pacificpikachu | (no subject)

Not something I talk about much, but I figured I'd talk about Pokémon cards briefly.

I am nowhere near a "serious" card collector, though I do enjoy casually collecting. There aren't very many cards I really want, but there are a few. My favorite cards are old Japanese promos. This is mostly because, I remember as a child reading about these in magazines and online. They seemed so unattainable, legendary, things you stared at and dreamed of but never saw in real life. They had almost a mythical status at the time.

Several of those cards are now mine. I have JR "Lilypad" Mew, JR surfing Pikachu, the first Birthday Pikachu brand new in its packaging, and also a card I really thought I'd never have, Grand Party. It's awesome to get these items that I daydreamed about so long ago, and see them in my card binder. I have many other cards that are special as well, but perhaps not as special as those four.

I still have some cards I want--McDonalds promo Mew 033/P, the Natta Wake promo birthday Pikachu and probably all the birthday Pikachu cards really, and the Worlds promo cards with surfing Pikachu on them, among others--but overall, I'm very satisfied with the cards I have. I think it's just amazing to have these items that are certainly not as rare as I used to think (they were overhyped), but if my younger self could know that I have them, she would be awestruck. It brings me back to when I was younger and it felt like they were the some of the most incredible things you could possibly have. They are cherished items to me for that reason--they evoke that magical feeling I had as a kid, and still often have, about Pokémon.