The fireworks pattern is doing what no modern chase treatment has managed to copy. Three PSA 10 reverse holos from Legendary Collection sold in the same Fanatics Collect weekly auction for a combined 1,344,000 dollars with the buyer premium included. Charizard brought 576,000 dollars. Mewtwo brought 384,000 dollars. Dark Dragonite brought 384,000 dollars. Together they drew 73 bids in one closing night.
Fanatics Collect lot pages confirm each result from its Weekly Auction 248 which closed on the evening of October 18 and is listed as sold on October 19. The Charizard is the number 3 card from the 2002 set and drew 30 bids. The Mewtwo is number 29 and drew 23 bids. The Dark Dragonite is number 5 and drew 20 bids. Those three lot pages are the strongest record of the night because they carry the final price and the bid count for each exact graded copy.
The order inside the trio tells the more interesting story. ComicBook reports that the Charizard result sits 24,000 dollars below the 600,000 dollar record for the same card and grade set on October 12. That small step back matters. It shows even the most famous card in the set does not climb with every single auction. At the same time the price is still close to five times the 122,000 dollar level ComicBook cites for a PSA 10 copy in June. A pause near the top is not the same thing as a market cooling off.
Mewtwo moved the other way. ComicBook reports that its 384,000 dollar result passed the 360,000 dollar record set just seven days earlier and stands at more than five times the 72,000 dollar Fanatics result it cites from June. Dark Dragonite delivered the sharpest jump of the three. ComicBook reports a previous tracked high of 117,000 dollars from September and adds that PSA records show this same certified copy sold for 26,000 dollars in February. If that February sale is taken at face value the same slab has multiplied close to fifteen times in about eight months.
Context helps explain why buyers keep chasing this set. Legendary Collection arrived in May 2002 with 110 cards built largely from favorites first printed in Base Set and Jungle and Fossil and Team Rocket. Its lasting invention was the reverse holo treatment itself. Instead of a plain background the whole card surface carries a bright fireworks pattern. Modern reverse holos are everywhere now. None of them look like this one and collectors are clearly paying for that difference.
The trio also follows the reverse holo Pikachu from the same set which sold for 780,000 dollars at Fanatics Collect in late September. That earlier result showed one card could carry the set. This night showed the demand runs deeper than one mascot. Three different Pokémon from three different original eras of the game all cleared a third of a million dollars on the same night and in the same grade.
Our take for collectors is to read this as a set story rather than a single card story. The safest lesson is narrow. Top grade copies of the fireworks reverse holos have very few substitutes and buyers are competing hard when a clean one reaches a major auction. The lesson is not that every Legendary Collection card is worth six figures. Grade and character and condition drive these results and the Charizard step back from its record is the reminder built into the same night.
What to watch next is whether another major copy reaches auction while this run is still fresh. One more strong Charizard result above 600,000 dollars would set a new record outright. Another Mewtwo or Dark Dragonite result near this level would confirm the new range. A weak close would show how much of this night was three motivated bidder pools landing at once. Either way Legendary Collection has become the vintage set to watch this autumn.