It's been absolutely ages since I last posted my gets on here! XD I've been very busy finishing off my Masters dissertation, but in that time I've managed to find some stunning and rare items for my main collections, and I'm super excited to share them! :D We'll start with the Absols! :)
A wooden Absol stamp and the regular minicot, which I traded with an Absol collector on twitter, a cool movie-slideshow from 
agui_chan, a plastic box, another retsuden stamp, gold and silver versions of the minicot, and finally the last Absol kid I needed - the clear attack kid! :D A massive thanks to ku_bek for selling him to me! :D
But my most exciting Absol get has to be...
Tada! :D This stunning pencil! :) He was hiding in a lot I bought off Y!J. As an aspiring writer, pens and pencils have a special place in my collection, so I'm so extremely happy to have an Absol one at long last! :D The pose of the figure on top is just stunning!
Now onto the Articuno gets! :D
A tin (from the GA I did a while back), a chopstick rest, 2 lovely pin badges, the Shopro rubber keychain (which has evaded me twice on Y!J), and a very old and awesome watch :) It's funny, I bought this watch in a lot with other watches, and then immediately after a MIP one appeared in another lot! XD I was cursing myself for rushing into buying this one, but then I tried GAing the lot with ku_bek TWICE! and we still ended up losing! XD So it was good that I bought it in the end! XD
But now for my most exciting Articuno gets (there's two!)...
The sparkly lotto keychains! O_O Thank you so much to xxlatiosxx for linking me to this auction! :D I heard that there were only 500 sets of these made? I don't know if that's true. I've not been able to find much info on them, but they came with this bit of paper below
Can anyone here translate any of this please? I don't know if it's information about them or just a random flyer the seller included, but if it is information I'd love to know what it says! :D
And onto my other Articuno get. He doesn't look like much, but I was so excited to get him...
No, this isn't the Bell plush! Someone posted a picture of this little guy on Facebook a while back, asking if anyone had information about him. I thought he was just a bootleg, but after searching the internet I found this picture:
Turns out this guy is a prize from a US claw machine back in the 90s, along with a bunch of other bell plush-like Pokemon! I had no idea a sixth official Articuno plush existed! O_O He's missing his crest, but I wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to own him because of that! XD I managed to work something out with the seller, and now he's all mine! :D Perhaps I will try to find someone who can make a replacement crest like the one in the picture.
So those are my latest gets for now! :) I need to take some pictures of my side collections at some point (espeically my Zygarde 10% and Dittochu ones!) but I'm going to wait for the last few items to arrive before doing that.
Now for a quick want! Here is my applause plush collection:
I was only missing 2 when I took this photo: Zapdos and Ekans. I found a Zapdos and he's arrived safely, but I still need Ekans! Is anyone selling him? Please let me know if you are!