Grookey says “Hi”
This is where I will be posting my recent additions to my growing Collection 
I started small (Dollar Tree Pokemon Packs) and grew up to almost six figures spent on Children’s cardboard Since 2019. I know I am a newer collector, but as I age in the hobby I hone my skills at picking winners instead of the next hype modern pull. I started with English cards but slowly set my eyes on special Japanese releases such as Shiny Star V, Tag Team All Stars, and all the Japanese exclusive promo cards like Yokohama Pikachu and Easter Pikachu.
Now almost 4 years later, I find myself chasing after very unique cards and hard to obtain such as the Art Academy Cards or Trophy Cards while Japan gears up for it’s next special promotion that I am patiently waiting for 
Also I will be sharing some cards I personally love <3
Not everything has to have an enormous price tag to be valued. Hope you find something I have collected that sparks your collecting interest!
Follow me on IG: GradeLevelCollectibles or message me here if you want to talk more about children’s cardboard! Also just like everyone else, I have certain items for sale on this post to fund my more advantageous purchases. Let me know if anything catches your eye 
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Not much in this section since I have moved away from collecting English, but a few note worthy.
Personally love the Mewtwo and Mew promotional Tins that came out. I grabbed all that I could and graded some myself until this promotion came to an end. Love the dynamic between Mew and Mewtwo in this scene <3
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Kanazawa Pikachu Box
I love every bit of this Kanazawa Promotional Box. I loved this promotion in which it shows such a unique part of japan through the box’s beautiful design and release.
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The Eevee Gym Box
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Coco Movie Promotional Box
This Box came in a kid’s ticket and a Adult Ticket. The only difference was the outside sticker and the ticket inside the box. The red is the Adult and green is the kids.
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Have multiples of each sealed except the Vs Series Water vs Fire. A very rare pack that I was surprised I was able to obtain. This is a “Fat Pack” Half Deck Pack that could contain a multitude of exclusive artworks only in Japanese.
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Trophy Collection
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Pikachu Collection
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Full GOLDEN Full Art Tag Team All Stars Collection in Numerical Certs PSA 10
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Comments
Sure bud!
For classifications, the Scroll, art academy, Mysterious Pearl, and others are considered Prize/Trophy cards and I didn’t want to put them in both categories.
The category of “Trophy Card” to me implies that each of these cards are considered “Holy Grails” in of their own essence due to their rarity + exclusiveness of each.
For reasons why I picked each “Holy Grail” is as followed:
Shining Mew Coro Coro PSA 10
For so many years I have submitted Coro Coro’s time and time again trying to hit the illusive PSA 10 Gem Mint standard. I had little to no success. The only card that was somewhat successful I submitted to CGC and it received the (2nd Re-visioned CGC Grading Scale) CGC PURE 9.5 [all subgrades being 9.5]
I kepted this card as a CGC 9.5 for a good bit of time.
I even showed off the INTENSE SPARKLE PATTERN in a video on my channel in direct sunlight. The video really makes the card POP and it is even crazier to see in person!
For those who don’t know (or those who have followed my IG for a good bit of time) I use to be a CGC fan-boy when PSA closed their doors and CGC was really the only decent option. I loved the look and clearer cases CGC created but over time like with a lot of people, things really started to sour with CGC and not are totally rotten. I stopped grading with them in 2021 and haven’t gone back. I then started the process of breaking all my old CGC cases open and regrading with PSA as shown in countless videos I have made here on my channel.
I really started to go through my collection cracking a lot of cards from their CGC cages as a lot of my cards I viewed them as being “pre-graded” by CGC to then by actually graded by PSA. I was going through a lot of my collection but stopped at the Coro Coro mew due to myself still loving the look of the CGC case over PSA. I didn’t really touch it until this summer.
Inbetween these periods of time, I countlessly searched and bought upto 6 Coro Coro Mew’s trying to find a worthy contendor to grade at a possibility of the 10. Well 6 copys later, I ended up with (4) PSA 9’s, (1) PSA 8, and (1) PSA 7 
. That ended my search for a while…
Until this past summer where I got enough courage to crack open my CGC 9.5. I didn’t record it due to the nervousness of the stakes at hand as well as I don’t want to make a video of me possibly damaging a card I may never get again.
Oh did I mention I purchased the already graded CGC 9.5 from Butler Pikachu for 3.5K? 
YA so lots of stakes were on the line. I either had a $4K card or a $800 card…
Well I am happy to say the results hit yesterday (8/29/24) and thankfully I was upcharged $250 for my beauty of a card.
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Rayquaza PSA 9
The most desired and sought after card of all the Gold Stars. Due to the pull rate, it would cost someone a significant amount of money to try to pull one. Whatever is out there is out there.
EX Deoxys sealed booster box last sold for $35-40K
Sealed booster pack sold for $1,050
Odds of pulling a GS in a booster box box is 33.33% - 50%
There are 3 Gold Stars in EX Deoxys
Meaning it could cost you upwards of $360,000 to get your hands on a freshly pulled Rayquaza GS if buying 9 sealed booster boxes
This PSA 9 version of GS Rayquaza is the UK Version which is known to have deeper saturation and quality of print compared to the US Version. See comparison
UK Version (Left) US Version (Right)
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UK Version
US Version
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Shining Mewtwo PSA 10
This card I actually traded for and it was one I didn’t think I would ever get. It is one of the first ever secret rares of Pokemon besides the dark raichu from Team Rocket being above the set number. As well as my love for Mewtwo this is why that card is considered a grail for me.
Legendary Collection Reverse-Holo Mewtwo PSA 10
This has always been one of my favorite cards in the hobby surprisingly and it has to do the different elements of the card:
- Firework Holofoil (English exclusive!) - I worked at a firework store for a while and my love for fireworks ties into my love for this card.
- Mewtwo - He’'s badass, do I need to say more?
- The Late Christopher Rush - He actually is one of the few English artists and specifically magic artists that has created artwork for the TCG. As well as his creation of the infamous Black Lotus illustration.
- Oh did I mention that I cracked this from a CGC 9.5? Well I did and at one point I had 60% of all CGC graded 9.5’s of this card… I took the best looking one out of the 3 and cracked it. I have agood eye
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Special Delivery Pikachu PSA 10
This card is another English exclusive cards and it’s PSA 10 rate is surprisingly only 15% due to it’s delivery and how the card was thrown into a box with no protection during 2020. But I love this card due to it was a time that I really got entrenched back into the hobby and the many many times I have received a PSA 9 if this card that I was so fed up and got a nice CGC 9.5 of this card in which I cracked and got the PSA 10.
Note:
Now my favorite card in my collection is the Scroll, due to the rich history and rarity of that card, but I have a lot of not as valuable cards in my collection that I admire as much or even more than the scroll
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The Diasuki Fan Club
2004-2010
Mysterious Pearl - Magical Diamond - Wonder Platinum
2007 Battle Roads
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Thanks for Stopping by, More to Come 
Means a lot
now that I created a whole video around it:
