Wizards of the Coast/Wizards Pokémon TCG Chat

During their time with the card game, Wizards of the Coast held weekly chats about the TCG starting from January 20, 2000. In these chats, non-Wizards operators had to follow protocol when asking questions, which were typically about release dates, promotions, and rulings. The chats lasted until the final months of 2002, which is about the time Wizards lost the license and rights to the card game.


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 * January 20, 2000
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 * TCG Base Set 2 is to be released in late February.
 * TCG Team Rocket should release in March.
 * TCG Base Set and TCG Jungle will be in print until Base Set 2 is released, at which point they will be retired.
 * The gym sets (TCG Gym Heroes and TCG Gym Challenge) are on schedule for release some time late this year (2000), but this is too far away to give any specifics.
 * There are no deals worked out with Nintendo yet to release the Neo era cards.
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 * align="center" | January 27, 2000
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 * TCG Base Set 2 is still set for late February.
 * TCG Team Rocket is now slated for release in mid April.
 * The gym sets (TCG Gym Heroes and TCG Gym Challenge) are still on schedule for release before the end of the year after TCG Team Rocket.
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 * align="center" | February 3, 2000
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 * The reason for having both Rares and Rare Holos is because people wanted the ability to have rare cards that they could feel comfortable using, without worrying about damaging their expensive foil cards.
 * TCG Team Rocket and TCG Base Set 2 are still on schedule: in addition, Team Rocket will have 1st edition cards while Base Set 2 will not.
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 * align="center" | February 10, 2000
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 * The gym sets and Neo cards still have the same status as before.
 * TCG Wizards Black Star Promos (Wizards Promo 7) will be released with the Pokémon: The First Movie Soundtrack.
 * There are no plans to release exclusively English cards.
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 * align="center" | February 17, 2000
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 * TCG Wizards Black Star Promos (Wizards Promo 6) is.
 * TCG Base Set 2 will be the same as TCG Base Set and TCG Jungle, and will cause Base Set to be discontinued.
 * Rocket and Gym sets to be out within the year-no work has been done to any Neo sets.
 * Gym sets will be divided into two expansions.
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