Hello guys!
In July (yes, actually I am late on this) two years ago was when I first joined the community, so I figured it was time for a big anniversary collection update! :)
I also have a few new gets I got yesterday to share with you as well as introduce a new collection of mine!
I hope you'll have a look at my reintroduction and collections :) Enjoy!
But warning: This post is freaking HUGE! I tried my best to conceal most of it with cuts, but please be aware of wall of pictures and text :D
First, it's time for a reintroduction I guess, especially for new members :)
My name is Jule and I am a Pokemon collector from Germany. :)
My first experiences with Pokemon were back in my childhood days during the original Pokecraze in the late 90s/early 2000s. My first ever Pokemon game to play was Pokemon Yellow which I got for Christmas, but originally, I got to know Pokemon through the anime! In my teen years, though I kept playing the older games (RBY and GS) occasionally, I grew out of being an actual Pokemon fan and never kept following the series until about two years ago when I started to get back into it again :) Since them, I've also played X, AS and am currently playing Black version! I did play/try out the third and fourth generations on emulators before, and my favorite to date was SoulSilver.
My favorite Pokemon ever are Charmander and Charizard! I've loved them since my childhood. I am in love with a lot more Pokemon though, some of which are not so popular, which you will hear about later :)
Other than that, I am currently studying German and English literature at a university here in Germany but plan on just continuing with English. I am currently starting on my bachelor's thesis ;__; :D
I also love drawing and writing. My goal is to publish my own children's books one day.
These are the Pokemon I collect!
My main collections:
Side collections:
And here are some more of my favorite Pokemon that I (try to) collect random merch from from time to time:
If you wanna know who are my favorite Pokemon by generation, you can have a look at this post in my journal:
http://j-ule.livejournal.com/9353.html
(I'd love to hear yours too, so feel free to make a post like this as well ^u^)
Now let's have a look at my individual collections :)
First up, here is a link to my anniversary post a year ago so you can see how much has changed and even what I started out with when first collecting ^^
http://pkmncollectors.livejournal.com/17654834.html
So to start things, here is a larger picture of my collection setup. Note: this is provisionary... I am planning on revamping my setup once I got two new shelves that I can hang on the wall over my tv. At the moment, a lot of my collection is pretty much scattered about lol
Now, here are a few close-ups of my individual main and side collections.
Let's begin with my main collection, my favorite Pokemon:
CHARMANDER and CHARIZARD
First up, at the bottom of my shelf live my two pillow Charmanders:
I love them both to bits! The one on the left came to me in very loved condition and was totally deformed because the stuffing had clumped up inside. I actually removed all the old stuffing and exchanged it with fluffy new stuffing! It's not quite finished yet though. I also restored her face a bit since the threads at the mouth were torn. Now there is much more definition to it again. To be honest, these plush are terribly crafted... the stuffing inside was HORRIBLE. But they are nevertheless super cute and awesome, being the only approximate 1:1 Charmander plushies. I love their floppy feet so much <3
In the shelf right above my pillow Chars are all my other Charmander plush. You can also see they share their living space with a few other Pokemon, but I'll get to those in a moment hehe ^^
Charmander PC, Canvas plush, Tomy Charmander, 4 Banprestos and the Pokedoll.
Just look at the PC Charmander! My newest addition to my collection, so fffff cute owo
First Charmander plush: Banpresto terrycloth Charmander plush
Favorite Charmander plush: Charmander Tomy plush
Above my Charmanders lives my beloved Charizard flock <333
On the left side, you can see the leader of the flock, my beloved 1013 Tomy Charizard named Ruby <3 I also have the 2013 PC Charizard which I am super happy about. As you can see, they are also accompanied by some figures - talking Charmander, DX Charizard Tomy figure and the Charmander grabby figure ... plus my Onixes are living with them too at the moment because I haven't created enough space for them to sit yet :'DD
Of course, I also have Charizard X and Y plush - they are sitting on/dangling from (? what are you doing there Charizard X? o_o) my TV at the moment lol [Everytime I watch TV it's like mega Charizard X trying to tell me I should stop... no, Charizard X! I have to watch How I met your mother!:<]
First Charizard plush: 2013 PC Charizard plush
Favorite Charizard plush: 2013 Tomy Charizard
Also seen in the big picture at the beginning can be seen my figure display at the wall on the right side of my shelf with my two awesome big perler sprites of Charizard and Charmander made by my friend Rachel (latias_latios_7) It includes all my other Charizard and Charmander figures.
Kid figures are one of my side collections too, I simply love them because of their chubbiness, they are so cute!
Next up are my other two main collections:
NOIVERN & NATU/XATU
Here they are, my lovelies O3O
My most favorite item in my whole Natu collection is definitely my 2002 Japanese (!!!) Natu Pokedoll! I love him to bits and pieces, and I was the happiest person when I got him after one year of searching for him: http://pkmncollectors.livejournal.com/18586564.html
Here is a closeup of my Natu figures:
First Natu item: Natu Kid figure
First Xatu item: Xatu PT plush
Favorite Natu item: Pokedoll
Favorite Xatu item: Xatu PT plush
And a closeup of my dragon bats:
Noivern Pokedoll (Joey) and Noivern beanie plush (Annie) by yellow_fr3ak <333 See this link for more (and better!) pictures of them: http://pkmncollectors.livejournal.com/18716933.html
First Noivern item: Noivern Kid figure
Favorite Noivern item: Noivern custom Pokedoll
Now, let's move on to my side collections :)
I'll start with the most recent side collections I barely even started...
... look who visited me :O A little moth landed on my hand :>
VENOMOTH
Yes, you heard me right, my new side collection is the super cute and lovely Venomoth! <33
He is pretty underrated, you might think - which is absolutely right and this is soooo unfair :< Just look how cute he is!! I love moths they are so fluffy and cute! At the same time, I'm scared of them because I'm always afraid I might crush them ;_; I have an ambiguous relationship towards moths lol. I never realized how cute Venomoth was back in the day though. Did you know Venomoth was freaking ONE POINT FIVE METERS big??!! o_o Holy sh.. this is some big moth lol lol
Here is my little mothy family so far <3 I can't get over how cute the Venomoth stamper is!!! OAO
Along with a beautiful Ken Sugimori artwork amada sticker
I have to thank schenzi for sending me these lovelies! O3O (Will leave you feedback asap) And I have the Venomoth zukan figure on the way which I am super excited about :) Plus I'm having a Venomoth plush commissioned which I am thrilled about!!! Watch out for that in the future :)
Moving on, here is a closeup of Venomoth with his two special friends - my other mini side collections:
BELLSPROUT, WEEPINBELL & OMANYTE
Close-up of my most recent gets, the Weepinbell and Weepinbell stampers:
Just look at them, d'awwwwwww n____n Bellsprout is like .O. xDD I'm so in love omg
Unfortunately, Weepinbell broke off the stamp during transit so I had to reattach her with glue. As you can see, she is still shocked xDD
Quote by one of the most renowned connaisseurs of Weepinbell marphoria: "I will never get sick of Weepinbell's clueless looking face, haha."
I also got this awesome amada sticker with a Weepinbell doing a vine whip attack
You might also have noticed that my newest addition to my bells is the super derpingly adorable Weepinbell burger King plush!! n_n I took some additional pictures of her:
Look how silly she is xDD
Here is one of my newest additions to my Omanyte collection - Omanyte attack amada sticker, look how cuuuute omg aah owo Omanyte making an attack with adorable winking eyes <333
Now, let's have a look at the top of my shelf:
my accidental Pikachu collection (???) LOL
and my RAICHU collection :) (and a cute little Greninja Pokedoll <3)
Raichu is just incredibly cute to me. I fell in love with her after watching a Pokemon anime episode of the Orange Island season where there was this theater group with a girl who had a Raichu. That Raichu was so adorable that ever since, I like to imagine Raichu with that vulnerable and cute personality.
I don't even know how I managed to get so many Pikachus xD I have THREE talking Pikachus by now... lol. I bought the second one on ebay after thinking the first one I ordered never arrived to find out it had landed at my parent's house. And I got the third one from a friend as a birthday present :) She still had it from her childhood.
What can also be seen in my Pikachu "collection" is the super unique mirage Backpack-Chu: http://pkmncollectors.livejournal.com/18327757.html#cutid1
Close-ups of my Raichus:
First Raichu item: old Tomy figures
Favorite Raichu item: Mirage Raichu "Germanchu" and Banpresto HQ Raichu
POKEDOLLS
This display looks horrible at the moment. I am severly lacking of room for my Pokedolls and so they are pretty much crammed inside there. In the back you can see a Mewtwo Pokedoll and my Croagunk Pokedoll Gengar is sitting on is actually hidden completely :/
First Pokedolls: Mewtwo and Charizard
My favorite Pokedolls: Butterfree, Marill, Altaria, Cyndaquil
TREECKO LINE
My Treecko family is sitting beside my TV on my vinyl record player lol. I gotta find a better place for them once I will be able to rearrange my display.
* My beloved Treecko 1:1 plush, named Elliot
* Treecko canvas plush who is best friends with my Charmander canvas (see red bandana ^^)
* Treecko Pokedoll
* Sceptile Pokedoll which was a HUGE milestone in my collection this year! :)
* Mega Sceptile PC plush
Finally, as far as my wall-collection-front goes, finally we have on the top of my left bookshelf my custom Swablu plush I made myself, big papa play by play Bulbasaur and big custom Hoothoot plush:
Here are some better pictures of Swablu and Hoothoot:
But wait, there is even more?
Yes, right, I have some more stuff that doesn't fit among my collection space.
Just look at my "creepy ceiling lamp" :D
Above my bed, I still got a hanging shelf which contains a few smaller plush.
My little piggies and Politoed in the back:
And my Typhlosion and Haunter amigurumi plush, Tyler and Heather *O* They were made by BuggabeeBaubles on etsy :) In the back, there are my two Vileplume friends plush - my other Oddish line items are currently in storage due to lack of space :c
And last but certainly not least, what was also not pictured so far, is my lovely sleepy Tepig plush!! <33
Here is a little recap of my most important gets since my last anniversary post a year ago:
* Obtained Grail of all grails: Natu Pokedoll!! \(^O^)/
* Altaria Pokedoll
* Sceptile Pokedoll
* Tepig sleeping plush
* Treecko 1:1 plush
* New collections: Noivern, Bellsprout and Weepinbell, Venomoth, Onix, Treecko line
I saw this in hebilea's anniversary post so I wanted to do the same, that is mentioning some members who I've been friends with more closely on the community and/or shared some fun conversations in comment sections within the last two years of my time on the community. Listed are also some members who I am not in contact with too often but whose collections I've always especially enjoyed :)
latias_latios_7 My best friend on the comm <3 We got to know one another when you helped me get my Butterfree Pokedoll almost 2 years ago and since then, you have helped me out so often and I always loved to do art trades with you :) And, after all, we are Sceptile buddies! :D I hope to share a lot more fun experiences and conversations with you in the future <3
creampuffoholic My Noivern buddy! <3 You know, I absolutely love and admire your Noivern collection and have had so many fun conversations with you :)
classypersian THE BIRD IS THE WORD!!!! xDD You know you are great, girl, and I've had many interesting and fun conversations with you too :)
pkmnexcavation Mimi! :D I've always enjoyed talking to you on here and love your youtube channel, as you know of course O3O
aurorabeams My German buddy <3
pikabulbachu My other German buddy <3 You are so sweet and kind, I really love talking to you and looking at your awesome and beautifully arranged bug collections :)
agui_chan My trusty European Kid figure supplier :D You are the European queen of Kid figures on the comm here! I've also always enjoyed talking to you and love your unique art style :)
schenzi I've purchased items from you a few times now and you are one of my favorite sellers, always so kind and sweet :)
agkelikos I hope you find your Natu Pokedoll one day, buddy <3
chain Had many fun and interesting conversations with you. :) You know when we argued about plush rarity once? xD You helped me get some rare Pokemon on my X game which was absolutely great, thanks once again <3
m14mouse Got to know you only pretty recently and loved seeing your collections and cute figures as well as chatting with you :)
bulbalaur I always loved talking to you, especially about art :)
areica96 We've talked a few times on the comm and I especially love your awesome Pokedoll collection :)
Here are some members whose presence on the comm and/or collections I've always enjoyed :)
marphoria I love your collection of underrated Pokemon, especially Weepinbell. I've also always enjoyed your presence on the comm, be it as a regular member or moderator :)
dragonrider49 Love your dragon collection and also the lovely spring swap videos you made :)
hawlucha Your whole collection and personality is an inspiration to me! I love your Hawlucha collection and art style :)
hebilea Charmander, need I say more? :D I also love your various and huge colorful collections!
mewisme700 fellow Natu collector! Go for that 2002 Natu, girl! :)
If I forgot somebody, please let me know! :D
Thanks so much for looking and reading everyone! See you soon and happy collecting everybody ^_^/