Hitmonchan - Call of Legends Triple Blister Pack

Hi all!

The Amateur Collector here.

This adventure I open up the first IVth Gen TCG merchandise for this adventure so far, the Hitmonchan Triple blister Pack, bought from Magic Madhouse for £9.95.

Call of Legends is a great set that I have eagerly been wanting to open for a long time now. I have an entire booster box to open still, but for the time being I can make do with this blister pack.

As usual click here to watch the pack opening video or scroll down to see the images of the contents of this merchandise.

Here is the blister pack packaging. A Little beat up from being in storage for over a year.

The contents are safe though!

the main draw to this blister pack is the promo; HGSS24 Hitmonchan! It's actually a reprint with an alternate holographic pattern (shard holo as opposed to the non-holo background it usually has).

Why exactly they decided to make a reprint for the Black Star Collection instead of a new alternate art I'm not sure, but it is not the first time they've done this (other cards in the Black Star HGSS series and Black Star BW series have done the same)

I got one reverse-holo rare, this Clefable from Call of Legends.

I got two holographic rares from Call of Legends. I have the Magmortar already, but who cares! It looks awesome!

And yet another holo card from this blister pack, this time a Drifblim from the Platinum: Supreme Victors set.

A cool set that I'd like to eventually get more of.

So as you can tell this was a VERY good opening. Three holos out of three booster packs? That's a fantastic pull rate no matter what, and that's not even counting the reverse-holographic card.

Well, what a great adventure that one was. Guys, stay tuned for the next adventure! See ya!

Shining Palkia + Legend of Korra

Hi all!

The Amateur Collector here, and in case the title for this post wasn't clear enough, I'm going to do a quick update on two things I've recently done: downloaded the event Pokémon Shing Palkia for my 5th Gen games and watched the premiere of Legend of Korra: Book 2 - Spirits.

The first is fairly simple, in a lot of countries now there is currently a download event going on for 5th Gen Pokémon games (Black, White, Black2, White2) where you can download the legendary Sinnoh Pokémon Palkia, as a shiny! It's what I did today by going down to a GAME shop (in the UK). For everyone else, I suggest you go over to Serebii.net and check their Event Database to see where you can download this critter in your home country (hurry up though, it's only going for about 2 weeks, maybe less in some countries, after that is a different event which I'll mention when it starts).

Secondly, the season 2 premiere of Legend of Korra was on yesterday and I'm sure that you've all checked it out already. If not, WHAT? WHY NOT?! GO NOW!
Seriously though, it is one of the better animated series to have come out in a very long time and it's hard not to fall in love with it immediately (along with its parent show Avatar: The Last Airbender). I was very happy that LOK was renewed for a second season after the first one had finished because I truly feel it was a strong and successful sequel to ATLA, and although I could have lived with it being a one off I really can't complain with the decision to continue it either.
So, was the start to Book 2 - Spirits any good? Hells yes.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there weren't any flaws. The animation looked sub-par in certain areas and the flow of the story was somewhat choppy. But I'll give them a pass for that because once the action started it looked so beautiful. Clearly that's where a lot of the budget went and I'm glad it did. As for the story and how it flowed, I guess they're going to try to cram in as much stuff as possible into each episode which is not surprising since they only have 14 episodes to tell that story and develop the characters in. I have a feeling they will fall slightly short on this like they did in the first season, but if that's the only problem then I can live with that. Considering the subject matter and world building I think it's amazing they even manage to do as good as they did in season 1, so I won't hold it against them in the least.

Anywho, the episodes ended on a good cliffhanger and I can kinda guess the direction this series' socio-political subject matter is going to go in, so I'm very eager for next week's episode.