In retrospect, this works great for players, but I can definitely understand how it bummed collectors. I feel like there could have been alternate holo prints of cards like non-holo Blastoise/Venusaur and holo versions of some non-holo cards like Arcanine, Electrode, Electabuzz, etc to at least give extra enticement to players and collectors
They could have just reprinted more Base Set and kept it on the shelves. Players would get the cards, without this whiff of dishonesty and grift - selling us the same cards in a "New!" packaging. It felt... sour. Still does.
Never understood this set as a kid. Avoided pikcing it up after opening my first pack and seeing they were reprints of cards I owned. I did love the LCRH pattern becuase it reminded me of fireworks and I was 9. I had pulled the reverse charizard and took it everywhere in a top loader.
If I had been nine, I'd probably have been beguiled by the reverse of Legendary Collection, but I was 35. I wish I had been because I refused to ever buy any of it, and to this day, it's the hole in my collection. Glad you connected with it.
@@saturninebear I don't doubt it. My cousins and I were all over the sparkly holofoil, reminded us of July 4th. Is it really a hole in your collection if you don't care for it?
@@UH5601 Only the Arita cards, because I do try to be completist as much as possible. Luckily I have a "you're off the hook" play there, as I can never complete Arita - he did the original trophy cards, which would set me back several million. So I allow myself to be non-completist because of those.
In retrospect, this works great for players, but I can definitely understand how it bummed collectors. I feel like there could have been alternate holo prints of cards like non-holo Blastoise/Venusaur and holo versions of some non-holo cards like Arcanine, Electrode, Electabuzz, etc to at least give extra enticement to players and collectors
They could have just reprinted more Base Set and kept it on the shelves. Players would get the cards, without this whiff of dishonesty and grift - selling us the same cards in a "New!" packaging. It felt... sour. Still does.
Never understood this set as a kid. Avoided pikcing it up after opening my first pack and seeing they were reprints of cards I owned.
I did love the LCRH pattern becuase it reminded me of fireworks and I was 9. I had pulled the reverse charizard and took it everywhere in a top loader.
If I had been nine, I'd probably have been beguiled by the reverse of Legendary Collection, but I was 35. I wish I had been because I refused to ever buy any of it, and to this day, it's the hole in my collection. Glad you connected with it.
@@saturninebear I don't doubt it. My cousins and I were all over the sparkly holofoil, reminded us of July 4th.
Is it really a hole in your collection if you don't care for it?
@@UH5601 Only the Arita cards, because I do try to be completist as much as possible. Luckily I have a "you're off the hook" play there, as I can never complete Arita - he did the original trophy cards, which would set me back several million. So I allow myself to be non-completist because of those.
I remember as a kid really disliking the new holographic pattern. In my mind it just made them not as special.
This is a very valid point of view. They were indeed "less than..."