This week is all about crossovers. Fast food and K-pop, Nintendo and baseball, TV shows and forgotten magazines, and one very big birthday party. The collectibles world keeps getting weirder, and we are here for it.

Let's get into it.

This week:

🍟 McDonald's K-Pop Demon Hunters cards are here
⚾ The Dodgers' Yoshi bobblehead is the hottest giveaway of the MLB season
📰 A defunct JFK Jr. magazine is surging in value thanks to an FX series
🟡 Pokemon's 30th birthday is looking fun
🔥 Heatseekers: Top upcoming releases

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On March 31, McDonald's launched its collab with Netflix's Oscar-winning film "KPop Demon Hunters," and this one is a full collectibles play.

Every meal comes with a collectible photocard pack featuring characters from the movie's rival K-pop groups. There are 14 cards total across two series: 8 in the Saja Boys Breakfast Meal series and 6 in the HUNTR/X Meal series. Rarity tiers are in play, with the individual HUNTR/X member cards (Rumi, Mira, and Zoey) being the hardest pulls.

And eBay? Already cooking. Full sealed sets of all 14 cards are selling for around $180 at the time of writing, with cases of 200 packs and bulk lots moving fast. We’re not sure if this one will be a passing fad or have legs to stand on… but we’ll probably know in a couple of weeks.

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For their March 31 home game against the Guardians, the Los Angeles Dodgers gave away bobbleheads of Yoshi, the Mario character, wearing a #18 Yoshinobu Yamamoto jersey. Yes, the connection is the name. It's as charming as it sounds, and also as valuable: people were selling their bobbleheads online before the game even started!

The giveaway was timed with the U.S. release of "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie," and Dodger Stadium basically turned into Yoshi's Island for a night. But the best part? After the game, several Dodgers teammates lined up at Yamamoto's locker asking him to sign their Yoshi bobbleheads. He happily obliged, inking his signature and number on the dinosaur's snout.

On eBay, unsigned bobbleheads are already selling in the $250 to $300 range. We think signed copies (only a handful exist, all from teammates it looks like) would easily clear $1,000+ if any ever hit the market. But who knows, that’s just a guess.

Regardless, this is what happens when you combine a beloved gaming IP, a World Series MVP pitcher, and perfect timing!

George magazine ran from 1995 to 2001. It was founded by JFK Jr. as an attempt to cover politics in a different, more accessible style. It lost millions, ended two years after Kennedy and his wife died, and mostly disappeared from the public consciousness.

Then FX premiered "Love Story,” an anthology series about JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette, and everything changed.

Since the show debuted on February 12, copies of George have been flying off eBay. On one Thursday alone, 70 copies sold in a single day. The inaugural September 1995 issue, featuring Cindy Crawford dressed as George Washington on the cover, has been consistently selling in the $200 to $400 range, with one copy drawing an astounding 71 bids.

This is one of the purest examples of how pop culture drives collectible markets overnight. Nobody was thinking about George magazine in January. Now it's a hot commodity. If you've got old copies sitting in a closet somewhere, it might be worth checking what they're going for. And for the rest of us, it's a reminder: the next collectibles gold rush could come from anywhere, and it could come fast!

Pokemon turns 30 this year, and the company is going all in on collectibles across every category. Here's what's happening:

This is the big one. Pokemon officially announced "30th Celebration," a special anniversary TCG set releasing simultaneously worldwide in September. Here's what we know so far:

For context on how Celebration sets tend to perform: the 2021 Celebrations set (for the 25th anniversary) isn't one of the heavy hitters that sets like Ascended Heroes, Phantasmal Flames, or Prismatic Evolutions can be, but they're still fun and hold decent value. Sealed Celebrations boxes currently sit around $280, and the top chase cards are the Charizard reprint (~$185), Umbreon Star reprint (~$79.50), and Shining Magikarp (~$38). Worth noting: that's not a guarantee of how the 30th anniversary set will perform, but it gives you a ballpark for what Celebration products tend to look like long-term.

The first-ever LEGO Pokemon sets are here, and they're aimed squarely at adult collectors:

Roughly 23 LEGO Pokemon sets are expected across 2026, with at least ten more rumored for summer.

Funko's new Premium line launched with Pikachu and Venusaur at $19.99 each. Charizard and Blastoise are coming soon, dates TBA. These are a clear step up from the standard Funko Pop line, with more detailed sculpts and premium packaging.

Between the TCG set, LEGO, and Funko, 2026 is shaping up to be a cool year for Pokemon collectibles. And the 30th anniversary events haven’t really even started yet!

The world of collectibles is wide and deep, and there’s a constant stream of new releases. Here are some of the big ones that are coming up:

McDonald's and Netflix are putting K-pop trading cards in your meal. Nintendo and the Dodgers created a bobblehead that merges gaming and baseball. An FX series just made a 30-year-old political magazine a hot eBay commodity. And Pokemon is pulling 30 years of card mechanics into a single anniversary set.

The boundaries of what counts as a "collectible" keep expanding, and the crossovers between fandoms, brands, and categories keep getting wilder. But that’s what makes this hobby so fun to cover in the first place! You never know what's going to matter next.

The only constant is that if it tells a good story, somebody's going to want to collect it 😉

See you next week!