Hobby Nonsense

He bought a Star Wars VHS for $4,000 and sold it for $50,000 in the same month?! 🤯 Jesse and Ray welcome Garrett Martin of High End Collecting to explore the booming market for collectible VHS tapes, including rare first prints, grading, and why certain movies are selling for tens of thousands of dollars.

Meanwhile, Pokémon cards are making headlines for some unbelievable reasons.

This week on Hobby Nonsense:

📼 VHS collecting: A $50K Star Wars tape, a rejected $10K Harry Potter offer, and the tapes collectors should look for

🚨 Pokémon gambling scandal: Texas authorities uncover alleged illegal gambling operations using trading cards as payouts

⚠️ $660K counterfeit: A Rayquaza PSA slab controversy and new technology designed to detect fakes

💰 Pokémon 30th Anniversary: A $163K RGB Mew auction that reportedly didn't result in a completed sale

🏰 Disney market: Why Disney 100 prices are softening while Disney Vault continues attracting buyers

🦸 Marvel cards: Could overlooked characters become valuable with upcoming MCU changes?

🐉 Kakawow Game of Thrones: New autographs and upcoming releases

Plus, Jesse shares stories from meeting Wayne Gretzky at the Toronto Expo, the guys discuss unusual trading cards, and Ray receives a special Pokémon surprise!

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A Pokémon card reportedly sold for $288,000… but was the PSA slab a nearly identical FAKE?! 🤯 Jesse and Ray dive into the growing controversy surrounding counterfeit graded cards, suspicious auction prices, and whether collectors can still trust the market.

Meanwhile, a 1996 Charizard card purchased for $1,300 is now seeing sales around $15,000, and Star Wars could be approaching its first $1 MILLION card.

This week on Hobby Nonsense:

⚠️ Super-clone PSA slabs: The $288K Pokémon controversy and how collectors can protect themselves

📈 Pokémon prices: Vintage Charizard's massive surge and concerns about market manipulation

💰 $1 BILLION in monthly card sales: Is the hobby's explosive growth sustainable?

🌌 Star Wars: Could a PSA 10 Luke Skywalker become the first million-dollar Star Wars card?

🏰 Disney Mint: New autograph signers, including Joe Jonas, Olivia Wilde, Jack McBrayer and more

🦸 Marvel Neon: Costco and Sam's Club Super Boxes, plus Topps product-quality concerns

🎮 Cardsmiths Currency Series 6: The chance to pull actual cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin

⚡ Pokémon Delta Rain: Lower presale prices and collector fatigue

🪄 Harry Potter: PSA 9 versus sealed 2001 Wizards of the Coast boxes

🕷️ 1990 Marvel Impel: Why high-grade Spider-Man and Doctor Doom cards are getting attention

Plus, Jesse and Ray share their Nashville card show experiences, discuss vintage anime first-appearance cards, answer listener voicemails, and announce a special Upper Deck Batman Animated Series hobby box giveaway!

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A 1966 Batman card just sold for $219,000… could a PSA 10 eventually be worth $1 MILLION?! 🤯 Jesse and Ray break down the record sale, Disney Vault surprises, and whether the recent pullback in Pokémon and Lorcana prices signals a changing hobby market.

🐉 Peter of Shenron Trading joins the show for a deep dive into Dragon Ball cards, including six-figure tournament prizes, scarce Fusion World products, manga booster sets, and why collectors are watching the franchise heading into 2027.

Also this week:

🏰 Disney Vault: Nostalgic VHS-style inserts, a surprise Tom Holland autograph, and a frustrating break mix-up

📉 Pokémon fatigue? Why collectors may be shifting their focus to vintage cards

✨ Lorcana: Falling Iconic prices and what serialized cards might mean for the market

🌌 1977 Star Wars: Are collectors paying too much ahead of the 50th anniversary?

🤼 WWE and WCW: Stadium Club, vintage autograph cards, and a record wrestling belt sale

👀 Hologram cards: Could forgotten vintage inserts be the next collecting trend?

Plus, Jesse and Ray introduce the new Hobby Nonsense voicemail line (413-DIAL-HOB) and answer questions from listeners!

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Potentially MILLIONS of PSA-graded cards have reportedly been stolen from a FedEx shipment — and collectors have some serious questions. Jesse and Ray discuss the growing problem of card theft, insurance concerns, and what collectors can do to protect their collections.

Plus, as a follow up from last week’s conversation, MikeJY, one of VeeFriends' biggest collectors, joins the show to explain why he actually stopped spending, the production issues behind his decision, Gary Vee's response, and why he still believes in the future of VeeFriends.

This week on Hobby Nonsense:

🏰 Disney Vault: $21,000 cases, huge autograph chases, and whether the pricing has gone too far

🦸 Marvel Neon: First impressions, valuable inserts, and where has all the product gone?

💎 VeeFriends: The truth behind a major collector's spending pause and falling card prices

🤼 WWE Stadium Club: New autos, inserts, and potentially overlooked value

🕷️ Marvel Studios Chrome: Tom Holland autos and what Avengers: Doomsday could mean for collecting

🤖 TAG grading kiosks: Could automated grading change the hobby?

🎃 Wednesday trading cards: A new collectible release for Addams Family fans

🔥 NEW SEGMENT — Hobby Hot Takes: Are collectors becoming too obsessed with card values?

Plus, Pokémon, Lorcana, new releases, and plenty of Nonsense along the way.

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A Mickey Mouse 1/1 has reportedly sold for MILLIONS… but why is the actual price being kept secret?! 👀 Funcle (Matt Hathorn) joins Jesse Gibson in studio to discuss the mysterious Disney sale, a changing non-sport market, and some troubling developments for VeeFriends collectors.

This week on Hobby Nonsense:

🏰 Disney market update: Falling prices, buying opportunities, and why collectors are still watching

💰 The Mickey Mouse mystery: A reported NDA, a potentially multimillion-dollar deal, and its impact on Disney cards

📉 VeeFriends trouble? A chase card falling from $6,600 to $2,000 and a major collector pausing purchases

💎 Disney Vault vs. Disney Mint: Huge potential price tags and competing high-end releases

🦸 Marvel Neon: $350 presales, autograph chases, and whether boxes are already overpriced

🎮 Vintage Nintendo: A $7,700 Super Mario card and more overlooked collectibles

🐺 Marvel vintage: A 1980 Wolverine sticker sells for $16,000

👽 Mars Attacks, Street Fighter, Rocky, Coca-Cola and other new non-sport releases

🎃 Vintage horror cards, possible character first appearances, and a special Funcle giveaway!

Plus, could a Marvel x Star Wars crossover trading-card set eventually happen?

🎁 GIVEAWAY: Be sure to listen to find out how to ENTER the Giveaway courtesy of FUNCLE!

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