What is a TCG "Big Box"?

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Not much is known about this item in particular. There’s been nothing officially documented that is available to the public on sales and retailers, however, apparently the “Big Box” was sold as a repackaged bulk to increase card sales. Multiple people claim they recall it being sold at ToysRUs in early 2000’s, and one recalls it originally costing around $20.

Pokémon was in such a lull at this time thatChain stores used to repackage their packs that couldn’t be sold even at clearance in hopes people would buy them for volume,that’s why these are always a hodgepodge of packs, series, and items.This specific one is officially licensed Pokémon productbut the same reasoning applies since it also has theBase2 trainervideo included, as well as packs up tomidNeo era. It also sounds like sometimesthey’d throw in other language packs as “a great deal”even though generally they weren’t sought after.They claim 1/1 because most of these have been opened or ripped apart by now. I haven’t seen this specific one but there’s always the chance that in someone’s basement a grandparent put away a birthday gift that was forgotten about. The reality is that the price is just for bragging and the real value is only 2-3x the cost of all the contents and that’s just due to rarity.

They’re calling it “one of one” becausethe boxes had many different variations.They’re assuming theirs is the only one still out there with that exact variation of packs.I have two of these, both of which are very different assortment from each other and this one here.(For example: one of mine has four rocket and four jungle along with neo destiny, the other I think is base set, fossil and jungle, no neo)

Crazy how much this is going for. I remember saving up my allowance to buy these atToys R Us for ~$20inthe early 00s.Got some great pulls from the Neo Destiny packs

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