I'm very late on this, but those vertical packs were only sold at Walgreens. They had those for the Explorer series as well and they were only packaged this way later down the line. They're really ugly and they don't look official at all, never understood why they did this

@Supereggy5 Interesting, yeah I agree to that they almost look unofficial. Would be cool to archive some pictures of the explorer ones if we haven't already

I'm surprised we don't already have pictures of those. Don't have any myself since I already completed Explorer before they started packaging them that way. One more thing to take note of when it comes to these packs, the stickers are all on a single sheet and i believe that there are four of them (as opposed to three) done in the same way as the older sets (the stickers are the same so it looks very awkward lol)

The changes made to packaging for NA releases were always really ugly, I don't really know what happened there

I always see those kinds of sticker sheets for sale from the U.K, never knew they were also released in the U.S or thats how you got them. Also yeah the packaging does look a bit rough. Looks like barley any survived to the second hand marker though. At least in 2021