Card collecting comeback: 90’s kids passing love of trading cards to next generation
Posted January 22, 2020 9:09 pm.
Last Updated January 22, 2020 10:40 pm.
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LANGLEY (NEWS 1130) – Trading cards are having a renaissance with some worth thousands of dollars.
You might want to pull your card collections out because it sounds like everyone else is.
Owner of Past Time Sports and Games Ken Richardson is thrilled by the spike in the interest of trading cards.
“There’s never been such a resurgence since the early 90s, late 80s when everyone started collecting cards,” he says.
If you’re not a sports fan, there’s another genre of cards that are flying off the shelves.
Grade three student Olivia’s game is Pokemon often battling with their classmates at school.
As far as making cash off your Pokemon cards. Richardson says to look out for Charizard, Ivysaurs, and Raichus as they are worth thousands of dollars for a first edition.
So what’s causing this resurgence? Well, fingers could potentially be pointed to kids from the 90s passing down their love of the game to their kids.
“Pokemon 30 years ago, if a boy, for example, was five or 10 years old, well now that boy is 35 or 40,” Richardson says. “And they may want to share that with their son or nephew. A lot of memories would be there with maybe their dad and things of that nature.”
