Non-English Errors?

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Does anyone know any other foreign error TCG cards? And by foreign I mean non-English. The ones I know about thus far are:

Portuguese Base Set Wartortle with Evolution box error (both 1st and unlimited edition have this error a.f.a.i.k. - all have this error; without corrected version):

French WotC #4 Promo with Deuxmiaou as name instead of Mewtwo (all have this error; without corrected version):

Italian 1st edition Fossil Aerodactyl with English 1st edition stamp instead of an Italian one (all have this error; without corrected version):

French Jungle Eevee with the incorrect Pokémon description at the bottom of the Fossil Ditto (both 1st and unlimited edition have this error a.f.a.i.k. - all have this error; without corrected version):

Italian Fossil Seadra and Omastar with misaligned Water Energy symbols in the ‘Pistolacque’ (Water Gun) attack (only unlimited editions sometimes have this error a.f.a.i.k. - this error does have corrected versions available):

Japanese Ancient Mew with Nintedo instead of Nintendo at the bottom (this card does have corrected versions available):

French HeartGold SoulSilver Copycat (not sure if this one is legit, but I’ve seen two distinct pictures of it, one on reddit and one on eBay). Haven’t been able to find a copy (pun intended) of this one myself yet EDIT: Found it, now I’ll just have to wait for it to arrive (this error does have corrected versions available):

Does anyone know about any other foreign (Japanese, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Korean, Chinese, Russian, Polish, Thai) errors?

Greetz,
Quuador

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I have that German flashfire Lopunny missing the reverse pattern. I think we briefly discussed it in the collection thread I made

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Pretty sure the Wartortle also has this error (rarely) in English?
Unsure if 1st ed has it, but unlimited does. :blush:

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Ah yeah, forgot about those. I’ve also seen those similar Reverse Holo errors in English.

Still hoping to get a Pikachu or Seviper with a similar error. :wink:

Yeah, I know. :blush: But I’m mainly interested to hear about foreign cards here.
But you’re indeed right that the Wartortle Evolution error exists for the English card as well, and unlike the Portuguese is pretty hard to find (where with the Portuguese there isn’t a corrected version available a.f.a.i.k.).

Speaking of Portuguese, that reminds me. Both the Portuguese Pikachu from the World Collection 2000 and the Glossy Japanese Pikachu with the same artwork has the incorrect illustrator Ken Sugimori instead of Keiji Kinebuchi:

@thitaniumprince Since you’ve posted most of the errors above on your Instagram, do you perhaps know of any other foreign errors besides these above?

Greetz,
Quuador

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@quuador, Ah, just the thread named “Foreign Exclusive Errors”, made it sound like errors that only exists in foreign languages, and not in English at all :laughing:

Not 100% sure it’s exclusive for other languages, but the Magic The Gathering back-print for Growlithe and Arcanine (I believe in German?)

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Ah, forgot about those! Yes, I’ve indeed seen the German MTG back Growlithe, Arcanine, Nidoran, Tangela, and Weedle. Here a link to them. And here a video of the Arcanine from @thecharizardauthorty .

And you’re right, I’ve changed the title. My bad.

Greetz,
Quuador

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apparently there is this german reverse holo Porygon2 from HGSS with a pixelated evolution box:


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"@chappo

Okay that’s just flat out cool.

How perfect too for Porygon.

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Can we make sure to mark which errors have a corrected version as well as a error version and which ones just have an error?

Also @quuador wasn’t there that German flying Pikachu?

Mjisaacs

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Also here’s the different Russian Errors.

Corrected and Error Versions

XY Starter Set:
PokĂ© Ball (doesn’t have the set number)
Potion (doesn’t have the set number)
Tierno (doesn’t have the set number)

Only an Error Version:

XY29 Charizard EX (incorrectly says XY28)

Mjisaacs

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Will add it to the first post.

And yes, how could I forgot about the Flug-Pikachu:

Greetz,
Quuador

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Do you have any pictures of these?
Where did you get this information, btw?

Also, I just remembered another error thanks to @tonysandlin’s collection: the (English), German, French, Italian, and Spanish Electrodes from XY Evolutions have both an error and corrected version; with and without LIGHTNING energy in the first attack.

Greetz,
Quuador

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We used to call the Japanese Ancient Mews with the “cross lines” (one horizontal and one vertical) an error. Most the time PSA overlooked them and gave 10s as a production error.

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One more I just thought of, although it’s not really an error, but more a difference between print versions. The non-Holo and Holofoil from the Deck in the Spanish Shining Legends Pikachus both state:

Whereas the Reverse Holo version of the same card states:

Notice the difference? The 20 is at the start of the second line for the RH, but at the end of the first line for the non-Holo and Holofoil.

This is true for all RH and non-Holos.

Not really an error, but still a fun difference I guess. :blush: Especially since I thought RH were always exactly the same print run, except with the RH card stock layer in between. But apparently that’s not entirely true.

Greetz,
Quuador

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I don’t have pictures sadly. As to where I got them? Well I reretrived (I think that’s a word) from my Russian Card thread I made like 6 months ago which detail every Russian card ever printed. Where I got them for the thread though? If I remember correctly there’s a video on YouTube from a hardcore Russian collector who collected every single card they could find and that was there results. I’ll try to find the video.

Mjisaacs

Edit: here’s the video for you @quuador

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Ah yeah, I remember those. Didn’t knew the same error occurred with Magikarps as well, though. Hmm btw, since you have that many, are you willing to sell one to me? :wink:

Greetz,
Quuador

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Awesome, thanks for sharing! Pretty cool to see those errors, and all Russian cards in general.

Greetz,
Quuador

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Nice post, it’s really cool to see all of the photos. I have a spanish potion from the Kalos Starter Set that is missing the set number

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I’ll have to dig it out some time but I have a French full holo bleed Gyarados from Base Set.

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I wonder if all languages have potion, poke ball and Tierno without a set symbol varient


Considering this is a Spanish example and there are cases of all 3 happening in Russian it makes me wonder


Mjisaacs