I have the printing plates how else did i get so many sheets muahahahhahahaha
But i was actually thinking about this for the last few years now.
I'm sure it will show up eventually WOTC is awesome because they really dident like how nintendo screwed them over.
WOTC has been trying to get back at them ever since...well at least the proud pokemon fans with the wotc background anyway.
wizards has been very free and leaniant with their items. Theres alot that has been released to fans that shouldent have happend. lets face it nearly all secrets and rares are in the publics hands now.
almost nothing is left restricted at this point. When was the last time a game had status like this especially this early in the release of the card game.
Something like the pre raichu and test sheet prob should not have even happend in our life time much less it happen around a decade after the card games firs release.
We 90's kids and pokemon fans, got it good when it came to wizards.
WotC lost the franchise around 10 years ago, most of the people working there now probably weren't around when they had Pokémon, I doubt they are still trying to get back at them.
The prerelease Raichu was given out to individual staff members, once that happened, they were the property of the staff members, not of WotC as a company. It was revealed officially because some of the owners thought it would be a fun thing to do. And they came on the market because those same owners were made offers they couldn't refuse.
And Wizards were pretty awful when it came to Pokémon. Take a look at the amount of error cards there were back then compared to today. The only ones in recent memory are the FA cards with a different treatment, and the Shiny Zoroark with the wrong "Stage" line.
Wizards had more errors than that in Base set alone. Ninetales, Blastoise, Wartortle, Pikachu, Vulpix, Diglett etc.
They then followed it up by missing the Jungle symbol off an entire print run of holos.
Also, from the players side of it, WotC was removing prize support for 15+ players, trying to faze them out and have them start playing Magic.
I think everyone was excited when Nintendo took over.
The printing plates probably were destroyed. Stuff like the test sheets can be rolled up and easily stored over time, if not given away to someone, but the printing plates would be harder to store, and probably have more issues with copyright and stuff because they could potentially be used to fake cards.
