This Is Ridiculously Dumb

[@okJLUV]

i literally cried when i saw this. cried into my wallet exploding 100 dollar bills because i sold 150 of these

[@OpossumBud]

Just sell a couple Marnie’s you’ll be square king 😂 All seriousness this is wild man…

[@RocSandy]

We know Julian.... we know

[@okJLUV]

doesn't surprise me anymore, collectors have flakey convictions, i wanna speak to the people buying these off ebay

[@AgentAndy954]

@@okJLUVsame lmao

[@aaronscott2278]

Geese only 150? Slacking

[@Djsonley]

Those scalpers are acting like Van Gough actually painted the freaking thing 🤣

[@schmidtcjoseph]

Maybe he did…🤔

[@GrowingReality101]

Grown adults fighting over children's cardboard will never not be hilarious to me. 😂

[@OpossumBud]

It’s funny… kinda 👀

[@RocSandy]

I like how the music is so calm and carefree, while the video is just grown men going on a rampage 😂

[@OpossumBud]

It’s artistic 😎

[@026Gonzo]

You can tell they never been part of Black Friday deals at Walmart.

[@m3llowrush]

Deadly Premonition is a gem 💎

[@ShinyVert]

“it’s just not worth it” was as real as it could get

[@OpossumBud]

I mean it’s just not worth it

[@PakaManDraws]

These types really make the hobby look bad…all cash no passion.

[@OpossumBud]

Facts on facts

[@TypeNull19]

Between this and the way Lorcana is being handled, I’m just shaking my head with the current TCG workd

[@DarthTerrax]

The museum should have immediately kicked them out and banned. Distasteful af

[@DarthTerrax]

Also you can get all of that stuff online.

[@mr.d5593]

I live in the Netherlands And I was there. Got my lovely Pikachu promo. But man It was crazy. All these adults running around, I heard some adults got like 8 tickets so they went 8 times to get 8 promos. It was not child friendly at all. When we left the museum some 20 adults were trying to buy the card for 50-150 euros. Insanity. It wasn't enjoyable really.

[@bodaciouscans]

Ik ben bang 😬

[@master_kev1]

Sad

[@djsenekerable]

"Calm down, it's just a drawing"

[@OpossumBud]

😂😂

[@pdeXlol]

What really sucks is I visited the Van Gogh Museum on Sept 20th. If I had only known.... I left Amsterdam on the 26th lol

[@hieinh]

So disrespectful. It's like black friday at walmart. I bought online and was only able to get the deck boxes and journals. Really wanted a plush and the playmats

[@ShinyScarfy]

Grown adults rampaging over a pikachu with a hat

[@OpossumBud]

Yup

[@NinjaCamper94]

Honestly that opening stampede makes me want to sell everything and quit rather than have anything in common with those animals

[@OpossumBud]

It’s embarrassing man, like I even had people I work with asking me about it 😐

[@robertswatchin]

None of those greedy goblins have ever played the game game let alone struggled through rock tunnel without flash, the true test of a pokemon fan

[@marnixdejongh7994]

I really hope the Pokemon Company will take action on this and print this card to the moon and back so that they'll be worthless. The only way to fight scaplers.

[@Mephitinae]

"The more I grab for myself, the more rare they will become" - these bozos, 2023

[@AndrewFalberg]

How embarrassing 🤯😂😂😂🤯it's like that scene in game of thrones when Joffrey gets the cow pie thrown at his face and the MOB of kings landing people rip off the high septons arm 🤣🤣

[@OpossumBud]

Embarrassing is the best way to put it man 😐

[@DrHQuinzel]

You know it's exceptionally f***ed up when we open the video with the whistle song

[@PokeTrev8590]

This is just . . . So wildly unsurprising.

[@OpossumBud]

Right? 👀

[@PokeTrev8590]

@@OpossumBud yeah, it’s ridiculous. I’m hoping to get the deck sleeves and a playmat if they make one, and if I’m able to get the promo with those when I order them from PC, awesome, it will look nice on my Pikachu page. If not, at least I didn’t embarrass myself like these lunatics.

[@leer3943]

I refuse to believe most of these people actually collect and enjoy pokemon. They are just scalpers, only reason grown ass adults acting like this is because they think they can instantly put it on ebay for 2 to 3 times the price. People be wild just for a couple hundred scalper bucks at best.

[@SpicyRancher]

Great vid. I can feel the passion and frustration just like you. I probably wouldn’t have been so pissed if we hadn’t just experienced this with the Yokohama pikachu promo too. Seeing eBay listings with dozens of boxes onto of each other lol. Gross. Even more ridiculous we have to accept it from the biggest franchise in the world.

[@Pokemonrancher]

Ah the wonderful joy of pokemon brining people together ❤️

[@AnthonyGiallourakis]

I'm saving my money for the Taylor Swift Pikachu promo card. Just wait and see.... You heard it here first.

[@marandaburcham2909]

Its actually embarrassing cause it makes the community look crazy.

[@cubonecancraft]

These were not Pokémon fans. They were feral animals. There is no way the museum could prepare for this. A museum is for civil people with even basic manners to learn. This should have been shut down asap to plan a better strategy. Rattle had some good ideas. I feel bad for the staff. I would love a card and a plushie for my daughter who loves art. Fingers crossed.

[@abcdefbcdefg8352]

nah, they could've implemented the 1 per person per day rule, and they could've separated the questionnaire line from the promo line. gift shop should've had a limit of how many people could be in the store at one time, and with the 1 item rule, no risk of running out of stock for a promotion that is supposed to last 3 more months. i've seen many smaller cons that implemented rules similar to this, and have they all had stellar drop days.

[@OpossumBud]

That’s my stance as well, these arent fans they’re resellers. Most of them anyway. No real fan acts like that

[@katedixie461]

Van Gogh is someone near and dear to my heart as an artist myself. I knew I wasn't going to get it. Its embarrassing seeing grown adults fighting over this stuff.

[@SVXN1999]

i was there yesterday to get the card with a friend of mine. Right when i entered the museum to wait for my friend who had a ticket 15 minutes later than me i got asked multiple times if i want the card or if i can give it to the people asking which bought multiple tickets for the 28 so they could get multiple copys of the card, which fortunately didnt work since they got recognised by the staff members. Also when i left with my copy there was a dude standing outside offering 50 Euros to everyone who left the store to buy multiple cards. Wtf is this

[@wolf_ceit_witch]

The sad part is I love Van Gogh and I waited on the Pokemon site and waited for it to drop, I don't know how people had things in their carts before hand, but when I hit refresh to see if it came up, everything was sold out on the site. When I hit refresh again, the site was temparary down. There is no way, I am going to pay scalper prices for this card that I love. It's a beautiful card. I had thought that they were going to limit the amount you could buy and have enough for atleast a day. I have no confidence... In the pokemon center.

[@nash.fuller]

Honestly I love this card but fuck that price. Also I seen some new custom cards people were making and blastoise with the starry nights background is fire Edit: this card dropped in price significantly today I seen them at like 80 to 150 they may drop more so if you want it wait out the hype.

[@TheFlamesofRuin]

I too have missed out on tons of Pokemon TCG product due to lack of product in brick/mortar stores as well as just not having the money to pay online prices and I too am okay with not having everything the company has to offer. I'm thankful for what I do get my hands on and they are cherished additions to my personal collection. Scalpers just get into a blood frenzy when it comes to shiny pieces of cardboard. It is clear that in certain aspects that the Pokemon hype bubble has yet to pop. Also... that video reminds me of Black Friday shopping. Just pure insanity bro!!!

[@OpossumBud]

That’s a good way to think about it 100% 👍🏽 and yeah big Black Friday mosh pit vibes 😐

[@ryanpandolfi4551]

What’s even better is Instagram folks saying they have over 20 copies for sale

[@thejapanesezombie]

I can feel my face going red with embarrassment when I watched this. What are people going to think of us people who don't do this in the hobby? We going to get lumped with everyone else?

[@OpossumBud]

Yeah all the pushing and shoving is mighty embarrassing no way around it 😐 this is the hobby and it makes us all look bad

[@thejapanesezombie]

@@OpossumBud yeah these guys make us look worse than children. They act better than this. Just as bad as that video from the Yu Nagaba promo

[@pokeplush66]

That thing with the Pokemon Centre was faked and photoshopped, it caused a lot of extended FOMO that made people pay a LOT

[@OpossumBud]

I’m addressing it, appreciate ya 👍🏽

[@pokeplush66]

@@OpossumBud np bro

[@TechnoPrayer15]

what if you wanted Grey Felt Hat Pikachu but God said TRAMPLED TO DEATH AT THE VAN GOGH GIFT SHOP

[@OpossumBud]

That would stink 😐

[@schmidtcjoseph]

“BuT I LoVe VaN GoUgH” I’ve got a copy of the Mona Lisa sitting in my living room right now🤣😂

[@leosc24]

It's crazy to me how the pokemon center didn't anticipate this

[@2UGamingProductions]

That was the general merchanise too. They had to color the museum walk thru booklet to get the promo. I hope the desk person withheld lack of effort art by grown people when it was meant for kids to draw.

[@steeveegamez]

Imagine being an adult and fighting over a squeaky electric mouse. Oh wait ….

[@TheRepoMan360]

I've been on a buying break. Sitting here...waiting for things to calm down...I should probably make another pot of coffee.

[@OpossumBud]

You’re the smart one

[@BotSilent]

Bro when u said gooo fuck yourself the way u said it had me rolling bro was so funny!!! 🤣😂🤣

[@oldmanketchum]

Pokémon should do a physical survey you get from the back of a cereal box and you pay shipping and Pokémon sends you the promo. Maybe that would slow scalpers down.

[@verschworungstheorieverste2499]

The nativity of that release is somewhat co responsible for that mud wrestling scenario. CUdos to Santa cruz being sneaky with their release.

[@dustinnorris1859]

Mind sharing where you got raging surf for $55? I’d like to actually buy Japanese again lol

[@riticolum]

I really consider to fly over from Berlin with the kids. After seeing this I'm happy that I missed out

[@Austin_180]

Shit looked like a moshpit at a slipknot concert lol

[@plutotradingco]

You on the right track. Its bullshit. PC just crashed and everything on PC was sold out instantly, most likely by bots. Pikachu card price has not dropped still at high 300's no supply or demand. Scalpers holding prices high. I couldn't check out even with items in my cart. Just disgusting what its become.

[@royvannieuwkoop6348]

Man this hurts to watch… i am from the netherlands and was planning to go to the museum, but i am feeling really ashamed right now… I am not even sure if there will be any cards left in november or something lol… and man… adults fighting for cards.. its insane

[@MakoKong]

Nintendo is partly to blame. What did they expect? You can't come out with something this unique and do a limited print. They need to print this into the ground just like the special delivery Charizard

[@OpossumBud]

Yeah at some point it needs to be handled different because people can’t be trusted

[@Yankeesfan-zb8dz]

Pokémon I think at this point knows if they do a new set and have a big chase card or a big collaboration with a special promo card they know people will go crazy and spend money

[@OpossumBud]

Sure seems that way 🙏🏽

[@Yankeesfan-zb8dz]

@@OpossumBud it's just sad, they know people will act this way and that gets coverage from news outlets and people like you who are upset and can see the BS and you just don't want it this way

[@thawhiteazn]

The website didn’t get botted, links went live before they were supposed to. You didn’t miss anything, the deal isn’t even technically live yet from Pokémon Center.

[@OpossumBud]

I’m aware thank you 👍🏽

[@javo10ful]

You can get the card in Pokemon center?

[@Chickencoop856]

They only dropped 3 products so far. There's more to come like sleeves, a puzzle, etc. There will be other chances (I hope)

[@OpossumBud]

For sure, just seeing this garbage was a lot lol

[@tiny_gyarados8848]

Not to mention that they will be available to buy from pokemon center later.

[@Meowtro]

I do need this card, but I'll wait until it drops to like $30 lol because it's going to be printed to oblivion.

[@williamkshaw]

The email from the Pokemon Center was proven fake and there are still promo cards to be given out. Hell the US Pokemon Center hasn't officially dropped the merch at this point

[@OpossumBud]

Aware of that now appreciate ya 👍🏽

[@PokeBeardTCG]

Can you tell me where I can find the fake pokemon center email?? Or send me a link?? I'm trying to make a video about it but I can't find it

[@wolf_ceit_witch]

It has and it is already sold out.

[@GoldstarMagikarp]

God help us when there’s an error version.

[@OpossumBud]

Oh god 😳

[@CapnWilly]

I was waiting for your take on this. Man I was really trying to get one of the canvas arts from PC. No luck.

[@Frozenflame14]

"Those look cool* *Watches intro vid* "Not anymore"

[@OpossumBud]

I’m sorry 😂

[@cooliusmaximus8842]

still kicking myself for not grabbing the scream promos while they were cheap.

[@Pokerrito]

We need a batman in the pokemon community to put these people in their place

[@Seabei2]

that guy in the black button up in the front looks like the binder thief

[@FighterNP]

I'm not a van gogh fan what so ever, but the artwork on the card looks very nice and so does the Pikachu Van gogh fig. I was going to get the Eevee one if it looked just as good but this happened and now i can't get either of them cause they made it "Coming soon" on the PC website.

[@moistflops6283]

i cut my ear off and sent it too the museum with a please request for a promo

[@OpossumBud]

Hope you get one you earned it

[@crg1850]

So I actually am a van gogh fan. Flew to Amsterdam to go the museum a few years ago and I have some of his reprint canvases in my house. So this was the first promo I went after and bots blocked me 😭. I hope the second hand market doesn't kill me.

[@gerarddowd318]

Opposum just wanted to to give a shout out to the moderators who run one of the UK Facebook groups I am a member of. They took the decision yesterday to refuse sales posts of this product until November 1st to protect members from the FOMO. Great video 100% agree you don’t need everything.

[@OpossumBud]

Mad appreciate that homie tell the mods I said hi 🫡

[@aterriblesliceoftoast]

I enjoy being a bit more reserved in the collecting side of the community. It makes moments like this seem even more wild 😂 I love Van Goh, the most inspiring artist to me when I was younger, but damn 😂

[@CatBack94]

Bunch of vulchers looking like they are fighting for a meal after being starved for a whole month 😂

[@OpossumBud]

It’s sad to see adults acting like this over Pokémon cards man

[@CatBack94]

They have no shame bro

[@turboswim]

Was talking about this bs at the local card store. We all had the same response, if the idiots would stop buying this scalped bs, people would stop this bs. Also had several people clomp in on 151 weekend demanding product, and got angry that the league players had some 151 as we were playing at the tables, because they limited stuff to 2 per customer. To be fair Pokemon isn't there only tgc with issues. Lorcana league play is even better, you'd of thought we were holding gold and their first born, when most of us barely have enough for legal play.

[@TheFriskySquid]

Pretty dumb the way pokemon does these releases. I mean I understand it is nice to launch the promos at a physical location before dropping it online, makes people more likely to go to the museum but it also means this kind of thing happens. Then to top it all off, the Pokemon Center only dropped 3 of the products the entire day today and held off on everything else which further pushed fear/demand.

[@summoned_skulll9480]

the AUDACITY to charge shipping ...

[@chibikreations6225]

Good luck on getting the Groudon. Yeah this situation is out of control and they also disturbed other patrons that just wanted to be at the museum. I was happy seeing Raging Surf being so cheap online so I picked up one box for myself since there are a few alt arts I like form the set.

[@dragonforce97]

Would love to see a raging surf opening. F those greedy scalpers

[@OpossumBud]

You got it 😎

[@lv13david]

The people caught in that video thought they were getting free tendies, but really they were paying with their dignity, and tarnishing our hobby in the process.

[@OpossumBud]

100%, traded it for promo cards

[@verschworungstheorieverste2499]

They don't care.

[@fabiopolar]

I still don't get it, how this stupid Company isn't able to finally manage a regulated give out of such promo cards. One per person should not be a problem to do, and of course some people would find ways to achieve more than one, but photos of scalpers getting like 25 copies really piss me off, how tha fuck is this possible? 😡

[@jordanpax9735]

I hate how crazy ppl get, but they missed out on making a dark ghost starry night card

[@BigKO26]

Pikachu dying inside right now

[@theifhawk]

Zoinkerdoodles, Time to chop my arms off to get all the promos for the scarlet and violet era.

[@OpossumBud]

😂😂

[@dmcinnis23]

"You're about to see some degeneracy of my hobby that I'm extremely ashamed of..." 😂 100% agree. I love the cards, but... it's a GAME. FOR. SIX. YEAR. OLDS.

[@2UGamingProductions]

That worse than black friday at Macys.

[@BySheel]

i would’ve gone just to rip the fattest fart in that crowd so we can experience some semblance of justice

[@MultiDhays]

This is ridiculously unsurprising. Pokemon should reprint the hell out of this promo to fuck over the scalpers. Also I wonder if UltimatePokeFlute sent his kids into that line to get extra promos too? 👀

[@yachief1579]

All they got to do now is print it into oblivion so no one makes money on the secondary market. 🤣

[@OpossumBud]

I hope to god they do lol

[@Jessie_n_james_tcg]

Glad to see we see eye to eye once again. The card is cool yes and I would like one yes but if I don’t guess what life goes on lolz. It’s not worth over spending or getting hurt for a damn piece of card board. Good stuff again brother!

[@hectorh.7707]

It sucks, that Pika promo is real nice. I don't know why I was hoping that maybe JUST MAYBE....Pokemon Company would actually just print these into oblivion. Also every time I hear Van Gogh get mentioned, I get a little sad. The dude never got to see his stuff take off, here we are, in a world where people are fighting in the museum with his name but.....pokemon lol

[@OpossumBud]

I’m sure they will, it’s being apparently handed out til January if they have the supply. It’s just a shame watching this crap

[@1Tjump]

It would also possibly make him sad to see how people are obsessed with money. Watching the richest people and exhibits keeping art locked away, and then people fighting over accessible art just to make a couple hundred bucks.

[@bkkriz]

You can get the card in the US and CA sites as well. The US one hasn’t released all their products yet :)

[@OpossumBud]

I’m following up

[@TechnoPrayer15]

i wonder if this will cause museums to never want to do a collaboration like this in the future with Pokémon

[@TheVTRainMan]

Sauce Boss be drooling hard over this! Imagine if tjhere was a zardy artwork as well. 😥

[@MizuHime07]

Sighh :( guess this is one promo card I won’t own. I had no luck on Pokémon Center today. Van Gogh is one of my favorite artists too, would have loved to get this Pika card.

[@finksworld]

Don't be shocked. Two years ago this type of stuff was happening at McDonalds over a Pikachu Holo.

[@OpossumBud]

I remember

[@AudaciousForest]

I cannot tell you how unfathomably pissed I was about this entire situation. Why was TPC setting the purchase limit SO HIGH for these?!?! I just wanted a damn plushie but nooooooooooooooo. Fuck me I guess.

[@OpossumBud]

I don’t know, I think it was to attempt to deter a sellout? I guess?

[@AudaciousForest]

@@OpossumBud Someone said that the purchase limit for the plush was 5. FIVE. WHAT DO YOU NEED 5 FOR??? Just lemme have one ; -; By the time I even saw the listing posted, it gave me an error and then the listing got deleted like 2 minutes later.

[@michaelkrynski7793]

1890: Van Gogh ends his own life, having suffered a lifetime of poverty during which he only sold a single painting out of the 2100 artworks he produced 2023: Grown adults trample each other to get cardboard pictures of a rodent wearing his hat credit: Fawnlily

[@sallyhally87]

I'm sick of pokemom not doing what is needed to fix this issue. It's been years. Bloody sort it out!

[@PokeRetroFan]

Wheatfield with crows. Literally and figuratively. It's sadly ironic

[@ChengAhLang]

Ridiculously dumb or.... Ridiculously Rare! Mwahahah

[@sonofamerc]

S/o to everyone realizing they don’t need everything, and not puttin anything in your mouth

[@JoeyTheSinic]

People? All i can see in that video are literal clowns looting the museum. 😂😂😂

[@eddieherrera809]

What Fresh Hell is this? 😂 keep killing my man!

[@NinjaCamper94]

Also war flashbacks from 2020

[@OpossumBud]

Oh yeah big champion’s path energy lol

[@dOuPdMe]

In all the collectible community there’s always a bummy part of it

[@Barnyholmes]

I got more important things in my life that requires my attention. The low sweep people have gone is just embarrassing. Luckily I have a gig in Dam in November so I’m gonna try and get it then, when the heat cools down. 🥶

[@MakeUShuckle]

Imagine being an adult and actually non-ironically acting like this. I’m an avid Pokémon collector and behaving like this for a piece of shiny cardboard is actually insane. Embarrassing for the hobby tbh

[@yepdontcarebud]

I'd do it if they were giving away 1st edition shadowless charizards lol but this is absurd, like a bunch of wild chimps