, the next one, $1.94, $1.60, $1.53, $2.32. Not a lot. But the cheapest listing for the Coop Gas Attack is $34. And which is is that the exact same as the market? Uh no, it's a little bit under. But still, it like these vintage carts um hold their value more. The random common slash uncommons, the cheapest listing will be the market price. While with these new sets, they're unless it like every un every common slash uncommon probably has a one cent listing. Like, let's take the haunter. I'm not sure if this has a one-cent listing, but it's 13 cents normally, which is a better bulk card. Yeah. And the cheapest listing I see is 5 cents. So that's about half the value. And that's like half. I don't like let's take the let's take another card in like that relative price range. Oh wait, there is none in Team Rocket. So I'll take a card like the Zubat, sells for 59 cents. I bet that there's not going to be a listing that's half the value. So on TCG Player, the cheapest listing I see is 40 cents, which is a little bit under the actual market price, but that's still not half the value. These cards keep their value and hold them. It's not like they um it's not like it gets cheap. It's not like there's just a one-cent listing for all of these cards, because they're good cards. I wouldn't mind having any of these. Most of the time, I wouldn't want a cheap bulk card, but all these are nice, cool cards with amazing artwork. By the way, if you want to see some really amazing artwork, check out the man key. Oh yeah. Well, how w how much did the um what's it called? How much did the hmm what are they called? Oh yeah, the hollows. How much were the hollows? Oh, like how much is one holo worth? Like, what's the cheapest listing for a holo? No. Back uh when um Basset was first or back when Team Rocket was first released. What is the ch what was the cheapest holo? So there wasn't like a market price for every holo, but you could sell it for like three to five or so dollars. I'm gonna sort by rarity. I'm gonna try to find the cheapest holo that I can find. That would be the Dark Alacazeum. Currently selling for $56. That is quite the deal. I would definitely pay $5 for that card. Wow. It turns out back in the day, the um first edition Shadowless Charizard would sell for about $45-50. I'll buy that. I'll buy that any day. $45? Yeah. That is an insane market price. Uh-huh. Well, I imagine they didn't know that Pokemon was gonna become so large. Yeah. I mean, I was just telling Theo about how actually you may have thought that like a first edition um booster box would be like not a lot. Surprisingly, it was actually like like $120. Like, it was actually like around the price of a normal booster box. Yeah, to the that would be a good booster box price. Like, what is the MSRP of a booster box? MSRP of booster box. So yeah, actually, the MSRB is around $130 to $150. But um, so RP of boost yeah, yeah, so that that's still a really, really good price. Like here, a I'm gonna s I'm gonna go to PokemonCenter.com. Let's see what they're sell. Now, obviously, everything's sold out because of scalper lowpers. Yep. But yeah, like a like I'm seeing the MSRP on um most booster boxes be $161. So they did go up, but they didn't go up by a whole ton. Really cool. Huh. That is kind of cool. Yeah. I still love how like they have the XY Phantom Forces and the XY Flash Fire and like Sword and Shield Darkness Ablaze. I'm seeing like Fusion Strike portfolios and Astral Radiance collections and stuff. That they still have the listings, they're just sold out. I don't think that there's any I'm gonna try to find something on Pokemon Center that isn't sold out. I mean, like, yeah, that that's gonna Is there anything? Okay, so I'm gonna look at maybe there's a tin that's not sold out. I think that would be uh-oh. Sort by Availability? Anything. Okay. What about like an ET? Sure. Sold out, sol okay. Everything sold out. Every single thing? Every single thing. Wow. Scalpers, come on, cool it! Or just like, don't be scalpers. Yeah, don't be scalpers. Actually, play the game, have fun. Uh if there's any scalpers listening, which I doubt there are, by the way, this is a scalper free zone. Ask yourself, can you name three Pokemon? Just ask yourself. And don't look it up. I bet most scalpers know nothing about Pokemon. They're just in it for the money. Yeah. It's sad. I mean, most people are in it for the money, but I mean, at least it kind of hurts. A bunch of little kids trying to buy their Pokemon, and the best thing they can get is the card for 20% over market. Uh-huh. Because they they Pokemon releases 500,000 boxes. At least 250,000 of them. Um would I mean, would be bought by scalpers within like the first day. Yeah, and then the bots, look, look, I'm gonna go check on the first partner collection. Market for that's about 60. I think our local card shop's actually really good. It's selling it, it's selling it for 40. Yeah. But for the first partner collection, I think the market price is like 15 bucks. Like Yeah, and the reason why it's so expensive is because scalpers make it make you think it's scarcity. Make you think that it's actually something of value. Which it is, but like I'm actually not seeing it, but I'm pretty sure that the um MSRP. Yeah, that the MSRP is about like 16 bucks, which is pretty crazy. But let's get back on track. Uh, I think that Team Rocket is a pretty ama it in review. Team Rocket is an amazing set with tons of great holos, and it introduced so many new things. It's su it's maybe the best set in base, and definitely one of the best sets of all time. Well, that's our episode. I'm Theo. And I'm Judah. And we'll see you.