Only a bit through the video but I do want to offer a slight correction; TPC isnt owned solely by Nintendo, it's a joint venture between Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures, inc. Not a huge deal but afaik, Nintendo mostly deals with the video game side of the franchise, so I actually don't know how concerned about this they would be compared to the hacked switches for example.
I'm a little surprised they wouldn't handle much in the board game or trading card section of their company since Nintendo began as a company that sold playing cards, checkers sets, and jacks...in the 1870s. I think they are older than the Sears Roebuck Company.
@@christhe2dprotogen511 and then Danny Gonzales would follow him as he's being locked up, saying, 'Jarvis, bro! This isn't real, bro.... Jarvis, bro, no...!'
Nah like Jarvis said, it got caught on camera. It was only a matter of time before the thief got caught from the footage, so they had to get rid of them quick.
When I was a little kid (early 2000's) I designed my own Pokemon and drew a mockup of a card design. Also made up their abilities and everything. My parents helped me mail my idea to Nintendo because I thought they might love it and turn it into a real Pokemon. They actually sent me a letter back and in the nicest way possible basically said "we don't take ideas from outside sources you silly child". But I've always thought it was so cool they took the time to respond to me. 😂
I know it's not Pokemon related, but the story about Wizards of the Coast hiring The Pinkertons to intimidate a customer who received unreleased product by mistake is BLOWING tf up right now. Could be a fun follow-up to this video!
Yeah ive never seen this many hyper rares and secret rares even if they were FAKE lmao Let alone actual fucking cards with hundreds of dollars of value for EACH CARD lmao
right,, it's actually *horrifying.* i understand nintendo wanting to preserve their intellectual property but they barely even give a shit about preserving their games. they're just evil. literally one of the worst fucking corporations in the world, right up there with disney.
Agreed. It’s gross that it gets treated as a good thing just because the soulless corporation that enacted it was Nintendo. If it was EA or Microsoft people would have IMMEDIATELY spoken up about how shitty that ruling was.
Edit: In addition to my comment below, a huge part of the humen intervention needed in these processes are because these machines are so indescribably huge that they break CONSTANTLY. Our maintenance team was bigger than any of the actual printing shifts. I worked for 5 years in IT at a printing/packaging company and I cannot properly convey the scale of the printing presses in comparison to a human being. It literally feels like you're working in one of those Imperial substations on Endor.
The fact that somebody tried to sell these cards in bulk really encapsulates the way collectible/trading card games are infested by really short-sighted grifters lol Half my yu-gi-oh group in high school would talk openly about stealing stuff from other players and even members of the friend group. It gets bad lol
I’d like to point out that this kind of theft could actually explain the rash of people “pulling” a bunch of cards from a small number of packs. To illustrate, an example. A few years ago starbursts released some “all strawberry” packs, and ever since the subreddit r/mildlyinteresting will get lots of people pretending they opened a 4-pack of starbursts and it was all pink just by coincidence. If the cards changed hands multiple times, the stuff in the picture likely is just the tip of the iceberg of the number of stolen cards. The stolen cards were probably sold and resold multiple times and broken down into smaller chunks of cards over time, leading to the cards being scattered all over the place in suspicious quantities. A smarter reseller would sell small numbers to trusted individuals on a grey market - maybe some of those people felt like bragging about their “amazing pulls”. Idk about the situation though, that’s just a line of reasoning I thought was worth bringing up. Love these Pokémon videos!
@@sideways5153 Wait the "all strawberry" packs was a thing? Bruh, a couple of Halloweens ago when we did our candy haul from the store, one of the bags was for the two piece packs of regular Starburst flavors. Naturally, in the days leading up to Halloween night, we'd sneak a few pieces of candy from the pile, and I took several of the Starburst. I was pissed when I found every single one was strawberry. I ended up taking more than I intended to thinking that it must surely be a different flavor at some point. Nope, all strawberry, lol.
The wildest thing about this to me is the fact that a human probably had to steal these cards for a long time. They spent so much time and effort stealing these cards to just go to a game store and try to sell them all at once to get instantly busted. It's like they didn't think about how they were going to get rid of them, only how to get them.
there is only one way this could happen and thats from a manager or someone with the same powers or greater within the company. the cards arent really handled by humans during the manufacturing and packing process
As someone who has worked in the print industry, this is impressive even to me. I know how newspapers and magazines get printed and distributed but I never really thought about all the extra components of printing trading cards along with the temptation of added value from rarity. 🤯
I recently started working at a print shop and I am continually surprised how much that I assumed was automated is done by hand. Even for bulk mail (junk mail coming from companies), we seal the envelopes by hand with glue sticks. Many of the other steps that come after printing are also done by hand or with small scale machines that one person is operating.
as someone who is studying to get a degree in graphic design, i appreciate you covering the process of printing and designing the cards. i also really appreciate you stressing just *how much work* goes into the design and printing process, ESPECIALLY for such a gigantic, internationally-known company. fun fact for anyone who's curious: there are most likely a ton of printing shops that are currently working on printing (not designing- PRINTING) and quality checking stuff for the winter holiday season. EDIT: for context, i made this comment in may.
Dude that picture of all the cards stacked together that were stolen is insane to me. As a collector for over 10 years it’s such a weird thing to see lol
like how did this thought not cross their mind??? my local game store wouldn't be able to buy all the product at once, it's just doesn't make sense and sends off red flags
Is anyone else going to mention how jarvis used to dress pretty casually, but now all of his clothes look genuinely very nice and business casual? My man has great style 👍
Also, the hat is definitely not "business casual". In fact, I don't know if there's any hat that's "business casual" - some will be too casual and some will be much to formal. Not sure there's a such thing as a business hat, at least these days. Looks good though, to be clear. Really suits Jarvis. Just ain't a suit.
this isn’t a weird video for your channel, in fact I’d say it’s right up your alley. These passion project videos you make are fantastic, and I’m not a super huge Pokémon fan, but if there’s any Pokémon drama you’d be the first person I’d look to to break it down. Awesome video Jarvis!
The biggest pokemon theft in history, but not the worst. In 4th grade a kid I didnt know asked to see my cards. We were in front of the school (at the end of the day by the busses), and when i was showing him he signaled to his friend who came up behind me and hit them out of my hand into the air. Then like 20 other kids swarmed in and picked them all up and ran away. I had managed to pick up like two. I was left standing there holding the two cards left of my deck and crying and everyone and all my cards had disappeared within about 10 seconds. That was the worst pokemon card theft in history. Im in my 30s now and im still upset about it.
i love this video honestly. it was kind of an unexpected upload from u but it was soo interesting and the way u tell stories makes me want to listen to every single word and give u my entire attention. very interesting story tbh
I actually just looked into some of the print stuff recently because I work in the print industry and am up for a job that is dedicated to color management. There's a certification you can get just for learning the proper way to match colors and it's called G7, it's $2600 and I believe it's made by the same people that made pantone. Shit's wild and I might end up having to learn about just color matching
on the topic of those boxes with a ton of rare cards in them, flesh and blood had a similar thing happen recently. people were opening boxes with a legendary card in almost every pack (they are typically 1 in 80 packs for this set). turns out that there was a collation error where rainbow foil legendary cards were placed in the rainbow foil common feeder (every pack has a rainbow foil btw) for like 10-15 minutes. legend story studios (creators of flesh and blood) came out and explained this, which was very cool to see a little peak behind the scenes like that.
Oh they destroyed the cards? That is the least fun thing you could have done! I'd have boosted their rarity by stumping them with a special mark, maybe the Team Rocket logo and giving them away at events and to the people that reported them.
Collectable card games are the real world version of loot boxes in video games, but seem to be regulated differently since they don't have to disclose the odds of getting the best cards. That said, I'm assuming the rarity of the cards is controlled by how many are produced. That raises the question: Did this theft basically make the odds of the people actually paying for the packs getting these cards massively lower? If so, doesn't that mean the people who were robbed were everyone who bought packs from this set?
I'm really sad that the worker was caught. the factory workers probably aren't paid nearly enough and i was just like "good for them" the whole video til we got up to the part where they were caught :(
You don't know that. Not to mention, they took product and therefore altered what is was people were buying. What about all those people that would have got rares in their packs, but those rares were taken?
I love hearing someone talk about things they live. My coworker walked in on me watching this on my break and was like “I didn’t know you were into pokemon” and I said “I didn’t either until now “
I’m someone who buys & sells trading cards at my local card shops and the difference between MTG and Pokémon in terms of expensive/rare card pull rates is INSANE. I always assumed Pokémon co was just stingy with their rates in comparison but after seeing the post I was dumbfounded. Ever since a few months ago I’ve dropped Pokémon almost entirely and have moved onto Magic and I’m glad I did so lol
this was one of your best videos by far. not only are you a great teacher, but you kept a great balance between teaching, humor, and drama. LOVE to be a premium viewer on a day like today
I literally have brought so many pokemon packs that have been missing hits in them all. So much that I stopped buying them cause it was annoying me.. so this is all adding up now!!
Having previously worked in a small-scale printing press. I know firsthand that there is SO much done manually. The main difference between smaller and bigger shops is mainly the quantity of equipment to be manually operated and the size of material the machines can process. It's such a fascinating process and it's very monotonous, but I honestly love it.
I always loved checking which artists designed my favorite cards as a kid (love the Keiji Kinebuchi and Yuka Morii artwork), but I hadn't really considered all the work that goes into the production of the cards between initial design and final packaging -- it's cool to see some of that process!
Adding to this to the recent situation with WoTC senfing the literal pinkertons to get back unreleased cards that someone obtained and revealed by accident, the trading card world seems intense
i only follow the card version of pokemon close enough to buy silly little card packs and go "wow theyre so cute!!" when i open them so this was super interesting to watch, especially learning about the super rare cards. i knew the trading community was huge just from being online but a scandal like this is crazy....... i love ur pokepassion thank u for this premium video ❤
as someone who is not invested in pokémon at all, this was a very interesting watch! i loved hearing you talk about the “drama” (read: crime) and the process of creating the cards. also you are the first person, besides my mom, who i’ve heard use the word “redonkulous” in like 10 years lol
This is wild AF I used to work in corrugated printing/packaging and I never thought I'd see you talking about my old job 😭 I did pre-press at a very small company. I can tell you first hand how many mistakes happen in the industry as a whole.
It's so crazy to me. Like yeah steal from big company you work for but Why would you be so stupid in unloading it? Spread it out to different places at different times in way smaller numbers.
Yooo this story was so interesting and my inner 12 year old is so happy you got to show and explain the process of how the cards are made like that. Solid solid video sir
Fusion strike was the largest set in Pokémon history with over 200 cards in it and I can tell- early RUclips vids from people Opening up packs show that the hit rates were so bad so seeing this is so wild since that set came out like over a year ago
this was so crazy!!! They stole so many cards!! But also the seller... why did we take all of the rare cards to a single store?? That seller must have known they were stolen, wanted to get caught and not wanted anything to do with the theft in general. 🤣🤣
Working in manufacturing here 👋🏼 Most of the time on an automation machine that runs 24/7 for QC checks you take a ‘shot’ (sample) every couple hours or so and then when you’re done with it you bag and label and file that sample in a special area.
So if the chance of getting one of these rare cards is 1 in 1000 at most, and all of these rare cards were stolen, then how were those odds affected? Were the estimated odds calculated before or after this incident because if so, then the results might be scewed.
if you were gonna steal a super rare unreleased card why wouldn't you just steal like one or two and shut up until they're released. that's still gonna be a lot of money and you're way less likely to get in trouble
For a similarly fascinating thing I'd recommend looking up the documentary series "McMillions", which covers the 2001 McDonald's Monopoly fraud in the US. Everything about how that operated is astonishing.
Generally retention samples are held in a locked cage and cataloged. That way if there is an issue with the batch, you can pull your retention and see the issue. I work in quality for a vitamin company. We keep our retentions for 2 years past the expiration date. I have no idea what the time line is like for goods that dont expire.
Thanks for checking the sources and actually mentioning how this affected Fusion Strike in particular. A lot of those covering this have been presenting this as an ongoing issue that's gone unaddressed, even though these images were part of a 2021/2022 investigation. Also, going into the manufacturing process was a great inclusion. Well researched and well presented, sir!
I mean if they stole that many cards, the hits were artificially inflated in rarity, that, 1/1000 could've been much better odds, who knows how much better, but it's crazy
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Only a bit through the video but I do want to offer a slight correction; TPC isnt owned solely by Nintendo, it's a joint venture between Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures, inc.
Not a huge deal but afaik, Nintendo mostly deals with the video game side of the franchise, so I actually don't know how concerned about this they would be compared to the hacked switches for example.
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good info yeah, i agree with you but I wouldn't put it past them ya know. nintendo is scary like that sometimes.
I'm a little surprised they wouldn't handle much in the board game or trading card section of their company since Nintendo began as a company that sold playing cards, checkers sets, and jacks...in the 1870s. I think they are older than the Sears Roebuck Company.
not the uh ackshually
Nintendo doesn't even handle the mainline pokemon games, either- that's all Gamefreak.
I must say this premium experience has been worth the cost. It feels so luxurious.
Honestly he could double the price
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@Place-Holder he did, I got my free+ subscription and now I pay nothing twice
@@juiceboxfromthevoid jarvis johnson gold plus
This video was definitely worth the price 🧐
In light of the digimon video kurtis made, I was expecting Jarvis to admit to the theft
now THAT would’ve been a twist ending LMAO
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“It was me my premium viewers, I was the one who stole the cards so I CAN MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT IT!”
@@christhe2dprotogen511 and then Danny Gonzales would follow him as he's being locked up, saying, 'Jarvis, bro! This isn't real, bro.... Jarvis, bro, no...!'
@@Randoplants small nitpick, I know, but...
*Gonzalez
Sorry, as someone with that last name, it's very annoying to see it misspelled so often lol
They should’ve keep ‘em in secret and only sell one or two every now and then to increase their rarity and value smh
that likely happens all the time, too. this dude was just stupid enough to try and sell them all at once.
that's exactly what I'm saying. like if he just waited and secretly sold them every once in a while the chances of getting in trouble are WAY lower
they could have *easily* gotten away with this if they thought this through for more than 2 sec
Like, you could even just set up like a bunch of sock puppet accounts online so nobody gets suspicious of how this one guy keeps getting rare cards
Nah like Jarvis said, it got caught on camera. It was only a matter of time before the thief got caught from the footage, so they had to get rid of them quick.
I love the alternate title of things like this
“Shiny cardboard stolen, attempted to be sold for millions”
"Scammer presents Square Rectangles to game store, INSTANTLY regrets it!"
@@sanriobraincell I’m sorry but “square rectangles” killed me omg
When I was a little kid (early 2000's) I designed my own Pokemon and drew a mockup of a card design. Also made up their abilities and everything. My parents helped me mail my idea to Nintendo because I thought they might love it and turn it into a real Pokemon. They actually sent me a letter back and in the nicest way possible basically said "we don't take ideas from outside sources you silly child". But I've always thought it was so cool they took the time to respond to me. 😂
That's such a cute story omg
That does sound pretty cool
Do you remember the concept you had? I’m actually really curious
Back when Nintendo had a heart. That's such a cute story, I'm glad you were able to get a response :D
Very cool if this is true, I wish Modern Nintendo would be like Valve or even SEGA who appreciate their fans
Could have sold 20 cards a week to all different stores and lived comfortably forever.
Pokémon card laundering lol
And sold them online at the same time so the money just made itself
And 800 different email addresses/disguises.
That would obviously have been too much effort
that’s what i was thinking. what an idiot
I know it's not Pokemon related, but the story about Wizards of the Coast hiring The Pinkertons to intimidate a customer who received unreleased product by mistake is BLOWING tf up right now. Could be a fun follow-up to this video!
yesss
honestly the wotc story took over my timeline so much I completely missed this story
Card collecting world is going crazy right now
Two tcg scandals in a week
Anyone's who's played red dead should know how bad it is that Pinkertons got hired for that
Imagine working at a local shop and some dude shows up with literal STACKS of rares and expects you to cough up thousands of dollars 😂 bruh
They definitely wouldn’t even have that much money in the store, that’s a huge robbery risk
they could have at least tried to split them up 😭😭
Yeah. Let me just get my Mortgage Broker over here really quick. Np.
Dude thought he was playing Skyrim
@@kingzecromatic even in Skyrim you can’t sell stolen items and the shopkeepers have limited money 😅
i never thought id live to see the day of such a big pokescandal
Yeah ive never seen this many hyper rares and secret rares even if they were FAKE lmao
Let alone actual fucking cards with hundreds of dollars of value for EACH CARD lmao
jarvis please tell us more stories like this! i could listen to you talk about stolen pokémon cards for actual hours
I want to hear about that asterisk he put on this being the only time anyone stole Pokémon cards in this way
SAME
Agreed
I want him to talk about some Yugioh tcg stuff too, I’m sure there’s some juicy stuff 😩
yesss
god the gary bowser situation makes me so sad upset. that kind of debt is literally the type of thing that would cause someone to just end their life
right,, it's actually *horrifying.* i understand nintendo wanting to preserve their intellectual property but they barely even give a shit about preserving their games. they're just evil. literally one of the worst fucking corporations in the world, right up there with disney.
Agreed. It’s gross that it gets treated as a good thing just because the soulless corporation that enacted it was Nintendo. If it was EA or Microsoft people would have IMMEDIATELY spoken up about how shitty that ruling was.
a random civilian having to pay SO MUCH to a corporation as if they need it makes me so ill
@@PeeperSnailhave people not been speaking up about it?
The idea of jesse james and meowth putting tactical c4 on a wall to blow open the side of a building and steal pokemon cards is hilarious
Not me imagining the real world Jesse James with a meowth
Just two gays and they're cat 💀💀
@@RavensCake thats my new favourite sitcom
@@basementdwellercosplay I live 30 minutes from the Jesse James homestead, so that was 100% how I read it as well lol
@@RavensCake Just two gays and they are cat
Man could have sold a few at every LGS throughout the USA and traveled and just played for a long long time.
Edit: In addition to my comment below, a huge part of the humen intervention needed in these processes are because these machines are so indescribably huge that they break CONSTANTLY. Our maintenance team was bigger than any of the actual printing shifts.
I worked for 5 years in IT at a printing/packaging company and I cannot properly convey the scale of the printing presses in comparison to a human being. It literally feels like you're working in one of those Imperial substations on Endor.
“Humen” I’m sorry.
The only printers I’m familiar with are the antique 1880s-ish ones, and those are huge. Can’t quite imagine how much the automation added on
hopefully you stayed doing work that generates liquid value and didnt become a parasitic real estate agent or something
The fact that somebody tried to sell these cards in bulk really encapsulates the way collectible/trading card games are infested by really short-sighted grifters lol
Half my yu-gi-oh group in high school would talk openly about stealing stuff from other players and even members of the friend group. It gets bad lol
I’d like to point out that this kind of theft could actually explain the rash of people “pulling” a bunch of cards from a small number of packs.
To illustrate, an example. A few years ago starbursts released some “all strawberry” packs, and ever since the subreddit r/mildlyinteresting will get lots of people pretending they opened a 4-pack of starbursts and it was all pink just by coincidence.
If the cards changed hands multiple times, the stuff in the picture likely is just the tip of the iceberg of the number of stolen cards. The stolen cards were probably sold and resold multiple times and broken down into smaller chunks of cards over time, leading to the cards being scattered all over the place in suspicious quantities. A smarter reseller would sell small numbers to trusted individuals on a grey market - maybe some of those people felt like bragging about their “amazing pulls”.
Idk about the situation though, that’s just a line of reasoning I thought was worth bringing up. Love these Pokémon videos!
Yu-Gi-Oh cards are probably the only thing I've ever stolen😢
@@sideways5153 Wait the "all strawberry" packs was a thing? Bruh, a couple of Halloweens ago when we did our candy haul from the store, one of the bags was for the two piece packs of regular Starburst flavors. Naturally, in the days leading up to Halloween night, we'd sneak a few pieces of candy from the pile, and I took several of the Starburst. I was pissed when I found every single one was strawberry. I ended up taking more than I intended to thinking that it must surely be a different flavor at some point. Nope, all strawberry, lol.
Yugioh players are scary and that’s why I’m only an anime fan
I saw Pokémon cards locked up behind one of those hang tag blocker things and behind the counter at Gamestop
People are crazy man 💀
The wildest thing about this to me is the fact that a human probably had to steal these cards for a long time. They spent so much time and effort stealing these cards to just go to a game store and try to sell them all at once to get instantly busted. It's like they didn't think about how they were going to get rid of them, only how to get them.
there is only one way this could happen and thats from a manager or someone with the same powers or greater within the company. the cards arent really handled by humans during the manufacturing and packing process
Did you listen at all ? The person selling isn't the thief!!
I don’t care much for Pokémon but this premium video combined my love for How It’s Made and True Crime perfectly. Great video Jarvis
Yup
Law And Order Pokémon Intent
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As someone who has worked in the print industry, this is impressive even to me. I know how newspapers and magazines get printed and distributed but I never really thought about all the extra components of printing trading cards along with the temptation of added value from rarity. 🤯
They be printing money.
I recently started working at a print shop and I am continually surprised how much that I assumed was automated is done by hand. Even for bulk mail (junk mail coming from companies), we seal the envelopes by hand with glue sticks. Many of the other steps that come after printing are also done by hand or with small scale machines that one person is operating.
As someone who has never understood how Pokemon packs work, this video is a really great explanation! Thanks Jarvis for this premium gold education!
as someone who is studying to get a degree in graphic design, i appreciate you covering the process of printing and designing the cards. i also really appreciate you stressing just *how much work* goes into the design and printing process, ESPECIALLY for such a gigantic, internationally-known company.
fun fact for anyone who's curious: there are most likely a ton of printing shops that are currently working on printing (not designing- PRINTING) and quality checking stuff for the winter holiday season.
EDIT: for context, i made this comment in may.
Dude that picture of all the cards stacked together that were stolen is insane to me. As a collector for over 10 years it’s such a weird thing to see lol
They really are cutting corners in that factory.
Booooo 😂
Ahhh no wonder my fusion strike packs were always shit, man stole them all :( we will ignore their official statement
the only intro i speak out loud every time
Same 😂
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@@claudiobizama5603 i yell it so loud in an empty house
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seeing this right after watching kurtis’ video makes me think the universe is trying to tell me something
Me too 😂😂
I'm waiting on another commentary youtuber to cover a Yugioh scandal and keep the trend going
Maybe Danny will do that
The universe was trying to tell you Pokémon cards got stolen
It crazy that someone didn’t think about the logistics of trying to sell ALL the cards at once. I would’ve been so paranoid lol
like how did this thought not cross their mind??? my local game store wouldn't be able to buy all the product at once, it's just doesn't make sense and sends off red flags
The latter half of this video felt like a How It's Made segment and I really enjoyed it.
Is anyone else going to mention how jarvis used to dress pretty casually, but now all of his clothes look genuinely very nice and business casual? My man has great style 👍
All that effort to makes us feel premium
Business casual where
No hate to the outfit but is a sweatshirt “business casual”?
Also, the hat is definitely not "business casual". In fact, I don't know if there's any hat that's "business casual" - some will be too casual and some will be much to formal. Not sure there's a such thing as a business hat, at least these days.
Looks good though, to be clear. Really suits Jarvis. Just ain't a suit.
business casual aka eurocentric ugly straight lines and lack of color diversity lmao
i just imagine the briefcase scene from pulp fiction when thinking about the buyer first seeing all those cards.
I love how excited Jarvis is throughout this video! Reminds me of how I sound when I talk about Pokémon cards😆
That millenium printing video is kinda sick. I hope those guys have a union though god damn
Pov: hanging out at your best friends house, he’s telling you all about some legal drama that you know literally nothing about
True and its great
this isn’t a weird video for your channel, in fact I’d say it’s right up your alley. These passion project videos you make are fantastic, and I’m not a super huge Pokémon fan, but if there’s any Pokémon drama you’d be the first person I’d look to to break it down.
Awesome video Jarvis!
Watching Jarvis nerd about Pokémon cards has got to be the most entertaining and wholesome thing of the day honestly
The biggest pokemon theft in history, but not the worst. In 4th grade a kid I didnt know asked to see my cards. We were in front of the school (at the end of the day by the busses), and when i was showing him he signaled to his friend who came up behind me and hit them out of my hand into the air. Then like 20 other kids swarmed in and picked them all up and ran away. I had managed to pick up like two. I was left standing there holding the two cards left of my deck and crying and everyone and all my cards had disappeared within about 10 seconds. That was the worst pokemon card theft in history. Im in my 30s now and im still upset about it.
i love this video honestly. it was kind of an unexpected upload from u but it was soo interesting and the way u tell stories makes me want to listen to every single word and give u my entire attention. very interesting story tbh
Is it weird that my heart sunk a little bit when Jarvis said they destroyed the stolen cards? Poor things. 😭
My favorite thing is watching Jarvis talk about things he loves I feel like I learn 10x more
I actually just looked into some of the print stuff recently because I work in the print industry and am up for a job that is dedicated to color management. There's a certification you can get just for learning the proper way to match colors and it's called G7, it's $2600 and I believe it's made by the same people that made pantone. Shit's wild and I might end up having to learn about just color matching
on the topic of those boxes with a ton of rare cards in them, flesh and blood had a similar thing happen recently. people were opening boxes with a legendary card in almost every pack (they are typically 1 in 80 packs for this set). turns out that there was a collation error where rainbow foil legendary cards were placed in the rainbow foil common feeder (every pack has a rainbow foil btw) for like 10-15 minutes. legend story studios (creators of flesh and blood) came out and explained this, which was very cool to see a little peak behind the scenes like that.
Honestly, this is one of my favorite videos you’ve posted lately! Glad to see you so excited discussing Pokémon and the process of everything.
Given the amount of Fusion Strike I bought in the past without getting any hits...that makes sense 😢
I could listen to you talk about Pokemon cards all day. I love how passionate you are about them.
so happy to see ur face on my subscription feed AND ur talking abt pokémon….. thank u❤
Oh they destroyed the cards? That is the least fun thing you could have done!
I'd have boosted their rarity by stumping them with a special mark, maybe the Team Rocket logo and giving them away at events and to the people that reported them.
I would love for it to be stamped with the Team Rocket logo!
Collectable card games are the real world version of loot boxes in video games, but seem to be regulated differently since they don't have to disclose the odds of getting the best cards. That said, I'm assuming the rarity of the cards is controlled by how many are produced. That raises the question: Did this theft basically make the odds of the people actually paying for the packs getting these cards massively lower? If so, doesn't that mean the people who were robbed were everyone who bought packs from this set?
As someone that collects kpop cards I love hearing other types of collectors talk about their stuff
I'm amazed that the fence tried to sell all the cards at once and thought it'd be nbd?? Huh?
Holy crap, it's been a while since I encourtered a fellow Toys R Us Pokemon Leaguer. My dad took me there every weekend!
This was fun to hear about and I'm not into Pokemon! Thanks for talking about what you're interested in! It was dope!
You always express yourself really well, but when explaining the card printing process, I especially noticed and appreciated it :)
I'm really sad that the worker was caught. the factory workers probably aren't paid nearly enough and i was just like "good for them" the whole video til we got up to the part where they were caught :(
You don't know that. Not to mention, they took product and therefore altered what is was people were buying. What about all those people that would have got rares in their packs, but those rares were taken?
I am SO here for this kinda content! I love learning about niche yet wild news/communities
I love hearing someone talk about things they live. My coworker walked in on me watching this on my break and was like “I didn’t know you were into pokemon” and I said “I didn’t either until now “
I’m someone who buys & sells trading cards at my local card shops and the difference between MTG and Pokémon in terms of expensive/rare card pull rates is INSANE. I always assumed Pokémon co was just stingy with their rates in comparison but after seeing the post I was dumbfounded. Ever since a few months ago I’ve dropped Pokémon almost entirely and have moved onto Magic and I’m glad I did so lol
this was one of your best videos by far. not only are you a great teacher, but you kept a great balance between teaching, humor, and drama. LOVE to be a premium viewer on a day like today
The fact that Jarvis and Kurtis came out with trading card videos within the same week is wild
Wow I get to see a video of Jarvis one minute after posting. That's ✨️premium ✨️
I literally have brought so many pokemon packs that have been missing hits in them all. So much that I stopped buying them cause it was annoying me.. so this is all adding up now!!
Having previously worked in a small-scale printing press. I know firsthand that there is SO much done manually. The main difference between smaller and bigger shops is mainly the quantity of equipment to be manually operated and the size of material the machines can process. It's such a fascinating process and it's very monotonous, but I honestly love it.
absolutely BAFFLING that they were able to steal that many 😭😭 especially all the rainbows dude oh my god
I always loved checking which artists designed my favorite cards as a kid (love the Keiji Kinebuchi and Yuka Morii artwork), but I hadn't really considered all the work that goes into the production of the cards between initial design and final packaging -- it's cool to see some of that process!
Wow those are some premium square rectangles.
the squarer the better
Adding to this to the recent situation with WoTC senfing the literal pinkertons to get back unreleased cards that someone obtained and revealed by accident, the trading card world seems intense
I love how excited you are about this topic. Even though I don’t follow Pokémon at all, this was a super engaging and well researched video 💚
Imagine hitting the best heist and you screw it up like this
We're premium! Just like the cards when they were stolen!
i only follow the card version of pokemon close enough to buy silly little card packs and go "wow theyre so cute!!" when i open them so this was super interesting to watch, especially learning about the super rare cards. i knew the trading community was huge just from being online but a scandal like this is crazy....... i love ur pokepassion thank u for this premium video ❤
as someone who is not invested in pokémon at all, this was a very interesting watch! i loved hearing you talk about the “drama” (read: crime) and the process of creating the cards. also you are the first person, besides my mom, who i’ve heard use the word “redonkulous” in like 10 years lol
This is wild AF I used to work in corrugated printing/packaging and I never thought I'd see you talking about my old job 😭 I did pre-press at a very small company. I can tell you first hand how many mistakes happen in the industry as a whole.
great video jarvis, i definitely watched the full video before commenting this
0:38 “trading card crimes in modern history” insinuates that there were trading card crimes in ancient history and I choose to believe that is fact
Glad to see you making content that you're genuinely interested in like this! Hope to see more deep dives in the future.🌟
It's so crazy to me. Like yeah steal from big company you work for but Why would you be so stupid in unloading it? Spread it out to different places at different times in way smaller numbers.
i literally love the pokemon community updates from jarvis they give me life
Watching this video whilst surrounded by stacks of Pokémon cards on my desk I'm sorting through to go into binders, what a coincidence.
wonderful very cool and informative video! I'm not a huge pokemon fan, so i didn't know a ton of this, but it's fun to learn about it!
I hope people realize how artificial this market is. There is no "real" value there.
I love when Jarvis talks Pokémon cards
Like genuinely he’s so into it that I get into it
I have never been into Pokémon, except for when I watch Jarvis’s Pokémon videos
Me too! I like tcgs, so it’s great to hear someone talk about interesting events related to them
Not me writing a comment about the "square rectangles" when Jarvis said "Stop writing that comment!" 😂🤣😂🤣
Yooo this story was so interesting and my inner 12 year old is so happy you got to show and explain the process of how the cards are made like that. Solid solid video sir
I love being premium and the experience of being called premium.
I loved this but i particularly loved the "these rainbow guys" while gesturing vaguely. At the full art rainbow trainers.
Fusion strike was the largest set in Pokémon history with over 200 cards in it and I can tell- early RUclips vids from people
Opening up packs show that the hit rates were so bad so seeing this is so wild since that set came out like over a year ago
this was so crazy!!! They stole so many cards!! But also the seller... why did we take all of the rare cards to a single store?? That seller must have known they were stolen, wanted to get caught and not wanted anything to do with the theft in general. 🤣🤣
Working in manufacturing here 👋🏼 Most of the time on an automation machine that runs 24/7 for QC checks you take a ‘shot’ (sample) every couple hours or so and then when you’re done with it you bag and label and file that sample in a special area.
So if the chance of getting one of these rare cards is 1 in 1000 at most, and all of these rare cards were stolen, then how were those odds affected? Were the estimated odds calculated before or after this incident because if so, then the results might be scewed.
Damn I didn’t know Nintendo had the smoke like that
I feel premium 😊✨
if you were gonna steal a super rare unreleased card why wouldn't you just steal like one or two and shut up until they're released. that's still gonna be a lot of money and you're way less likely to get in trouble
Videos where Jarvis explains a niche aspect of one of his personal interests are the best!
For a similarly fascinating thing I'd recommend looking up the documentary series "McMillions", which covers the 2001 McDonald's Monopoly fraud in the US. Everything about how that operated is astonishing.
Might need to ask Kurtis about this. I feel like he could be involved
Generally retention samples are held in a locked cage and cataloged. That way if there is an issue with the batch, you can pull your retention and see the issue.
I work in quality for a vitamin company. We keep our retentions for 2 years past the expiration date. I have no idea what the time line is like for goods that dont expire.
Thanks for checking the sources and actually mentioning how this affected Fusion Strike in particular. A lot of those covering this have been presenting this as an ongoing issue that's gone unaddressed, even though these images were part of a 2021/2022 investigation. Also, going into the manufacturing process was a great inclusion. Well researched and well presented, sir!
I mean if they stole that many cards, the hits were artificially inflated in rarity, that, 1/1000 could've been much better odds, who knows how much better, but it's crazy
i wonder how someone even ends up working in these factory for such iconic products
Watch out, the pinkertons might start knocking on the stealers door