Why collect sealed products?
This is a question that is often asked to anyone who approaches the world of sealed, generally accompanied by other adjectives like crazy, crazy, masochistic.
We assume that there are different types of collecting concerning Cards of the Pokemon; It is rare that one person falls into one of these categories while it is more likely that two or three of them are closely related.
Below are some:
1) Cards bulk (regorously cataloged for set, collectors)
2) Cards (P/BGS or other types of grading)
(3) Products sealed (new, never open)
4) Empty (products box/bags empty)
5) Products Promotions (catalogues, poster, magazines and stickers)
6) Singles Pokemon (all cards/products depicting that Pokemon in particular)
7) Generation/Brand (Wizards, Top, Ex and so on)
These are just the first ones that come to mind and each one merges with the others to create collections unique, just like their owners.
An example found in the video below, where this girl shows her collection of 1000+ Cards depictions Pikachu.
But let us return to the main topic of this article, i.e. products sealed.
To understand the point of view of a collector Sealed, in particular one who Collective Articles Wizards, I will try to use a similarity:
Imagine that the skeleton of a perfectly preserved Tyrannosaurus rex is found (in our case a Booster Box sealed), in some excavation in the United States. The whole skeleton is able to tell a story and preserve it in its original state is a unique piece of its kind, worthy of being exhibited in a great naturalistic museum.
I mean, a good story. No, you don't. The skeleton is expensive whole, there are not many museums able to buy it; so it is bought by an entrepreneur, separated into hundreds of bones (singles Booster or cards lost), which are sold, more easily, to as many collectors happy to possess a new dinosaur bone to add to their collection of species (Set).
What role the collector plays Sealed in this story? Well he's the paleontology expert, who couldn't find the funds needed to win the T-Rex at the auction. Observes impotent yet another pile of bones that is launched in an already saturated market of similar items.
We return with memory at the end of 1990s. You just got out of school, the weekend just started and you can convince your parents to take you to buy a package of the Pokemon.
That moment you've been waiting for him all week and while you walk you think about what Pokemon, depicted on bagIt'll bring you luck.
You have the bag in hand, there could be anything inside, even 11 CharizardYou don't know. So you open it and... Wow. a Pidgeotto Not brilliant, and now what do I show to my comrades on Monday?
My personal theory is that who, like me, loves bags sealed had not been particularly lucky with abuse as a child and, having not connected that feeling of happiness to the found cards, tries to reconstruct that feeling of infinite possibility that can give you only one bag closed.
One sealed envelope can not disappoint you, will always continue to have 11 Charizard inside it is only opening it that you will be disappointed by trainer... rare... not Holo. Unless of course you weigh it, but of this barbaric practice we will talk better in another article.
Then it comes to the desire to rebuild a story. A story that only products sealed They can tell. Because very often, more than the beauty or rarity of the object in itself, the unique thing is like, from 1999, managed to reach your hands in 2020 with still the film perfectly drawn or Language perfectly attached.
Would you really want to commit such a brutal gesture and break the magic that has been brought back for 20 years?
If the answer is: Yes. You're a bad person..
TORNA