I remember being 7 years old on a thursday morning. It's 7am, and my mom is dropping me off at the YMCA, we stop by the local bagel shop right next to the news stand that has pokemon packs for sale. I ask my mom if i can have a pack of pokemon cards, and she sighs and says yes. I open my pack of fossil 1st edition while i eat my muffin at the ymca and i pull a dragonite. I think to myself, "what is he eating? is he eating a muffin too?"
Nice! That’s so cool dude … I remember my parents met up after work to go to the gym and get groceries . I remember I was watching the dexter’s laboratory movie, where he goes to the future to defeat that Godzilla looking thing it had an axe for a head and tail. Anyways, they came home with like two packs. My dad was nice and pick them up for me I pulled a freaking Zapdos holo.
That’s awesome you pulled that, what truly blows my mind, Gen 1 and Gen 2 were so much different if it wasn’t for cartridge limits the games would have been longer.
I remember this booster box very well because I got it for my friend when we were 7 years old. That birthday party ended up with me getting picked up by my dad on the freeway because the other kid's dad who was driving us got pulled over and arrested for DWI and popping pills of some kind. Good times.
Same lol now a days I don’t know which Pokémon packs are the good ones there’s so many I bought a box couple years ago and they were reprints of first generation
Why do you keep putting your thumb on the holo foils? You think print lines, whitening and bad centring are bad, then you put your thumb print on the holo foil? I don't get it!
Raichu was my first-ever holo pull. I got it in a 50-cent machine. I was so excited, but then I noticed that the first edition print was towards the bottom. The same location where the trainers have the first edition print but kinda slanted towards the side. The other Pokemon cards had it in the spot it was supposed to. I thought it was a fake at the time and threw it away. Now that I think about it I might have gotten a misprint lol
I can't believe you'd rush through the cards of these old boxes, those artsyles and everything about the cards is so facinating. There can't be many brand new boxes left, and to just speed through it seems so wastefull
I remember (around 2003) a friend of mine's dad had a lot of sealed 1st edition pokemon booster boxes from the base set but they were in german. I ended up with several good cards (holo blastoise, venusaur, etc). I kept them stashed under my bed for years until my younger brother took them all to school and traded them. Almost had a mental breakdown.
I remember going to EB Games getting a pack of Fossil Pokémon cards from Mall. Then going with family and eating at Fudruckers. I was 8. It was the 90s. Life was good!
I had holographics of every type back in 2004. I had been collecting for 5 years. I got a booster pack almost every day because I bought I had the pokemon fever. The cards were Mint. I took to the local card shop and they said they needed a month to assess the value. I went back a month later and the guy at the counter said “what holographic card binder set?” It was never on record. Seeing this video made me think I lost up to a hundred thousand dollars that day… 😢 But then again, I’ll never know…
Even as a kindergartner, we knew to never touch the holo foil. It was a big selling point when we were trading - “it’s holographic and the picture has never been touched!”
Remember being 7-9 years old. With 2 friends being dropped off at books-a-million every Saturday morning where tournaments were being held. Always 20-30 people there. Good times
its crazy to think that back in the day my family would go to the market and there were a couple people there that sold packs of pokemon cards and my mom would buy both me and my sister a pack of cards and we got to pick out what pack we wanted, I believe at the time the set that was out was either jungle or base set, they had raichu on the front whichever set that was. I cant believe how fast time flies, I really miss those days
@AizensPlan the potential to surpass 10000 in value of the cards is why they do it. I mean just in value within the first 5 packs he already made around 3 to 4000 back
@@いちごくん-l6dpeople arent spending the money for the card typically, otherwise theyd just be going to the store and get normal cards. what they want here is the rarity. these are collectors and typically they want stuff that everyone else wont be able to get. its a status thing. theres so few of these cards left i the world that telling someone you own one will get alot of jaw drops. its not “just a card”
This is the mature adults TH-cam channel for Pokémon cards lol. Such a big obvious difference between this channel and some of the other channels where the guy flips out and over exaggerates to catch kids attention
That Lapras is a psa 10 contender even with the gold holo stripe along the left edge (where I’m assuming it was stamped off centered or something, leaving some background exposed)?
i panic everytime you put your thumb on what do you call it the hollowing?(we called it glitter where i am from) and we thought touching the glitter would destory it then we threw our pokecards at the wall lol the good ol days
I was a big pokemon fan as a kid and it's nice to see holo cards i've never seen before (like that aerodactyl, damn that's so very oldschool artwork haha)
I bought a sealed 1st edition Fossil booster box for only $250 in 2012. I opened it and ended up giving the cards away lmao Collecting cards was totally different before Covid.
What an absolute treat! Thank you so much for doing these vids, and for your knowledge and enthusiasm for the cards therein. Really takes me back. I remember my Mom would buy these packs for me and then require me to do chores in order to claim the cards individually XD Turns out that was a pretty good method to get your kids to do chores, however she had to learn over time that I only wanted the rares and would ditch the rest of the chaff. So over time the rares started to cost more important chores like cleaning my room and not just emptying the dish washer. Anyway, that Dragonite is gorgeous. Such nostalgia locked in these cards.
I have like 10 of those, all dispersed in binders, along with 1000’s of magic and yo-gi-oh cards. Seeing this, that box of binders is probably with a house. So glad I saved all of them.
I dont even know how I ended up here or why I watched this for as long as I did... I do like seeing how happy he is when he gets what he wants out of the packs.
I have a bunch of cards labeled 1995 at the bottom but since I live in the middle of nowhere country land, we dont have card shops or even people interested in buying them.
Back in 2009, 2010 I had the opportunity to buy a 1st Edition Fossil Booster Box for $770 Australian dollars. Being a broke uni student, I didn't buy it cause I only had $700 for my budget.. still kicking myself to this day.
@@jasonkim11 if you planned on buying it as an investment then $700 in almost any of the top 10 stocks in 2009 would be worth well over 20k.. some stocks would even be worth 100k or 200k.. lol buying Pokémon cards is definitely not the best option as a long term investment, not even close..
I have no idea how I found this video, but either way. Glad I did. It brought back some fawn memories, my dude!! God, I miss the feeling of opening up packs of cards, that new card smell, and the anticipation of what you may or may not get! Ohhh, I love an miss it! Full disclosure tho my card collection that I proudly still have is Yu Gi Oh!😅 Lol never really got into pokemon cards, only the games, which, as a thirty one year old, I still play them! Anyways I am real glad I saw this video tho!! thanks, you made my day!!🫡😁
Thank you so much for the kind words. So funny enough I collected Pokemon only as a young kid but later on I LOVED playing yugioh card game with friends in camp. I will at some point probably want to open up some ridiculous old school Yugioh boxes. Like Blue Eyes 1st edition box but thank you!
Checkout this video below if you like the Fossil opening. Opened an even better box 1999 Pokemon Base Set Shadowless Booster Box!!! th-cam.com/video/e-IMMyanNAw/w-d-xo.html
I wanted this booster pack so bad as a kid, now im 30 and living vicariously through this dude on youtube
Lol
Think you meant “bi-curiously”
I hear that
SAME u literally nailed the vibe
same lol
Back when having a holo graphic meant something.
Loser
1:32 Dragonite
3:24 Raichu
4:57 Zapdos
7:07 Aerodactyl
Please hit the like button so more people could see it!!
8:24 Moltres
9:48 Lapras
12:24 Haunter
15:35 Magneton
17:04 Gengar
20:38 Articuno
22:09 Hypno
23:59 Kabutops
26:03 Lapras
28:56 Dito
Do you know the total value of those cards? Did he make his money back?
Ditto*
I can smell those new fresh cards through my screen
Best opening I’ve seen. Straight to the point. Thanks for the vid
Thank you!!
straight to the dragonite
@@IslaVistaPardallRdIV or all the unnecessary shaking and screaming lol
I remember being 7 years old on a thursday morning. It's 7am, and my mom is dropping me off at the YMCA, we stop by the local bagel shop right next to the news stand that has pokemon packs for sale. I ask my mom if i can have a pack of pokemon cards, and she sighs and says yes. I open my pack of fossil 1st edition while i eat my muffin at the ymca and i pull a dragonite. I think to myself, "what is he eating? is he eating a muffin too?"
Nice! That’s so cool dude … I remember my parents met up after work to go to the gym and get groceries . I remember I was watching the dexter’s laboratory movie, where he goes to the future to defeat that Godzilla looking thing it had an axe for a head and tail. Anyways, they came home with like two packs. My dad was nice and pick them up for me I pulled a freaking Zapdos holo.
Little fool
Those memories are what it's all about brother, not the dollar signs.
A muffin lolz you're mammas muffin 🤣
That's a beautiful memory 😢
so funny to think ive held all these cards with my smudgey child fingers
I remember coming home with this exact booster box as a kid in the 90's, opening it and I still have all the cards in my folder
You had your parents buy you whole boxes? That’s awesome
@@puhoyzzee4364 Just this one time, I think it was for a birthday or something
I used to get 2 packs a month if I was lucky
@@KevinAmaya-tl9brI used to get put in foster care.
Where do you live? 😏😂
Man the dragonite right off the bat was sick 👌
💯
That’s awesome you pulled that, what truly blows my mind, Gen 1 and Gen 2 were so much different if it wasn’t for cartridge limits the games would have been longer.
This was super cool to watch! Brings back my 90s and early 2000s childhood.
I remember this booster box very well because I got it for my friend when we were 7 years old. That birthday party ended up with me getting picked up by my dad on the freeway because the other kid's dad who was driving us got pulled over and arrested for DWI and popping pills of some kind. Good times.
His dad sounds like a cool dude 🤙
I like how he doesn't even bother protecting the Zapdos card that's worth $200-300. Basically trash to him.
Dude just blew a brand new car on a box of cards lolz I don't think dude give a fu
damn that dragonite card you got at the start is my favorite card in the entire game, love to see a fresh holo like that
34 yr old nerd checking in...saw the title, had to revisit my childhood for a sec... 😂😂
Check out my other videos ser. I’m doing crazy stuff like giving away cases of Pokemon cards weekly.
Same lol now a days I don’t know which Pokémon packs are the good ones there’s so many I bought a box couple years ago and they were reprints of first generation
I wish i never sold my charizard for $20 back then....and bought a dragon ball t shirt with it lol
"We are off to a great start. This looks perfect. Centering is off. Centering is way off, just horrendous. Let's keep it going"
Love your videos. It would be awesome if you showed us highlights of your current collection. Keep it up! 👍🏻
Magneton holo was my first. I was too young to take care of my cards. $350 for a psa 10 doesnt make me feel as bad lol
Why do you keep putting your thumb on the holo foils? You think print lines, whitening and bad centring are bad, then you put your thumb print on the holo foil? I don't get it!
😂😂😂
Same
Raichu was my first-ever holo pull. I got it in a 50-cent machine. I was so excited, but then I noticed that the first edition print was towards the bottom. The same location where the trainers have the first edition print but kinda slanted towards the side. The other Pokemon cards had it in the spot it was supposed to. I thought it was a fake at the time and threw it away. Now that I think about it I might have gotten a misprint lol
Ooof that’s rough.
I wanna smell the pack. The moment you opened it I flashed back to the 90s.
Is there anywhere to see what these all got graded? Would love to see what you made on the box
Magneton is such a good artwork
I'm 8 mins into the opening and its already insane lol!
One of the craziest pack openings I’ve ever watched
holy smokes that shadowless 10 charizard in the back....
sheeeesh
Every time you touch the holo part of the cards with your finger it makes me want to throw my phone 😂 great video though
It's fine, shut it and grow up
Agree. Stop touching the damn cards so much!
@@Grimxonicit’s not, you shut up
@@Grimxonicit’s not you stupid dumbass 🤡
I really do enjoy watching these buddy. Thanks for the content! Hope you’re doing well.
I can't believe you'd rush through the cards of these old boxes, those artsyles and everything about the cards is so facinating. There can't be many brand new boxes left, and to just speed through it seems so wastefull
I remember (around 2003) a friend of mine's dad had a lot of sealed 1st edition pokemon booster boxes from the base set but they were in german. I ended up with several good cards (holo blastoise, venusaur, etc). I kept them stashed under my bed for years until my younger brother took them all to school and traded them. Almost had a mental breakdown.
oooof, that's rough, sorry to hear man.
Bro. My neighbor did that to me when I was a kid…
What did he trade it for? For drugs?
I remember going to EB Games getting a pack of Fossil Pokémon cards from Mall. Then going with family and eating at Fudruckers.
I was 8. It was the 90s. Life was good!
Man, eb games is a name I haven't heard in so long
Most underrated set in my opinion. The holographic are beautiful.
That gengar is pristine
You should sell spots in a box break!
I had the poster of the cards from this set hanging on my wall as a kid. Glad I hung on to all my cards from base set to current
I had holographics of every type back in 2004. I had been collecting for 5 years. I got a booster pack almost every day because I bought I had the pokemon fever. The cards were Mint. I took to the local card shop and they said they needed a month to assess the value. I went back a month later and the guy at the counter said “what holographic card binder set?” It was never on record. Seeing this video made me think I lost up to a hundred thousand dollars that day… 😢 But then again, I’ll never know…
I would never just let that go.
Even as a kindergartner, we knew to never touch the holo foil. It was a big selling point when we were trading - “it’s holographic and the picture has never been touched!”
fossil was my favorite. Gengar halo was fire. Nice pulls!
Thank you!
My first edition holo Dragonite and (unfortunately not first edition) holo Articuno cards are in rough shape, but I still treasure them immensely 🥰
The centering is way off
Border on dragonite looks sus. Very uneven
@@zaynez2332 I have much worse.
I don’t know how I ended up here, since I never watch these kind of videos, but I enjoyed watching this haha algorithm giving you the assist 💪
Awesome! Thank you! Hey if you’re into Pokemon cards I’m about to do some massive giveaways so stay tuned.
@@pokehex5555how much you did pay for this set?
Which set? I have a few lol
Would love follow up videos with the grades you got on the cards.
Nice video! Do you have an update on the grades that came back on the cards?
Gave away a 3 ring binder full of base, jungle and fossil from when o was a kid about 15 years ago.
Sad time.
I remember being about 12 opening these at JR's card shop in my town. Crazy how time flies!
I just wonder how many TH-camrs are going keep opening them til there gone ?
When do you think they'll be gone
@@ashleyrose424 well a item made 25 years ago may have a finite amount of time there will be a day there just gone the last will be opened
Where did you find that box?? 😊
The gods wont let you have that PSA 10 until you learb to say Raichu. (Right You or Rye Chu) 2 syllables. Good luck on your quest.
lol whoops. I like the 3 syllables better though.
Remember being 7-9 years old. With 2 friends being dropped off at books-a-million every Saturday morning where tournaments were being held. Always 20-30 people there. Good times
its crazy to think that back in the day my family would go to the market and there were a couple people there that sold packs of pokemon cards and my mom would buy both me and my sister a pack of cards and we got to pick out what pack we wanted, I believe at the time the set that was out was either jungle or base set, they had raichu on the front whichever set that was. I cant believe how fast time flies, I really miss those days
Any 1st edition WOTC cards in mint condition are valuable IMO
This is ASMR for Poke Collectors
Literally not ASMR.
I had a Raichu back in the day. This brought me back. Man, I'd almost buy a box just for the hell of it
only lunatics spend 10k on pokemon cards
@AizensPlan the potential to surpass 10000 in value of the cards is why they do it. I mean just in value within the first 5 packs he already made around 3 to 4000 back
@@justinoconnor1472Sure but spending 4,000 on a card? I can see maybe a couple of hundred but this is beyond ridiculous
@@いちごくん-l6dpeople arent spending the money for the card typically, otherwise theyd just be going to the store and get normal cards. what they want here is the rarity. these are collectors and typically they want stuff that everyone else wont be able to get. its a status thing. theres so few of these cards left i the world that telling someone you own one will get alot of jaw drops. its not “just a card”
its because it is rare... @@いちごくん-l6d
Omg! I remember that box. I got so many of those as a kid for Christmas.
Jelly
You can really appreciate the art when you see the cards in such mint condition :) younger me would have been in total awe
Putting that zapdos on the table without a sleeve annoyed me to no end 😂
So you bought a box for 10k but what's the profit you estimate on this box after seeing all the cards?
I'm also curious
this was my favorite set as a kid. Had most of these cards growing up, still have some of them, but watching this is hella nostalgic :)
Thanks for the value assessments, not a Pokémon guy but these videos of any older box openings are cool
This is hands down, by far, equal to none, my most absolute favorite set of all time. I AM STOKED.
LETS GOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
Great video! Your knowledge is outstanding. No loud over the top stupid intro, no bright misleading thumbnail. Just a pro! Thank you
Awesome video.
Fast but with tension. Congrats on the hits!
Thank you so much!
Where is he getting these boxes of booster packs???
Random video popped up, that card at 15:45 was my first ever shiny when i was 11 in 99
Something therapeutic about you opening lmao. I love it
There will be plenty more of me opening soon. Stay tuned. Have an announcement video dropping.
@@pokehex5555 subbing now brother 🙏
@@pokehex5555so this is arguably a better hedge against inflation than Gold?
Pokemon cards? No, not financial advice but for me it’s Crypto Currency. Specifically, HEX.com
You should definitely grade the hits and do a grade reveal! Good content for a low sub count channel. Keep it up! 🔥👍🏻
Thank you, great idea!
i agree 100% this box was crazy and really fun to watch
I don't play or collect but I remember these cards from my childhood. Watching people open these is pretty damn nostalgic
This is the mature adults TH-cam channel for Pokémon cards lol. Such a big obvious difference between this channel and some of the other channels where the guy flips out and over exaggerates to catch kids attention
The main holos are PSA 10 for sure. Holy shit! Perfect centering, flawless
That Lapras is a psa 10 contender even with the gold holo stripe along the left edge (where I’m assuming it was stamped off centered or something, leaving some background exposed)?
I loved this set as a kid, probably my second favourite set. And this box had the best of the best for pulls. Congrats man.
i panic everytime you put your thumb on what do you call it the hollowing?(we called it glitter where i am from) and we thought touching the glitter would destory it then we threw our pokecards at the wall lol the good ol days
The power of good titles in the algorithm
I was a big pokemon fan as a kid and it's nice to see holo cards i've never seen before (like that aerodactyl, damn that's so very oldschool artwork haha)
Be nice if I could find my charizard from 2000. First booster pulled it and have no idea where it is
damn i forgot how good zapdos looked
Kabutops is my favorite art you opened in this video, it looks very cool
This was the first box that came out when I started to collect them instead of just playing with the cards. So cool
I bought a sealed 1st edition Fossil booster box for only $250 in 2012. I opened it and ended up giving the cards away lmao
Collecting cards was totally different before Covid.
Can fingerprints hurt the value?
My parents got me this for christmas in 1999. Wish i still had all those old cards, i opened a mint that day, and never even knew it.
What an absolute treat! Thank you so much for doing these vids, and for your knowledge and enthusiasm for the cards therein. Really takes me back. I remember my Mom would buy these packs for me and then require me to do chores in order to claim the cards individually XD
Turns out that was a pretty good method to get your kids to do chores, however she had to learn over time that I only wanted the rares and would ditch the rest of the chaff. So over time the rares started to cost more important chores like cleaning my room and not just emptying the dish washer.
Anyway, that Dragonite is gorgeous. Such nostalgia locked in these cards.
This was so entertaining to watch. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Man I opened so many of these as a kid this is giving me
Flash backs
I have like 10 of those, all dispersed in binders, along with 1000’s of magic and yo-gi-oh cards. Seeing this, that box of binders is probably with a house. So glad I saved all of them.
Man I vividly remember opening these packs as a kid.
I dont even know how I ended up here or why I watched this for as long as I did... I do like seeing how happy he is when he gets what he wants out of the packs.
I have a bunch of cards labeled 1995 at the bottom but since I live in the middle of nowhere country land, we dont have card shops or even people interested in buying them.
The beginning of this box makes me tingle!
Back in the 90's I bought my younger brother 3 of those Booster Box for a little over $100. Can't beleive what they go for now.
That haunter is absolutely gorgeous 😍
I had quit collecting and switched to Magic the gathering before Fossil. That Haunter and Dragonite are awesome. I'd love to have those
Back in 2009, 2010 I had the opportunity to buy a 1st Edition Fossil Booster Box for $770 Australian dollars.
Being a broke uni student, I didn't buy it cause I only had $700 for my budget.. still kicking myself to this day.
Why? Would you have held onto it and sold it higher??
@gregshirley8070 that was the plan.
@@jasonkim11 if you planned on buying it as an investment then $700 in almost any of the top 10 stocks in 2009 would be worth well over 20k.. some stocks would even be worth 100k or 200k.. lol buying Pokémon cards is definitely not the best option as a long term investment, not even close..
I love fossil Dragonite….
Easily my favorite card ever
Do you have some advice for getting into collecting Gen 1? What packs to buy, where to get for a reasonable price?
I see that chansey did turn out as a grade 10, congrats! Please let us know for other videos which cards opened became grade 10!
So Lucky to get all the best ones.
How are you figuring the centering isn't great!?
First time seeing one of your videos, thank you so much this was so cool to watch and very nostalgic.
Electrobuzz and zapdos holos are getting harder to find.
I remember pulling a Jolteon holo out of a electric pack a long time ago.
I have no idea how I found this video, but either way. Glad I did. It brought back some fawn memories, my dude!! God, I miss the feeling of opening up packs of cards, that new card smell, and the anticipation of what you may or may not get! Ohhh, I love an miss it! Full disclosure tho my card collection that I proudly still have is Yu Gi Oh!😅 Lol never really got into pokemon cards, only the games, which, as a thirty one year old, I still play them! Anyways I am real glad I saw this video tho!! thanks, you made my day!!🫡😁
Thank you so much for the kind words. So funny enough I collected Pokemon only as a young kid but later on I LOVED playing yugioh card game with friends in camp.
I will at some point probably want to open up some ridiculous old school Yugioh boxes. Like Blue Eyes 1st edition box but thank you!
Checkout this video below if you like the Fossil opening. Opened an even better box 1999 Pokemon Base Set Shadowless Booster Box!!!
th-cam.com/video/e-IMMyanNAw/w-d-xo.html