{"id":39280,"date":"2026-08-19T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=39280"},"modified":"2026-08-26T02:17:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:17:02","slug":"more-than-20-years-before-todays-one-piece-card-game-collectors-in-japan-were-already-competing-for-one-piece-cards-released-as-part-of-bandais-early-one-piece-card-game-in-2002-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/?p=39280","title":{"rendered":"More than 20 years before today\u2019s One Piece Card Game, collectors in Japan were already competing for One Piece cards. Released as part of Bandai\u2019s early One Piece card game in 2002, these \u201clicense\u201d promos were distributed through competitive play, with different cards awarded for participation and tournament achievements. The examples shown here range from an Usopp Rookie License participation prize and Chopper Pirate License awarded for five wins to Luffy Top 5 and tournament winner prizes. At the top is the Gold Roger Pirate King License, awarded as a National Tour winner prize."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">More than 20 years before today\u2019s One Piece Card Game, collectors in Japan were already competing for One Piece cards.<\/p>\n<p>Released as part of Bandai\u2019s early One Piece card game in 2002, these \u201clicense\u201d promos were distributed through competitive play, with different cards awarded for participation and tournament achievements.<\/p>\n<p>The examples shown here range from an Usopp Rookie License participation prize and Chopper Pirate License awarded for five wins to Luffy Top 5 and tournament winner prizes. At the top is the Gold Roger Pirate King License, awarded as a National Tour winner prize.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Beckett Collectibles (@beckettcollect) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/beckettcollect\/status\/2090152160642142652\">Aug 19, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 20 years before today\u2019s One Piece Card Game, collectors in Japan were already competing for One Piece cards. Released as part of Bandai\u2019s early One Piece card game in 2002, these \u201clicense\u201d promos were distributed through competitive play, with different cards awarded for participation and tournament achievements. The examples shown here range from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":39282,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[51,33],"class_list":["post-39280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-grading","tag-beckett","tag-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39281,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39280\/revisions\/39281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gorillacardboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}