Some problems I see in the Pokemon TCG in early 2025 in terms of gameplay, tournament structure and the insane scalping as of late.

Pokemon's Prismatic Evolutions special set is out of control and prices are high.

It's Hatsune Miku!!! No she isn't the scalper, but she is being scalped... of her precious blue lush hair... Thermaltake made some mice, keyboards, mouse pads etc themed after her. They released the mouse

You haven't been to New York until you've been scammed out of your cash by a scalper. We didn't make it into the game, but we got some nice expensive pieces of paper and got to watch the game on tv.

A good text-book case would be if Tesla brought out a new flash car called the "Tesla ICO" with a rule that it can only be bought with newly issued tokens. Tesla would issue tokens now to raise