Found This Week: Long Distance

Fifty-nine things went live since the last one of these. Nine of them landed Monday night a few hours after that post went up, which is the kind of timing a schedule cannot fix: a Pikachu sneaker, two pairs of Kith Gel-Lytes, three card binders, a router. Then it was cards all week. A ten-card Yu-Gi-Oh run, ten Arceus, a sealed MSCHF land, two slabbed Eva wafers, an American phone card, seventeen more Japanese ones on Sunday night, and the Interspecies Reviewers singles this series has been waiting on since August. Ten entries, by price, lots squeezed into one each. No story from the desk this week either. The pile talks.

Puma x Pokemon RS-X Pikachu, US 12, $120

Yellow suede and mesh, the tail bolt down the side, a Pikachu charm on the laces, white chunky sole. Style 389541 01, US 12, red Puma box, the eBay authenticity tag and card still with it. Used, faint scuffs, twelve photos. (The Puma Pokemon drop was the one where every shoe was a character and the Pikachu was the one anybody could name from across the room. A size 12 means it fits a grown man, which was always the joke of the collab.) Here.

Two ASICS x Kith Gel-Lyte IIIs, US 10.5, $120 each

Same model, same size, same collection, not the same shoe. Both are Ronnie Fieg's The Palette run of the Gel-Lyte III OG. Battleship is the dark grey perforated suede, style 1201A224-400, box, tissue and spare laces in, and the listing says 300 pairs were made. Waffle is 1201A224-252, box and eBay authenticity card in. Both got worn. Battleship is creased and dusty with the midsole shedding foam crumbs; Waffle is dirty with both heel pull tabs torn. All of that is in the listings in those words. (Fieg built his whole name on the Gel-Lyte III, so these are the thesis statement, not a side project. Somebody wore the thesis every day. That is what the price is for.) Sixteen and twelve photos.

Fantasy art card binder, 42 pages, Vallejo, Hildebrandt, Elmore, Frazetta, $70

A blue Non-Sports binder, 42 nine-pocket pages, early 90s fantasy card sets filed by somebody who cared: Heavy Metal, the 1992 FPG Boris Vallejo, 1991 Ken Kelly, Hildebrandt with the holograms, 1992 Comic Images Larry Elmore, and 1994 Frazetta. Several sets look complete, not checked against a checklist, one sleeve peeled. Sold as one lot, twelve photos. (Last week the Frazetta was one painting on one shirt for $400. This week it is a stack of him and four of his peers for $70. Different object, same horseman somewhere in there.) Here.

Disney Collector Cards binder, Impel, 24 pages, $60

Black Mickey-pattern three-ring binder, 24 nine-pocket pages, the Impel Disney Collector Cards from the early 90s: character cards, the Mickey series, World Tour, Disneyland, checklists, movie scenes. Sleeved from day one and the listing says the cards look near mint. Not counted. Sold as one lot, twelve photos. (Impel is the company that did the Marvel Universe sets in the same years, so this is the Disney kid's version of the same ritual. Somebody did the ritual correctly.) Here.

Ten Yu-Gi-Oh cards, led by a Sin Red-Eyes B. Dragon, $50

A Yu-Gi-Oh run went up over three nights, ten singles, all raw. The top is the Sin Red-Eyes B. Dragon, Japanese print, MOV2-JP001, which as far as I can tell is the theater promo code for The Dark Side of Dimensions, the 2016 movie. Foil over lava, Level 7, 2400 attack. Behind it: a Blue-Eyes White Dragon secret rare from the CT14 tin at $25, a Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon from the Legendary Collection, a Right Arm of the Forbidden One from Legend of Blue Eyes at $20 (one fifth of Exodia; the listing says start somewhere), two Gemini Elfs including a Japanese parallel rare, a Red-Eyes Black Meteor Dragon, the Starter Deck Joey Red-Eyes, Gaia, and Valkyrion. Five to seven photos each, corners and edges shown. (The Blue-Eyes and the Red-Eyes are the two cards everybody wanted first and the Exodia arm is the one everybody had exactly one of. The run reads like a kid's binder sorted by how much he loved each card. Accurate.) The rest are at the search.

Secret Lair x MSCHF Plains, No. 670, sealed, $50

A Magic basic land. A Plains. Except the art is a photo of a golf course with a red pin flag, because MSCHF did the Secret Lair in 2022 and that was the whole bit. SLD 670, still in the sealed sleeve, seven photos. (MSCHF is the group that did the big red boots and the Jesus shoes. Their idea of a Plains is a country club. The card is legal in a deck, which is the second joke.) Here.

Seventeen more telecas, Sunday night, $15 to $45

Another seventeen Japanese telephone cards went live late Sunday, this batch from the PC game side: shop-bonus cards from Sofmap, Getchu, Messe Sanoh, Yodobashi and Medio, the kind you got for preordering the game at that one store. All unused, two or three photos each, adult-tagged, museum register applies. The representative is knot, Kizuna no Mahou, feng, copyright 2002 printed on the face, standard size, $45. Others at the same price: Neko Koi, Yukako Shinonome, Saki Mido. Canvas 2 is $35, Nadeshiko Drip $30, and the rest step down from there. (The shop-bonus teleca is a niche inside a niche: the art was a preorder bonus, not a product, so the ones that survived are the ones somebody never used. These were never used.) The batch is at the search.

Netgear Orbi RBR20 and RBS20 mesh set, $45

A router and a satellite, two AC adapters, an ethernet cable. Powers on, otherwise untested, factory reset it before setup. Sold as is, eight photos. (This is not what this store hunts and it is in the post because the rule is price, not taste. The listing's own line is "dead zones are a choice." Fine.) Here.

Barry Bonds on a phone card, 1994 Assets, PSA 9, $40

One minute of Sprint long distance with Barry Bonds on the front, 1994 Classic Assets, the scratch-off never scratched, slabbed PSA 9. Four photos. Well over a hundred Japanese telephone cards have gone through this series since August and this is the first American one, and of course it is a Giant. (Japan kept printing telecas for twenty years because the payphones took them. America put ballplayers on them for a few years in the 90s and then the payphones left. The minute is still on there. There is nowhere to spend it.) Here.

Weiss Schwarz Ishuzoku Reviewers, six singles, $20

Parked since August, here. Six Weiss Schwarz cards from Interspecies Reviewers, Bushiroad, OS04 and R04 codes, like new, eight photos showing the exact six. Below the price line for this post and in it anyway, because the Japan report mentioned these in August and asked about them in September and they finally went up on Tuesday. (A card game from the one anime Funimation dropped mid-season in 2020. Six cards, twenty dollars, no further comment from the museum.) Here.

Also up

Missed the cut by price: the Arceus LV.100 run, AR1 through AR9 from Platinum plus the DP50 Black Star promo, $20 each, all raw and played; the two PSA 8 Evangelion wafer cards from 2007, Rei and Asuka in Santa outfits with Pen Pen, RA01 and RA02, $40 each; a 90s NFL binder with a Pro Set Montana in it, $40; the Topps Vampirella set, the North Star atomic plate, a sterling rope ring, a TAPAS robot alarm clock, a Natsuki Ikeda teleca, and a Calbee Shin Kamen Rider x Eva Asuka. The Disney gym tees and the $50 Popeye and Animaniacs shirts from last week are still in the store. Next Monday.