A nice box arrived in the post, with a preo-order from April. Let's see what we've got :)

Overview!

I found this Chatot retsudan stamps - there's so little documentation of these that I have no idea how many are out there, but even this year I've discovered two Chatot ones I never knew existed, so there could always be more. This one is the only foil one in the little set I bought, I've no idea why, but I love it!

Manaphy movie Pokecen sticker sheet. I've been waiting for this to pop up at a decent price for a while (I'm not keen on spending £50+ on a sticker sheet...) and, as so often happens, after waiting two went up for sale cheaply in a very short space of time. For the amount I was paying (~£1) I figured I may as well grab them both, just in case I ever want to use any.

A close up of the Chatot on this sheet. It looks so cute!!

Manaphy movie settei collection. If you've been following the blog for a while, you'll know that I did already pick up a set of these with Chatot in previously, but again, when I saw it go up for sale I just couldn't resist grabbing it. I have the first in my Chatot flats folder, but I'd like to frame this one and put it in my Chatot shelf.

Here's the pre-order from April, that just released in August...

Guess who!

It's the Raikou, Entei, Suicune Bandai scale world set!

I can finally confirm that these beasts are in fact cats, with that info coming from my very reliable helper.

The reason I bought them, naturally, was for Entei. I didn't want to take it out yet as I don't have my Entei shelf all set up, but even in the plastic, it still looks REALLY cool.

That's all for now!

I got a couple of little Rockruffs and birds that have been on my list for a while!

We'll do the most interesting piece first, for once.

Chatot movie pen!! The paper insert is really grimy, so please forgive that in the photos. I've been searching for this pen for a while, and I'm really happy to own it, not in small part because the chatot charm is ADORABLE.

Kids figures. Rockruff sleeping has been my icon on another website for ages, so I was so over the moon when I saw it was getting a sleeping kids.

The little garden wall re-ment figure. The set looks really cute together, but this one admittedly looks a bit odd on its own. The Rockruff mould itself is adorable, though!

There was a Tomy Get collection released at the end of last year with both a Wattrel and a Rockruff, too. I've been really spoilt with the releases lately, I thought Rockruff merch would not be as frequent after S&M ended, and while it has slowed down there's still a pretty regular few bits which makes me very happy!!

And lastly, finally, the Corviknight re-ment terrarium. I bought two from this gacha set and got Raboot and Cramorant before telling myself "no more randoms, just buy the set" and... I didn't. Until now! Better late than never. :) It's nice to get a Corviknight piece this year, anyway, seeing as he's not getting as much love now we're into gen 9.

That's all for now!

I collect a few things other than Pokemon, and I think I'd like to start posting about them. I might redo some of the site to reflect this if I like how it goes, or I might make a separate site, I haven't really decided yet.

Regardless, I've been looking for sealed boxsets of the original Wayne McLoughlin illustrated editions. Power of Three and Omen of the Stars seem the rarest, so I'm really glad to start this off with this one.

I have a little bit of a mix-and-match bundle to post about today! I have some pieces that arrived from Japan very recently, some from a couple of months ago, and some pieces that I ordered to a friend's house in Germany in October 2022 that they then weren't able to send to me until now!!

One of the last nine items on my "rares" hitlist, this keychain came in a big bundle with a bunch of others, and thankfully still as new with tag intact.

Entei is one of my side collections, and I don't know a lot about the pieces available really. I would assume this is some kind of Get collection candy figure, given that this was one of the ones that came from Germany, but it could be anything!

These rubber stamps were also from Germany. I've never seen them before!

A little bundle of retsudan stamps.

Of course, my reason for picking the bundle up - my boy Chatot was in the lot! This is another thing that I've seen show up very rarely, so I'm very happy to have it, and in brand new condition.

This is one of the aforementioned Get collection candy figures. I own one already, but they're so hard to come by that I just grabbed it as it was 1 euro. It looks very similar to the Tomy Chatot figure, you'd be forgiven for mistaking the two.

Some cheap Zukan figures. Staravia is missing its wings so I'm not really sure what I'm going to do with it yet!

Leaflets of a Get collection and a tomy hanging figures collection. These will be scanned at some point.

This one is also from Germany, but from a separate sller from last month. I own this figure loose, so it's lovely to have it in packaging.

Some new releases! Pokedex charms of Squawkabilly, Wattrel and Kilowattrel.

The medium Rockruff kutakutatatta! He's so big for being a medium size. This is one of my favourite plush series, the Eevee being one of my favourite plushes overall, so I was really excited that Rockruff got one! I can't wait to get hold of the small version, but he was sold out.

The I Choose You! Tomy Wattrel plush. It looks VERY derpy from the front, but I was very happy Wattrel got a plush at all - sometimes the starting birds don't get so lucky.

A few recent cards I hadn't gotten yet. The art rare is INCREDIBLY cute. I'm planning to keep one in my folder and then one in a display on my wall.

All the gets from my Japan parcel!

(Received 11/04/2023, opened 26/05/2023, posted 16/07/2023)

Working through my parcel backlog. I really love to get parcels and save them for a rainy day.. and then keep saving them... but I'm finally working through these! Today we've got a couple of bigs ones.

Inside the boxes is a lot of bubble wrap!

One of those big swathes held these two! Two plush in a cheap lot. I've considered collecting both of these guys and I really love this Banpresto Nickit plush, so this was mostly an impulse purchase.

Inside these little cardboard boxes are sets of stickers called "ポケモンバトルピースコレクション" or "Pokemon Battle Piece Collection". As I understand it these are little sets of stickers that come from a gacha machine. These chatots are a bit warped, but nothing that some flattening won't fix.

This tiny guy is a repainted Scale World Starly. Unfortunately I've lost the listing to give credit to the artist! :( But he's repainted to look shiny! I missed a repaint by a professional artist called kikuryo626, but this one popped up by a self-proclaimed amateur, and I couldn't resist grabbing him.

A little box...! Google translates claims this says "thank you very much. If you have another chance Thank you for your support."

Another repainted Scale World figure, this time it's Pidgey. The artist behind this one is by the aforementioned artist, kikuryo626.

A couple of game handbooks! These are the usual for me - they showed up cheap, and in really good condition. Colosseum is my favourite Pokemon game of all, so I really wanted it. Fun little tidbit, I impulse bought them at night and my phone was on black & white mode, and I didn't see them again until they arrived. The colour of the Colosseum guide was a shock to say the least!

The Colosseum one even came with its obi - you should know by now that that's very exciting for me!!

That was parcel #1 done, so now onto #2!

Another little box with a thank you note - you can guess what that means!

kikuryo626 painted another Starly! Despite having one from the other artist, I really wanted this one too, so I just went for it. They're both really lovely, but you can tell an airbrush was used on this one; the paint job is super smooth.

I posted about this situation on my socials and not here, but I recently missed out on a huge grail item due to my internet dropping out when trying to place a last second bid. It was quite genuinely upsetting as I'd only ever seen one other of this figure up for sale.

Funnily enough, as life tends to go, just shortly another popped up in a lot... I sent the seller a message about splitting, and...

The 7/11 Manaphy Movie Chatot figure, one of the holiest grails I had, now in my collection!

The mould on the Chatot itself is lovely, and the detailing and clear plastic for the water are all beautiful. I genuinely couldn't be happier to have this piece in my collection. I'm very quickly coming to the close of known Chatot items I still need... I thought for sure this would be the last one, but here it is!

That's all for now!

(Received 15/05/2023, opened 22/05/2023, posted 16/07/2023)

A small but excited parcel today! This official pin has eluded me for years - there was one lot including one that was very expensive and up for a long time. My friends and I considered buying it to split more than once, but any way it happened would have been quite expensive for just a pin. This one popped up and went completely under my radar - the seller didn't list either Pokemon's names in the listing, and I would have completely missed it if another friend didn't let me know about it! Very happy to have this in my collection. The epoxy coating has yellowed in its fifteen years of existence, but I strongly doubt it's possible to find one without that any more. Having one sealed was always the ultimate goal for me, and here it is!

Until next time!

(Received 17/04/2023, opened 12/05/2023, posted 16/07/2023)
I've got a couple of parcels saved up for an opening, so let's do that!

Inside the parcels... are smaller parcels!

Inside the cardboard box are a few small things.

First up are a couple of Tomy Shaymin figures. These were just extras as part of a lot with a couple of flats which we'll see later.

This is a set of Banpresto pair keychains. If you've been a follower for a while, you might remember that the Chatot/Beedrill keychain was one of the last few things I needed for a matter of years, but I managed to get one not that long ago. As is always the way, a lot cropped up not long after and at a very reasonable price for the entire set, sealed... and most importantly to me, including the leaflet that came with them. I asked the seller if they'd send the leaflet if I bought the lot, and they said sure - so here we are! I'm never opposed to getting a sealed copy of something even if I already own it, so this was a win-win for me.

Next up are some sealed Tomy movie keychains. Essentially the same applies to the above as to why I grabbed these - they were cheap, and they came with the leaflet. As an unfortunate soul afflicted with a desire for even leaflet completion, I picked them up!

This next piece is something that, while cool to own, I'm actually not sure if I'm going to keep yet. This is the shiny Hasbro Tyrogue figure. Back in the early days of my collection, one of my desires was to own all of the shiny figures out in the world. Unfortunately here in the year 2023, I have very little room to myself and very little money to spend on weird little hobbies and collections. I picked this guy up on a whim because he was exceedingly cheap, in part due to the damage, but now I'm not really sure if I'll be keeping him around or sending him out with the rest of the shinies I'd accumulated. It's something that makes me very sad - all these items are ones I have a deep love for and it deeply stresses me out to think that they're the kind of rare that means I might not ever own them again. But being a young adult going out into the world is a lot harder with boxes and boxes of baggage. This Tyrogue is kind of a weird encapsulation of that; I've just received him and now I have to decide if I get to keep him. Well, anyway.

One collection I know I'll be keeping for the foreseeable future is my Chatot collection, so I have no qualms picking thi sup. This is an Advanced Generation manga, from my understanding in essence the same as the plot of the Prince of the Sea movie, complete with its original obi! Picked up for obvious reasons - the traditional illustration of Chatot on the back is adorable.

In all honesty I'm not 100% sure what these are - as far as I can make out, I think they're some kind of noodle flavouring variety packs that come with a coaster? Though I've no idea why they're so long. One for my weird food collection lol.

Last but certainly not least, these are a bunch of flats! Most of these I don't have exact details on at the moment, so I'm going to have to go through and research them when I scan them for my pages. The one in the very back is a Mcdonald's placemat of some description. I really love all the glittery stickers. :)

That's all for now!

In addition to official merch, I really like to grab fanmade merch of my collections where I can! There isn't loads of Chatot stuff out there, but I've got a couple of pieces recently.

(Received 31/03/2023, opened 04/05/2023, posted in the great catchup of May 2023)

These are some wool crochet plushes by ShayminsCrochet!
Here are their links: Facebook and Twitter
I saw these on shopee and got really excited! As I mentioned, not a huge amount of people are making Chatot art or merch, so it became my mission to get ahold of these. Thankfully the artist was really helpful and happy to ship directly to me in the UK, so I didn't have to worry about middleman fees or anything. The plush themselves are SO soft and fuzzy, especially the nest. The egg and Chatots are super squishy and wonderfully round. I'm absolutely in love with them :)

(Received 10/03/2023, opened 05/05/2023, posted in the great catchup of May 2023)

This little baby is a holographic charm by artist chai_bean! There are three really prominent Chatot collectors in the community including myself, and this charm was commissioned by another one of us, kosmotiel :)

(Received 05/01/2023, opened 07/04/2023, posted in the great catchup of May 2023)

I managed to grab a really interesting piece for the collection recently! I didn't know this existed until a friend sent it to me, and the listing was up for only a couple of hundred yen, so I submitted a bid and won it. The shipping was admittedly a far higher cost. The listing had three chairs in it, one sun bleached and two in better condition. One was sent straight to the friend for their Buizel collection. I don't have much other information about this chair - I'll be having a look to see if I can find anything out about it!

Opening them up! You can tell one is sunbleached, but it isn't as bad as I'd thought.

Such a beautiful colour! You can see the all-important Chatot silhouette on the printed seat. (And my cat's tail!)

Here's the sunbleached chair. There is some cracking on the seat and some scuffs or dirt on the back cushion. One neat thing though is the instructional sticker on the back that's missing from my version.

All in all a very cool item that I'm grateful I had pointed out to me!