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Japanese lottery promo cards with 2010 color variation

The most popular promotion in years is coming to the Pokémon community. In mid-July 2010, a rare new set of Japanese Pokémon cards will be released. This set is causing quite a stir in the Pokémon community.

From April 2010 to June 30, 2010, registrations are accepted. To enter this contest, you must be a Japanese resident and purchase two packs of Legends Heart Gold, Soul Silver, Revived Legends, or Lost Link. If you cut the barcode off two of the packages and send it to the lottery office, your name will be entered into a drawing for these beautiful card sets.

There are two different sets of rare Pokémon promo cards. Course “A” features Ho-oh and Lugia and course “B” features Suicune, Raikou, and Entei. You can only choose one course per entry. What’s different about these Pokémon promo cards is the fact that they have alternate color variations. Each character has a unique variation of their normal color. For example, Ho-oh has a blue tail and is more of a brown color. Lugia has a purple stomach, Raikou has a yellow mane, Suicune has a blue mane instead of purple, Entei has a gray face, etc. Additionally, each character has a unique ability that is exclusive to this lottery campaign. The promo numbers for the black star have yet to be released, but I assume they are the missing numbers from the LP series.

Are you going crazy yet?

Now the bad news. These cards are a lottery draw that is only open to Japanese residents. Only 1000 lucky winners will be chosen for each course. Winners will be notified and promotional cards will ship sometime in mid-July 2010. Don’t expect to find them cheap. With only 1000 of each game available, these will be very difficult to come by. Some of you will remember the last giveaway promotion that Pokémon had. In 2002, there was a similar lottery in which the winner received the rare promotional set for Charizard, Venusaur, and Blastoise, or the set for Meganium, Feraligatr, and Typhlosion. These cards sold for around $ 100 each. I guess this new set may be similar. But the difference is that the 2002 lottery had 3000 facts from each game. This time there are only 1000. I suppose they will be even more popular and, sadly, more expensive. I doubt these cards are made in English so this is probably the only time you can get them.

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