PRESS KIT BASE SET (Demo Box)
This particular object was one of the first products printed to promote Collectable Gaming Cards (TC or GCC) of Pokemon. Its nature makes it the perfect match of the famous Demo Pack, distributed duringE of the 1999, for this reason he is often appointed "Prerelease Demo Box" or simply "Demo".
The pull of this product is unknown, the only reconstructed information shows that this Press Kit has been distributed in a period before the great distribution of box and packages and mainly to key figures of trade collectable card games and comic book (grossists and great traders).
The Kit looks like a box of 23,5 x 22 x 6 cm
The front design represents a Poke Ball that we see for the first time in the closed version. This representation was later used in the graphics of some mats, althoughartwork more famous always remains the slightly open and bright version.
On the back instead, to demonstrate that this object was distributed to a few people and not sold, we do not find any barcode, ISBN, or other codes attributable to a product catalogue.
The only writings we find outside the package are copyrights Nintendo/GAMEFREAK/Wizards of The Coast.
Inside the package we find 4 different types of product.
- 1 x Vetrofania set Base (Window Cling) in Italian
It is a vinyl sticker that was attached to the glass of shops thanks to the use of water. The image is reversed, as it is sticker was applied inside the store to be correctly visible on the outside.
- 1 x Mazzo Starter 2 Players in English (No Shadowless)
- 3 x Booster Pack Set Base in English (No Shadowless)
The deck and pack represented the main products of the line, inside in fact is contained a sample of both, housed in sponge inserts, to allow the trader to familiarize with the objects that he should sell.
The English language makes us understand how this box had been created in a period before printing press products in the various European languages.
- 1 x Promotional Brochure in Italian
Finally the strong piece, the object promotional more exclusive, the internal brochure with details about the world Pokemon and sales data Brand:.
Below are the 16 pages of the brochure in Italian:
As mentioned above, the drawing of these objects is unknown, however we have some data on the presence of these objects. box between collectors.
There are, in my opinion, a number of Press Kit still intact in language English or more, some of them even sealed.
As regards the Italian language, only 3 of these are known. box (including the copy in my possession).
A copy in language English Still sealed is visible at the minute 00:56 in this video of the Museum of Cards of the Pokemon set up on the occasion of Regional tournaments by Hartford (Connecticut).
I managed to recover a photo of a Demo sealed in French, although the owner of the photo remains unknown.
Different speech instead for Boxing in German, of which are available some photos of Tcggermany:
Press Kit Base Set in German - Photos Tcggermany (click on image > Instagram)
Despite the printing of Set suggest the existence of the respective box in Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch; I do not have any information on the survival of one of these. box until today.
I leave you with the video youtube of my box:
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