Great Video, here is my prediction for 2025. 1- Magic 2- Pokémon 3- Yu-Gi-Oh 4- One Piece 5- Lorcana 6- Star Wars 7- Digimon 8- Union Arena 9- Flesh and Blood 10- CFV or DBS FW I took a look at booster box sales for the bottom 6 and I found that Star Wars sells way more than the others, but just less than Lorcana. Flesh and Blood only sold 1520 boxes, which was the worst of the bunch, so I can only assume their extremely high priced singles keep them propped up. Union Arena sold more than CFV, DBS Masters, and FAB for 2024, and it just came out in September, so that is good. DBS Fusion World sold almost 3x as much as Masters did, and even newer FW sets sell better than Masters newest sets. As for Gundam, we do not have a release date, and the 6 month order window means the earliest it could come out is in July, and if it does, I can see it taking that 9th-10th slot.
Excellent analysis! We'll definitely do a recap of this year's predictions into the next. It'll be an interesting year for tcgs. I'm also curious to see how Union Arena plays out. I spoke to a few demo testers at Bandai Cardfest, and they said the numbers haven't been doing well in the east. Hopefully, our regions can write a different story.
Really hope one piece can push to 3, what else do you really think Bandai could do other than mainstream advertising? They did some theme nights at Red Sox and Rams games this past year, they are pushing out promo product, anniversary sets etc and I’m wondering what else they could do to push it more curious to your thoughts!
I think the biggest thing they can do is advertise the tcg during ads on Hulu, Netflix, and Crunchyroll for both the anime and live action. Cross-media integration between them. Promo cards included in a season box set, or a new movie in theaters, new video games, etc. Advertise all of their games with each of their products, if applicable. A lot more events for high-level tournament play. An app for the card game would send it to the moon.
Please do this review every year! 🙏
Great Video, here is my prediction for 2025.
1- Magic
2- Pokémon
3- Yu-Gi-Oh
4- One Piece
5- Lorcana
6- Star Wars
7- Digimon
8- Union Arena
9- Flesh and Blood
10- CFV or DBS FW
I took a look at booster box sales for the bottom 6 and I found that Star Wars sells way more than the others, but just less than Lorcana. Flesh and Blood only sold 1520 boxes, which was the worst of the bunch, so I can only assume their extremely high priced singles keep them propped up. Union Arena sold more than CFV, DBS Masters, and FAB for 2024, and it just came out in September, so that is good. DBS Fusion World sold almost 3x as much as Masters did, and even newer FW sets sell better than Masters newest sets. As for Gundam, we do not have a release date, and the 6 month order window means the earliest it could come out is in July, and if it does, I can see it taking that 9th-10th slot.
Excellent analysis! We'll definitely do a recap of this year's predictions into the next. It'll be an interesting year for tcgs. I'm also curious to see how Union Arena plays out. I spoke to a few demo testers at Bandai Cardfest, and they said the numbers haven't been doing well in the east. Hopefully, our regions can write a different story.
Excited to see the 2025 list!
Really hope one piece can push to 3, what else do you really think Bandai could do other than mainstream advertising? They did some theme nights at Red Sox and Rams games this past year, they are pushing out promo product, anniversary sets etc and I’m wondering what else they could do to push it more curious to your thoughts!
I think the biggest thing they can do is advertise the tcg during ads on Hulu, Netflix, and Crunchyroll for both the anime and live action. Cross-media integration between them. Promo cards included in a season box set, or a new movie in theaters, new video games, etc.
Advertise all of their games with each of their products, if applicable. A lot more events for high-level tournament play. An app for the card game would send it to the moon.