Same way I got mine. Original Skyress were easy finds in the starters that came out during April-June '08. Ah those were the days, huh? I still never got why they retired the original colors just because they moved them to "special attack". That was a cheap blow.Hydranerd, who was your first? I got my first Skyress in April at the Times Square TRU in NY. It was the "Phoenix" version (pyrus) in a booster. I also got my original Darkus Hydranoid that day the same way. XPI never got Subterra and now I'm regretting it severely. All those poor Subterra Bakugan I missed.