Man Discovers FORGOTTEN $1,000,000 Pokemon Card Collection 

The guy is going to single-handedly kill the market prices ahah

“Tell me you were rich growing up, without telling me you were rich growing up”

I think he can single-handedly crash the vintage pokemon card market with his stock.

He shouldn't have shown this, he should have graded some, kept some others sealed and slowly sold them... basically how the diamond economy works

Interestingly enough, years back there were uncut feed sheets which had hundreds of the same card in a very large sheet. They were fully printed etc just needed to be cut at the borders. I remember thinking if someone ever buys these and has a professional cut them out properly they would be rich. I'd be willing to bet this person (and presumably their father) bought those stock sheets and did just that. From watching the videos I propose that for two reasons. 1. Pokerev mentioned the obviousness of the ratio being off between common/uncommons to holo rares. While this is true a simple explanation could be they realized they werent worth anything and just dumped them once they had their current amount. 2. If you watch carefully when he counts the charizards, you'll notice the left/right centering is almost perfectly identical for about 20 cards, then the pattern changes and the next set of 20 cards are identical etc. This tells us that this cards were cut in the same literal batches (mind you the only way to get that level of precision would be to buy 500 to 1000 booster boxes straight from the factory, and even then you'd have to assume the factory made every box in your order sequentially without filling other orders between, highly improbable). The simplest explanation is often the correct one. They purchased feedstock sheets and cut them, then it sounds like someone advised the guy to say they were sitting in storage (for the serious collectors out there, there's a reason you don't come out and say oh I bought 100 charizards on a stock sheet and cut them). The reason you don't do that is because from a collectible standpoint those cards could be considered fraudulently produced. If the factory didn't create the finished individual card product [yes even if finishing the produ t is as simple as cutting a small yellow square] then it could be argued those are a different class of charizard and placed into a seperate collectible category and thus valued differently. For those that have never seen one before, here's a link to a google image of an uncut holographic machamp uncut stock sheet: images.app.goo.gl/ivNbQJJgZrkYRwJ97 It's worth mentioning these huge uncut sheets were never priced at the price of one of those cards times the amount of that card on the sheet because they were considered a unique seperate collectible thing.

probably had a family member who owned a card store back in the day who opened packs to sell individual cards. Store must have gone bust and a decade or so later family member is deceased, and the cards are found. That would explain the hundreds of booster boxes needed to achieve a collection of this size, probably even got rid of bulk by selling them in premade packs.

I know it’s just cardboard but childhood nostalgia hits hard seeing all those cards. ❤️

Just killing me with the way he’s shuffling those holos 🥲

This guy dad for sure worked at the card printing press. They would probably come in after closing and start printing like maniacs.

you gotta get in contact and tak to him hahaha, would love to see that!

each time you say " put in a sleeve" he just keeps sliding those cards even faster LOL

There are a lot of mixed emotions on this situation but I look at it as a win for the pokemon community. Think about how many cards have been lost over the years. Sure it's not great for value and rarity but for those of us who just love the game & love collecting our childhood cards these are a blessing because there's more supply to meet the ever growing demand (assuming he's going to get rid of them). Sorry for investing collectors, but huge win for passionate nostalgic collectors

See these priceless Charizards? Let me just grind them together a dozen times? Not enough? okay!

Video should be titled: "Man DESTROYS FORGOTTEN $1,000,000 Pokemon Card Collection in a matter of mere seconds by rubbing the cards together"

This takes a collection to a whole another level

this is the kid growing up who said his dad worked for wizards of the coast and wasn't lying.

The fact he's running them through his hands like that multiple times without having instantly sleeved them just pisses me off

This is absurd.

The fact i had everything this guy has when i was younger, drives me nuts

I love the Topps Pokemon cards. I like the full card art, and the description of the Pokemon on the back of the Topps.

At first I was worried the POP of 8-10 base holos was going to go nuts. But then I saw him rub them all together so I'm not worried anymore haha

No wonder they are worth so much....this guy has had the majority of the world's stock in his attic this whole time!

The cat in the background had me laughing for quite a bit

All those rares not being in protectors is absolutely killing me inside. Dude, every time he rubs them together outside of a protectors drops their value!

This is absolutely insane

SLEEVE THEM SLEEVE THEM IM DYING

I have one binder from my middle school days with maybe 10 holographs total. My folks bought me 60 bucks of Pokémon stuff and that was it. I had to hustle to get the few nice cards I had. I recently opened up that binder and it's all junk no one wants lol.

One of the worst days of my life was like 2 years ago when I found my beloved collection in storage, only to find all my holos got cleaned out 😢😭

Plot twist: he's Prof. Oak and these are the pokemon we send to him, they ended up in his binders

"This guy's currency is Charizards" He alone can ruin the market prices if he wanted to.

i recently came across my old pokemon cards from 1999. i havent touched them since i put them in a box in the early 2000's . when i found them i took a trip down memory lane and had no clue how much they were worth til i looked them up.

This is so mindblowing.Its the second most worth collection i have seen after gary's

How the hell do you build a collection like this and forget about it? This looks like quite the childhood project. I remember far less interesting things like having a conversation with another kid about what our favorite Runt candy flavors were and being surprised that we both said banana. Even if you stopped caring about Pokemon for the past 23 years, with a collection this bonkers you likely wouldn't forget about it.

Guy: look at all these cards Me: looking at his drink on the table

How is it that he has zero first or second editions out of all those?

This looks like a card show dealers set. The way the binders were laid out with only holos or rares was for people to flip through the books and purchase from there. Its also why he has so much sealed stuff. Back then every card show had at least a couple pokemon booths all with stacks of holos.

Seems like he has around 110-112 of each big ticket holos. Ironically those uncut sheets are 10x11. Good chance his parents got a hold of a few.

Wow. I also collected Pokemon with just the goal of collecting the 1st generation of 151 cards back in 1999/2000. Once I collected all of them, I lost interest rather quickly and the collection sat in a closet for approximately 5 years until Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, LA, where I lived in Lakeview at the time, in 2005. We had approximately 16ft of flood water in our area, only a quarter mile or lesser, away from the levee break. I remember when I went back to see the damage from the storm, I saw a few of my cards stuck in the muddy, sandy sludge that remained in the house after the storm. I was pretty apathetic at the time over losing that collection. Although, as time went on, I realized what I actually lost, since the cards I had were in absolute mint condition, probably close to PSA 9ish. I was only 16 at the time and my attention shifted to girls and sports, amongst other things, naturally. We weren’t wealthy by any means. It took a long time to build that collection through trading and buying cards whenever I could afford it myself since my mom, who was a single mother of three boys, really couldn’t afford to spoil us with nonessential things, although she really tried her best to do so regardless of the hardships it may have caused her at the time. She was very selfless when it came to making her kids happy but needless to say, I was lucky to open a pack or two every couple weeks, maybe even once a month. That year, in 2000, when Christmas rolled around and we got some gift money, I went straight to our local card shop and spent $120 on a gem mint 1st edition Charizard. I remember it like it was yesterday because it was the very last card I needed to complete my set and after the cashier handed that card to me, I shouted, “I caught em all!!” and quite a few kids came up to me, extremely eager to see my binder of cards and attempt to make trades. Those were the days… _Those. Were. The. Days._

I remember i had two 1st edition charizards when i was 13 years old. No clue what happened to them. I started colletion again and i would love to get all of the Holo 1st editions. I got a 1st edition Machamp so far. I know it's not worth much but it's a start :)

dude this is something that must be common because at my school one of the teachers busted out like 5 binders of first edition cards apparently her son has been collecting since he was young, and she started taking it away so he wouldn't sell the cards for cheap like it's really impressive on how people can do this and open enough booster packs, boxes, etc and get this lucky.

The title should be “Man Discovers $1,000,000 Pokemon Card Collection, then turns it into a $10,000 Pokemon Card Collection“

This guy will single handedly burst the Pokemon bubble, and yes he is scratching the foil on the holos 😱

dude brought "gotta catch 'em all" to the next level

This struck a chord with me. I’m 30 and like many was obsessed with Pokémon. I collected relentlessly and built my ultimate binder with holo base set charizard blastoise and many more. I even got a card once from a tournament that they told me was extremely rare as a prize but I can’t remember what it was 🤔 anyway this collection is in my mum and dads somewhere. They have a garage and loft and as I moved on from my obsession they stored the cards out out the way. I asked my dad in 2020 had he threw them away or given them away and he guaranteed me they are around somewhere because he remembers telling my mum they will be worth money one day but we have no clue where. It’s crazy to think somewhere in that garage or loft sits a lot of money. Il probably cry if and when I’m reunited with them 😂😞 I spent a full day looking through the garage got about half way through all the junk and no luck. Even remember the binder it was red and had charmander on the front 😅 if I ever find them il comment again. Sorry for the essay everyone but when I tell people who don’t get it they just think I’m strange 😂🤷🏻‍♂️

11:15 he has a point all the hollow stacks are pretty even, thats odd

Seems legit: 8 Diglets and 111 Charizards. The correct ratio, I'm sure.

Bro I remember specifically my dad taking me to every 7-11 and walgreens in like 5 mile radius of my house, and all the pokemon boosters being sold out.

This mans collection single handedly devalued every pokemon card 😂.

When I was a kid I remember I traded almost half a collection that ranged from base set all the way to fossil for a Charizard. The whole block was there for the deal, was the craziest moment as a kid. All these years later and this guy is just casually sifting through stack of 60 plus of them. If my past self saw this back then he would have died lol

“ Take out the trash “ ( booster box ) “ Make your bed “ ( booster box ) “ Clean the kitchen” ( booster box ) “ Put your toys away “ ( booster box ) “ Turn up the tv “( booster box ) Rev you got me dead 💀

This is why there's 8% inflation 🤣🤣🤣

I cant watch this guy slide these Halos across each other when going through the stacks!!! o.O

cringe every time seeing people handing cards like that

Pawn Stars: Rick- best I can do is $50,000

8:00 i think you were confused because they were in different stacks, lets say all non-holos stacked up would be a lot higher about 30-40 times higher than the holo list. also keep in mind nobody cares about non-holos so they probably also got rid of a lot when they werent worth nearly anything.

I had a friend with a similar collection to this, his stacks where nowhere near this but he had 3 carrier bags full of non hollows, only the non hollows of the pokémon he liked were cared for.

I'd say the cards are real, but his parents were the boss of the biggest pokemon card printer

This guy is an actual time traveler, I'm convinced.

Wow that's awesome thanks for the content I wonder how much the whole lot would be worth

Family must’ve owned a card shop. We owned a small mom and pop shop back in 97-01 and I pulled 6(2 German 1st Editions) by myself. A booster box for vendors ran us about $30-35 and 1st edition German, French and Spanish boxes were about $125.

Wow, this was insane! Hopefully he reaches out to a pro for guidance ;)

Rev is bringing up good points and also being respectful about it. This person obviously is oblivious to how important it is to not just throw them in the 3 ring binders. I only put doubles into binders and I get the Ultra-Pro binders and also sleeve them and then put them in the binder. He probably scratched all of those cards up by shuffling through them and taking them in and out of binders. Idk it’s sad almost lmao

Back in 8th grade my buddy and I convinced our rich friend to start playing MTG with us and of course told him that buying boxes of booster packs(right when 4th edition came out!) was the way to go... needless to say I ended up with binders, yes BIUNDERS FULL of Dual Lands and rares that would currently total hundreds of thousands of dollars... Not to mention the rest of my collection I had started playing/collecting when "The Dark" was brand new.. All of my cards were left, forgotten about in a couple boxes in a storage unit..that was AUCTIONED OFF after an ex GF and I broke up and thought the other person was paying for it!! I lost a literal fortune...Still hurts to think about... So I can say from experience it's totally possible to acquire this kind of collection, VERY unlikely but def possible!!

Imagine how psa will react after he sends them 111 charizards 😂😂😂😂

watching him sift through the cards like a child at elementary school with no sleeves just hurts my soulllll

I was imagining in my head the cat in the background jumping on the table and knocking over that drink and spilling all over the cards

Im 37 today, i remember collecting them when they came out.. I never played the game .. I putted them directly in sleeves right away bin there ever since and the rare ones i putted in a sleeve on its own and then into binder sleeve .. they still smell inky and fresh even to this day.. I got full collection, but never got a charizard though.. but I got multiple extreamly rare ones though like blazoids alakazam and mewtoo etc .. never bin out of sleeve like i font know 22 years later in a map .. but unlucky its not first edition print .. but im sure its still worth a penny or two i guess 😅🤔 10:59

Seeing him sort those cards makes me cringe. So easy to scratch the holos... PSA is about to get a giant submission

The physical pain this man caused me when handling the cards! I couldn't hold WOTC commons like that😂

I doubt most of these holos were in a pack to begin with. There are a couple of red flags but the biggest is the fact that none of them are first editions. If you’re collecting cards through various channels you’re going to get your hands on some first editions. To avoid any scandals it would be fine to have a huge collection of UNLIMITED edition cards that wouldn’t affect the value of the first editions that are limited. Someone definitely made their own collection at the factory.

Crazy but he's definitely scratched them worse than before he took them out Just shuffling through them is nuts!

"hey guys i just remembered i have a billion dollars worth of mint pokemon cards, let's take them out of the binders and touch them!"

Huge respect on the one hand, huge anger and envy on the other. I am proud of my Holo Alakazam, Lt. Surge Electabuzz and a few more.

Dude your reaction saying put them in a sleave is hilarious

I have a little more background with these types. Parents worked corporate for Pokémon back during war with America with Pokémon printing. Probably 1995-2001 was peak of their card and manufacturing war. The parent or parents were given these through prototype phase before the card cost $75 inside a store back in 1997-1999. The collection if graded, average $12 million.

As a pokeman professional I would give him $20 for all of his cards

When you have 100 holo Charizards you’re legally required to shuffle a deck of mint condition cards like a super villain

you made me laugh out loud when you said go out to dinner bring a charizard lol

My hit points are being depleted for every unsleeved base set unlimited he rubs against another..

SOMEONE GIVE THIS MAN SOME SLEEVES

This can't be real. He has soooo many holos, but everyone is perfect. No printlines, no whitening, no quirks

Seems more like daddy works in the pokemon card factory 😅😅😅😅

😯This guy got me nervous shuffling all of those hills with no sleeve-savage...

At least we know this collection won't affect the prices of PSA 10s seeing as he definitely made sure to bring every potential PSA 10 down a grade lmao

How does an avid collector forget about their priceless collection, seems oddly suspicious.

From what i've heard about that guy with all those cars, his father i believe worked at the factory, and kept pocketing the cards, i could be wrong. but having just as many charizards are ninetales etc. kinda shows it's possible

Looks just like my collection....I still cry...all my cards got stolen plus all my sports cards that was worth lots of money I had prob like 30 or each but this dudes is insane holy moly

Landlord: “Rent needs to get paid”. Him: I’ll give you a charzar for the rent lol 😂

I'm dying on the inside every time he slides those holographic against each other

Mad respect to this lad and his collection! But and theirs always a But, I feel soo sceptical about how he accumulated such a vast collection worth a fortune ??

I never collected pokemon cards during school early 2000's but i had a awesome Yu-Gi-Oh card collection aswell as exodia set and Gameboys with Emerald, Ruby, sapphire, had it all stolen on my birthday when mum decided to invite some kids and neighbors.. i just ordered a couple elite boxes a couple days ago and getting into collecting pokemon now, i play Pokemon go alot, also the guy in the video sounds Australian like me

"never trust a man with a pinky ring." - PaymoneyWubby

3:09 imagine if he knocked over the glass and it ruined that stack of cards next to it 😬

His dad probably worked at a factory facility where the print and just kept grabbing a stavk over time. Cuz its funny how all of a sudden pokemon boombs and then he comes out with it. Or someone had a stack or a printing plate

7:25 Yeah the Commons & Uncommons should be the taller stacks of Cards??

I don't know, having THAT many of each holo as a kid is just so unlikely! I'm having a very hard time believing this...

Amazing collection! Just incredible that it all survived.

This guy is friends with the owner of my local card shop. Apparently the guys dad either owned or worked in where they produced/distributed these cards when they made the 4th print (UK print) of the base set.

Random but I like the background on this video better then the regular, switching it uppppp 🙌🏻

Yeah, doesn’t add up. Anybody that calls themselves “Pokemans Alex” wouldn’t handle mint vintage cards like that unsleeved. Even the most casual collector knows not to do that.