Old Pokemon Card Discovered in 2001 School Bus

An old Weedle Pokemon card was recently found in a school bus from way back in 2001. Pokemon trading cards and other merchandise have been in circulation since the franchise first took the world by storm in the late 90s, and items from those early days can fetch a large amount of money in online auctions and other outlets. Some of the rarest Pokemon cards are valued at over $5 million, making them highly sought after by collectors and nostalgic fans alike.

Sometimes old Pokemon cards can be found in the most unlikely of places years after they were printed, as was the case when a construction worker found a pack of vintage cards lying under the shelves of a closed CVS Pharmacy back in 2002. Another fan discovered their old binder of Pokemon cards while cleaning their garage, and ultimately chose to give them away to children instead of auctioning them off for what could have been a large amount of money. These stories are quite fitting for Pokemon, as one of the franchise’s central themes is chancing across new creatures while journeying far and wide to be the world’s greatest trainer.

Reddit user AffectionateOnion271 recently made their own surprising Pokemon card discovery, which they shared on a r/PokemonTCG post. They were looking around an old school bus from 2001 that the company they work for is having converted into a mobile office when they found a Weedle card from the second base set buried under the metal covers for coolant hoses leading to its heater. The card understandably looks old and withered from years of neglect, but other users have expressed their amazement at the find, with one commenter even thinking that it might have been theirs.

As mentioned before, this Weedle card was originally part of the Pokemon Trading Card Game Base Set 2, which was the fourth main expansion and was released in February 2000. The Weedle card in question was a reprint from the first Pokemon TCG Base Set and would later be re-released as part of the Legendary