They run out of some of the most nonsense toys by the end of the month on a normal month – this might well be a heck of a mess. It was released in Japan on October 20, 1996, (one month.

The Base Set, (Japanese: 1 & 1 1st Starter & Expansion Pack) is the name given to the original core release of cards and Theme Decks for the Pokémon Trading Card Game. It’s also quite likely that McDonalds locations across the United States will run through the cards in relatively quick fashion. This Pokémon pack consists of 24 Base Set shadowless cards and an instruction guide manual in order Pokémon Base Set. One might want to take a peek at the prices of similar cards that’ve been released by McDonalds in collaboration with The Pokemon Company in the past to… decide on your path from here. You’re going to need to buy at least 13 Happy Meals to get the whole set, and that’s only if you’ve got the most fantastic luck, and only THEN if the packs include no repeats and 12.5 different combinations of cards.īasically the situation suggests that you’re not going to Catch Em’ All without trading and/or buying cards from eBay. So there are a total of 50 cards available in this set, and you get 4 cards per Happy Meal pack. Each of the 25 cards can be found in standard and foil iterations. There are 24 “first partner Pokemon” from each of the different regions in the Pokemon universe, plus one Pikachu. If you want to Catch Em All, prepare yourself for a nightmare of fast food proportions.

Pokemon ex in every pack