I Open 80 Japanese 151 Pokemon Card Packs! 

"Name all your country's historical leaders" "Impossible" "Name 151 imaginary monsters by photo alone" "You got it, boss"

33 minutes of australian tech wizard opening pokémon cards make a great european lunch break

i felt the "in my day, reverse holos meant you had fakes" right in my core

The more i watch James the more i realise that he is really just a calm wade. Thats more handy

"We have Maxmoefoepokemon at home" I'll take it. Brother hasn't uploaded in nine months. Great video

James calling pidgey spearow every time without correction has been a treat.

"Unboxing videos aren't fun at all, except this one." -Me

It’s humidity and differences in surface tension between the cardboard and foil layers that causing the bending. You could keep them in air-tight containment but honestly it’s not worth the trouble. The only people who really care are investors and speculators and honestly, fuck ‘em.

I'm Gen-X, and therefore, know absolutely nothing about Pokémon but I'll happily watch a millennial tear some packs.

“Reverse holo Apple core, bet you can’t beat that card” James coming in with the applin and dipplin respect without realizing

2:20 That's Ceruledge and Armarouge, they were introduced in the latest Pokémon games Scarlet and Violet.

me, yelling the pokémon names at my phone while doing chores

I haven't bought pokémon cards since gen 1, but I bought these boosters as a spur of the moment thing and I REALLY like the art on these cards. I gave away all of my old pokémon cards at some point, and I regret that now, but this felt like a good way to get back at having a collection again, and since I bought the Japanese ones it feels like it's a bit more "fresh" and different from anything I had before.

Dankpods version opens random pokemon cards from cashies James gets some fancy retro pokemon packs from Japan

Pretty spot on with the curving! Humidity differences between the factory and your location, the cardboard expands as it absorbs water in the air but the plastic foiling does so it warps them. Putting them in the binder will help but the only "proper" way to fix it is with desiccant packs to change the humidity and then double sleeving them to keep ambient humidity out

James I'm sorry to say you've discovered the joys foil trading cards. Leave them outside in any sort of weather that's too hot or too cold (like Adelaide atm) and you'll end up with pringles. Some foils are better than others but Colgate foils like Pokemon tend to be pretty bad. To answer some questions EX is pronounced as the individual letters, not as a word. Eee-Ex. While some Pokemon have been re-typed in the games, mostly a bunch of normal types gaining the fairy typing tcg typing is... weird and different. The reason the poison type pokemon that are dark type in this set is likely down to the team simply believing that it suits Poison type better than the Psychic type. First Editions no longer exist. A number higher than the set number just indicates some sort of higher rarity. I don't play enough Pokemon TCG to have it memorised so I can't be more help. But basically if it has a higher set number or multiple stars it's a rarer card. That does not mean it holds more value however.

This was way more fun than it had any right to be

The Mr Squiggle reference didn't go unnoticed - showing ya age James :P

18:13 are we gonna ignore that one being a master ball variant?

Seeing all those foils Pringle at the end broke my heart! You were on the right track, though, it's a moisture problem between the foil printing and the card stock. There are ways to fix it!! The best way is with moisture regulation packs for cigars, weird as hell solution, but it does work! You'll want to aim for 62% moisture level, whatever the proper term is. I'm a Magic player and while I've experienced the curling before, I've yet to try the cigar pack solution. I hope you can get them all fixed up, James!!

You know someone is Australian when they even put sleeves upside down.

Ol' mate James at BUTTCRACK O'CLOCK on the American West Coast? Yes, I do.

i missed ya mate,thanks for uploading.

11 longer than the regular videos? That's new.. Cool to see you geek-out about your hobby👍

wow maxmoefoepokemon really has put himself together

This nostalgia bomb made me so happy ❤ didn't know James opening booster packs was something I needed in my life

I usually dont like watching Pokemon card unboxing vids, but it's James. I'll give it a pass. James is cool.

Purple-shirt-a-mon is my favorite Pokémon also.

Yes! James channel is back! I hope you had a great trip

Trogdor as an Aerodactyl was not expected, but very welcome.

I have never played a single Pokémon game nor engaged in any of the expanded media, why did I watch this

Tangela does evolve; its evolution is called Tangrowth, but it wasn't introduced until Gen IV (not counting the unused prevo and evo for Tangela in the Gold/Silver beta that got leaked a few years ago).

to explain the dark types: in tcg there are 10 types; colorless (normal, flying), fire, grass (grass, bug), water (water, ice), electric, fighting (fighting, rock, ground), dark (dark, poison), metal (steel), psychic (psychic, ghost, fairy), and dragon. they did experiment with adding fairy type to tcg separately in x and y, but ultimately it proved cheaper/easier/better in some way to combine it with psychic. in previous generations up to (i think) sword and shield, poison was represented by the psychic type, which is why it seemed odd so many previously tcg psychic type pokemon had swapped to tcg dark type

Love hearing the word "burninate" in the wild lmaoo

Hope you do more of these, this was a great first opening and we need someone to pick up the openings where Max left off, helps that you're Aussie too lol

As a pokemon fan as long as i can remember this set is amazing. Sadly still havent gotten that holo charizard thats worth as much as a whole car.

You’re energy just makes me so happy lol

James completely missing that the reverse holo Bill was the master ball is killing me lmao

Can't believe I watched an entire video of you opening Pokemon cards JUST for the cat at the end.

27:03 'The Big Three' is also used in Competative RBY to describe Tauros, Snorlax and Chansey, the three normal types who are pretty much required in the most popular played tier, OU

"I played Pokemon Shield as well I-it's-jeaaa-itwas-itwaslalright" Honestly as an avid Shield defender I'm glad you gave it a chance. I thought was pretty fun honestly

Yay you're back!

Impressive collection of Ancient Mews from the first Pokemon Movie. I remember frantically trying to get my Dad to take me, my brother, along with my cousin to watch the movie just to get that card when I was a kid.

The Gengar in this set is so cool, man. The crayon colouring is sick

been out of the loop from the pokemon tcg for years, and recent pokemon games but this is just nostalgic love the first generations

Nothing beats him referring to Pidgey as Spearow every time

Cool video, man!

James would be the type of person to sleeve a card from the top.

He missed the Master Ball Purple Shirt-e-mon card

James and Dank share a lot of the same mannerisms. That Zapdos ex was such a good pull!

That was a nice nostalgic video.

The goat has returned

Stop making me want to get into collecting Pokemon cards 😭you're making the temptation too great to handle

close enough, welcome back maxmoefoepokemon

James is adorable when he gets exited:3

This is more Pokemon content than the entirety on MaxMoePokemon's channel this year combined

I just got into pokemon cards. Got a few boosters. And heres James doing an opening...

Jame is the kind of guy to say "Yea" When meeting mewtwo

im not interested in any of this, but james is james so im watching.

The collector is back!

You know… I kinda missed James during the 5 months he was gone. But now that I have a 33 minute video of him rambling and getting most of the Pokémon names wrong, I feel like all is right with the world

"Mew is Mew." Deep, man. Who knew James was a philosopher, too?

I get the insomniac American bonus of watching a James video when it comes out

We need part 2, another 80 packs opening.

cheered me up after a rough day to see you finally post!

Hey i found your channel from dankpods. Your alot like him and i love it

Trading cards are the OG microtransactions.

So we finally know why you didn't upload for so long. You lucky one.

He reminds me of me with MtG in '93-'94. The excitement opening shit up is real.

I was so worried we weren't gonna see my boy Charizard.

0:09 what? It’s that a mini Wade besides the mini James? I’m wonder if at that age was a walkaman modder too

man goaded set, such nioce art and some really fun playable cards too. love ya sonny

Yay he's back

This really scratched the itch I have always had for opening pokemon cards.

Yayyy he's back

A James channel/ dankpods booster box opening crossover needs to happen!

Man I wish I could have those bulbsaur line full art. My favorite of the starters

Im addicted to watching people opening Pokemon cards lmao! are you going to ever upload videos on floatplane bro?

full art cards are beautiful

11:55 "Meowth... that's right" hehe

The Maxmoefoe we didn't know we needed

Was that a little Wade cameo with the drumming over the time lapse?

Not what i expected, but... James Channel!

I wondered why energy is pronounced that way in Japanese too. Apparently it's a loanword of the German word "Energie", not English "energy", and it's pronounced with a hard G.

I guess that Gen 1 pokemon go set brought in enough money for nintendo to warrant a dedicated release.

Man, Purpleshirtamon was always my favorite

idea: Supercut of all plastic sleevings

I need that sleeping Bulbasaur.

ninetales is my favorite, if i had that shiny card as a child i would have lost my mind

I thought max uploaded again when I saw this

Ah yes, JamesJoeFoe

Gotta catch 'em all!

Id love to see this video edited into the pokèrap

Is it possible to buy these online? If so where?

How did you manage to get the boxes from Pokemon Center? Or did you go somewhere else?

I missed watching pokemon card opening videos 😭😭

I have first edition pokemon japanese card packs brand new, unfortnuately the gym challenge 2 and fossil pack. I don't wanna open them because they're from the 90s, and I also found them inside my mum's old handbag.

Maxmoefoe Pokemon is gonna have some competition

Someone needs to use thus to remake the pokerap...

I've been waiting