Casually browsing Fanatics Collect and saw this, the 1999 Pokemon Japanese CoroCoro Comic Promo Best Photo Snap Pikachu #25, an ultra rare 20-copy prize card.
In the early days PSA has mislabelled the regular promo inside Trainer Magazine Vol.1, and that's why these two cards have the same label, the latter has later been renamed as "1999 P.M. Japanese Promo #25 Snap Pikachu Trainer Magazine Vol. 1".
This pop 1 Snap Pikachu is listed at $20m USD, with unsure fair value.
The recent surge in lower PSA grade of the Corocoro Pikachu is cooling off the market.
A PSA1 just finished auction with only 3 bids, and ended at $1,035.
There are now 392 cards in PSA1. Price doesn’t really affect the higher PSA grades though.
Recently deciding to pull my trigger and get a copy of the Ivy Pikachu non-glossy. One problem I had was the version of PSA text.
PSA originally named it as Ivy Pikachu Non-glossy, but later modified to “Pikachu, How to Play Pokemon”.
They are literally the same card, but as a collector, which version would you prefer?
It’s been a while since I last looked at the Ivy Pikachu Non-Glossy version. It looks to me that the non-glossy version is also picking up in price, even in the lower PSA side.
A PSA10 was recently sold at $80,000 (8 August, 2026), and a PSA1 was sold at $450.
Over the weekend I was also chatting with another collector about getting more vintage over modern. Looks like the trend is still going on.
Looking into the “Ghosting error” of Vending Series iii Mewtwo, where there’s a tattoo-like print error on Mewtwo’s leg.
This was an earlier print error and was later fixed.
The error was so obvious that it created a separate line of sale on Snkr.
PSA10 generally sells for more for the error version, except that PSA doesn’t acknowledge the error on the label.
Currently lowest listed price of the error version of PSA10 is $4750 on Ebay, and the corrected version is $3,330 on Snkrdunk.
JR East Stamp Rally Promos - the ones you had to literally earn on foot
So this is one of my favourite stories in all of pokemon collecting. summer of 1997, JR East (Japan Railways) ran this event called the Pokemon Stamp Rally on the Yamanote Line in Tokyo. basically you had to go around to 30 different train stations and collect a stamp at each one. you had 2 days to do it.
100,000 tickets were sold in advance and they all sold out. the event ran from august 9-17 1997. think about that… this is barely a year into the pokemon TCG even existing.
If you some how actually managed to hit all 30 stations… you got a booklet with 2 promo cards: a Surfing Pikachu and a Mew.
A Surfing Pikachu with Mt. Fuji and a train in the background — a nod to the JR rail theme.
I hold both of these graded and honestly these are some of the most meaningful cards in my collection. Not just because of rarity but because of what it took to get one originally. You couldnt just buy these. you had to physically travel around tokyo hitting 30 train stations in 2 days. Thats real effort.
Interesting additional fact, Corocoro Surfing Pikachu is the same picture but looks like they just took out Mt Fuji 🤣.
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🚨 PSA just got hit with a massive class action lawsuit claiming its entire multi-billion-dollar grading empire started with a known FRAUD.
Certificate #00000001 - the first card they ever graded - was a secretly trimmed T206 Honus Wagner.
THE GRADER KNEW IT WAS ALTERED. PSA’s own rules banned it. They graded it NM-MT 8 anyway, never disclosed it, and never pulled the grade.
That same slab later sold for $2.8 million and is still certified.
The complaint calls it the blueprint for a $15 BILLION market built on a lie.
Now that Ivy Pikachu has spiked. Here are the first five Corocoro Pokemon promos.
1. Ivy Pikachu (November 1996)
2. Jigglypuff (November 1996)
3. Lily Mew (February 1997)
4. Mewtwo (June 1997)
5. Surfing Pikachu (September 1997)
It's still quite easy to get the Corocoro Mewtwo at a very decent price now.