I Was Wrong About PRISMATIC EVOLUTIONS...

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[@Pokemonman24]

At this point- your chances of seeing a floating orb in the sky from an advanced alien civilization is better than pulling Umbreon ex 161/131

[@robincardoza4250]

This comment made my anus twitch 😂

[@newjones1754]

that only applies to Americans who believe in that crap

[@Faber0k]

Ill be camping outside of my best buy early Friday morning because I AM getting my prismatic for msrp.

[@pokemonholographics6635]

@Faber0k do they always have products in store on release day? Or just for the preorders?

[@pokemonholographics6635]

@@Faber0k ?

[@Balto_tcg]

Someone who actually admits when he’s wrong unlike most of this community

[@CurseSasukeLui]

you mean unlike most people in general?

[@gromexecutive]

@@CurseSasukeLui surround yourself with better people. My circle admits when they're wrong.

[@garrettzimmerman4474]

Pokemon life cylce 1.New era begins 2.first handful of sets have the highest production and generally not a lot of demand because the sets are mid 3.product sits on shelves for months on end 4.Pokemon dials back production a bit 5.halfway through the cycle pokemon drops sets they know will be hyped and with a decreased production rate 6.People go insane. Supply isn't meeting demand, prices are skyrockting people complaning about scalpers etc 7. Shelves are empty even the stuff that sat there forever because it's the only thing close to msrp 8. Pokemon reprints the sets they dialed back production for to meet this new demand 9. People complain about reprints 10. Nearing end of era life cycle pokemon increase production back to over demand capactity to get read for the next era. 11. Repeat

[@Eduardo_Omnislash]

Exactly right.

[@TKMagicShop]

You got it dude!

[@BlackNigerKFC]

Yes!!! That's exactly right. Even Nostalgia Nomics said that 151 was printed so much that SPC went to Costco, ETB went to Costco, and Mini Tins went to Sam's Club. 151 was printed during the beginning of the 4 first sets. And mind you, pokemon prints these MONTHS in advance. So fast forward today. Prismatic was in the printing lines 4 months ago, when everyone was hating on Shrouded Fable, Twilight Masquerade etc. So, they obviously printed less NOT to create this artificial demand that Nomics is saying, but rather because they printed these at a time when demand wasn't that high.

[@RepublicBricks]

Clicked this faster than prismatic sold out

[@zl8731]

Impossible

[@kurtishundred]

Doubt u clicked THAT fast

[@Webbygears]

Not as fast as journey together sold out tho

[@erik1993]

Only by 1 second tho you got lucky

[@messopotamia]

Right. Journey Together sold fast. Prismatic was quite slow. You could initially preorder 4 etbs from pokemoncenter. Then they toned it down to 2. I believe I pre-ordered in November for the max quantity of 4.

[@Jayytasmic]

I blame TCG Pocket for getting me hooked at this horrible moment 😭

[@BR4NDOGtv]

On god

[@Murillos1]

Skill issue

[@whitesmoke08]

I think that drove a ton of people to the physical game.

[@ashleywu3586]

Same here

[@idesofmarch2011]

So you proved my point. Pokémon company is pulling a trick from the DeBeers playbook on market manipulation. Once the hype is at fever pitch, Pokemon will dump for maximum profits. They are hoping to set a new annual sales record. Very smart how Pokemon company carefully tailored this situation

[@Sun33daze]

See it coming with the mass prints of Surging, temporal and twilight. It's definitely coming. Pokemon knows what they're doing

[@idesofmarch2011]

@ Exactly! Pokémon company is taking the hype to fever pitch levels and once everyone is lined up to buy cases, Pokemon company will give us what we want. The only way to protect yourself during this time is to not pay much above msrp. I remember people paying $700-$800 back in 2005 for the Xbox 360. After a few months, production caught up everyone was satisfied and had one.

[@gitusumbia]

Also the hype for this set likely grew after they finished the print run They likely printed the units before surging sparks took off

[@GivesYouHealth]

@@Sun33dazeI’m sorry did you put « mass print » and « surging » on the same sentence? 🫵🏻🤨

[@bambimolester1311]

​@@Sun33dazeyou think those sets will be mass reprinted?

[@fdjizm]

Gentlemen, we are cooked.

[@portalmasterry6765]

Gentlemen, we're (Prismatic) going to the MOON!!

[@RamirezFamily-sk7qn]

But we taste yummy

[@RetroHunty]

'Tis true. We are stupidly cooked.

[@Murillos1]

Skill issue. If you can’t buy now, that just means you can save up for the next set.

[@nichol1866]

More people are buying Pokemon for money rather than the hobby. I guarantee most of us out there want a chase card not to collect but to sell on secondary market for ridiculous amounts of money.

[@aj2261]

Prismatic executions just forced thousands of kids to grow up faster than they should when they found out it’s impossible to pull anything from prismatic

[@OutlawedOutlier]

In the late 90s it was very hard to find base set and jungle, and the only product around were mainly packs from a booster box (with a limit of 1-2 packs depending on where we found them). No promo boxes, ETBs, collector boxes, etc. that have anywhere from 2-11 packs. We had 1-2 packs to try our luck and it was hard to pull a holo let alone Charizard with that amount of packs. Idk if we grew up faster but we just understood it was part of the game, hype, and experience of chasing this stuff down. I hope kids today understand and appreciate it more when they do find product and pull something nice!

[@aj2261]

@ they for sure gonna start smoking weed

[@bbq1040]

Base set had a holonrate of about 50%. They were not rare.

[@govisly]

Bro, I shit you not. I went to Walmart yesterday and when I walked to the trading card section, right in front of the Pokémon section, there was a guy that looked like straight up from Wallstreet movies looking at a surging sparks sleeved booster pack and talking to someone in the phone. Bro... this hobby is doomed.

[@TPTShop]

Logic does not follow because of ONE fact: the amount of product sold through Walmart, Target and other big box stores has EXPLODED. So distributors for LGS may be cut, but the big box stores have more. (Also cheaper and easier for Pokemon to sell to them-practically distributors themselves). Do we have the big box numbers?

[@culex69]

Bullshit, my Walmart hasn't stocked anything card wise in a month and a half.

[@StratBurst92]

@@culex69 Al least 2 months at my Walmart.

[@TPTShop]

@ online website sales, my friend. Walmart, Target, GameStop and Amazon weren’t selling booster boxes during SWSH era.

[@axln1723]

@@culex69maybe you get there when people cleaned it out

[@2736492821]

@@culex69 ok timmy your area must represent the whole US

[@plyr1688]

I totally agree with you as I commented that Pokemon were to blame in your previous video. Let me give you some numbers to back that up. According to pokenotify stock check. For US Pokemon Center, 145k Surging sparks were available for pre orders. For Prismatic that was 165k. Now for journey together that was only 120k…. Some of the folks say the printing happened many months ago, there is a chance their forecast for Journey together may have been made before the surging sparks boom. We badly need a statement from Pokemon on the under printing and that more will be printed for Prismatic, otherwise no one wins as no one can get products easily.

[@ghostmonkeycustoms3766]

ETB's should never be above $60 IDGAF even if they're PC boxes. Price gouging is insane.

[@LudwigPig]

Not short printed. It will spread out over this entire year. I don’t agree Alex.

[@erik1993]

Watch till the end

[@LudwigPig]

@@erik1993 I did.

[@mercedessmellyogre6023]

There’s no way PC didn’t see how much money the pocket game was making and not print enough to where ETBs aren’t selling at 3x price before it even drops without it being short printed

[@scrappypat5612]

I love how your talking about how this set would have been widely available if A or B had happened when in reality the set is even out yet. For all we know big box stores got most of that allocation that LGS ect didnt get.

[@Andrew-yf3lu]

Its not artificial scarcity if they underprinted. That would be genuine scarcity, which is a useful thing for a collectible.

[@tycho2468]

Thats why Terastal festival is wicked. Beautiful cards, great pull rates and just a fun set to open. You dont get hosed by opening 4 or 5 boxs

[@BradHackett]

First, we get the 5 second stare - "FOLKS!" - now we get the walk-in "FOLKS!". Keeping us on our toes

[@matgreen4789]

If this is true it doesn’t make sense. There must be a production problem. There is no way a company will produce less than it can with so much demand. There was plenty of demand for the set don’t need to make any.

[@gawsnyy]

I have a feeling rocket and/or the 30th anniversary set is where pokemon will blow up the bubble and make people buy EVERYTHING

[@PokémonBoulevard]

Glad to see some of my comments from one of your earlier post come to use in this clip 😅. As mentioned in my comment to you earlier, Pokemon is deliberately doing it for three reasons. 1. The more hype the higher branding impact. 2. Quick term EBIT boost. 3. Setting up the hype for next year anniversary.

[@Red_Pill_things]

Even when you're wrong, you're still right - Kabal, probably

[@ItsFinigan]

I think partially, too, that the restock of Surging shows they’re working on it, & Priz will be available a lot over the next year.

[@leeyuhm]

1:28 this is crazy with no context💀

[@sandshrewtcg]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@lanevo5699]

Pokemon got us all by the balls feining for Pokemon product 😂

[@markradick72]

To be fair, pokemon knew how hype this would be for the community, BUT it was printed right AFTER sv03 and sv04 (obsidian and paradox,) two sets where pokemon ramped up production so much orders cancelled left and right (orders from shops to distros.) So pokemon printed to that low demand level, since sets are all printed a year in advance as revealed by pokemon directly. Seeing as though Surging is getting restocked this month, i dont expect prismatic to be too far behind.

[@GrimmRipper88]

There's been a cardboard shortage since Shining Fates got printed into oblivion. This is why Pokemon's hands are tied. You can't print without the proper materials. If they could, they definitely would.

[@HammerStudioGames]

Overprinting a set from 4 or 5 years ago caused a cardboard shortage that's still affecting us today?

[@GrimmRipper88]

@HammerStudioGames no, that wasn't the cause. Just Google is there a cardboard crisis. You'll get your answer

[@patrickm2227]

It’s perfectly valid to still be upset with scalpers lol

[@takeiteasybrah]

I think people underestimate the logistics that go into printing billions of Pokémon cards each year. If PrE is really short printed, I wouldn’t be surprised if TPCi started planning how much they were going to print last year when there was less demand and as Alex mentioned you could find 151 products for cheap everywhere.

[@ItsFinigan]

It kinda seems like they didn’t want to release into low demand like 151. Now, Priz demand will always be ravenous

[@pokemattsden]

Pokemon are reducing supply to bring the overall market to accept MRSP as the beach mark for products. This also then leads the PC to actually clear their stock of products faster for a better margin of sales directly rather than having to wait until all distros and stores sell out of stock and years later still have certain products in their warehouse which they simply don't want. Simple business tactics which creates short term mania in the hobby. Look at the side of the Pokemon company guys.👍

[@apache3660]

I’ve said it MANY times on this channel, there is an issue at the printing facilities. Pokémon have screwed up buying millennial print group. Is it mismanagement or employee shortage, who knows. All I know is, they botch the most underrated set of the era in Shrouded Fable.

[@1lionmurrill]

There’s theft and quality control issues at Millenial Print. They already released a statement admitting theft of Fusion Strike cards. They swept that under the rug, but you can still find the statement online. This time they were threatened to stay quiet about the SIRs in Prismatic. The current boxes that are out are worthless!

[@tsitrond]

no different than buying a 20 scratch and win at a gas station. It has become pure gambling degeneracy.

[@cosmicdestroyers]

1:46 Pokemon cant just print product instantly. prismatic was been printed long before orders were put in.

[@penthousecards]

Just got home from work. I noticed this this morning when i saw that my local walmart had less mj holding boxes than previous sets... 1 mj holding box is what they had

[@Deadlion0val]

A guy on KZbin, AnonTCG, is speculating that pokemon is moving temporal forces booster boxes of the pokemon center to distros. His only evidence is the PC stock dropped from 20k+ to 15k instead of a steady decrease. So maybe not a temporal reprint, but a restock (based on speculation)

[@pokene_pokemon]

Saw this video- seems like a very strange conclusion to a basic shift in inventory but hey, who knows

[@rahx3099]

​@pokene_pokemon that's what I thought. Anything for views ig

[@bbq1040]

The problem is that the prices are only high because there are professional scalpers buying all the product from big box stores. The market has plenty of supply but it's all being resold. I'm not sure why pokemon company doesn't just print to demand like they do in Japan from time to time. Let everyone put in their orders and then 6 months later it all shows up at their door. It'll be MSRP because that's what PC sells at but you won't have to fight people or pay over that price. PC makes their money and everyone gets their product. There can be limits or whatever but you get the point. Fighting for product isn't fun when the only reason you're fighting is because someone else has a computer program set to buy everything before you can check the website.

[@myplatinumlife]

A lot of Japanese businesses are more conservative and happy to lock-in a profit margin then chase additional sales. Nintendo does it all the time despite demand, so I’m not surprised it’s trickled down through them to Pokémon

[@NCEngravers]

6:58 sounds like someone had known this.. I won’t call his name out but he has a KZbin channel and said 1-4 are what you should be buying..

[@gonegirl2534]

FOOOLKS 🤣

[@jessemartinez367]

It's not Pokemons fault. The streamers and influencers are buying enormous amounts taking away from allocation.

[@xoxobobo1687]

I really appreciate what you say, but I don't agree. We can't ask Pokemon to print tens of millions of boosters per day. It's not 1995. It's not 2000. The material world is over. Digital is the future. Even books!! don't print like before, because it costs too much to produce. They can't lower material costs. So they went digital. Pokemon on digital. Everyone is free. Pokemon on the physical market. This will become more and more rare as the years go by. Because we are at the end of the cycle of the physical product consumer society. Hello to those who are 20/25 years old. You are right at the beginning of the end.

[@xoxobobo1687]

And in Pokemon, there is no one who is in charge of this mess. It's an atmosphere. This is the time. People lose their minds being on social media for hours. People waste hours yelling at video games. People eat poorly. Drink anything. Do not enjoy life properly. Spend their time judging. Don't enjoy their job. How do you expect to get clear-minded people? These are people who have a mixture of past / present / future in their heads. So when pokemon starts recalling past successes, and starts bringing them future financial potential, instead of remaining reasonable, they lose their minds. Because they are not balanced people, they give in to all their animal impulses. No control. Excess. And being able to spend 20K on Pokemon doesn't protect you from madness. Quite the contrary. This is the true justice of our world. You can have 1 billion in your bank account, or 0, you can spend eternity in fire

[@gitusumbia]

Digital pokemon cards are not the future They will not command the price People hoping they can sell their online cards for big money are wasting their time

[@xoxobobo1687]

@@gitusumbia All media are moving online. All newspapers are moving online. All books are moving online. There is nothing, nothing, that can tell Pokemon today: we will not go online. 1) people will have their cards 2) it will cost a lot less. 3) there are no more carrier costs. No need to send cards halfway around the world by ship. 4) there will no longer be any inventory management 5) There will be a whole new creative freedom. There is absolutely everything to be gained from going digital. And this can lead to innovation, to materialize cards that you have on your phone, like with holograms. Investors and the secondary market not happy? what do i care

[@gitusumbia]

@xoxobobo1687 newspapers and books are not in the same league as collectibles Idiots lost tons of money in buying NFTs Nothing will replace the ability to hold a collectible in your hand. The same technology was around when pokemon first started online card play, when they first started including codes for online cards. People don't spend big money on them, they never will. If you are hoping your online pokemon collection will bring you tons of money, you will sadly find out otherwise

[@Obbss]

Digital yeah no lmao

[@bthojh9849]

Here's my hot take: WE(the collectors, investors, dealers, players), are to blame for the short print run of Prismatic Evolutions. NOT The Pokemon Company. WHY? Because the MAJORITY of US disliked the crowns on our precious Pokemon. The sentiment was vastly NEGATIVE and at best INDIFFERENT. Those who liked the crowns were FEW and FAR between. ***I don't hear anyone dogging on the crowns now!!!*** I bet TPC saw that negativity. And got shook. So they took it to heart and short printed the 1st wave of PE. Once production started and their numbers were finalized...It was TOO LATE to adjust. So blame yourself(if you were negative), not TPC, not streamers, not the evil investors, not scalpers, not influencers, not rip and shippers, not poketubers, for the current market we are living in.

[@nickloughner7512]

this is EXACTLY what i have been preaching. Pokemon company is a failure of a buisness to achieve their demand. It is a complete and utter tragedy that they aren't throwing all their efforts into printing this set as they make money from selling it to distributors WHY ARE THEY WANTING THIS STUPID DEMAND.

[@djsamplegee]

Pokemon don't just "forget" to print half the product. Everything is by design.

[@MikeJacobs313]

Lucked out like crazy and went to buy a couple battle style booster boxes from pc, and just happened to see prismatic evolutions etb pre order. Only got 2, but literally 10 min later I decided to buy a couple more, and sold out. Only time I been this lucky with a fast selling pre-order lmao Side note, everyone..if things get stagnant, don't sell off...it ALWAYS goes up lol (sealed that is)

[@Pokefanatix]

A giant company like the Pokemon company is not just going to leave millions and millions of dollars on the table. They’re printing at full capacity, there’s just so much more demand and people getting into the hobby right now.

[@steelcitycollector]

They probably want to drive people to the mobile app. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@sleeprene]

I think it’s the other way around, mobile app drove the physical TCG sales way up lol

[@zmbigmr]

Maybe, just maybe, Pokemon used this opportunity to flesh out old product that was sitting on shelves. Everything got gobbled up by speculators. When a manufacturer or distributors have an opportunity to sell off all old product, it’s smart business to allow the hype to make those sales. That’s been my gut feeling so far.

[@harrywilliams5599]

I actually feel like they haven’t short printed, I think they will do scattered restocks often. They know what they’re doing for sure

[@vjsoccer4204]

Been saying this since Surging Sparks, Pokémon is creating false scarcity. It led to the biggest TCG boom in history and they see the instant profit. They don't care that this will hurt the hobby long term.

[@Sun33daze]

Yeah look at how many distros got access to their products because of demand. Then you have stuff selling out on Pokemon center website that otherwise would of sat because of fomo

[@doncardking2677]

I’m curious how will it hurt Pokémon long term?

[@vjsoccer4204]

@@doncardking2677 Pokemon is bigger than ever because we as kids bought the cards in early 2000. Then, years later we became adults with disposable income to collect cards. Kids growing up now will not have that experience since now, product is hard to get. When they grow up, they wont have nostalgia for cards like we did.

[@MVCollectibles]

what we saw with 151 is what a healthy release and organic growth looks like. A market price near MSRP on release keeps everyone happy, stores still make a margin, collectors, players, investors can get product at a good price, scalpers ignore it. 2-3x MSRP should come 2-3 years after release, NOT BEFORE!!!!

[@shockwave.9749]

This idea that scalpers aren't part of the problem is simply not true. They may not be the root problem but absolutely making ir worse

[@IndecisivPanda]

It’s still scalpers too. 500 boxes of etb is crazy

[@bighousetube]

Short print the release then flood the market? New pokemon strategy?

[@1lionmurrill]

GameStop and other retailers may be making an announcement soon about delays in future prismatic products. It has to do with theft of SIR cards at the North Carolina, Morrisville printing facility. I don’t want to get anyone in trouble, but Management at Millennium Print, are forbidden to discuss the situation, as it could lead to disciplinary action “up to and including termination,” because the reduced hit rate will negatively impact “consumer confidence” (Money)

[@HammerStudioGames]

I'm calling absolute horseshit on this. This is as stupid as believing those fusion strike hits that were found before they hit the open market somehow affected the hit rates of that set. If you believe that kind of stuff I got a tin foil hat I can sell you

[@ClubEditing]

I just don't understand why pokemon aren't printing more of a very very obvious home run set

[@TannerNeese]

Every set is a home run set. Why print more 151 when you can’t find shrouded fable on the shelf?

[@vjsoccer4204]

did you not see the video?? Pokemon clearly wants to create this massive boom

[@TannerNeese]

@@vjsoccer4204 okay what’s your point?

[@gitusumbia]

​@@vjsoccer4204they had issues selling most S&V until surging sparks By the time surging sparks took off, printing for PE was likely already done

[@Colluhn]

The hype from surging sparks and prismatic has caused almost every other set to sell out. They could have easily short printed coupled with the release of their new app. People are excited and can’t get their hands on the newest sets so they are buying what’s available. Could have been a genius move on Pokémon’s part to clear out practically all existing inventory.

[@player1966]

Collectors/investors have changed the method of investing by no longer purchasing product after months/years of release to buying at release. Pokémon have set themselves up by releasing sets every 3 months. This leaves pokemon to be constantly be focused on the next thing instead of the of the previous one. This is where the scarcity comes from

[@PixelatedEpiphany]

“Investors” are no better than scalpers as far as I’m concerned

[@SanDiegoReaper]

If this is indeed Pokémon’s plan to short print to increase MSRP. It worked, Journey Together sold out in minutes for boxes at $160.00. If they release Team Rocket at $180, it will sell out in minutes. They might be geniuses.

[@TheGoorru]

Sorry, I don't believe the Distributors, apparently they got enough to give HUNDREDS, even thousands of ETBs to Streamers but not to stores. 🤔 Also we don't know how much is going to big box stores because of exact situations like this where distributors are scalping.

[@HammerStudioGames]

What streamer has thousands of etbs? I get we're all upset but you shouldn't just pull things out of your ass like that

[@Notmyname64]

Living in harmony doesn't build hype like the scarcity does

[@bthojh9849]

Worst timing ever for Pokemon Company to be finding a middle ground right now

[@thedrixperspective]

Tinfoil hat time, distributors are just saying they got less so they have more inventory to release at higher prices during the next wave available to their purchasing accounts.

[@RFseeker]

I agree Alex. Balance is what's needed right now. Pokémon can't control greed.

[@TKMagicShop]

Thank you for your help bro! I got in just in time, and it’s because of you. Thank you very very much broski

[@billyworks3702]

If and when Pokémon actually prints the next English set to demand, LGS stores will get their hand caught in the cookie jar, they will go out of business and the English market will be in free fall… you’ve been warned

[@Mikethatguy7]

Pokémon will adjust, more will be printed. They aren’t going to leave money on the table.

[@djjoshybofficial]

Is it possible that Pokemon did print enough but distributors are holding onto it and not allocating it to stores?

[@Logows9332]

In 2023 and early 2024 when pokemon was dying due to overprinting and availabilty. Most pokemon pseudo-collectors quit the hobby and invest in something else like one piece as no quick profit made. Pokemon was losing it until the short printing happens made it strong again and bring people back to pokemon again. what makes pokemon hobby alive again is that someone may make some money out of it, once they overprint, they leave. Keeping the demand high/ Supply less than demand is the only way to keep the Pokemon buyers otherwise see most of them leaving again only to come back when too late.

[@voxnewman]

No. If they gave everyone what they actually ordered it would all be sold at massive losses and stores/distributors would risk bankruptcy. And also, almost no e would want it anymore. The reason it's short printed is because when they made the decision on the print run, all scarlet and violet sets were selling poorly. If no one's buying, print runs go down. It's pretty simple

[@davidfrom94]

So they aren’t struggling with printing and keeping up with demand and streamers ripping everyday? They are just holding back product?

[@marinoaristy5659]

Reprint does mean more affordability. As soon as Surging Sparks and Temporal Booster boxes get reprinted I'm grabbing 4 cases of each set 🤙🏼

[@markradick72]

There's no limit of 2. You're losing my trust by the second. The limit of 2 exists for people not signed in. It combats scalping.

[@A-Literal-Fruit]

I don't understand what exactly TPC is trying to do. Short printing a set only to have it sell out in minutes doesn't directly benefit them, especially when they don't intend to print anymore product and if they do it'll be months later. If they just keep printing it, they just keep making money. And with the pull rates as they are you KNOW people will keep on buying it and opening product to chase those cards they want. I understand the hype factor, but considering in Japan they continue to print the equivalent sets of the english ones CONSTANTLY, it makes 0 sense what they're doing here to me. Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not someone who understand business in-and-out. But I can at least understand that continuously making something people want is a constantly inward flow of cash for you, whereas the secondary market makes them NOTHING.

[@existentiald562]

I think pokémon is a very smart company but i also think the worst thing they could do is try to compete with itself

[@ThatGuyJay44]

Prismatic Evolutions gonna end up being compared to Panini’s National Treasures 😂

[@OnlineFunVIdz]

Everybody wanted Evolving Skies until they got Evolving skies..

[@joejoeholmes]

Maybe if Pokemon Co. released fewer sets per year, they could print more of the sets people really want...

[@Mental_Dragon]

Pokemon will raise msrp prices. This is exactly what Topps did.

[@Cams_Cards]

I never thought about the sports card side of it, i sell both, and youre right. The difference is no one complains about prices like they do on the pokemon side.

[@FruitVideos]

151 was so scarce in the UK, but nothing compared to Prismatic.

[@PokeCardDexQuest]

Given the demand, I’m shocked they didn’t print this to the ground. They knew it was going to be high demand. Why do they want the secondary market to be high? The Pokémon company sells them for the same price and makes the same money regardless of the secondary market.

[@john-dy5vd]

More incentive to buy? Its like gambling.

[@Swatta637]

Love your channel brother! Really appreciate the circling around again with new knowledge!

[@Poke-Sie]

Pokemon creating false scarcity like PSA controlling PSA 10's.

[@warriorsdynastypart275]

I think everyone is underestimating the popularity of pokemon including the Pokemon company itself. I doubt they would go out of their way to way to print less then what they normally would print in a year. In 2023 they supposedly printed 11 billion cards… You think the next year they would only print 5 billion cards or would they go up? I’m gonna assume they printing to the max to maximize profits.

[@cwright1407]

Hell, looks like they’re short printing all this stuff so much they may as well start including serialised cards 😂

[@HemelsHD]

What if Pokémon manipulates the market by printing almost nothing of Prismatic and then overprinting Journey Together? Stores are gonna order a lot more for Journey together cus they think they are only gonna get a percentage of that set like Prismatic Evolutions. And when that happens, Pokémon will give 100 % of the ordered product to the stores and make tons of money? Am i cooking or wrong here?!

[@RedactedMemo]

you watched pokeNE video too, nice

[@harrisonhinton4859]

It would be interesting if pokemon was doing this to try and cut out the distribution network and keep the profits in house.

[@happyeggroll5267]

Poke knows what they are doing

[@MrMongerty]

There is plenty of blame to go around . Pokemon isn't providing what they should, distributors are botching the allocations of what little they get, and stores that are jacking up prices due to scarcity all get the amount of hate they deserve here. I can and will hold it against all of them.

[@thegrimace1041]

Some prismatic dropped in a local Walmart today. My wife was lucky enough to grab some.

[@cindythorne9614]

I am very upset with The Pokémon company! I have collected Pokémon on & off since 1999 but I'm DONE ! This is the biggest pile of crap I've ever seen a company do to their customers! I think it's a disgrace!!! I am sickened by the greed of people!! That's all this is ; GREED of Pokémon company, GREED of the scalpers GREED OF ALL who are making this happen. I'm DONE unless they fix this by reprinting till it's coming out those greedy scummy people's ears!!! This will be the end of Pokémon!!!

[@machampcollectibles]

Interesting move by Pokemon. I wonder if they're trying to drive demand knowing they'll print this set for 2 years straight? Or maybe they're preparing to increase MSRP? Kind of odd. This set was obviously going to be a high value set, it's not like the demand is a surprise.

[@XxKakashiTCGxX]

Pokemon is to blame. They don't want anyone profiting. You buy it when they print and from Pokemon or not at all. They want all the profit.

[@stevecordeirio7932]

They used Pikachu to fire up the engine then eeveelutions to hammer it down. Rocket will be way way worse

[@OfficialPeterArizBurner]

A shift towards purely digital collectibles.

[@Reds-Card-Case]

If the god pack is real, were toast. Thats like pulling the top 8 most expensive cards from evolving skies all in 1 pack. People will go phyco and that pack will be worth thousands, even raw. People will be weighing their sticker and poster collections, maybe even etbs. It will be a chase like we have not seen in english modern in a while.

[@rahx3099]

They are real

[@buzzbro1235]

Yeah it actually is real

[@scrappypat5612]

How do you go from Shrouded Fable to Prismatic evolutions? Like normal human beings cannot handle swings like that

[@omnipotencenurturingmalevo147]

It's not a reprint it is a restock there is a difference and was confirmed by someone with distro access. It was from the same store that sold surging sparks for 190 on tcgplayer a bb not too long ago.