A Pokémon TCG fan at a birthday party spent 5,000 Dave & Buster’s tickets on a box promising more than 50 Pokémon cards, then posted every pack on Reddit. The box held five repackaged packs. The best card in the photos is a Salamence ex, and most of the rest is commons, uncommons and Trainer cards.
Watch the short YouTubeThe post, “Dave & Busters UPC??” by u/xviiinate on r/PokemonTCG, explains how it happened:
Was celebrating my little cousins bday at dave and busters when I went to go look at prizes with everyone they had this for 5,000 tickets had to get it to see what’s inside. I knew it was gonna be some BS but DAMN they rlly cooking with these haha
The “UPC” in the title is a joke. An Ultra Premium Collection is one of the most expensive sealed products The Pokémon Company sells. This is not one of those.
The prize is a PresstiBundle, a box of repackaged cards from Presstine
The box is a PresstiBundle Gaming from Presstine, a company that buys genuine trading cards and repackages them. It is not an official Pokémon product, and the back of the box says so: the cards “have been legally purchased and repackaged for retail sale” by Presstine Marketing Inc.
The front promises five packs, 50+ trading cards, “5+ holo or rare guaranteed” and a “chance of hit card or original sealed pack.” The back breaks that down:
- 2 PresstiPacks, 6 cards in total
- 1 PresstiPrime with 8 cards, including 2 holo or rare cards
- 1 PresstiShuffle with 15 cards, including 3 holo or rare cards, plus a chance of a “Hit Card in every 6 packs on average”
- 1 Presstine Gaming Surprise Bag with 4 different packs inside and 21 or more cards, with a chance of an original sealed pack or a hit card “in every 6 Surprise bags on average”
The holo pack had a Salamence ex, a reverse holo Clobbopus and a Mawile
The photos show these cards and extras:
- A Salamence ex with a Journey Together stamp on the art
- A reverse holo Clobbopus from Chilling Reign (2021)
- A reverse holo Mawile from Battle Styles (2021)
- A three-card Trainers Pack with Team Rocket’s Watchtower, Ultra Ball and Beach Court
- A pack of 20 colored card sleeves
- A stack of a few dozen more cards, with a Mr. Mime on top
The post does not show an original sealed booster pack, the other thing the box says you have a chance at. The poster did not list every card in the stack, so we can’t say exactly how many holo or rare cards turned up.
“Are the hits in the room with us?”: the replies were not kind to the box
The top reply is blunt: “Repacks are never worth it, especially Dave and Busters.” Another asks, “Are the hits in the room with us?” The poster played along and pointed to the Clobbopus: “wym bro reverse holo clobbopus is right there.”
One commenter stuck up for that card, a little. Its art is by Yuka Morii, the illustrator known for photographing clay models of Pokémon, “so it’s at least worth 20-35 cents lol.”
The poster says no child’s tickets were harmed. Their cousin had been saving tickets for months and still got the prizes he wanted. “I just used my tickets on them because i knew it would be some bs,” they wrote. “I didn’t want little dude to waste his tickets on repacks.”
