I feel that we’ve had a GREAT year so far and with Pokémon X & Pokémon Y coming later this year things can only get better! It’s my great pleasure to announce our new giveaway which is TCG-themed with a great prize for one lucky winner: a set of 3 Pokémon TCG EX Power Tins! These three tins are the Spring 2013 releases and include a Black Kyurem tin, a White Kyurem tin, and a Keldeo tin. Each one contains the signature EX card of the Pokémon featured on the tin as well as a special Meloetta card. In addition there are 4 Black & White series boosters packed in which means the lucky winner will be opening 12 booster packs! Each tin also features an extra code to unlock more cards in the Online Pokémon Trading Card Game. Ready to find out how you can win!?
HOW TO ENTER: Please comment once on THIS POST telling us what your very first Pokémon TCG memory is! Don’t have one? What would you like your very first card to be? The entry time is 1 week and lasts from TODAY (May 10th) to May 17th at 12am CST. Good luck!
Unfortunately due to shipping concerns I must limit the contest to the 48 continental US states… sorry(*BUT READ BELOW). Also in the case that something happens and we cannot deliver a prize there is no value which will be awarded to the winner ($0). Don’t foresee anything happening, but I just want to make the terms clear. Visitors under the age of 13 must get parental approval for any method of entry into the contest (comment, retweet, Facebook comment, or forum post).
Did you just read that disclaimer…? Because there are actually ways to get BONUS entries! Follow us and retweet this tweet on Twitter, “Like” us on Facebook and like our status here, AND post in our forum (which you can log into via Twitter account) in this thread for up to 3 extra chances to win! Cool, huh?
*For those of you outside the US there are still runner up prizes that you’re eligible for! 3 extra winners will be chosen and they will each get a downloadable Pokémon from our staff member Dan and if they’re members of our forum Mt. Moon Community they’ll get special VIP status!
Hope you’re excited about this as I am! As always, love everyone who keeps checking back for the latest Pokémon news and articles! Wouldn’t be worth it without YOU!
<3 PJ
When I was little my family moved a lot and one of those times was to a boys home which was basically a more sophisticated orphanage for boys. I was in kindergarten and one of the boys showed me their pokemon cards and I asked what they were for and they told me “No one really knows, but you collect them if you wanna be cool!” So he gave me a card case and some starter cards (my favorite was psyduck!) but my mom said that pokemon was from the devil and threw them all away. However, now I am seventeen and recently started getting into to pokemon seriously and my mom can’t tell me no now!
When I was around 5, I remember my brother giving ask his cards to me, and just wanting the ones with the coolest pictures.
My first memory was when I was in middle school. I opened up my first packs and got a Charizard. I bragged to all my friends. I came back from PE and someone stole it from my backpack. ):
I remember being 10 years old. I had just gotten my Nintendo Power magazine and was excitedly flipping through the pages. Then, on an insert was something strange. It was a charmeleon card from the Base Set. It was my very first card. Even though I amassed a great collection afterward, that charmeleon remained my favorite card. Even though the card got ruined I still credit it with spurring my love of pokemon tcg.
My First TCG experience comes from when i was 6 or 7?, my family has always been of a low income so my brother and I rarely had toys and my parent thought it was stupid to buy card because they where paper. I got my first card from my cousin and it was a ninetales. From there I never had any more till a few years back when I was able to buy old already opened pack cards. I have actually never have had the opportunity to open a pack now that I think about it..
My earliest memory involves me getting a single pack of cards one night, and opening it in the back of my mum’s Chevy Astro on the drive home. Flip through the first couple repeats I’d already had dozens of, and what do I find? A mother-flippin’ Charizard. Yeah, you know the one everybody wanted? That was worth $40 alone? That one. My life was good.
I a while later, I put it in a wallet to keep it safe from damage. I mean, it’s Charizard. You don’t want the corners getting bent or scratches on it. I eventually lost the wallet or my neighbor stole it. Who knows. I still wish I had it though.
I don’t remember my first TCG moment but I do remember my favorite one. It was around the time of my 10th birthday, when I had first became interested in Pokemon. For my birthday present, I got Pokemon Diamond and became a Pokemon trainer for the first time (ironic, isn’t it?). I also got my very first TCG deck, which had Torterra as the promo card inside. I had opened the deck before game and I loved it. I still use that Torterra in my decks when I play. It inspired me to choose Turtwig as my starter, who was my first Pokemon I got to level 100 without any cheats or rare candies. It was the most memorable birthday in my life.
Hi. my name is joshua. my earliest memory is when i was flipping through the channels (i was 4-5 years of age) and stoped when james ordered wheezing to use smokescreen.
I don’t remember my first, but I do remember shortly after the first Scyther card came out, I really wanted one, but was never successful in obtaining it in a pack. One day I was walking by an elementary school and there was the most pristine holo Scyther JUST LYING THERE ON THE GROUND WITH NO ONE AROUND. I still have it. It was amazing.
hope i win 😀
During school around 2nd grade; My friend just had gotten into Pokémon cards, She would tell everybody about them and tell us how to play and stuff so we all gather around and would play or go through her collection 🙂
I would love to start playing Pokemon TCG. I see my friends playing this, and my first card would be a Chimchar or a Reshiram.
Opening up my first base set booster and pulling a holo Gyarados. That was a great day!
My first memory was my friend giving me the rare Charizard card for free as a present, (unfortunately, he wrote his name on the back).
My first memory was going to see the first Pokemon movie when I was 11 and getting the promo cards with my movie ticket. Still have the cards in my Pokemon card binder 🙂
My first memory is from when I was around 7 I suppose. The first card I got from my first pack was a Bulbasaur. I was so happy, because it was my starter in Red, and it was my favorite Pokemon. It still is. I still have that card, it’s sitting on my desk now. Makes me happy. Also, Grass-types rock!
just realized i didnt comment the right way >..<
I have fond memories of Pokémon from when I was still in daycare. For the longest time, I was one of the only children without a Game Boy Color. I couldn’t relate to the other children who had Game Boy Colors. Instead, though, I had Pokémon trading cards. I remember getting to bring them on special days to the daycare, and I would always want to collect as many cards as possible so that I could battle my friends and trade cool-looking cards for other cool-looking cards. I don’t think I was aware of their value at that age until I was advised to not trade the ones with little stars in the corner because they were more valuable. My fondest memory isn’t a vivid recollection of one particular moment, but it encompassed several moments in my young life. I still have what is left of my trading card collection and I look at those cards and smile. The trading card game may very well have been the definitive point of interest that led me to discover Pokémon in its entirety. That’s life-altering.
My earliest memory of TCG is getting this pack of pokemon cards which came with a disc to play the game online and that was when i got my 100hp Holographic Machamp and another memory was entering a card contest for Kids WB in which I won my picture of Pikachu was placed on the card its a one of a kind card i dont even know if i still have it i would have to look for it
Well my first memory was in 98 or 99 I believe, it was on the corner of lefferts blvd and liberty ave queens NY. My aunt was taking me with her to work( she worked in the twin towers, which had its own little train station type thing that was awesome) so before we got on the platform for the train we went inside the corner store , and in the glass case at the register I saw something wrap in a foil like plastic with the pictures of , charizard , venasaur and Blastoise so I ask for one of Each Now that I think about it my Aunt was pretty awesome for that because at that time a pack of booster cost about $6.50. So that’s my first memory of pokemon tcg. I’m coming to terms that while pokemon is awesome , but I think I love it soo much because it reminds me of a time in my life when all my loved ones were alive and happy, and life was simple and easy( I was 8 playing with pokemon all day, it was a sweet life) but now I’m 22 and playing pokemon all day , its an awesome life, I hope if I have a child it can be part of his child hood as well lol
I am 17, and probably the best memory is when I taught my sisters how to play. Lol. Although they didnt care for it, my cousin and I would play when we went to my grandmother’s house.
My favorite memory of Pokemon TCG is when me and my friends went to school and traded our cards before the teachers caught us and took them away. We always went into a corner and got our cards out and started to trade them.
My very first memory is in my grandparents basement, my cousin gave me a good portion of his collection, including a foil Base Set Charizard. It’s too bad I lost about half of them when I moved :/
My first experience… In 2010, (I’m 13) My cousin gave me all of the Base Set cards he had because he had this condition that made him have seizures often, and they didn’t know if he would live or die. I started collecting TCG because I remember him saying one time that he wanted to see every Pokemon card in the world, and I want him to see that, even if it might be impossible.
My first pokemon card was a venasaur