Received 7th May, opened 11th May, written 24th June.

This is a pretty nifty little piece for my collection! You may have noticed that in the last little while, I've been eager to get some of the original Wayne McLoughlin cover boxsets, sealed, to preserve and keep safe. These books are getting harder and harder to find as we are now approaching ten years since Wayne McLoughlin's passing, and the subsequent switch to the new covers. I have copies of all of the original 4 series loose and they're the copies that I still read, but seeing as it's becoming clear that they won't be around forever, I wanted to make sure I have a set of each to archive in pristine new condition. I was able to score a perfect set of Power of Three almost exactly a year ago, and the next addition is here - the original series, later re-titled "The Prophecies Begin"!

You might note that this is a later printing of the series, as it has advertisements on display for The New Prophecy and Power of Three. This places this particular boxset printing at 2007 or later. I have to curb this obsession at some point, but I must admit that I'm keeping my eyes open for the possibility of an original printing boxset. Nevertheless, it will be wonderful to display this next to the bright orange Power of Three boxset!

Until next time!

I was away for a while so a few different parcels from different places ended up delivered. Returning home was like Christmas! I'll separate these out into the different parcels for my own sanity.

Received 16th April 2025, opened 30th April 2025, written 24th June 2025.

I've not got a huge amount to say about these - this is the illustrated edition of Fire and Ice (I now just need Forest of Secrets), and the preorder for Thunder and Shadow along with the preorder bonuses of the card and clan logo lanyard. I'll have all these cards one day!

Received 23rd April, opened 30th April, written 24th June.

Received 24th April, opened 30th April, written 24th June.

Received and opened 30th April, written 24th June.

Received 29th March 2025, opened 2nd April 2025, written 24th June.

I purchased these from a wonderful user who goes by the name Vixenfur. Here was the listing description:
"These books were signed by Victoria Holmes (Erin Hunter) between 2008 and 2009 during her tours. I do not have Volume 3 of Tigerstar and Sasha as it was not signed and rehomed already. No other manga series that I own are signed by her.

Warriors is a huge part of my life and I am truly not trying to turn a huge profit with these, just want them to go to another passionate fan. I have the entire main 12 books signed (Into the Wild - Last Hope) and that’s all that I really need - so I’m letting these go!

I’ll include a few Warriors and book-related freebies that you may enjoy along with your books.

If you have any questions about the books or their authenticity you can ask me anything. I have photos of myself with the author I am happy to provide as well!

I’d prefer not to split the lot up as it’s more work to then sell the others off individually.

From a pet-free, smoke-free home."

I'm really honoured to have the privilege to add these to my little collection, and I've promised I will take good care of them. I was able to get in contact with Vixenfur on social media and chat about them briefly, which really adds to just how special these are :)

Until next time!

Large Rockruff received 7th March 2025, small ones received 16th April 2025, both opened 2nd April 2025, written 6th May 2025.

This is possibly the hardest I've had to work to get ahold of some Rockruff plushes so far - still not very hard, comparatively, but it surprised me a little!

Firstly is the 45cm Jazwares Rockruff. This guy was revealed in Summer 2024, and I was so excited! An edited screenshot of my Rockruff sleeping in Moon has been my header for 7 years, and this guy looks EXACTLY like him! It was then (apparently) released in November. It definitely did release in the USA, as I saw some other collectors find theirs, but after a lot of waiting and searching, I never did find one here. Then it seemingly officially released in the UK in January, and seeing that stock was very high, I didn't rush to grab one as I figured it would just stay available like most Jazwares plush. I finally got to tick it off my collection list last month. I opened it up today, and it's everything I was hoping for!! So squishy and soft, just the right size. I even considered grabbing two so I could have one on my bed, but I didn't go for it... I kind of regret it now, because it looks like they're totally gone from everywhere except for resellers. I never know if I should go for something until it's too late and I regret it!! I'm glad to have this guy at all, and if it ever gets restocked, I'll know I should definitely get another.

This little fuzzy Rockruff released sometime at the end of 2024, but I don't know that it was ever released in the UK, so I had to source mine from Poland. This wasn't difficult, but it's interesting that it's been so hard to get a hold of.

Until next time!

I've gathered a few bits that don't necessarily constitute a full post of their own, so I'll stick them together in one here.
First, this little parcel I received today!

Interesting looking packaging...

You can tell who's in there already! These are 1/20 hand-painted resin customs from PCC Studio in China. I imported these myself rather than going through a middle-man, which is a first for me for custom resin pieces. Since it's drastically cheaper doing it this way, I ordered 5, just in case any faced damage during shipping. I've had some bad luck with damage to resin figures in the past. Luckily they all arrived safe and sound. It's cool to see the variance in hand-painted items like this!

I'm really fond of the one in the middle who is giving the most scathing side-eye!!

Other than these guys, I received this giant sleeping Eevee for Christmas from my mother:

I had mentioned wanting the new sleeping Rockruff, and I think she might have confused the two - not that I mind whatsoever, it's such a sweet present! She's too big to even fit in the lightbox to show you properly. I'm quite particular about the Eevee items that I grab - I have quite a specific taste in Eevee, as with Vulpix and Entei - but she fits into all my preferences. Here she is with the others (she can still barely fit):

Lastly, a friend of mine asked me to source a Sneasler plush as a Christmas gift for someone, and the only place I could find one still in stock was the Korean Pokemon Centre. Since we were ordering from there anyway, I couldn't resist picking up something I've had my eyes on for a very, very long time...

This beautiful 3rd Round Entei! As I mentioned, this is another collection Pokemon that I'm quite particular about. The colours and shapes really have to look perfect to my brain for something to be worth grabbing. For a long time I've seen this 3rd Round plush in other Entei collectors' collections and it has stuck out to me as a perfect Entei. I'm really, really glad to have this guy!

That's all for this ecclectic little mixture. Until next time!

A very exciting Pokemon Center promotion for me dropped last month! My parcel arrived, let's peek!!

Admittedly, it's a very big parcel...

It's the "My Little Bestie" campaign! I did not get absolutely everything with Rockruff on it - I couldn't afford to get everything - but I did succeed in getting everything I wanted, so I'm very happy about that. I was camping on the website right as the items went live, but before I could check out, the full box of 5 magnet clips sold out, so I just grabbed 5 individual ones, checked out, and hoped for the best.

Firstly is this Rockruff! This one was quite a bit more expensive than a plush usually is from the Pokemon Centre, and I wasn't really sure why until it arrived - it's HUGE! The fur is so wonderful and soft, and the shaping is excellent. I'm so happy I get to own this guy.

Secondly is another Rockruff plush that I needed for my grand catch-up, not a part of the My Little Bestie collection, but since it's another plush I figured I'd put it up top. This is the San-Ei All Star Collection Rockruff, which released September 2024. This one also has a really lovely pattern, I like the muzzle on this one a lot.

These are some rubber magnetic clips, to stick on a fridge or other surface and hang a little note to. The Pokemon Centre usually sells things like this in single blind boxes, and then in a full set with one of each kind guaranteed. I waited for this promo to go live on the website and rushed to get one of everything I wanted before they sold out, but the full set of these sold out almost instantly! I'm not sure if it was a mistake or not, but I just added five singles to my cart instead, and ended up with one of each in a full set, thankfully.

Here's my little Rockruff! He's very sweet, a great rendition of this artwork.

Here are a lot of the other bonus bits. As I mentioned, I got one of everything I wanted from this promo, plus some bonus stickers in case I ever want to use any. The rest of the stuff, for example the frisbee and bowl, didn't really feel pertinent enough to my Rockruff collection to worry about.

I grabbed some neat cards while I was putting this parcel together, too! Just some nice ones I was waiting to dip in price, and they did - these were all very cheap.

Some cute all together shots, with the sweater I forgot to mention!

Until next time!

Received 12th December 2024, opened 1st February 2025.

This is a very special post! I was lucky enough to win an original page from the Warriors: Into the Wild graphic novel, auctioned by the illustrators for charity.

I had previously been in contact with Natalie to ask if there was any chance they would be able to send me a signed copy of the novel and/or sell me the page in which the Moonstone is first shown, as I own the original Moonstone page from Ravenpaw's graphic novel arc, and I thought it would be a nice thematic set. Unfortunately this wouldn't be a possbility, but nonetheless I was able to win the shown map page. Natalie and Sara were lovely and included both a signed bookplate, and Natalie sent a wonderfully thoughtful small illustration of Redtail (the cat I use as a screenname within the Warriors community) in front of the Moonstone. I truly could not be more lucky and thankful to them both for allowing me to have these wonderful pieces for my little collection.

Received 22nd January 2025, opened 1st February 2025.

This was a somewhat bittersweet parcel to receive from the forwarding service I've been using in Poland. Their service has always been great, but it seems that they changed which warehouse they were using for this parcel, and unfortunately whoever they moved to had very little regard for the service or treatment of these items. This was a consolidation of a secondhand purchase of the Collector's Edition boxset for "The Ultimate Guide", a secondhand order of four collector's cards ("Goosefeather's Curse", "The Sun Trail", "Thunder Rising", and "The Blazing Star"), two brand new 2025 calendars from Nowa Baśń, and a preorder for a copy of "The Apprentice's Quest" plus collector's card.

The calendars were folded and bunched up, the collector's edition box has been beaten and seemingly thrown about, and an entire parcel of four collector's cards is totally missing. I feel awful that such a limited collector's box, that somebody kept in great shape and sold on to me, has been treated so poorly. I'm writing this on the 29th of March and I still have not been reimbursed for the lost cards. Needless to say I've switched service now, so we will see how well my preorder for "Thunder and Shadow" is handled.

Thankfully the parts that I was overwhelmingly most excited for ("The Apprentice's Quest", the collector's card with it, and the collector's card from "The Ultimate Guide" boxset) made it out entirely unscathed, and I'm really happy to have them.

There have been such a large amount of Rockruff plushes released in the last little while, seemingly by coincidence as they're coming from lots of different places (Tomy, Pokecen, Jazwares, San-ei). I'm being totally spoiled after years of not seeing many Rockruffs at all! :D I managed to get a couple of them, so here they are:

This is a pretty standard plush from Jazwares' 8 inch range. It's kind of a surprise that there wasn't a Rockruff as part of this line before now, but he's very sweet, so better late than never.

This one is slightly more... novel, shall we say! This is a China Pokemon Center exclusive, and it is a slap-band plush. The slap bands run through the body, so when activated it sits in this very silly pose. I love how different the browns used on this plush are to lots of other existing Rockruff plushes.

Until next time!

Today I got a very exciting parcel from Poland!

Everything packed in all nice and safe :)

Yayyy! This is an order from the Polish Warriors publisher. Here we have Forest of Secrets (illustrated edition), a novella boxset, and The Clan Guide, plus a little secret.

There are illustrated editions of Into the Wild, Fire and Ice, and Forest of Secrets. All three are peppered with these beautiful full illustrations of the scenes. I'm now just missing Fire and Ice.

The Clan Guide has so many beautiful illustrations to look through, including these maps of the territories. Here's the lake territories.

The contents of the luxurious little envelope: a metal bookmark. I don't use metal bookmarks personally, but this is a lovely detailed piece to display.

This is the collector's edition printing that includes Hollyleaf's Story, Tigerstar's Fury, and Ravenpaw's Farewell. They were also printed in standard editions and sold separately. This collector's edition has these beautiful brushed pages.

Here are all the goodies that came in the collector's edition box: a drawstring bag, a sandwich box, some postcards, a heart shaped badge, a noteobok, a magnet, a heart shaped charm, and one each of the novella collector's cards.

Polish Warriors is a real treasure-trove of well-made merchandise that is sorely missing from the English speaking world. I'll happily continue to support the team behind them, and get some lovely pieces for my collection.

Until next time!

Just a couple of bits from the Japanese Pokemon Center today, my friend wanted to order a Chandelure Halloween lamp so I grabbed a few things I wanted.

The "United Wings" deck sleeves, to commemorate a deck played in the TCG championship. Naturally I just like them because it has a lot of my bird babies on them!

Two attempts to get the new Starly Re-Ment from blind boxes... and a stark reminder as to why I never try to get the ones I want from blind boxes, as I ended up with two Sentrets lol.

The calendar/postcard from this month. I don't collect these seriously, but I would like to one day :)

The Rockruff kutakutatatta in small! This is a much nicer size than the medium, in my opinion, though I tend to like things smaller and more huggable. I'm glad to have them both, anyway.

Until next time!