>>50598993>40 years from now pokemon cards will be like beanie babies>beanie babiesI don't understand why people still say this when it just doesn't make sense. Maybe if this was the year 2000 it would hold some value, but pokemon and beanie babies are not the same. Not even close. Pokemon and Beanie babies share no market/value similarities.
The argument is that "people bought beanie babies and thought they would appreciate in value but they never did" and therefore pokemon will be the same thing because they are also a collectible. But that holds no water because pokemon DID go up in value, and I'm talking well before covid. Cards were always going up in price, and removing the spike in price during 2020 (which has dropped) and connecting pre-covid prices to where the price of cards are now, is a natural slope upwards.
Not to mention pokemon has a SIGNIFICANT amount of cultural and societal impact. When was the last time beanie babies had a public premiere of a video game trailer that was the most talked about think on twitter? When was beanie babies the most successful media franchise? When were beanie babies that you had as a child selling for 10000x markup?
None of that ever happened there. Could pokemon become irrelevant? Of course, no brand is forever. But pokemon has already differentiated itself from beanie babies.
