Somehow this han Solo JPG still costs $ 120

Ten years ago I wrote an article about this site called “How the hell is this JPG by Khan Solo worth $ 225?” The article was about a new application from the Card Company called Interstellar A card dealer where fans can open packages and trade digital cards from the galaxy away, far away. It was new and strange at the time. It was before NFTS was something. Before most people have even heard of cryptocurrency. The idea that someone will spend $ 225 to own Khan Solo’s image They could just look wherever they were still quite alien and people were fascinated.

I know that actually because in the years after this article literally dozens of people told me they had read it and they were hooked Interstellar Card merchant. When I hear this, I usually apologize because I know how deep this obsession can go. Not only do I stay hooked to the app in 2025, but I’m as deep as always. You see, Interstellar Card Trader celebrates its 10th anniversary this year and, in addition to returning any Old School cards, this above-mentioned JPG by Han Solo sold for $ 120 Only this weekS It is clear that this thing is still going hard, except that it may not be so strong. So what happens?

Like many apps you have on your phone, Interstellar The card merchant can be used in two ways. You can use the free currency to buy packages and casually collect cards or you can spend money to access packages with better and more cards. When I started back in 2015, I was a free man. I would not spend real money on a digital card that I didn’t really have. And this thinking is why around 2018 I stopped playing. All the biggest cards were only available if you spent money and I just didn’t care. I was out.

Quickly forward for two years. Email from Topps ignite my interest And like many people during the pandemic, I returned to the collector strongly. I quickly decided to focus my collection on my favorite things in Interstellar: Han Solo in Hot Gear and Khan Solo in Carbonite“And when I looked at what was put in the years I was far, I realized I missed a lotS At that time, Topps introduced cards called “gilded”, which had a gold, silver or bronze border and were only available in the number of maps of one, two or three. Other options had similar low pieces, which means that there was a khan Solo (and any other character) cards only one or two people in the world could possess. As a collector, it was incredibly tempting.

However, as with any type of collection, this type of rareness means one thing: money. And then my whole perspective changed. After starting to spend money and acquired more, more cards, it was like finding a worm in a new world. I quickly found that the app had high -end players who spent a lot on the game. And not just $ 225 per card. I’m talking thousands of dollars on separate cards and maybe tens of thousands of currency in the app. It was literally the only way they could have accumulated some of the rare, impressive collections they had … and I wanted some of that for myself.

But how do I get it? Well, money, of course. But also, the help of something that has slowly evolved over the years: a passionate fan base. When I returned to the app, I found a growing, lively community of collectors with which I could communicate with the application for the application. Facebook and Discord have become mandatory places to visit to talk to other users about new cards, evaluate deals and receive encouragement when it comes to achieving a big goal. Without the help of Interstellar An online card community community, I wouldn’t come back so deeply.

The best part is that everything works. In the last five years of my return to the app, I can safely say that I probably have the best HAN SOLO and definitely the best Hot Han and Carbonite Han, a digital card collection All over the world. It has cost me thousands of dollars over the years to acquire it? Yes. Did I require me to be diplomatic, convincing and sometimes even investigative to find users and cards that seemed otherwise unattainable? Also yes. This pursuit of collecting cards from my favorite characters is largely why I stayed so invested while so many others got out.

And don’t be fooled, there was a slide. While things are, the app is not what it was in the beginning, nor is it even what it was during the pandemic. The team behind the app, which was once available and dealt with the fan base, disappeared. Some kits are incredible and beautiful, while others are lazy and ugly. Walking with big money has inflated the values ​​outside the range for most and have lured everyday users to believe that their cards are worth more than they really are. The whole thing turned into stupidity and many of the biggest fans of the app that I met online have long gave up.

Still, this iconic Han Solo Card has slightly decreased: $ 225 in 2015, $ 120 today.

Part of this is probably because Tops for the anniversary has returned to the basics. This was re -introduced the original kits that fans loved at the beginning. This includes Vintage, the HAN Solo series was part. But now it is in many variants (see above) and some are even more more. And because of these many variants, Vintage cards are sold in minutes on Saturday morning when they go live in the app. This was created by a pleasant combination of nostalgia for what was once the app, mixed with more fierce and rare collector materials that have become the focus of most people.

Ten years later, not only that the idea of ​​collecting a digital card becomes a little more normalized, but also does it in Interstellar It’s still fun as always. At least for me. There were peaks, valleys and many disturbing moments that I prefer not to discuss where I spent more money than I wish to admit but I really love my Interstellar A collection of cards. And unlike most collections, this one comes with me wherever I go. He’s on my phone and I can get involved with him at any time I want.

Interstellar Card trader is still available in all app stores. Download it and check it, but be alerted. It can be addictive. And if you store 2025 cardsSend me Millennium FalconS I’m Dartgerm.

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