Packs

The booster pack as a mechanic: a fixed price for an unknown outcome. The structure is the same one the rest of this archive documents, sold to children without being called gambling.

Part of Gambling

140 moments in this segment.

1. 1500 - A cigarette card of Sir Arthur Aston. Battle of Drogheda [September 3rd, 1649]. (Sir Arthur Aston; the Millmount; the barracks on the mount in which Sir Arthur Aston was slaughtered by Cromwell; St. Laurence's Gate.).
2. 1670 - Keeling-fire-engine-illustration. Four men pumped water into a hose at the center. Inscription reads "These Engins (which are the best) to quinch great fires, are..." with the subtitle "John Keeling Fecit " (John Keeling made it).
3. 1720 - Hogarth's Trade-card 1720. W. Hogarth Engraver at [the] Golden Ball Corner of Cronbone Alley Little Newport Street, trade card.
4. 1736 - Trade card Samuel Grant 1736. Boston trade card of Samuel Grant 1736.
5. 1739 - Zachariah Carlton: cutler's trade-card. Zachariah Carlton at the Case of knives in new Street, Covent Garden, London. Case of knives shown. Wellcome Images Keywords: Surgical Instrument; Surgical Instruments.
6. 1750 - Trade Card for John Lodge, Copper Plate Engraver, 18th century DP885065. A trade card given away with a purchase.
7. 1750 - An old trade card (George Inn, Southwark). Trade card of Hammond's Stage Waggon offering goods service from London Borough to Tenterden in Kent, via Staplehurst, Biddenden, Headcorn and Sutton Valence. Date of 1750 claimed in the source, but around 1827 is more likely (see talk).
8. 1750 - Trade card of Thomas Jeffreys 1750. Igned and The Trustees of the British Museum. Banks 100.64.
9. 1789 - Trade card of Samuel Maverick (1789 1845). Engraver & Copper-plate printer. Ngraving.) Yale University Art Gallery 1996.1.2.
10. 1821 - Johnbacon. Trading cards laid out from a single set.
11. 1826 - A sampling of trade cards. From the Beitler Ephemera Collection.
12. 1850 - Trade card H. O'Neill & Co. Trade card marked H. O'Neill Co. depicting women on a rowboat and pier.
13. 1850 - Hamlin business card 1850. William Hamlin business card as manufacturer of nautical instruments. William Hamlin (1772-1869).
14. 1862 - Draper-cole 1862 syracuse. Draper Cole - Ornamental Iron Rail Works - Syracuse, New York - 1862.
15. 1864 - Sheet (proof sheet of trade cards for whiskey). Sheet. Associated name on shelflist card: Gibson; This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card.
16. 1870 - Soapine - the great dirt killer will remove dirt of all descriptions!, c. 1870-1900,. Soapine trade card, c. 1870-1900.
17. 1880 - S.C. Hathaway- Owl with moon rising on lake. Trade cards Chromolithographs S.C. Hathaway: Owl with moon rising on lake Trade card, United States -- Iowa -- Sioux City.
18. 1880 - J. and P. Coats. Persistent URL: digital.lib.muohio.edu/u?/tradecards,674 Subject (TGM): Ships; Sailing ships; Thread; Thread industry; Obelisks; Monuments; Sewing equipment supplies; Tall tales; Oceans; Seas; Humorous pictures; Keywords: Cleopatra's Needle Best Six-Cord Spool Cotton.
19. 1880 - New York and New England Railroad trade card. Trade card for the New York and New England Railroad.
20. 1887 - Fred Carroll baseball card. Baseball cards from a period issue.
21. 1887 - Oyster Burns baseball card. Illustration of Thomas P. "Oyster" Burns (1864-1928), who played professional baseball from 1884 to 1895.
22. 1887 - Pete Gillespie. New York Giants, baseball card portrait. Chromolithograph. Issued by D. Buchner Company.
23. 1887 - Buchner Gold Coin baseball card for St. Louis Brown's third baseman Latham. A sealed pack whose contents stay unknown until opened.
24. 1887 - Dave Orr baseball card. Card of David L. (Dave) Orr (1859-1915), a first baseman in Major League Baseball from 1883 through 1890.
25. 1887 - Clark's Spool Cotton. Persistent URL: digital.lib.muohio.edu/u?/tradecards,2351 Subject (TGM): Presidents; Politicians; Politics government; Monuments; Monuments memorials; Thread industry; Sewing equipment supplies; Keywords: Marie François Sadi Carnot France Arc de Triomphe Paris Clark's Mile-End Spool Cotton.
26. 1887 - Hugh Nicol-Long John (Long & Short) Reilly, Cincinnati Red Stockings, baseball card. Ortrait 1 photographic print: albumen.
27. 1888 - Andrew Jackson, from the series Great Americans (N76) for Duke brand cigarettes. Cigarette cards issued in a numbered series.
28. 1888 - Denny Lyons, St. Louis Browns, baseball card portrait. 1 photographic print on cabinet card mount: albumen.
29. 1888 - Flickr - …trialsanderrors - James Ryan, centre fielder, Chicago White Stockings, 1888. N29 Allen Ginter World Champions 1888 reverse More N29 Allen Ginters More baseball cards from the Edwards Collection S. Library of Congress. [PD] This picture is in the public domain.
30. 1888 - Bertha Heyman 1888 tobacco card. Cigarette card depicting notorious 19th century American criminal Bertha Heyman.
31. 1888 - Visitenkarte-1888. Trade card for Cologne-maker Farina, 1888.
32. 1888 - Bill Poole. An engraving of boxer/gang leader William Pool.
33. 1889 - Freeman, P(itcher), Milwaukee. 1 photographic print on cabinet card.
34. 1889 - Hand with Card (Franklin Type Foundry). Printer’s advertising cut of a hand offering a card, mortised for the insertion of type in the card.
35. 1890-06-09 - Fairbankbanks scales array. Fairbankbanks platform scales shown on advertising card.
36. 1890 - Flickr - …trialsanderrors - The governor of Bac-Ninh, collecting cards, ca. 1890. Collectible game cards from one printing.
37. 1890 - Bontems calling card, ca. 1890. A label of the defunct company Bontems.
38. 1894 - T.S. & J.D. Negus trade card. Inscription content: T.S. J.D. NEGUS, 140, WATER ST., NEW YORK. Height: 56.92 millimetres, Width: 99.84 millimetres.
39. 1894 - Bernard Gillam13. Cigarette card featuring humorists Bernhard Gillam, Mark Twain and Joseph Keppler (from Dave Thomson collection); George Schlegel, lithographer.
40. 1895 - Monte Ward, New York Giants, baseball card portrait. 1 photomechanical print: haltone and stencil.
41. 1897 - French cantiniere, 1853. Cigarette card issued by Kinney Tobacco Company as an insert with the Sweet Caporal brand cigarettes showing a French cantinière in uniform in 1853.
42. 1899 - Nansen-Bilder Gbr Stollwerck's Sammel-Album 1899 German chocolate trade cards. Nansen and his ship Fram Fridtjof Nansen, born on October 10, 1861, began his famous journey to explore the North Pole on July 22, 1893, after multiple training trips to the Arctic zones, with his ship Fram.
43. 1900 - T.W. Camm. Trade advertisement for T.W. Camm. Other side is at File:T.W. Camm (front).jpg.
44. 1900 - T.W. Camm (front). Trade advertisement for T.W. Camm of Smethwick, England. Other side is at File:T.W. Camm.jpg.
45. 1900 - Pierce-butler-pierce 1900. Pierce, Butler Pierce Mfg. Co. - 1900 - The Largest Plant in the World for the Exclusive Manufacture of Heating and Sanitary Apparatus - Syracuse, New York.
46. 1900 - Williams and Carleton (Proprietors). Persistent URL: digital.lib.muohio.edu/u?/tradecards,1706 Subject (TGM): Monuments; Memorial works; Memorial arches; Monuments memorials; Parks; Cemeteries; Perfumes; Dressing grooming equipment; Keywords: Chinese Cologne Williams Jamaica Ginger and Flavoring Extracts Formerly George W. Williams Co.
47. 1909 - Postcard, Trade Card Advertisement for S. A. Maxwell Wallpaper, 1909. View of a bedroom illustrating the use of wallpaper pattern. Vanity table on left, partial view of bed on right.
48. 1909 - Barney Pelty, St. Louis Browns, baseball card portrait. 1 photomechanical print: halftone and stencil.
49. 1909 - Mullin, Detroit Tigers, baseball card portrait. 1 photomechanical print: halftone.
50. 1910 - RP Ad Lawrence Machinery & Supply Co Philadelphia B. Reverse of RP Ad Lawrence Machinery Supply Co Philadelphia A.
51. 1911 - Harry Wolverton, Oakland Team, baseball card portrait. 1 photographic print: gelatin silver.
52. 1911 - Householder, Victoria Team, baseball card portrait. A card sleeved and graded in its holder.
53. 1912 - Shire Highlands Railway locomotive on Lambert & Butler's Cigarettes card. Ert Butler's Cigarettes "World's Locomotives" card (No 41 of 50 issued in 1912).
54. 1912 - ORC 65 67. 0-8-2T locomotive class of the Ottoman Railway Company (ORC), built 1911 by Robert Stephenson Co., later TCDD Class 4501 to 4503.
55. 1913 - KellermanPanHandleTobaccoCard. Annette Kellerman in unitard like swimwear, from "Pan Handle Scrap Chewing Tobacco" card.
56. 1914 - Demaree Met Museum card. Demaree, Philadelphia, National League, from the Ball Players series (E145) for Cracker Jack Rueckheim Bros. Eckstein (American, Chicago and Brooklyn) Date: 1914 15 Commercial.
57. 1914 - Adolf Hitler Der Alte Hof. The Courtyard of the Old Residency in Munich.
58. 1916-01-05 - O'keeffe cigarette card. This is a Study of Pat O'Keeffe on a cigarette card.
59. 1916 - Captain Scott Cigarette Card. Captain Robert Falcon Scott depicted on a Player's Cigarettes card.
60. 1917 - Maria carmi cigarrette card. Maria Carmi, actress in the play "Das Mirakel" and Carl de Vogt in Der Weg des Todes.
61. 1920 - Xaviercigarettecard. Cigarette Card collector series featuring Crests and colours of Australian Universities, colleges and schools: Xavier College (Melbourne).
62. 1920 - Bella Vista Hotel. Antigo Hotel da Bela Vista, 1870 (c.). Seminário Diocesano, Funchal. Bilhete-postal de 1920 (c.). Ilha da Madeira.
63. 1920 - Trommelspieler der Kamerun-Neger. Drummers from Cameroon. Cigarette card, "Exotic people" series. Melachrino Co.
64. 1920 - Palaver-Trommel in Kamerun. Cameroon drummer. Cigarette card. "Exotic people" series, by M. Melachrino Co.
65. 1922 - 1922-11-10 Birthday greeting Gus Reiss A. Birthday greeting advertising card from Gus Reiss, clothier - Knox, Walkertin, and No. Judson, Indiana.
66. 1924 - Horrie Clover cc. Cigarette card of Horrie Clover, legend says: "Suplement to 'Pals' - 3.5.24".
67. 1926 - OgdensCardCoronach. Ogden's cigarette card depicting Coronach winner of the St Leger stakes owned by Lord Woolavington from 1926.
68. 1930 - Sportsklubben Frigg (cropped). Frigg Oslo FC team that won the "Christmas Cup", from a cigarette card issued in Norway.
69. 1932 - Feyenoord-Go-Ahead-Cigarette-Card. Cigarette card from Miss Blanche cigarettes package. The picture is part of a match between Feijenoord and Go Ahead in the 1930s. The illustrator is not credited, only N.V. The Vittoria Egyptian Cigarette Company, producer of Miss Blanche, is mentioned.
70. 1933 - 1933-36 Zeenut WIllie Ludolph. A baseball card of WIllie Ludolph from the 1933-36 Zeenut set.
71. 1935 - History001. Front of cigarette card showing The Toby (Charrington's) FC team of 1935-36.
72. 1937 - 1937-38 Zeenut Leroy Herrmann Mission Reds. A baseball card of Mission Reds player Leroy Herrmann from the 1937-38 Zeenut set.
73. 1946 - Jack-nicholas-cigarette-card-1. John Thomas Nicholas (1910-1977) cigarette card.
74. 1949 - Babe young baseball card. Bowman Gum CompanyNorman"Babe"Young, part of the 1949 Bowman Baseball series (R406-2) issued by Bowman Gum Company., 1949American, Commercial color lithograph; Sheet: 2 1/2 x 2 1/16 in. (. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick (Burdick 326, R406-2.26).
75. 1949 - Jackie mayo card. Bowman Gum CompanyJackie Mayo, part of the 1949 Bowman Baseball series (R406-2) issued by Bowman Gum Company., 1949 American, Commercial color lithograph; Sheet: 2 1/2 x 2 1/16 in. (. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick (Burdick 326, R406-2.176).
76. 1949 - Ray lammano bowman card. Bowman Gum CompanyRay Lamanno, part of the 1949 Bowman Baseball series (R406-2) issued by Bowman Gum Company., 1949 American, Commercial color lithograph; Sheet: 2 1/2 x 2 1/16 in. (. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick (Burdick 326, R406-2.60).
77. 1949 - Johnny Blatnick card 1949 bowman card. Bowman Gum CompanyJohnny Blatnick, part of the 1949 Bowman Baseball series (R406-2) issued by Bowman Gum Company., 1949 American, Commercial color lithograph; Sheet: 2 1/2 x 2 1/16 in. (. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick (Burdick326, R406-2.70).
78. 1950 - Natives Working at Victoria Cameroons, W. Africa. A. Cigarette card from the series Around the World / Places of Interest. Published ca. 1919-1929.
79. 1950 - Owen Friend 1950 Bowman. Bowman Gum Company Owen Friend, 2nd Base, St. Louis Browns, from the Picture Card Collectors Series (R406-4) issued by Bowman Gum, 1950 American, Commercial color lithograph; Sheet: 2 1/2 × 2 1/16 in. (. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick (Burdick 327, R406-4.188).
80. 1951 - Andy Pafko MET baseball card. Baseball Picture Cards (cropped from the four cards shown in the link) Issued by Bowman Gum Company Date: 1951 Commercial color lithography.
81. 1969 - Julio Losada (cropped). Julio Losada playing for Peñarol.
82. 1970 - Andrej Kvašňák FKS. Kvašňák's card for the FKS collection for the 1970 FIFA World Cup.
83. 1970 - Karol Jokl FKS. Jokl's card for the FKS collection for the 1970 FIFA World Cup.
84. 1971 - Scientific Trade Cards 1971 Plate 02. Trade card. Plate from: Calvert, H.R. (1971) Scientific Trade Cards in the Science Museum Collection ISBN: 0-11- -2.
85. 1980 - Seattle Sounders fire safety trading cards, 1980. Trading card of Seattle Sounders players and coach: fltr: Found in folder "Fire Department Ephmera," Fire Department Publications (Record Series 2801-12), from the Seattle Municipal Archives.
86. 2011-06-06 - Yu-Gi-Oh! Tips: Card packs - A brief history of new card packs. Runs through successive booster releases for one card game, noting how the publisher changed set size, rarity slots and reprint policy over time.
87. 2014-07-13 - Steam Booster Pack Math: Odds and Percentages Explained. Walks through the published drop rates for a digital card pack system and calculates the expected number of purchases required to complete a set.
88. 2016-01-14 - Trading Card Corner | Deathmate (Upper Deck 1993). Detailed look at a 1993 crossover comic card product, its insert structure and the glut conditions in the trading card market at the time it shipped.
89. 2016-11-10 - Discovering Gashapon in Texas! | Japanese Gachapon Pokemon Vending Machines | ClawD00d. Capsule toy vending machines installed outside Japan, each dispensing a sealed capsule holding one figure from a set for a fixed coin price.
90. 2017-08-07 - Bad Blood : The Story of How Konami Sued Upperdeck for Control of the Yugioh TCG. Litigation between a card game publisher and its distributor over counterfeit product and distribution rights, and the settlement that ended their arrangement.
91. 2018-06-30 - My Complete Set 1994 Marvel Masterpieces Trading Cards. A completed 1994 comic card set laid out in full, showing base cards alongside the insert chase subsets that only appeared at long odds.
92. 2018-09-29 - Shredding Junk Wax Baseball Cards! Don Mattingly Rookie, Barry Bonds 1987 Topps, Bo Jackson & More!. Surplus cards from the late 1980s overproduction period being destroyed in bulk, a demonstration of how little residual value the excess print carried.
93. 2019-04-09 - Every Modern Masters Booster Pack in MTG History!. Reprint product lines let a publisher adjust rarity slots and print volume to manage secondary market prices for older cards.
94. 2019-08-14 - UN-CUT SHEET OF POKEMON CARDS FROM FACTORY!!!!!. An uncut printing sheet laid out flat, showing how rarity tiers are arranged across the press run before cutting and collation.
95. 2019-10-12 - The Most EXPENSIVE Marvel Trading Cards Set of the 90's | 1996 MARVEL MASTERPIECES. The 1996 edition of a painted comic card line, whose scarce insert tiers made it one of the more expensive sets of the decade on the secondary market.
96. 2020-03-12 - The History of Magic The Gathering: From Hand-Made Cards to a Billion Dollar Phenomenon. Traces the collectible card game from its 1993 launch to a global business, covering how the randomised booster pack established rarity tiers as the industry's default retail format.
97. 2020-04-21 - Deathmate Trading Card Packs (1993, Upper Deck) -- What's Inside. Pack contents, chase inserts and print volumes from a 1993 comic tie-in card product, typical of the speculative boom in that period.
98. 2020-09-28 - What Affects a Pokemon Card's Price? | Economics IRL. Supply and demand analysis applied to card pricing, covering print run size, grading scarcity and how condition sorting creates separate markets.
99. 2021-01-18 - Are Too Many Pokemon Cards Printed? 1990's Sports Bubble VS Pokemon 2021. Print volumes in the 1990s sports card glut set against a later card boom, asking whether supply data supports the same outcome.
100. 2021-02-16 - Is Wall Street Causing A Trading Card Bubble?. Discussion of institutional money entering the card market and whether the resulting price moves reflect collecting demand or speculation.
101. 2021-03-13 - STIMULUS CHECKS and POKEMON CARDS! (Market Analysis). Disposable income entering the hobby drove a 2021 rise in card prices, tracked here across sealed product and graded singles.
102. 2021-04-02 - MARVEL Trading Cards - HISTORY of the COLLECTIBLE Skybox Cards. History of a comic card publisher's output, covering the chase inserts and foil treatments that defined its product in the early 1990s.
103. 2021-05-18 - SUPERHERO Collectible TRADING CARDS - History of the Hottest Marvel & DC Collectibles. Comic publisher card licences, covering the insert ratios and painted art subsets that drove demand in the 1990s.
104. 2021-11-24 - KICKSTARTER QUESTIONS ANSWERED! Interview with Alan Phan, Grand Archive TCG Project Manager. Interview with a card game designer covering print runs, rarity distribution and the commercial reasoning behind selling randomised sealed product.
105. 2021-12-26 - The RISE and FALL of Pokemon Cards 2021 (Market Analysis). The 2021 surge and subsequent decline in card prices, measured across sealed product and graded singles.
106. 2022-07-19 - The History of Magic the Gathering (MTG) | GLHF Episode #495 - How Magic Got Its Start in 1991. Long-form account of how the first collectible card game was designed, funded and printed, including the decision to sell cards in sealed randomised packs rather than complete sets.
107. 2022-07-26 - POKEMON CARD SHEET FROM FACTORY. Close examination of a factory print sheet, showing the layout of commons, rares and holographic slots before the sheet is cut into individual cards.
108. 2022-10-11 - INSIDE The Pokemon Card Factory (2022). Tour of a printing and packaging plant showing card sheets, cutting, foiling and the collation step that assembles the sealed pack contents.
109. 2023-05-16 - Trading cards manufacturing packaging process--Amazing sports card packing speed in 350PPM. Industrial packaging line running at speed, feeding cut card stock into sealed foil wrappers at the rate a commercial print operation requires.
110. 2023-06-28 - 1994 Richard Garfield Playing Magic The Gathering - Old School Magic The Gathering. Footage of the designer of the first collectible card game playing his own product in 1994, alongside discussion of the early set structure and card pool.
111. 2023-07-24 - Ryan Miller (Disney Lorcana) answers YOUR questions from Reddit - UKGE Interview PART THREE. A card game designer answers collected questions on set construction, print quantity and how rarity slots were settled before release.
112. 2023-08-10 - Exclusive: Interview With Disney Lorcana Card Illustrator Nicholas Kole. Interview with an illustrator commissioned for a licensed card game, covering the brief, the art direction and how pieces map to rarity tiers.
113. 2023-09-05 - Lorcana Interview - What It's Like To Create The Next Big Thing In Board Games?. Designers of a licensed card game discuss set construction, rarity distribution and how print quantity was planned before launch.
114. 2023-09-14 - Disney Lorcana Pull Rates! Gift sets VS. Booster Box.. Which is better?!. Rarity yield from a fixed contents gift set weighed against a sealed booster box for the same card line.
115. 2023-09-22 - Star Wars Unlimited Rarities, Variants, and Booster Packs Explained!. Breakdown of the rarity tiers and variant treatments in a licensed card game, showing which slots in a sealed pack are fixed and which are randomised.
116. 2023-10-08 - What Really Happens In The Pokemon Card Factory. Description of the production stages inside a card plant, from sheet printing and foil application through cutting, collation and sealed wrapping.
117. 2024-08-20 - The 1994 Marvel Masterpieces | Marvel Trading Cards. A 1994 comic art card line built around painted illustrations, foil parallels and short-printed inserts seeded at published ratios into sealed packs.
118. 2024-09-25 - Tiny Toys Big Business: How Pop Mart Became a $6 Billion Giant Marketing Blind Boxes to Kidults. How a Chinese toy company scaled the sealed-figure format into a multibillion dollar business, with attention to rarity ratios and the designated secret variants that drive repeat purchase.
119. 2024-10-08 - Disney Lorcana Market Update - MAJOR Booster Box Case Supply Shortage!. Market update on a licensed card line reporting case level supply constraints and the effect on sealed box pricing.
120. 2025-02-05 - The History Of the Baseball Card Junk Wax Era 1986-1993. Account of the 1986 to 1993 overproduction period in baseball cards, when manufacturers printed sets in volumes so large that the scarcity the hobby traded on disappeared.
121. 2025-02-10 - What Is Junk Wax? Junk Wax Baseball Cards Explained #baseballcards #baseball #junkwax. Defines the overproduction period in card manufacturing and identifies which sets and print volumes fall inside it.
122. 2025-03-09 - Pokémon TCG Pocket Pull Rates and Rarity EXPLAINED!!. Documents the disclosed drop rates in a digital card app, where the physical pack format is reproduced as a daily allowance of virtual openings.
123. 2025-05-19 - Pop Mart's Viral Growth: Labubu, Blind Boxes & the Business of Collectibles. Traces how a single character line drove demand for sealed figure boxes, with the secret variant seeded at a published low ratio.
124. 2025-05-21 - Lohnen sich Mystery Boxen von eBay, MediaMarkt & Co.? | FYI - unsere Recherche, Dein Vorteil NDR. A German consumer affairs team buys sealed mystery boxes from several retailers and totals the resale value of the contents against the price paid.
125. 2025-07-12 - Pokémon's Most EXPENSIVE Booster Packs Explained. Sealed packs commanding the highest secondary prices, with attention to print scarcity and the sealed versus opened valuation gap.
126. 2025-12-04 - One Piece TCG Pull Rates Explained: Every Rarity Breakdown (For beginner). Sets out the published rarity ratios for a manga licensed card game, listing how many packs a given tier is seeded into on average.
127. 2025-12-19 - How Pokémon Cards Are Made Part 2 | From Art to Booster Pack. Follows card production from commissioned illustration through colour proofing, foil stamping and the collation that fills each sealed wrapper.
128. 2026-03-04 - How Konami Saved the Yu-Gi-Oh Collector Market. Examines a publisher's reprint and rarity decisions and their effect on secondary prices for older cards in its catalogue.
129. 2026-03-07 - What Cards Were Selling For During the Junk Wax Era (1991) Versus What They are Worth Today. Dealer prices quoted for 1991 cards at the time, set against later market value, showing what happened when print volumes outran demand.
130. 2026-04-11 - Topps wax pack run 1952 to present. Survey of how one manufacturer's sealed pack packaging changed across successive decades, tracking wrapper design, price point and the stated card count.
131. 2026-05-01 - The Collectibles Market Has A Serious Problem.... Examination of structural issues in the collectibles trade, covering supply volume, grading capacity and the gap between listed and realised prices.
132. 2026-05-28 - Graded Pokémon Cards vs. Sealed Product: Which Is the Smarter Investment?. Weighs encapsulated single cards against sealed boxes as holdings, covering liquidity, grading cost and the risk carried by each.
133. 2026-06-02 - Gundam TCG Newtype Rising Is Skyrocketing! May 2026 market Watch 📈. A newly launched licensed card line, with sealed box prices and the chase card tiers driving early demand.
134. 2026-06-30 - Inside the TCG Business Nobody Talks About | Spencer Gordon-Sand | Part 2. Conversation with a card industry operator about distribution allocation, margin structure and how sealed product reaches shop shelves.
135. 2026-07-16 - How Pop Mart Built a $55 Billion Empire From Blind Boxes. Corporate history of a collectibles firm built on sealed randomised figures, covering its retail footprint, vending machine channel and licensing arrangements.
136. 2026-08-03 - The Economics of Owning a Pokemon Card Store. Breaks down the cost structure of a card shop, covering distributor allocation, margin on sealed product and the role of singles in revenue.
137. 2026-08-07 - Inside the Fraud That Killed Upper Deck's Superhero Card Game. Counterfeiting and licensing disputes ended this publisher superhero card game, a story drawn from the court filings in the case.
138. 2026-08-29 - How 9 Yu-Gi-Oh Cards Bankrupted an Entire Company. A card distributor whose finances collapsed around a small number of high value cards, and the disputes over their authenticity.
139. 2026-08-31 - A $40 Blind Box Built Pop Mart A $5.2 Billion Year. Business analysis of the blind box toy format, where a fixed price buys a sealed figure of unknown identity, and the revenue that format generated for its largest operator.
140. 2026-09-06 - The 90's Junk Wax Era Basketball Card PRICE BOOM. Examines why certain basketball cards from the overproduction period later rose sharply while the rest of the era's output did not.