TLDR: No, I don’t think so. But I hope there is.
Since I found out about Japanese Base set and the no rarity variant that can be found in short packs. I’ve had a hope that Jungle, which also has a short pack variant, could also have differences within the cards that distinguish them from the regular cards found in long packs.
The pack on the left is the short pack, the one on the right is the (normal) long pack. I assume, that Jungle short packs had a similarly short production and release as Base short packs did. I believe the reason for the two different packs is that retailers requested Media Factory to include the hole in the top foil so they could display them on hooks.
Given that no rarity has various well known errors that were changed for the rest of the run, but afaik, Jungle doesn’t.
It follows that Jungle cards were printed later, after Media Factory had ‘ironed out the creases’, but still had the earlier type short packs in inventory, and thus used them for the initial release of Jungle. But without the early card errors seen in Base.
Or did they?
Being a pretty ardent sealed collector, opening short packs myself wasn’t on the agenda. Fortunately a mercari seller had 15 opened packs, of which I managed to get 4. Sadly the rest are scattered to the winds.
So now, I’ve photographed each unique short pack card (25) and a normal long pack counterpart. I tried to keep each photo as similar as possible, and that all cards are in the correct order - short pack first, long pack second.
I can’t see any text, layout, symbol, data differences between. I think there is a consistent small change of colour saturation between them - that being the short pack cards are lighter overall and long pack cards being darker and more saturated. However, this is normal and likely due to ink or printing fluctuations during production.
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Now, hopefully the photos are hid behind this spoiler to save everyones data
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If anyone can see anything I’d love to know. I think it’d be really cool if there was a something to look out for, and that Jungle could have a variant.
Here’s all the photos in an imgur album - imgur.com/a/b7sYjbh
And here’s a list of things I learnt whilst doing this:
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It took way longer than I thought
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If I had shot both cards in the same image I could have saved time
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I don’t like the way I write, feels clunky