WOW! What an honor to be a part of this video. Oli: you killed it with this one! I LOVED the storytelling around your brother’s Gold Star, and I literally laughed out loud at the end. Incredible work, and thanks for asking me to contribute 🙏
I love this kind of documentary style video. This style of video has huge potential, the hobby could use more education on the "why" on how things are expensive. Great work!
I was able to trade for a metagross on the schoolyard when I was about 9, this would've been 2014 so god knows how it ended up in the hands of the kid I got it from, I'll always cherish it
I've owned a few Gold Stars in my life since I grew up with this era! I pulled a Vaporeon Gold Star as a child, but unfortunately I decided to trade it away for some rare Pikachu cards (that I still own). The trade in itself was fair given my Vaporeon was severely beaten up, but I just miss my Vaporeon. I also had the Jolteon Gold Star, but it was the non holo version from a world champion deck. I no longer have it. I also had Mew Gold Star. I don't remember how I got it, but I eventually traded that away too for a Pikachu Gold Star, which I still own today. Gold Stars are some of my favorite cards ever, I've even made and illustrated a few fake ones for fun (including Delcatty, it's where my pfp comes from)
@@ludicrouslunatic Nice! What condition is it? I have a pikachu but its sort of beaten up. Like I traded for it at damaged price but it also doesnt look that bad when you see it.
@shinygiveaways1920 Mine is in pretty nice shape! A little minor edge wear and one tiny noticeable scratch on the front, but otherwise it's alright. Perfect for the Pikachu binder!
One thing to add is the cheapest gold stars are the legendary dogs not because of demand but because of supply is much much higher. There is a story that a worker at a factory overprinted those cards in secret and sold/is selling them off over the years. Theres a video out there of a huge binder filled with gold star suicune Raikou and entei. Hundreds of them. So I wouldn’t recommend anyone get those 3 as an investment, but they are great collection cards for the price Great video btw really enjoyed it
@ ua-cam.com/video/q5bk6QlYj5g/v-deo.htmlsi=1vbogy1TJugEJ5ey here’s a video about it. Ya cardhouse eu was selling psa 10 and psa 9 gold star dogs for what seemed like a decade just a constant stream it was incredible
As a content creator, I see all the effort you have put behind this video and I gladly can tell you that this is a fucking masterpiece of a result. Congratulations on creating one of the best videos I have seen in our niche. Cheers mate.
Thanks for creating the video. I have a better understanding on gold stars since I left the hobby during Neo Genesis with Lugia being the last chase card i remembered. I was wondering why a lot of people were into gold stars when I went back into the hobby last year.
Gold stars have always been some of my favorite cards. I grew up with the ex series so I’ve pulled several. Some of my favorites being Metagross, Kyogre, and Registeel star. I ended up buying some second hand for dirt cheap prices way before the pandemic. Wish I pulled the trigger on Torchic and Mew back in the day😭
great story - i used to be a shitty scammer and traded fake legendary pokemon cards to younger kids and I remember trading 3 cards for a gold star charizard from dragon frontiers. I ended up selling my entire collection to that kid that gave me the gold star charizard. I hope he's still got that card.
Since I discovered this channel I haven't missed a single video! I always thought that the Japanese promo Dance! NEO Imakuni? Be a gold star prototype, as the first card to come out of the artwork
Great video! The combination of factors (low point in the hobby, low pull rate, lack of easy access to information at the time of release) really made the gold star shine!
I have a Latias Gold Star in my binder of my childhood. Bought a lot of cards of a friend for 50€ back than, knowing he was a great collector and having this card in the stack made my day. Didn't even think about not buying it. Always carried with me, so it got some marks, but it got memories:)
I really like your history kind of videos and videos that explain the actual collecting details like this. You arent just ripping packs and reviewing product.
7:08 Was the torchic ungraded at $120? If so, you can't compare a non graded card to a graded card in a 10 and say it multiplied by that value. Graded cards are many times multiple x's compared to non graded if they are 10's. The fact that Latios / Latios Alt Art was $20 ungraded in 2019 and is now over $800 ungraded is a 40x return with both non graded with a 4 - 5 year time frame . That's a fairer comparison and really shows how much it appreciated.
I feel like it's worth mentioning with the radiant cards that functionally they are identical to gold stars gameplay wise (maximum 1 per deck featuring a shiny pokemon). If they were to ever return gold stars they would be as rare as ace specs/radiants were (or at least the base print) due to TPCi trying to make the game more affordable since the XY era (reprinting Roaring Skies just for the Shaymin EX which dominated the meta, the XY premium collection of alts that were all very playable, many level 1 prebuilt deck kits containing playable cards that cost several $ if buying singles). The numbering in the set would also be the same as seen in the Japanese set orders for gold stars too and not at the end of the set like English sets were so they can be seen as a successor in a sense.
great video! I am blessed to own the only pristine copy of the English Gold Star Rayquaza in the world. You are not gonna believe what type of offers I’ve gotten for that card
A girl that had a crush on me as kids traded me one for a "cute card" she liked didn't know that card would be essential in the future to get a gold star Charizard.
my god. you have actually no idea how much this video was made for me specifically. i've been singing these cards' praises ever since they first came out back in '04, and i've known they'd be the "ultimate" cards of pretty much the entire tcg's history for just as long. they were just perfect. visually, thematically, aesthetically, contextually perfect chase cards. heck, i was still young when i was opening up rocket returns and the second i became aware of these cards i knew the path that was ahead for them. tragically, EXACTLY like you, i wasnt the lucky kid to pull one, it was my sister. she pulled torchic. she had no idea what she had. i tried to explain to her that the card was special, it was a "special color" (i knew what shinies were at the time, just not the term), and that she needed to take very good care of it. my dad has always been into collecting vintage baseball cards so he had us trained from day one on double-sleeving our pokemon cards, and never playing with them. of course, i thought this was super lame at the time but did it anyway, because i was a parent-pleaser. my sister wasn't. she took that torchic card, put a clump of sticky tack to the back, and stuck it to the wall over her bed in our shared bedroom. i stared at that thing for years as it slowly curled in from gravity and grew a stain beneath the adhesive. so many other rare pulls joined its ranks on the "murder wall" as i called it. but none ever matched torchic for sheer value, obviously. years later, i still have all my old cards from the ex through delta species era (the best era, rant for another time), pandemic hits. i send em off to PSA to get slabbed, get 9's and 10's across the board, i live off of selling off just those cards alone for a good few years thanks to those hideous spikes. part of me wants to feel smug about it, that my collection was the one that retained value, but no. torchic still spiritually stares at me from atop the murder wall. i don't think i'll ever be able to escape it. i mean it when i say if i could have one time machine trip, it would be going back and swapping packs with her on that day. kind of a weird and unhinged essay i know but i feel like you'd appreciate it. lol
I actually own a Pikachu Goldstar as one of my very few English cards of that era (Goldstar didn't exist in German as far as I know. ) I randomly found out that the card is actually worth around 300€ when sorting my cards. It was always just a nice card I owned, I never really thought much about it.
I had no idea how special gold star cards were. I have a Gold Star Rayquaza with me for basically 20 years already and I'm just now discovering how much it's worth! Thank you for the video!
Gold Stars came well after my time enjoying pokemon as a kid so I have no attachment or desire to collect them. But I am certainly happy another group of kids got to enjoy pokemon cards differently from myself and have their own pocket of nostalgia within the hobby. Very unique and awesome cards!
I'm 23 now and when I was a kid I remember delta species, so I'm wondering if gold stars were being printed when I was young, it just goes to show again, how insanely rare they were in comparison to a holo charizard. these kinda are deserving of their value as its an era when less kids bought cards & less were printed in general and on top of it were so dang rare lol.. kinda unrelated but now this makes me wanna go watch booster box openings of sets with gold stars, see if people usually even get 1 per box or not
I have a mewtwo star getting graded right now and a vaporeon star sitting on my desk (protected of course). They've been sitting in a tin on my bookshelf for as long as I can remember. Super pumped about getting back into collecting and newly into grading
Ah... my sister had the metagross when we were kids, was always jealous, but she eventually gave me all her cards down the line. I sold it after learning of its value, but unfortunately for not nearly as much as i could've gotten, as i overestimated the damage on it. Oh well. Perhaps I'll buy another to replace it some day, as I sort of miss it.
That was fate, me and my brother still have our collections so much sentimental value in them and the memories they hold. I am grateful we both didn't sellout because we don't have many things or pictures to track back our past but those cards do a good job to pin point dates.
I recently got into pokemon tcg for the first time since i was a kid. Your videos have been very informative and fun to watch :) Thank you loads for helping me get back into the hobby
I pulled a gold star alakazam. i still have it. it's in pretty good condition with a little bit of whitening on the corners. (Back only) Edit: Primetimepokemon mentioned, dude was the primordial ooze of youtube pokemon tcg videos. Truly a pioneer.
Back in the day they used to be really cheap because of supply from what I heard a mob/gang had so many stolen gold star cards and the original value plummeted in 2010 ish
I have a mint gold star Mew, my grail of my collection. I wish I was a collector during those days but very happy to have it. One day I’ll get that gold star Rayquaza though, they’re my two favorites
I was lucky to pull the charizard gold star back in the day from the 3 pack blister. I still own it today and I treasure it so much. Honestly it’s probably the best shiny charizard artwork in my opinion.
I pulled the gold star charziard when I was a kid. I really didn't have a concept of the rarity of the cards. I remember trying to look up the charizard, to find some information on it and I could never find anything. It was absolutely my favorite card as a kid. Just this year I found out how much its worth. I don't think I could get rid of it, but I may get it graded. It is in really great condition. Delta species were my favorite as a kid.
I traded nothing of note for three gold stars (Vaporeon/Flareon/Mew) on a Facebook group what feels like a life time ago, and like a week later everyone decided they were worth hundreds. Which was nice.
I got a torchic for 200 euros last year, and it really is quite busted up, but I don't mind. It's such a special card. I also have a treecko, I hope I can finish the set one day.
My siblings and I got a pack of cards for Christmas. I opened all the packs and resealed them with an iron. I gave myself the Blaine's moltres that my sister would've gotten. It haunts me til this day but of my siblings, I am the only card collector so..
This video is amazing!!! I never knew my gold star Pikachu was that rare it’s been sitting in a binder for years. Where do you buy those rubber protectors for magnetic cases like the one you had around the latios?
I stopped collecting by the time Gold Stars came out so I'll never know what it feels like to pull one. Luckily, I was able to buy some before prices went insane, and even one more just last year. But as soon as Pokemon Go came out in 2016, I started buying Pokemon cards again from Every Comic Store in a 50 mile radius from my house. From 2016 - 2020, singles were insanely affordable and I regret not buying so many cards, like the Skyridge Raikou holo in perfect condition for $63, Expedition Mew Holo for $60, a second Houndoom Aquapolis holo for $40 (luckily I did get 1), a second Shining Gyarados also for $40 (my first is beat to hell, I don't know what I was thinking), Shadowless Charizard for $90, Shining Kabutops for 70, Fire-type Mew Delta Species Holo Misprint where the back was upside down for like $20, 1st edition Zapdos Base Set for $300, and a LEGENDARY COLLECTION REVERSE HOLO FIREWORKS GYARADOS FOR 10 BUCKS!!... and like a billion others that I forgot or I'm too lazy to think of any more. Even more recently, I regret not buying a Mew Gold Star for $600 because it was easily an 8, likely a 9, and if I was very lucky a 10, but not likely. Luckily I did get some gold stars before 2020 and the price explosion. Pikachu Gold Star in mint, Celebi gold star lightly played and a CGC 9 Entei.. I only recently found out about the Entei/Raikou/Suicune thefts, which does kinda put a damper on my excitement around that card.
Getting in here before you blow up cause this is such good content but I absolutely adore these last few videos you've put out, keep up the great work!
I pulled mew gold star when I was like 6 or 7 still have the card today …. When I was kid I always remember being so confused with the card I couldn’t understand why my mew was blue and water type
A psa 10 gold start torchic was not going for 120 usd in 2017. A raw one might have. A raw one now goes for in the 600-1000 range but it is ofcourse heavily dependent on condition, as it also was in 2017. This is a great video but that part is very misleading.
I was able to get all the gold stars EXCEPT umbreon, rayquaza, latias, latios, and entei!!! I kept them all (mint condition) for all these years but have sadly never been able to get the missing 5.... some of my gold stars are english some are Japanese.
Random question, but do you put your cards in a sleeve before you put them in a one touch? I'm debating if perfect fit sleeves on the card and then in the one touch are necessary or not!😂
What do you mean success? They were extreme failures and no one used them. The only reason they're so valuable right now is that the Gen 3 era was kind of a low point for engagement
I remember i sold a charizard for 70$ in 5th grade so i could buy groceries for me n my siblings
Then there’s no way you would’ve been able to hold onto it until 2020. You did what you had to do 🥊
You did the right thing 🙏🏼
@kartgal yea it was worth it to see my brother n sisters eat ❤
Much respect mate
Someone buy this king back another zard 🤴
WOW! What an honor to be a part of this video. Oli: you killed it with this one! I LOVED the storytelling around your brother’s Gold Star, and I literally laughed out loud at the end.
Incredible work, and thanks for asking me to contribute 🙏
I found a gold star Registeel in my old binder today. Had no idea why it was so expensive. Thanks for this video.
Dog I'd trade you some modern grails for that haha.... Paldea magikarp comes to mind rn but i could get more. Wish I knew you irl.
I love this kind of documentary style video. This style of video has huge potential, the hobby could use more education on the "why" on how things are expensive. Great work!
The ending was great 😂
Always a great video dude!
Thanks! 😄
I was able to trade for a metagross on the schoolyard when I was about 9, this would've been 2014 so god knows how it ended up in the hands of the kid I got it from, I'll always cherish it
Thank you so much for this video! There's little to no content on gold stars so this video is GREAT
Thanks for watching! Gold stars forever!!!
Just stumbled upon a gold star alakazam in my childhood collection! Thanks for letting me know what I have!
Nice dude. I wish I could stumble upon a gold star! Congrats
I've owned a few Gold Stars in my life since I grew up with this era! I pulled a Vaporeon Gold Star as a child, but unfortunately I decided to trade it away for some rare Pikachu cards (that I still own). The trade in itself was fair given my Vaporeon was severely beaten up, but I just miss my Vaporeon. I also had the Jolteon Gold Star, but it was the non holo version from a world champion deck. I no longer have it. I also had Mew Gold Star. I don't remember how I got it, but I eventually traded that away too for a Pikachu Gold Star, which I still own today. Gold Stars are some of my favorite cards ever, I've even made and illustrated a few fake ones for fun (including Delcatty, it's where my pfp comes from)
Yo! Stop trading away your gold stars!! lol
@sleevenocardbehind I definitely plan on never trading my Pikachu Gold Star!! Probably the most valuable card I own now lol
@@ludicrouslunatic Nice! What condition is it? I have a pikachu but its sort of beaten up. Like I traded for it at damaged price but it also doesnt look that bad when you see it.
@shinygiveaways1920 Mine is in pretty nice shape! A little minor edge wear and one tiny noticeable scratch on the front, but otherwise it's alright. Perfect for the Pikachu binder!
One thing to add is the cheapest gold stars are the legendary dogs not because of demand but because of supply is much much higher. There is a story that a worker at a factory overprinted those cards in secret and sold/is selling them off over the years. Theres a video out there of a huge binder filled with gold star suicune Raikou and entei. Hundreds of them. So I wouldn’t recommend anyone get those 3 as an investment, but they are great collection cards for the price
Great video btw really enjoyed it
Woah I’m gonna have to look into that!
@ ua-cam.com/video/q5bk6QlYj5g/v-deo.htmlsi=1vbogy1TJugEJ5ey here’s a video about it. Ya cardhouse eu was selling psa 10 and psa 9 gold star dogs for what seemed like a decade just a constant stream it was incredible
As a content creator, I see all the effort you have put behind this video and I gladly can tell you that this is a fucking masterpiece of a result. Congratulations on creating one of the best videos I have seen in our niche. Cheers mate.
That means so much ❤️ thank you for watching
Thanks for creating the video. I have a better understanding on gold stars since I left the hobby during Neo Genesis with Lugia being the last chase card i remembered.
I was wondering why a lot of people were into gold stars when I went back into the hobby last year.
Gold stars have always been some of my favorite cards. I grew up with the ex series so I’ve pulled several. Some of my favorites being Metagross, Kyogre, and Registeel star. I ended up buying some second hand for dirt cheap prices way before the pandemic. Wish I pulled the trigger on Torchic and Mew back in the day😭
I remember looking at prices back in 2012… wish I bought them all!
this video is amazingly done and edited, great job and thanks
great story - i used to be a shitty scammer and traded fake legendary pokemon cards to younger kids and I remember trading 3 cards for a gold star charizard from dragon frontiers. I ended up selling my entire collection to that kid that gave me the gold star charizard. I hope he's still got that card.
I hope he still has it too! Admirable of you to confess your past
Since I discovered this channel I haven't missed a single video!
I always thought that the Japanese promo Dance! NEO Imakuni? Be a gold star prototype, as the first card to come out of the artwork
Thanks for watching! That’s a pretty interesting theory by the way
Whoa... TCG Buyers Club in this vid! Amazingly researched and strong story-telling, as always.
Great video! The combination of factors (low point in the hobby, low pull rate, lack of easy access to information at the time of release) really made the gold star shine!
Congrats on 3k subs!
Thank you Coop!!!
Great vid subbed! Have a few goldies from master sets i have recently bought. Learnt some things here cheers
Thanks for watching! Which gold stars did you snag?
I have a Latias Gold Star in my binder of my childhood. Bought a lot of cards of a friend for 50€ back than, knowing he was a great collector and having this card in the stack made my day. Didn't even think about not buying it.
Always carried with me, so it got some marks, but it got memories:)
I really like your history kind of videos and videos that explain the actual collecting details like this. You arent just ripping packs and reviewing product.
7:08 Was the torchic ungraded at $120? If so, you can't compare a non graded card to a graded card in a 10 and say it multiplied by that value. Graded cards are many times multiple x's compared to non graded if they are 10's. The fact that Latios / Latios Alt Art was $20 ungraded in 2019 and is now over $800 ungraded is a 40x return with both non graded with a 4 - 5 year time frame . That's a fairer comparison and really shows how much it appreciated.
That latios latias card was scalped.
I feel like it's worth mentioning with the radiant cards that functionally they are identical to gold stars gameplay wise (maximum 1 per deck featuring a shiny pokemon). If they were to ever return gold stars they would be as rare as ace specs/radiants were (or at least the base print) due to TPCi trying to make the game more affordable since the XY era (reprinting Roaring Skies just for the Shaymin EX which dominated the meta, the XY premium collection of alts that were all very playable, many level 1 prebuilt deck kits containing playable cards that cost several $ if buying singles).
The numbering in the set would also be the same as seen in the Japanese set orders for gold stars too and not at the end of the set like English sets were so they can be seen as a successor in a sense.
great video! I am blessed to own the only pristine copy of the English Gold Star Rayquaza in the world. You are not gonna believe what type of offers I’ve gotten for that card
Damn dude I think I’ve seen an image of that! Sheersh
I pulled a Shining Noctowl from a pack I won at a bowling tournament. Cant remember what I did with it lol
A girl that had a crush on me as kids traded me one for a "cute card" she liked didn't know that card would be essential in the future to get a gold star Charizard.
my god. you have actually no idea how much this video was made for me specifically. i've been singing these cards' praises ever since they first came out back in '04, and i've known they'd be the "ultimate" cards of pretty much the entire tcg's history for just as long. they were just perfect. visually, thematically, aesthetically, contextually perfect chase cards. heck, i was still young when i was opening up rocket returns and the second i became aware of these cards i knew the path that was ahead for them.
tragically, EXACTLY like you, i wasnt the lucky kid to pull one, it was my sister. she pulled torchic. she had no idea what she had. i tried to explain to her that the card was special, it was a "special color" (i knew what shinies were at the time, just not the term), and that she needed to take very good care of it. my dad has always been into collecting vintage baseball cards so he had us trained from day one on double-sleeving our pokemon cards, and never playing with them. of course, i thought this was super lame at the time but did it anyway, because i was a parent-pleaser. my sister wasn't. she took that torchic card, put a clump of sticky tack to the back, and stuck it to the wall over her bed in our shared bedroom. i stared at that thing for years as it slowly curled in from gravity and grew a stain beneath the adhesive. so many other rare pulls joined its ranks on the "murder wall" as i called it. but none ever matched torchic for sheer value, obviously.
years later, i still have all my old cards from the ex through delta species era (the best era, rant for another time), pandemic hits. i send em off to PSA to get slabbed, get 9's and 10's across the board, i live off of selling off just those cards alone for a good few years thanks to those hideous spikes. part of me wants to feel smug about it, that my collection was the one that retained value, but no. torchic still spiritually stares at me from atop the murder wall. i don't think i'll ever be able to escape it. i mean it when i say if i could have one time machine trip, it would be going back and swapping packs with her on that day. kind of a weird and unhinged essay i know but i feel like you'd appreciate it. lol
I loved reading this. But I hate the visuals of the Torchic on the murder wall!
i actually really enjoyed reading this too
I actually own a Pikachu Goldstar as one of my very few English cards of that era (Goldstar didn't exist in German as far as I know. ) I randomly found out that the card is actually worth around 300€ when sorting my cards. It was always just a nice card I owned, I never really thought much about it.
I had no idea how special gold star cards were. I have a Gold Star Rayquaza with me for basically 20 years already and I'm just now discovering how much it's worth! Thank you for the video!
Woah! That’s amazing congrats!
Gold Stars came well after my time enjoying pokemon as a kid so I have no attachment or desire to collect them. But I am certainly happy another group of kids got to enjoy pokemon cards differently from myself and have their own pocket of nostalgia within the hobby. Very unique and awesome cards!
I'm 23 now and when I was a kid I remember delta species, so I'm wondering if gold stars were being printed when I was young, it just goes to show again, how insanely rare they were in comparison to a holo charizard.
these kinda are deserving of their value as its an era when less kids bought cards & less were printed in general and on top of it were so dang rare lol..
kinda unrelated but now this makes me wanna go watch booster box openings of sets with gold stars, see if people usually even get 1 per box or not
I have a mewtwo star getting graded right now and a vaporeon star sitting on my desk (protected of course). They've been sitting in a tin on my bookshelf for as long as I can remember. Super pumped about getting back into collecting and newly into grading
Woah!! Nice!
Currently own the following all in PSA 9:
Alakazam
Flareon
Treecko
Mudkip
Nice! PSA 9s are the way to go
Ah... my sister had the metagross when we were kids, was always jealous, but she eventually gave me all her cards down the line. I sold it after learning of its value, but unfortunately for not nearly as much as i could've gotten, as i overestimated the damage on it. Oh well. Perhaps I'll buy another to replace it some day, as I sort of miss it.
How damaged was it. I have a gold star mudkip. But it is a little bent and scratched
It was in pretty decent shape, unfortunately. Probably moderately played
@@truthchanMSV I have a MP metagross, got it ater a sick trade for about $450?
That was fate, me and my brother still have our collections so much sentimental value in them and the memories they hold.
I am grateful we both didn't sellout because we don't have many things or pictures to track back our past but those cards do a good job to pin point dates.
@@deana6072 what do you have
I recently got into pokemon tcg for the first time since i was a kid. Your videos have been very informative and fun to watch :) Thank you loads for helping me get back into the hobby
Thank you and welcome back! One of us.. one of us..
Great video. Earned a sub. I’m still holding my torchic card… hopefully it continues to grow in value.
I pulled a gold star alakazam. i still have it. it's in pretty good condition with a little bit of whitening on the corners. (Back only)
Edit: Primetimepokemon mentioned, dude was the primordial ooze of youtube pokemon tcg videos. Truly a pioneer.
another great video, hilarious ending!
So I have the evee trio ungraded at my home in a binder. They looks good but I wouldn’t say a 10. What would be a good price to sell these?
came here because i sold my latias today :( thank you for the info i did not know my black charizard and red gyardos were more specific!!
Back in the day they used to be really cheap because of supply from what I heard a mob/gang had so many stolen gold star cards and the original value plummeted in 2010 ish
I heard this too, but it was specifically the legendary dogs
I have a mint gold star Mew, my grail of my collection. I wish I was a collector during those days but very happy to have it. One day I’ll get that gold star Rayquaza though, they’re my two favorites
i hope i do too
I was lucky to pull the charizard gold star back in the day from the 3 pack blister. I still own it today and I treasure it so much. Honestly it’s probably the best shiny charizard artwork in my opinion.
I pulled the gold star charziard when I was a kid. I really didn't have a concept of the rarity of the cards. I remember trying to look up the charizard, to find some information on it and I could never find anything. It was absolutely my favorite card as a kid. Just this year I found out how much its worth. I don't think I could get rid of it, but I may get it graded. It is in really great condition. Delta species were my favorite as a kid.
That’s amazing! I’d kill for that card
I traded nothing of note for three gold stars (Vaporeon/Flareon/Mew) on a Facebook group what feels like a life time ago, and like a week later everyone decided they were worth hundreds.
Which was nice.
I got a torchic for 200 euros last year, and it really is quite busted up, but I don't mind. It's such a special card. I also have a treecko, I hope I can finish the set one day.
That damn COVID 19 messed up everything
Crazy turn of events all at once hey
A Digital world was always the future no matter what. Is it a good thing? Probably not
Thanks for the video! It was really well made! 💫
I'm very glad I picked up pokemon collecting in 2015 because I bought Charizard, Mew, all 3 regis, flarreon, metagross, both latis and gyarados.
You’re great at structuring your content. Loved the cameo. Never seen that before.
Thank you for watching!
Funny you mention Sinista's fake gold stars, I actually own that Dragonair @ 11:36
NICE! They are amazing
My siblings and I got a pack of cards for Christmas. I opened all the packs and resealed them with an iron. I gave myself the Blaine's moltres that my sister would've gotten. It haunts me til this day but of my siblings, I am the only card collector so..
Whatever we can do to validate our crimes, it’s alright
This video is amazing!!! I never knew my gold star Pikachu was that rare it’s been sitting in a binder for years. Where do you buy those rubber protectors for magnetic cases like the one you had around the latios?
I hope it’s near mint! Link for the protectors is in the description
Thank you for this video nobody talks about goldstars
Dude holding my dream card in the intro and he CHEATED to get it... what do I have to do to get one for myself 😭
I still have my gold star Kyogre!! :) Thanks for this vid!
Love the vibe and nostalgia!
I stopped collecting by the time Gold Stars came out so I'll never know what it feels like to pull one. Luckily, I was able to buy some before prices went insane, and even one more just last year. But as soon as Pokemon Go came out in 2016, I started buying Pokemon cards again from Every Comic Store in a 50 mile radius from my house. From 2016 - 2020, singles were insanely affordable and I regret not buying so many cards, like the Skyridge Raikou holo in perfect condition for $63, Expedition Mew Holo for $60, a second Houndoom Aquapolis holo for $40 (luckily I did get 1), a second Shining Gyarados also for $40 (my first is beat to hell, I don't know what I was thinking), Shadowless Charizard for $90, Shining Kabutops for 70, Fire-type Mew Delta Species Holo Misprint where the back was upside down for like $20, 1st edition Zapdos Base Set for $300, and a LEGENDARY COLLECTION REVERSE HOLO FIREWORKS GYARADOS FOR 10 BUCKS!!... and like a billion others that I forgot or I'm too lazy to think of any more.
Even more recently, I regret not buying a Mew Gold Star for $600 because it was easily an 8, likely a 9, and if I was very lucky a 10, but not likely.
Luckily I did get some gold stars before 2020 and the price explosion. Pikachu Gold Star in mint, Celebi gold star lightly played and a CGC 9 Entei.. I only recently found out about the Entei/Raikou/Suicune thefts, which does kinda put a damper on my excitement around that card.
Man nice job!! Must feel so good to have all those for a fraction of todays cost
I’ve got the Mudkip, Torchic, and Treecko. Trying to get the rest with Rayquaza being at the top of the list.
sick video bro, just got into pokemon cards 6 months ago and this give super good insight. i just thought these cards looked cool!
You have a good eye!
Guest star, very nice!
Getting in here before you blow up cause this is such good content but I absolutely adore these last few videos you've put out, keep up the great work!
Thank you so much
I got that treecko from a pack and still have it, when I pulled it there was a scratch on it, maybe a printing error
I have a card of a hoppip 57/109 of ex rocket team return sets and it has a blue star what does it do
I pulled mew gold star when I was like 6 or 7 still have the card today …. When I was kid I always remember being so confused with the card I couldn’t understand why my mew was blue and water type
What was the game you played with your brother?
It was a match of the TCG. Although we had our own rules
@@sleevenocardbehind How did you cheat?
I can’t remember but I know I played dirty haha
@@sleevenocardbehind Did you end up giving the card to your brother?
@@shinylugia No, he doesn't collect Pokemon cards anymore. Not since we were wee lads
Really nice video man
A psa 10 gold start torchic was not going for 120 usd in 2017. A raw one might have. A raw one now goes for in the 600-1000 range but it is ofcourse heavily dependent on condition, as it also was in 2017. This is a great video but that part is very misleading.
I have a gold star mew! Just sent it to get graded 🎉
Great family cameo!
Never owned a fold star 🌟 nice video
shout out to the card shop i sold my "bulk" to 4 years ago and had like 3 of these );
I was able to get all the gold stars EXCEPT umbreon, rayquaza, latias, latios, and entei!!! I kept them all (mint condition) for all these years but have sadly never been able to get the missing 5.... some of my gold stars are english some are Japanese.
algo doing it's thing, just picked up 2 gold stars this week :O
Nice! Which ones?
@@sleevenocardbehind alakazam and vaporeon, only collect purple shinies
Random question, but do you put your cards in a sleeve before you put them in a one touch? I'm debating if perfect fit sleeves on the card and then in the one touch are necessary or not!😂
I would consider it necessary, yes
@@sleevenocardbehind alright thanks appreciate it man!!
I just sold my Gold Star Gyarados recently for $600
Dang, you got Matt Damon to play your brother lol
Oh god I hope he doesn’t read your comment haha
You make such great videos!!!
Thank you!
I love these video! keep it up!
Thanks dude! 🤛🏻
The ending was so funny bro😅
What do you mean success? They were extreme failures and no one used them. The only reason they're so valuable right now is that the Gen 3 era was kind of a low point for engagement
True but latias mew and jolteon were in fact viable and I believe latias gold star was in the 2006 world championship deck list
Why was Mudkip not shiny?
It is, it just doesn’t look that way since purple looks blue when you submerge it under water.
Loved the ending haha
I still have my Rayquaza :D
I like to collect German PSA cards and unfortunately they're even rarer to find in German ...
Oh well, someone can dream 😂
I shit the bed selling my Gold Star Mew on eBay in 2021 when I got back into pokemon TCG. It was prob a PSA 7-8 contender sold it for $250 smh
Earned a sub
Thank you!
Based brother at the end
Just pulled a gold star espeon!
Get out of here!!!
really great video!!!!!!!
Great video! So does this mean you still own the gold star card? Lol
Yes hehe
@@sleevenocardbehind sick haha
Gold stars were the best