I know that Pokémon cards is the new craze among the kids, but I honestly didn’t expect such a queue on the store opening. Pokémon is becoming a new scratch card for the young adults, less stigmatized but still a kind of gambling.
I have two kids myself and just wanted to get some cards for them to show/swap at school. Tough luck though.
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Maybe I am blind, but not a kid in the queue it seems….
Mad stuff.
Meanwhile, me: employed
They need to be vigilant as I remember a huge amount of Ancient Mews that were actually just stickers hitting the streets of Dublin in 2000.
Based on the videos I’ve seen here and there from America, I think it’s 50% that it’s back in vogue with kids and 50% scalpers. Maybe a sprinkle of the millenial aged adults buying them in huge quantities are actual fans, since the initial Pokemon explosion happened during our youth; but a lot of people are filling trollies with them and then flipping them on Ebay.
We don’t really get Black Friday mayhem videos any more, but if you want to see some yanks throwing digs at a Walmart in 2026, there’s usually a Pokemon vending machine in the background.
I say this with love and as a massive nerd myself. But Jesus fucking Christ lads what are you at. Scalping cards so kids will never get them for any reasonable amount of money. Absolute losers. I’ve left skid marks with more charm than this lot.
It’s so sad how spoiled all of these things have become. Back in the day people could actually get these things without a big que of weird adults making a profit off reselling and hoarding stuff.
The levels some people go to rather than just get a regular job is baffling.
>I know that Pokémon cards is the new craze among the kids
I still have a bunch of Pokemon Cards at home. I have gone through them a while ago, I do not have the crazy 10.000€ cards. Still… are kids still interested in the Cards in general or is it just about the thrill when opening a booster pack? Thinking about giving my cards away, but I’d like some kid to just be happy about them and not a man child rifling through 20 year old cards looking for a few quid to make…
Proper saddos the scalpers, the kids dont even care about monetary value either dammit they just want cards. Their pass time ruined by greed
Scalping goes on with anything collectible now – Pokemon, Hot Wheels, you name it. I was talking to a Smyths employee a few years back and he told me how tired they are of this stuff, had a lad utterly destroy a Funko Pops display that had taken hours to shelve just so he could find the “chase” piece, most likely to flip online. People have lost the run of themselves and give genuine collectors of stuff a bad name.
Unrelated to Pokemon cards, this is the Smyths that has to be knocked down for the Metro to be built. They’ve apparently secured a new spot around the corner.
Loool
And there’s plenty on X that will tell us ireland has it bad, ffs we are queuing for nonsense not bread
So many naive people defending these losers.
Scumbag put it on Vinted the second they got back to their car. €37 mark up.
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Go to a game store(TCG/TT), Gamers World, Underworld Gaming, the Warchest, Reroll and you can pre order releases or pick up some packs(depending on stock), or [cardmarket.com](http://cardmarket.com) buy the single cards your kids want and remove the gambling aspect.
Dirt
Is that the Smyths out in Airside? I hope at least some of those people are playing the game
I fucking hate scalpers. Bunch of grown ass adults ruining a hobby aimed at children. All for what? Just a quick profit here and there? You’d be better off with a minimum wage job.
I love TCGs and it makes me so mad that kids can’t get into the hobby because of these wastes of oxygen.
fuck sake… can’t imagine how crazier it will get for the 30th anniversary
I can smell it from here…
Total shitshow. I was there for the last drop and I said to myself never again. There are certain people you see in the queue who you just know are only there to sell on whatever they buy. Pathetic.
No kids in that queue lad, they’re all resellers. Buy packs and sell them unopened, tiktokers do unboxing/opening content, if no valuable cards at least they have the views.
At this point I just get good fakes for my kids. It’s not worth all this crap
Honestly ,it’s crazy , like I wanted to get my nephew a box thingie of them for his birthday , I believe it was called like a mewtwo EX or something, would sell out before I even got a chance to get them after work , then seeing them on adverts for an upcharge absolutely enraged me , so many adults ruining what is essentially a kids card game , it’s sad really . Ended up having to get him something else but he was really disappointed.
Like any of these stupid booms, prime drink, the swatch AP watch etc. Give it a few months and there will be a gult of them being sold below cost.
I drove my kid up to Belfast so he could attend a Match Attax conference and complete his 2016 collection. It was mostly dudes my age there. Some people just embrace this kind of thing
They aren’t opening them. Most of the people in this queue haven’t a clue and are looking to scalp.
Worst part is that it’s actually just full-fledged adults buying up all the cards to scalp them, which annoying prevents kids who actually want the cards just to have them rather than flipping them for profit actually getting them.
man this is why the guy in Smyths got mad at me for asking if they had any Pokemon cards lol. I really enjoy buying a single booster every now and again, and regularly flip through my folder just staring at the art. But because I’m a hairy grown man I guess they must think I’m a scalper. I just want one!
I recently joined a hobby shop’s discord and glanced at the Pokemon channel and saw guys regularly posting stuff like “only got these 10 good cards from 10 boxes” and Im like… Man that’s so much money to be so disappointed. I dunno. There’s nothing wrong with a hobby but the cards do feel like it’s tickling a big gambling center of the brain for some folk.