Pokemon

...if he was an avid Pokemon Trading Card collector he could well have a fortune in the darkened recesses of his bedroom. Pokemon cards have been around for quite some time now, there are a multitude of sets to collect, and if your children are anything like mine there is no way you can avoid buying the odd card or two. What a waste of money, or is it... Lee and Ben started collecting cards a couple of years ago. They started buying the odd pack with ...
...about?", a quick review. Pokemon Trading Crads are collectable cards that come in various sets, some of these are Base Set 1, Base 2, Jungle, Fossil, Team Rocket, Neo, and Neo 2. All of these cards have a number and a symbol on them denoting which set they come from and the number of cards per set. Every set is made up of three groups of cards, Common, Uncommon and Rare. There are also Rare-Holographic cards in each set. The cards come in mixed ...

Cheekychicken 16.11.2001 · Read full review
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...What is the fascination about Pokemon and why does everyone else seem to understand this phenomena, except me! Or am I just feeling my age? For anyone out there that hasn’t come across Pokemon - where have you been, Mars? Because that must be about the only place that this craze can’t have reached or are there little green men swapping Pokemon cards! For the benefit of anyone who doesn’t know what Pokemon are, then I will do my ...
...my understanding is correct?). Pokemon are a Japanese creation (who else!) and the literal translation is “Pocket Monsters”. They are cartoon characters and there must be about 150 different Pokemon, but they seem to keep adding new ones, so that figure has probably now doubled! There is a Pokemon Trainer called Ash, who as his title says, trains and collects new Pokemon, so that he can become the greatest Pokemon Trainer. All these ...

Xyanthe 11.04.2001 (02.05.2001) · Read full review
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I have been collecting Pokemon cards for a long time and I have hundreds of them. There are different types of cards; Jungle, Fossil, Rocket, Dark Rocket, Pokeball 2, Edition 1, Base Set, Gym Challenger and Gym Leader, that is 9 types in all. Pokemon cards all have different values, some of them, rip offs. Ancient Mew, for example, is worth £150.00 but if you sell it you will never even get £100.00 for it. Some Pokemon cards like Magikarp are only ...
...you are selling or buying Pokemon cards, try to sell or buy them for the right price. To do that, there are Pokemon trading card game magazines around. To buy Pokemon cards in the shops a Deck (60 cards) costs from £6.99 to £7.50 and a Booster pack (11 cards) costs £2.49 or £2.50. Note that Edition 1 cards don’t come in special packs, they come in normal packs by luck. They are very rare. ...

Iggglybufff 17.04.2001 · Read full review
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...(trainers), that go around collecting Pokemon and using them to do battle against other Pokemon Trainers. The star Pokemon is called Pikachu, and an evil duo, known as Team Rocket (Jesse and James), are out to steal him. Children were then subject to a very expensive hobby of collecting Pokemon cards, which they can too do battle against their friends Pokemon cards. Each card having a different value and different fighting moves. Packs range from ...
...them to school. Pokemon is also available on the Gameboy and Nintendo consoles, and many other toys have been produced and are very over-priced. The other day my son wanted a Pokemon holdall - it was £14.99!! My son only gets £2.50 a week pocket money which he can spend on whatever he wishes, and he usually buys a pack of Pokemon cards with this. I accept the fact that he is a Pokemon fan, but I do not like it, so we have made a deal. I do not want ...

carolinesite 29.03.2001 · Read full review
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The Pokemon Revolution has hit our shores for about the last 18 months and are beginning to wain in popularity now slightly. THE Toy last Christmas was a Pokemon toy. The toy this Christmas is going to be the Thunderbirds puppets. Strange that as I never though it would be popular with young children, not 30 years after its initial release. The pokemon domination is helped by its TV coverage as is Thunderbirds. POkemons are meant to be small animals ...
...extremely popular. Gameboy launched a big advertising campaign using this game. I think that they are still popular but Thunderbirds are more popular at the moment. The shortage of Thunderbirds puppets at Christmas (60,000 available for 500,000 customers) may push the market share of Pokemon toys up. ...

andycharger 11.12.2000 · Read full review
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I doubt the designers of Pokemon realised just how much power their new creations had in the beginning. In case you don't know, Pokemon are the new game & TV phenomenon from the shores of the rising sun ( Japan ). Gamers and cartoon trhoughout the world are going crazy for these 150 creatures. By July 21st Pokemon had just broken all Gameboy records by shipping 262,000 units in the first 20 days. The numbers of people attending Pokemon tournaments ...
...indoor mall event ). The Pokemon brand ( including games, merchandise, tv shows & films ) is now valued at over $5 billion worldwide. Going on highly dubious maths, this means that Pikachu ( see picture ) is now worth just over $33.3 million! Richard Branson would be jealous. . . Youg people all over the world are embracing this craze, which has swept almost unbelieveably quickly in recent times. Sources say that the Pokemon craze has easily overshadowed ...

Haz 29.09.2000 · Read full review
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I think pokemon cards are a rip off.They bend easily and kids fight over them. Kids in my street are fighting and falling out over them.The people who made them sould of thought about what would happen when they made them. Also the cards are so expensive a saw one card that was £14.99 and another one that was £12.50.childrens pocket money are being spent on them.I feel that the cards are a total waste of time and money.Children could be buying some ...

attic4 11.11.2000 · Read full review
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...cancer) but the makers of Pokemon are crafty and have lots of different types of cards some of which are rare so people have to buy the packs to try and get the rare ones to complete their sets. They een pretend some of the cards they put into their packs are fake, at least that's my theory as my son of 10 says that there are fake cards in packs you buy in Woolworth's!! Still, the craze is good for kids' teeth as they are eating fewer sweets now ...

alanhop 08.11.2000 · Read full review
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