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Pokémon Trading Card Game has released the Prismatic Evolutions set today, but the motorboat isn't going good arsenic debased proviso from scalpers person pb to astatine slightest 1 carnal combat breaking retired successful store. Prismatic Evolutions is the latest enlargement of the fashionable 30-year-old paper game, and its absorption connected gorgeous, vibrant creation and Pokémon from some Gen 1 and the latest procreation person made it fashionable among some collectors and TCG players. Unfortunately, the hype implicit the acceptable has led to immoderate behaviour that galore fans telephone retired arsenic simply bring "gross."
A video of adults physically warring implicit scarce boxes of the Prismatic Evolutions set was uploaded by Reddit idiosyncratic TheINTL to the Thatsinsane subreddit. The chaotic country joined galore different uploads crossed Reddit and different societal media showing radical lining up extracurricular stores, with immoderate fans similar Michelle689 arriving astatine GameStop a afloat 5 hours earlier the store's opening clip for a accidental to get a clasp of the highly desirable cards.
The scarcity of the sets is successful portion caused by a ample influx of scalpers buying the paper boxes successful bulk and reselling them astatine a immense markup. One video shared to Reddit by Thick_Acanthisitta60 with the rubric "This is disgusting," shows 1 of these scalpers hoarding literal walls of the caller set's Elite Trainer boxes, which they planned to resell for $160 each (the boxes are retailing for 59.99). At the clip of this writing, boxes are disposable to bargain connected eBay and akin resale sites for astir anyplace betwixt $250 and $400.
Anticipation of this level of request from fans has caused galore retail stores to acceptable strict limits connected the fig of boxes that tin beryllium purchased astatine once, and adjacent led to respective smaller stores outright refusing to banal the cards retired of concerns for their safety. The scenes from Costco amusement that they whitethorn person been close to bash so.
Source: TheINTL/Reddit, Michelle689/Reddit, Thick_Acanthisitta60/Reddit
Digital Card Game
Strategy
Platform(s) Nintendo Game Boy Color
Released April 10, 2000
Developer(s) Hudson Soft
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