Also, my brain just realized something ironic about the current state of Charizard in the Pokémon TCG. On the one hand, everyone seems to hate Charizard because of how it has repeatedly made sets and sealed products virtually unavailable in recent years, but on the other hand if everyone hated Charizard, it would no longer be a chase card, those products would all become about as available as everything else. Of course, we all know how much kids like Charizard, but it's not CHILDREN buying out these sets, nor would most kids or parents know where to find the product scalpers are selling even if they WANTED to pay more than MSRP. Which means it's adults who are buying these products.
So, do adult fans of Pokémon LOVE Charizard, or HATE Charizard?
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That was my Ted Talk. You may now applaud or leave the room in profound silence.
Seriously, though, it's hard to tell why Charizard is still a scalper problem if Charizard is as despised as the comments on this forum have led me to believe. In the end, even if more hardcore fans don't appreciate Charizard (as much as it deserves. Charizard was a great Pokémon before being made a part of "corporate Pokémon" and being a second mascot of the franchise doesn't make it any less designed), I suppose scalpers still think they can get kids and people to pay extra money for the sets because they have Charizards in them. But then again, I don't know how much of scalped product actually SELLS, so I really don't have much quantitative information to go off of to support this claim.