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June 29th - July 5th, 2026 📰 TCG News Note: Some updates may touch on wider Pokémon news beyond the TCG. 🔵 “30th Celebration” Full English Product Lineup Revealed! TPCi has revealed the complete worldwide lineup for 30th Celebration, launching September 16th, with more products rolling out through November 6th. As with other special sets, booster packs won’t be sold individually; each contains five foil cards including one of 30 Pikachu, plus a foil Basic Energy and a Live code card. The set introduces three-card “Classic Collection” packs inside the Espeon ex and Umbreon ex Ultra-Premium Collections, the first time an English set has used this pack type. The launch lineup spans Elite Trainer Boxes, a Poster Collection, Tech Sticker Collection, ex Box, Knock Out Collection, and blisters, with mini tins, binders, battle decks, UPCs, and figure collections following through the fall. 🔵 Nintendo Says Pokemon Company Will Act on Card Scalping At a recent shareholder meeting, Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa was asked about worsening Pokemon TCG shortages and scalping, and acknowledged that limited-quantity cards are being bought in bulk and resold at high prices. He said The Pokemon Company is responding with made-to-order sales, agreements with marketplace operators, and, for online priority drawings on some products, account verification using Japan’s My Number government ID cards. The pressure comes despite record production: 10 billion cards were printed in 2025 alone, part of 85 billion made to date, yet supply still falls short of demand. Scarcity has fueled not just resale markups but a wave of thefts, including armed store robberies, and the 30th anniversary set arriving in September is unlikely to ease the frenzy. (Note: This primarily focuses on the Japan market.) 🔵 “MEGA x MEGA Parade” Trademark Filed for the Pokemon TCG, Japan’s High Class Pack Set? Pokemon has filed a trademark for MEGA x MEGA Parade under the same categories historically used for TCG set names. The name follows the pattern of Japan’s annual High Class Pack sets, which build their titles around current card mechanics, as seen with MEGA Dream ex, Terastal Festival ex, and VSTAR Universe, and the “Parade” wording echoes the Terastal Festival set from two years ago. Trademarks usually surface six months to a year before use, so a release window is unclear, and there does not appear to be room on Japan’s 2026 calendar with Aura Seeker set for late November. That said, the current MEGA block has upended the release schedule, with Japan dropping subsets, smaller English sets every two months, and the first-ever simultaneous global launch via 30th Celebration, so the High Class Pack timing could shift too. 📈 Card Trends Source: Price data provided by TCGPlayer.com and chart visual provided by TCGMarketNews.com (which sources data from TCGPlayer). Weekly Top Gains 🔼 Weekly Top Losses 🔼 📦 Sealed Sales 🔵 Team Up Build & Battle Prerelease Kit Case Sells for $11.2k Listing This is a sealed case of 10 Sun & Moon Team Up Build & Battle prerelease kits from 2019, not a standard booster box. Each kit holds a 23-card Evolution pack with one of four stamped prerelease promos (Charizard, Zapdos, Nidoqueen, or Jirachi) plus four Team Up booster packs. Prerelease-stamped kits are scarce since they were first handed out only at tournament events before limited retail release. Sealed Type - Year: Sealed prerelease kit case (10 kits), 2019 🔵 Celestial Storm Booster Box Sells for $2.69k Listing This is a standard factory-sealed English Sun & Moon Celestial Storm booster box from 2018. The set is known for the rainbow and other variations of Rayquaza GX #177, as well as the Latias and Latios Prism Star cards. Sealed Type - Year: Booster box - 2018 🃏 Card Sales 🔵 PSA 10 Chinese Tournament Winner Victini Sells for $6.1k Listing This is the Simplified Chinese Victini EX #114/SV-P, a tournament champion prize awarded to competition winners rather than pulled from booster packs. The winner Victini released across Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Indonesian, and Korean versions, each with its own card number, with #114 being the Simplified Chinese release. Singles Type - Condition: Graded - PSA 10 🔵 PSA 10 B&W Plasma Freeze Prerelease Staff Metagross Sells for Listing This is a 2013 Black & White Plasma Freeze Prerelease Staff Holo Metagross #75, a promo given only to event staff rather than distributed to players or through retail. It is the sole PSA 10 on record, a population of 1 of 1. Singles Type - Condition: Graded - PSA 10 📼 Vintage & Niche Sales 🔵 PSA 10 BEAMS x Pokemon Jumbo Mewtwo EX Sells for $6.9k Listing This is a jumbo Mewtwo EX BW-P promo from the 2013 BEAMS x Pokemon Campaign, given to customers who bought merchandise at participating BEAMS stores in Japan. It features Toyste Beach artwork altered for more vivid colors, with a foil “BEAMS” stamp in the corner. PSA has graded only 11 copies in a 10. Origin Source - Year: BEAMS x Pokemon Campaign jumbo promo, 2013 🔵 Japanese Pokemon Promo CD Set Sells for $8.5k This is the factory-sealed 1998 “Best Collection” Pikachu Records Japanese CD, which includes a 10-card promo set with holo Charizard, Blastoise, and Venusaur among others. It is a music CD packaged with exclusive promo cards, not a standard card product, which makes sealed copies a niche vintage collectible. Origin Source - Year: Pikachu Records “Best Collection” CD promo set, 1998 Questions or feedback? Send a message to news@luckyeggreport.com 🥚. Note: Sold listing links sometimes redirect to active listings after some time, but should still be discoverable by searching for the listings manually. Source(s): TCGPlayer.com, TCGMarketNews.com |
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