Promos BW77, BW78 listed on Pokémon.com
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Update: Pokémon.com has since removed these two promotional cards across all languages from their database.
The official Pokémon website has posted into their card database all of the BW Black Star Promos. Revealed in this update were two promotional cards that haven't ever been revealed because they were originally cancelled: Pikachu BW Promo 77 and Raichu BW78. These promotional cards were originally going to be release in the Plasma Freeze Blisters, but were ultimately cancelled and never made available otherwise.
Around the time Plasma Freeze was being released, there were plans to release a Landorus Box to the English audiences, containing BW Promo 79, Landorus. This box, which was actually released in other international languages, was extremely similar to the unpopular Emerging Challenges Box. Because of this, distributors did not show any interest in the product, and it was eventually cancelled. However, knowing that the Landorus Promo was going to be a sought after card by the TCG audience, The Pokémon Company International instead repurposed the Landorus promo and released an alternate version of the Deoxys Box's Druddigon promo into the Plasma Freeze Blisters, kicking out the Pikachu and Raichu promotional cards shown below. This redistribution happened much too quickly for the company to repurpose the Pikachu and Raichu promos, thus leaving them unreleased. This is also the reason why Druddigon comes in both a Cosmos Holofoil and a Tinsel Holofoil.
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