Honestly, I can't blame TPC for cutting ties with WOTC. Their contract was for WOTC to only ever translate & distribute cards and run events, but when the PTCG exploded WOTC so very desperately wanted a bigger slice of the pie and to be involved in the card creation and game balancing processes (see: Jamboree, changing BOG Hitmonchan's HP, the creation of Dark Raichu which delayed the Team Rocket set release date, getting Neo Genesis Sneasel banned after years of begging TPC to let them ban problematic cards like Neo Genesis Slowking, etc). It's a weird situation where neither side is really in the right; TPC was in a lot of ways uncaring and out of touch with foreign PTCG scenes, but WOTC deliberately and repeatedly overstepped their contractual bounds.
Man this is such a refreshing channel in the Pokémon UA-cam space. Great editing, subject matter, and very informative even to someone who’s been in the hobby for almost 10 years now. Keep it up!
I still have my Slowking Sneasel deck I played back when I was in 3rd grade. My playset of Best Of Rainbow Energy have a permanent home there. I have a bunch of the Prof Elm, Electabuzz and 3 Mewtwo tucked away in my favorites collection binder.
imagine if wotc still distributed pokemon tcg's today, absolutely awful. Pretty glad they cut ties when they did. ex era was the best era too playability and art wise
I remember years ago I ordered an old Neo era binder off of eBay. Unfortunately my package somehow got lost during shipping so the seller was kind enough to send me a few of these old winner promos a few weeks later.
These deep dives are my favorite videos on your channel. Please keep digging into these vintage sets (stories, errors, etc.). How about a video on the awesome Southern Islands set?
Finally! A well-made video tha chronicles a piece of Pokémon history!! I collected all of the cards mentioned in dis vid!!! Sadly, no one at my local game shops know about deez cards much less the circumstances surrounding them 😢 I remember being VERY excited about earning the Elecabuzz card back in the day‼️
Im a WOTC guy, i collect all the black star holos and since you turned me onto this electabuzz I just grabbed one in a psa 9 off ebay. Great time to get these, very slept on. I agree reverse holo electabuzz not a heart stopping but its cool in its own right.
great video once again! i choose to believe there are still non winner rocket's mewtwo & hitmonchan's out there somewhere. i was not aware of the rumored rocket's zapdos though, i would be ecstatic to have one of those in my collection as i regard it as some of the best pokemon art in the WOTC era.
Wow these cards are awesome thanks for the info the vid was great I wish I could get them one day for my still new wotc collection im slowly working on even if they are not in the best condition its awesome to see official variants of base set
Very very blown that we got the shitty e-reader version of the dark venusaur instead of the base set style holo like japan got... best of game left so much on the table
Great video, you make excellent content. I would suggest though not shifting the on-screen text around so extremely, it can get distracting sometimes when trying to read it
Honestly, I can't blame TPC for cutting ties with WOTC. Their contract was for WOTC to only ever translate & distribute cards and run events, but when the PTCG exploded WOTC so very desperately wanted a bigger slice of the pie and to be involved in the card creation and game balancing processes (see: Jamboree, changing BOG Hitmonchan's HP, the creation of Dark Raichu which delayed the Team Rocket set release date, getting Neo Genesis Sneasel banned after years of begging TPC to let them ban problematic cards like Neo Genesis Slowking, etc). It's a weird situation where neither side is really in the right; TPC was in a lot of ways uncaring and out of touch with foreign PTCG scenes, but WOTC deliberately and repeatedly overstepped their contractual bounds.
Man this is such a refreshing channel in the Pokémon UA-cam space. Great editing, subject matter, and very informative even to someone who’s been in the hobby for almost 10 years now. Keep it up!
Thank you so much!
Loved these retrospective videos and the lengths you go to in order to acquire all the information! Hats off to you! Thanks
Thank you!
Bro, the amount of research and effort you put into these videos is unreal. Thank you again:’)
Thank you!
Another banger. Appreciate the effort you put into making these.
I still have my Slowking Sneasel deck I played back when I was in 3rd grade. My playset of Best Of Rainbow Energy have a permanent home there. I have a bunch of the Prof Elm, Electabuzz and 3 Mewtwo tucked away in my favorites collection binder.
nice! that mewtwo card is worth some $$$
imagine if wotc still distributed pokemon tcg's today, absolutely awful. Pretty glad they cut ties when they did. ex era was the best era too playability and art wise
This was a fantastic video! Excellent work!
Thanks man! Appreciate it!
Very educational! Very good video, thanks!
I have the Professor Elm BoG card. Seeing the Cosmos reverse holo on a trainer card looks so good!
I remember years ago I ordered an old Neo era binder off of eBay. Unfortunately my package somehow got lost during shipping so the seller was kind enough to send me a few of these old winner promos a few weeks later.
These deep dives are my favorite videos on your channel. Please keep digging into these vintage sets (stories, errors, etc.). How about a video on the awesome Southern Islands set?
Southern islands is one I would love to do.
Finally! A well-made video tha chronicles a piece of Pokémon history!! I collected all of the cards mentioned in dis vid!!!
Sadly, no one at my local game shops know about deez cards much less the circumstances surrounding them 😢
I remember being VERY excited about earning the Elecabuzz card back in the day‼️
Aside from the Mewtwo, these cards are under appreciated and hidden gems! That’s ok, more for us!
Im a WOTC guy, i collect all the black star holos and since you turned me onto this electabuzz I just grabbed one in a psa 9 off ebay. Great time to get these, very slept on. I agree reverse holo electabuzz not a heart stopping but its cool in its own right.
I get so excited when I see these uploads. Thanks for the great video!
Thanks for watching, I appreciate it!
Wow! 2003? I gotta check these out
I have the Best of Game Winner stamp Rocket's Mewtwo
Holy shit
Great video as always!
I gotta go through my old cards to see if I still have them
great video once again! i choose to believe there are still non winner rocket's mewtwo & hitmonchan's out there somewhere. i was not aware of the rumored rocket's zapdos though, i would be ecstatic to have one of those in my collection as i regard it as some of the best pokemon art in the WOTC era.
Thanks! Are there rumours of non winner Mewtwo and Hitmonchans? I never came across that while researching
@@sleevenocardbehind more shop talk than anything i would say, but one can dream!
Wow these cards are awesome thanks for the info the vid was great I wish I could get them one day for my still new wotc collection im slowly working on even if they are not in the best condition its awesome to see official variants of base set
I have all of them. I plan on putting them in the microwave later.
Yummy
Liked subscribed that squirtle is sick 🎉
great video brother!
Awesome
Still wish Dark Venusaur and Ivysaur made its way into Team Rocket!
They would make some great cosmos holos!
@@sleevenocardbehind absolutely!
Very very blown that we got the shitty e-reader version of the dark venusaur instead of the base set style holo like japan got... best of game left so much on the table
I really reeaaalllly want a reverse holo Dark Venusaur and Dark Ivysaur
Great video, you make excellent content.
I would suggest though not shifting the on-screen text around so extremely, it can get distracting sometimes when trying to read it
Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it
Okkk it was a gift gets to the errors it was sabotage😊😅