Is Ultra Pro or VaultX Better For Your Cards?
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-Vault X Binder: Save 10% on Vault X Binders: www.vaultx.com/pkmnc10vx
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Hello there! I am Pokemaniac Stephen, thank you so much for watching! I've always been a nerd at heart and pretty sure ever since Pokemon came out it has made me want to collect. Here we open up a lot of Pokemon cards but also unboxings of collectibles, haul videos and dive deeper into the world of Pokemon. So if you love collecting and Pokemon, you came to the right place and would love to have you on board!
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Bought a VaultX binder a couple months ago and Ive purchased 3 more since then, absolutely love them! Wish they had Pokémon branding but they do look pretty tactical 😄
Maybe one day they’ll get some branding but yeah, still a really nice look to them. Glad to hear you’ve had a good experience too with them! Very solid binders
@PokéManiac Stephen which model was the vaultX that you display in your video?
It was the 9 pocket exotec 😄
I think ill get one
How are you liking it after some time? Will the side load pockets fit a dragon shielded card?
Thanks! I Was Just looking for a binder So this is So useful!
Awesome 😄 I’m glad it was helpful. Been very impressed with the Vault X
Love it! Binders when we started weren’t that great, they have definitely improved
Agreed, as the hobby has grown thankfully passionate people have kept trying to improve things
I agree with everything you say here and have to agree- the vault x zipper!! So satisfying. I wish they had pokemon theming too. Maybe someday! I have several of them now, but my first one was yellow like pikachu. 💛
Its so smooth! Lol
Ooo nice on the yellow. Do you use it for any particular cards or sets?
@@PokemaniacStephen I have a dark blue one for my Snorlax cards and my son's cards are in the yellow one, mostly just pokemon he likes like Giratina, Kleavor, Hydrreigon, Buzzwole- he has eclectic taste 😆 ..we have too many binders going right now to list tbh.
Lol that’s awesome. Sounds like your son has good taste to me! 😆
I really like the premium binders for set I want to compleate. I use XGuard, VaultX, Card Guard and a few others, really whatever is on sale at the time for around ~$25. But I have found most hold 360 cards which allow for you to combine sets in 1 binder like Astral Radiance/Go, XY Evo/Brilliant Stars, Evo Skies/Celebrations, and Crimson Invasion/Battle Styles, and many others. Just have to be methodical about what your putting together. This has typically left me with about 1-3 blank pages, but thats ok IMO. Aside from that I'll use 3 ring binders for lower tier sets or sets I'm not over intrested in compleating. But I have 1 premium binder to house all the Holo and nicer cards from that set.
Great advice here. Imma have to look into the XGuard and Card Guard binders. And same, always shooting for that like roughly $25 price point.
@@PokemaniacStephen I forgot to add, I typically use a nicely opened, empty pack of my favorite pack art to break between the first set and next set.
It's methodical lol
I've just started my pokemon 151 journey, so thanks for the tips. I will order a VaultX binder soon
That's a great set! Glad the video was helpful 😄 Hope you can fill that binder up with everything you're chasing after!
I love Vault X.... I have an old collector (1999-2003) and I just moved all my old sets to the vault x. Bought 5 binders.
Nice! I bet they’re looking nice in cozy in those new homes 😄
Hey, man!
How many slots you have in your VaultX? The zipper don’t smash the cards?
I might get the vaultx binder and the sleeves
I love my VaultX binder!
Anyone find the vault x zip can not do up all the way because of the design of the zip leaves a little open hole at the end??
Just a thought about vaultx you could get a badge to stick on the front so you know what set is in it without always unzipping it. Granted, you have that many cards. I'm just getting back into it, so 1 binder is enough for now.
Great tip!
Dumb question maybe but does the exterior on the VaultX binders allow easy decorating? Was thinking of slapping some stickers on mine when I get it since they don't do any Pokemon theming with their binders.
I think it depends on the quality of the sticker.
The Vaultx binder surface is a bit rugged, so there will always be some air going under the sticker.
Do you have to buy exact sleeves to use the vaultEx binder, or do top-loading penny sleeves work ok?
Penny sleeves work fine
I don’t have one but I am looking for a good binder. Thanks for the info
VaultX does make a good binder! Thanks for watching 😄
Ultra pro do a very similar product to the vault x one, the premium pro binder. They're quite hard to get though (in the UK at least) I have one and it's great.
Regarding Ultra Pro and VaultX, Ultra Pro does have officially licensed 12 pocket zip-binders themed to Mewtwo, Pikachu, Arceus and Charizard, and VaultX has unoficial set themed 9 pocket and 12 pocket zip binders for Brilliant Stars, Astral Radience, Lost Origin, Silver Tempest and Scarlet & Violete base, no Crown Zenith, and nothimg before Brilliant Stars though.
Glad the Vault X “themed” binders are starting to be available in the US too! They look so good
I have a few questions
1) is a inner sleeve then placed in the binder okay? Or is a outer sleeve then placed into binder better?
2) I don’t see many 12 pocket x vault binders being used but many 9 pockets. Is there a reason for this?
Love the review! :) liked!
1) yeah I do that with my reverse holos and higher. Gotta keep that holo protected
2) for me I like the look more of 9 card pages. And storage, easier to fit the 9 card size into storage things.
But this is just my opinion 😅
@@PokemaniacStephen thank you for the info! I’m just starting my binder and learning ahah
@@PokemaniacStephen and @teamRocketVGC are you guys saying that we shouldn't put cards in the inner slot because the cards can bend when full? I'm looking for binders for storage and that's my biggest worry. I plan on filling them and worries that the cards in the inner most slot will bend when full. Thoughts?
Great review!
When I was on Amazon I found a lot of people saying their cards got bent when they let the binder lay flat, and others were saying that you had to break in the binder by repeatedly opening and closing it so this wouldn't happen. Did you encounter any card bending issues?
Also do you think the cards will get damaged if you store the binder upright?
Thank you! And thank you for watching 😄
Yeah sometimes in the 3 ring binders the pages can get a little stuck and lay too high up, causing bending along the inside column of cards.
D ring binders help with this issue (versus O ring binders) and I tend to store mine upside down and flat. Tends to get the flattest resting point for the pages.
I actually need to look now, if there are any like stiff, supporting pages you can throw in these to help with vertical storage 👀
@@PokemaniacStephen Oh I see, thanks for the information. Also I forgot to say I was actually talking about people saying the vaultx binder had card bending issues😅
Ohhh. Yeah the Vault X, I’ve actually been very pleased with those. Haven’t noticed any issues with flat or upright storage so far. The binder has a good shape and keeps things pretty straight from what I see in mine. I have a handful of them now
@@PokemaniacStephen Ah that’s great to hear, thanks for your help!
There are also Zipper Pro Binder with the Pokemon Brand on it :)
Imma have to look into those! Thank you 😄
I got a vaultx binder at the start of the year and it was awesome. I got another one 2 weeks ago and it just feels like it was made more cheaply than the older one I have. Both binders are black. Has anyone else noticed this drop in quality?
Yes! I have been buying Vaultx since last year and I can guarantee the quality was very good. However, recently the quality dropped. The sleeves feel lower quality and the cards were hard to slide in. SO I started googling for new binders to buy and came across this video and saw your comment. I can confirm I am having the same issue with these binders
@@vashthestampede3459 It's so sad. The old one feels like material on the outside but the newer one feels rubberised. Like you notice it immediately and it doesn't feel good to the touch. I can't tell if the plastic that makes up the sleeves were you slide your cards is thicker or thinner than what it used to be but the difference is noticed right away if that makes sense. The zipper seems to be lower quality too and whenever I open the new binder the zipper moves a few teeth on it's own and that NEVER happened with the older one.
@@atomicboomstick2543 Yeah, same issues here. I have been noticing same thing with certain sleeve and toploader products where the quality just dipped. I guess with the whole tcg boom, these companies are cutting corners to make more products. It's the only thing I can think of. For now I'm gonna try out the Ultimate Guard Zipfolio binders. I can't in good faith keep buying those Vault x binders.
@@vashthestampede3459 I kinda wanna try mintkeeper because they are obviously getting the binders from the same place as vaultx with a different name stamped into them but I guess the quality will still be worse than it was.
Great insights here. I might need to get a new one myself to compare. But definitely gonna check out the other brands you guys mentioned too!
Please help, thank you in advance for reading 🙇♂
I am a Dad of a 3 year old that has some Anpanman Cards. You can get these cards from playing certain Arcade games across Japan. The whole collection is only 20 cards.
Is there a booklet like this I can get for her that will hold her 20 cards?
Thanks again for reading 🙏
Hello! Not sure the size on those cards, but if they’re the same size as the Pokémon cards any of these binders should work. Not sure anyone offers a binder that small though but you can usually go to hobby shops and buy individual card pages to put in a binder
have you filled the whole binder? Front and back? How does it hold up? It actually ain't worth it if you can't safely store a complete full binder.
One of Vault X binders yeah. Sturdy covers, pages lay flat when I store it vertically and horizontally.
Thumbs up 👍 always great 👍 videos my brother we enjoy watching great info too blesses everyone around the world 🌎
Thank you man 😄 trying to keep the helpful content coming
By the look of it the Vault X side-loader sleeves don't have enough room for top-loaders, or am I mistaken?
These binders are good fits for raw or sleeved cards. Top loader I think either won’t fit or it’ll be very snug. There are top loader binders out there though, but at this time I haven’t tried any. Have you been looking at any?
@@PokemaniacStephen I’ve been looking at everything out there and I can’t help but feel like each one lacks something I like that the others have. I love how vault has themed binders.
I’m actually surprised nobody has made one for card storage that has a waterproof zipper. May be over the top 🤷♂️ but I think it would be pretty cool.
I feel like premium archival quality binders are on the horizon the older and more valuable these cards get. Makes me want to try and design my own!
Should i get a 9 or 12 pockets?
I'm not doing master sets , just storing support trainers , rainbow cards , favorite artwork etc .
Personally I like the 9 pocket. They store easier in my opinion and are a little easier to handle.
@PokeManiacStephen thanks for the help. I definitely getting the vault x 9 pockets binder
Nice! I hope you enjoy it 😄 they’re really good binders in my opinion and love the color options
I agree the vault x looks like the best binder, but I just can't. I gotta have the cool/flashy graphic binder. I'm so shallow.
Lol I feel this so much
I just bought my first top loader binder for my base set, jungle set, and fossil set and it fit it all but damn it is a massive boy. I have a few three ring but I want a nice looking dude loader next and I think this is the one I'm going to grab
Nice! I can only imagine how thicc that thing is lol congrats on that collection though!
@@PokemaniacStephen it's thiccc
Have you run out of any space yet with bigger expansions? that have more reverse holos and secret / rare cards? I'm debating getting the 3x3 vs the 4x3 portfolios..I've seen some other portfolio flip throughs where they ran out of space and added in individual pages at the back..
For the way I do my binders, so far everything has been fine. But I put all variations into one slot. So the regular, reverse and holo could all be in one sleeve. If you separate them out, ya I could see you running out of space in one binder
review BCW Z-Folio LX please
Just bought one! Once it gets here I'll give it a good once over. Stay tuned!
I can confirm that the strap on Ultra Pro binders will pinch the cards over time. Don't use the strap.
Just ordered my first binder and sleeves from Vault X. Excited to see how they are.
Nice! Hope you enjoy them. The binders have been great to me
"Best zipper I've ever used"...... "takes too long to zip up and down" 😂
i have that ultra pro binder
Nice! Hopefully you are enjoying it, they make good stuff
Surely the zip will fail and then you cant get nothing out of the binder ect
Maybe eventually, so far so good on mine that I've had for a couple of years now. But worst case, you could always just rip the zipper open. Shouldn't be too hard 😄
@@PokemaniacStephen hopefully not haha
@@PokemaniacStephen so i got the vault x very happy but one problem some cards are sliding out of the pockets im using dragon shield perfect fit i have tried double sleeving.. with perfect fit into dragon shield matte same problem. Not sure if its the sleeves im using but its a problem..
The pinching is a real thing :( upgraded all of mine to zippers
Good move! Honestly doing the same right now. It’s kinda terrible seeing how much it can curve the cards
I bought level up binders
Nice! Those look pretty good. Not sure if I can find them in my area but I’ll keep searching to try them out too 😄 is there a spot you normally buy them from?
Vaultx binder it is..
Really solid binder for the quality and price
REAL PROS put bulk and energy cards into opened ETB cases, recycling them, (even tho they look good on shelves)
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Just got it on Monocashback and I'm feeling like a savvy shopper. Got it for only $5 with a 50% discount. Retail therapy doesn't have to break the bank!