Target Employees Cut Pokemon Box Seals to Deter Scalpers ✂️, Japanese Shining Legends Booster Box Sells for $4.65k 🌟, PSA 10 Rumble Pikachu Sells for $55k 🫨, Japanese Design Contest 3rd Grade Winner Card Sells for $20k 🎨

🔵 All 30 Classic Collection Cards from “30th Celebration” Likely Revealed!

September's 30th Celebration set will reprint 30 classic cards with a Pikachu stamp and special holofoil treatment, and Japan's 30th Celebration website appears to have teased the full Classic Collection lineup through a flashing card sequence.

The list spans Base Set through Paldea Evolved and mixes collector favorites like Crystal Lugia, Shining Celebi, and the Illustration Rare Magikarp with competitive staples like Erika's Jigglypuff, Greninja BREAK, and Arceus VSTAR.

🔵 “30th Celebration” Boxes Featuring Espeon ex, Umbreon ex, and Pikachu ex Revealed!

Two new 30th Celebration products were revealed at the ongoing Japan Championships. The 30th Celebration Futuristic Box launches in Japan on September 16 and will include two Pikachu ex Futuristic Rare promos themed after day and night alongside premium TCG accessories, priced at 27,500 yen (about $171). Additional products featuring Espeon ex and Umbreon ex were also revealed alongside the Futuristic Box.

🔵 Target Employees Filmed Cutting Pokemon Box Seals to Deter Scalpers

A viral video shows a Target manager cutting the seals on Pokemon TCG boxes before shelving them, telling customers the move is meant to mitigate the store's scalping problem and claiming the directive came from Target corporate, enforced store-by-store. Target did not immediately respond to a media request for comment.

Cutting the seal makes products visibly less appealing on the secondary market. Reactions have been mixed, with many collectors welcoming the move while others note scalpers can still resell individual packs and that fewer sealed products in circulation could raise prices for any remaining pristine boxes.

🔵 Japanese Shining Legends Booster Box Sells for $4.65k

Shining Legends (SM3+) was a Japanese expansion released October 6, 2017, best known for reintroducing Shining Pokemon (the alternative metallic art variant) for the first time since the Neo era.

Sealed Type - Year: Booster box - 2017
Contents: 30 Shining Legends booster packs
Sales History: Sealed boxes have climbed sharply over the past year, from ~$1,500 in July 2025 to ~$1,900 to $2,000 in January 2026, ~$2,400 to $2,650 in February 2026, and $4,200 to $4,650 in May and June 2026 (~+210% vs July 2025).

🔵 Lot (54) of Pokemon XY Breakpoint Sleeved Booster Packs Sells for $3.8k

XY Breakpoint released February 3, 2016 and is best known as the home of Greninja BREAK, one of the more popular recent cards as a reprint was announced for the 30th anniversary.

Sealed Type - Year: Sleeved booster pack - 2016
Contents: 10 cards per pack
Sales History: At $70 per pack, this lot prices well above recent comps, which clustered around $37 to $41 per pack across August and September 2025, with earlier lots as low as ~$19 per pack in June 2025 (~+72% vs recent average, ~+268% vs the June 2025 low).

🔵 PSA 10 Rumble Pikachu Sells for $55k

The 2009 Pokemon Rumble Pikachu (#7/16) is a holo promo from a 16-card set tied to the WiiWare game Pokemon Rumble, released December 2, 2009.

Singles Type - Condition: Graded - PSA 10
Set Name - Year: Pokemon Rumble Promo Set - 2009
Sales History: A prior PSA 10 sold for $9,950 in July 2025, and an earlier copy sold for $1,247 in October 2023 (~+453% vs the July 2025 comp, ~+4,310% vs October 2023).

🔵 CGC Auth Rayquaza Gold Star Sells for $2.64k

Singles Type - Condition: Graded - CGC Auth
Set Name - Year: 2005
Sales History: Similar auth copies sold for $4k-$5k in May 2026 but in much better condition.

🔵 Deoxys EX Blister Pack Sells for $3.95k

EX Deoxys was the eighth expansion of the EX Series, released February 14, 2005, themed around the Pokemon Emerald video game and featuring Deoxys in all four of its Formes. The set is known for its Gold Star chase cards (Latias, Latios, and Rayquaza).

Origin Source - Year: EX Deoxys - 2005
Sales History: Another sealed EX Deoxys blister sold for $2,524 in September 2025 (~+57% vs current).

🔵 Japanese Design Contest 3rd Grade Winner Arceus Sells for $20k

The 2009 Pokemon Card Design Contest was a multi-magazine collaboration between Pokemon and Shogakukan, where Japanese students submitted custom Arceus or Pichu designs across 12 magazine and grade-level categories.

Origin Source - Year: Pokemon Card Design Contest - 2009
Sales History: Another PSA 10 (1 of 6 in the population) sold at auction in December 2024 for $26,400 with buyer's premium (~-24% vs current).