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that pokeball rayquaza story feels ripped from my mind, my brother got a rayquaza and i got a beautifly and it was probably the first time i realized life was pointless
I didn’t even know she had an older sister
Reminds me of a time in my childhood where my grandparents got m and my brother a few packs of what i remember being the team aqua vs team magma set of cards.
I got nothing really cool, but my brother got the legendaries.
Jfc 🤣
your brother just used a rng manip for the rayquaza
Everybody's favorite Pink Poketuber has blessed us once again
Yes she has
The one that likes yanma
Hi my name is Poké_Tuber
The one who has many years to finally got the shiny sentret
I forgot she was British. I got a British jumpscare
The Delcatty story reminds me of when me and my family where vacationing at South Carolina and while we were eating at a Burger King we randomly found a Munna toy sitting near the trash so we picked it up and to this day it’s still happily sitting at my bookshelf.
I remember browsing a VERY early form of the Pokémon Center website in like 2001-2002. Every now and then I’d beg my mom to buy some stuff on there. Turns out, a lot of the stuff I ordered on there is pretty rare now. I wish I kept all of it but I still have a lot of cool stuff from there. Also spent a lot of time on EBay then too. My favorite pastimes as a little kid lol
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That "I'm glad I saved you" was so wholesome oh my god I'm gonna cry
Mums are the most wholesome creatures.
Wholesome and hilarious...😂
Thank you. She was definitely worth saving.
Every few minutes in this video I kept saying, "Oh yeah I had one of those" Might still have some of them somewhere
Nice trip down memory lane
Happy times
I’m subed
2000s Nostalgia! (Enitrety of the decade! LOL)
Same here. I didn't realize how much Pokémon merch I had as a kid until this video.
On god,that make me feel old now 😭
I was around at Pokemania in the 90s. It was wild. I remember Pokemon Poptarts, Cereal, Bath salts, Macaroni and Cheese, and like a whole bunch of Burger King toys which I still have to this day. I also remember this fat pikachu toy that you squeeze it's paw and it's ears wiggle and it's cheeks light up and it talks. That was defiantly the coolest pokemon thing I owned.
i had all these! and now, white hairs! 😆
Oh hey I knew my people were here somewhere! I have a very distinct memory of some yellow Pikachu step counter thing that I had. It had a clip on the back and I’d clip it to my shoe and run around. I KNOW that it went to something but even in the deepest recesses of my mind I can’t remember what. I do remember it had a little digital display screen on it and Pikachu would be walking/running. I wish I knew what I was talking about.
I think all that stuff listed was around in the 2000s as well, I was born in 97 and I remember all these. Also fun fact my big brother had a talking pikachu and I was like 2 and terrified of it so I tried to flush it down the toilet.
I had some pokemon plates and “silverware” that was absolutely meant for 2 year olds but at 7 or so my parents still bought them for me and I still used them 😂
pokemon bath bombs are still around haha, I just got a few recently
The little pencil toppers here in Italy were bundled kinda with every food item available, I remember finding a Charmander and a Lotad from a pack of chewing gums and a treeko from a bag of chips.
But again, pokémon merch in those years was crazy, you could find the most horrible bootlegs at any beach shop in Italy, and every kid used to have a lot of them because they were soooooo cheap
I find it adorable that your mum is in your contacts as "mother dearest." That's girafarig levels of cute!
I know. I didn’t even know this.
My mom was in Japan in 1999 during the Pokemon craze and bought some Meiji chocolate tins with Pokemon on them. I believe there were six variants after doing some research. This was during the Orange Islands arc in the anime. So I had these mini tins of Pikachu, Psyduck, and Jigglypuff. My cousin later gave me one he'd found in his house; my aunt had bought one with my mom in 1999. It was another Pikachu one. There were apparently two Pikachu variants in the set. That inspired me to do research and I discovered there was also a Lapras one and a Togepi one. I bought the Lapras one from a second-hand Japanese website and I found a collector in Poland selling the Togepi one. So I'm now the proud owner of the 1999 Meiji chocolate Pokemon collaboration tin can set. Who knows how many people in this world have all six cans from that year? How many outside of Japan?
You should make a video on that or something. :p It could be cool. :?
Oh, so that’s what that pikachu tin of mine that I found in my old house was, I still have it to this day, I guess the previous owners forgot to take it out
Poland is a weirdly specific place for something like that...
Is it red or blue with just a Pikachu on it? It should have an expiration date of 1999 or early 2000.@@gunga01to
I've no idea how that person obtained it, but they did have two of the tins, so I'd imagine a similar story to me. Probably they or a family member just happened to be in Japan at the right time.@@PatTheFox
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Yeah, turns out people owho grew up around the same time tend to have similar experiences. Who knew?
A lot of these I have never heard of as an American, but they're a really neat piece of Pokémon history. The first merch I remenber owning was a pichu pencil topper that came from a box of poptarts in the early 2000's. I used to get keychain figures in the gacha machines at the front of Toys R US and trade extras with kids too lol
(12:12) Lucy's mother is so sweet. If she didn't save smol Lucy from that Pog, we wouldn't have all of these great Pokemon videos many years later.
I am. ❤
I can explain the Tail-less Treecko. The material those toys were made out of was just soft enough to make you THINK you could bend them, but if you bent them too far they'd break off. It meant the small bits like feet and hands wouldn't be brittle and snap, but large pieces with giant grab points like tails were frequently popular points to fidget with until the material finally gave up and ripped.
Yessss finally someone talks about the candy containers! I wish they came back, I loved them so much! The candy was like the chalkiest thing ever but the price was so cheap for a little figurine and a pokeball and they were fun to collect
I had so many of them, but they were all duplicates of the same like 5 mons, haha
I wanted Jirachi so bad, but never found it.
Some are still sitting on my tea shelf
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I built them a little home from a shoebox, and we'd play with the neighbor kids and their collections, too. I think I had these figures before I ever played a pokemon game
I loved these metal tags! I collected them a lot, forced my mom to buy me a bunch because they only were sold at one shop near me. Sadly when I got older and we moved some stuff around my room I was forced by my parents to throw them away :c
Also, I'm from Germany and the tags were German so it wasn't just a uk thing
Im greek, and when you brought up the Dog Tags, I INSTANTLY was reminded of all of my friends collections. In greece we actually call them Τάπες (Tah-pes), and we would play a game with them, we would each put one on the ground, and then take turns hitting them with another tag, hoping they would flip over. If your opponents one was flipped, you got to keep it for your own. And yes, there are still SO MANY to this day, and not only with pokemon: theres also football Τάπες, basketball Τάπες, pokemon Τάπες, minecraft Τάπες, Brawl Stars Τάπες, literally anything.
Anyway, i thought this bit of insight onto this might be cool/intresting for ppl to read ^^
Love your videos and your channel!! 🙌🙌
They def seem inspired by the emax ones. I wonder why they stuck around specifically in Greece lol. Super cool to hear your perspective :)
huh, so you basically used the tags as pogs
@@Pablo360ableexactly what I thought dude maybe they didn’t have pogs or smt
Omg I remember those! I lived in Greece when I was younger (I live in the UK now) but I loved collecting them with my friends from school🥰
I lived in argos in Greece if anyone was wondering.
@@CandyEvie they had a paw patrol capsule machine
The Togepi dying had me dying 😂
it is very tired
That makes two of you
I too feel that togepi on a personal level
This was easily the most nostalgic I’ve ever felt watching a video. Every sequence was unlocking new memories!
8:26 As a person who has tried the Gastly bread, I can confirm it does taste like chocolate :D
+ I got a Jolteon sticker from it ⚡
Hearing Candy talking about Pokémon WAPs feels surreal
The number of times she says WAPs is surreal.
Wet Ass Pokémon
Okay, gonna go full boomer on you all... What am I missing here?
Why is there such a big deal made about them being called waps?
@@mattm7220 there's this song called WAP, which, stands for something not appropriate where kids probably are.
@@pirukiddingme1908you mean water types? XD
Seeing Mighty Beanz again unlocked a core memory for me. I didn’t have Pokémon beanz, just Simpsons themed beanz
My dad briefly worked for one of the companies in charge of introducing tazos to the mexican market, and one day he arrived with a whole tray in his hand of special tazos with six bendy parts each featuring scenes from the Pokemon 2000 movie. As a kid, those were my greatest treasure, and only on the most special of days would I bring a few out to school to bend, stack and bet against other kids' collections. I gifted a lot of them over my teenage years, but I've still got a tin box full to the brim with them kicking around somewhere alongside the bionicles and bayblades that haven't left their boxes since moving houses some 15 years ago.
Thats so cool i still have my pokemon Tazo collection from 2007 remember losing most of them in school just from playing against other kids.
This video is so wholesome. I hope Lucy and anyone watching this wonderful channel have a great day :)
So, you unlocked a forgotten memory of mine with that Togepi room greeter, lol. Also, I won't lie, I lost my Mom last year, and "I'm glad I saved you" kind of made me tear up a little bit.
Aww love to you. xx
As a greek person i can confirm those metal tags are still everywhere its a huge thing kids in school fight with those by flipping them and whoever wins gets the others metal tag we call the "tapes" here
sounds fun, and a common source of regret/fights!
@@Chris-qe8dm yes i lost an entei once and some random kid stole a dragonite from me . But to be completely honest those things got me into Pokémon in the first place
So you use them as pogs then
While much more recent, the closest I have to an old pokemon merchandise is my Zekrom toy from McDonalds. Not sure how popular Pokemon was in Bulgaria at the time, but they had toys of the legendaries and starters from Black and White that came with Happy Meals nonetheless. I also got a Tepig one who's tail is supposed to glow if it has batteries in it that also came with some common Pokemon cards, but for some reason the Zekrom one was the one I wanted the most.
I still have both to this day. Surprisingly in good quality too considering what a monster I was as a kid.
Naming your mom "Mother Dearest" in your phone is so unapologetically British, I love it
As someone that lives in Greece, metal tags, be it Pokemon, Football or anything else, are still pretty popular, especially with kids.
A few days ago I got my first Pokemon merchandise: a Sylveon plushie and a t-shirt with Serena printed on it. Since the Pokemon Centre doesn’t ship to my country, I was ecstatic when I got them.
Just curious, what country do you live in? Never heard of a company that won’t ship somewhere! Maybe I’m just dumb, heh.
@@CheeseThePurpleDragon I'm Romanian, and as far as I know, the Pokemon company doesn’t ship in the EU ever since Brexit. I could be wrong, though.
@@andreeacraescu7658 Oh! Neato! It’s sad that they don’t ship to ya, but I’m glad you got your stuff man! (Gal. Non-binary person. Whatever you are! :D )
@@CheeseThePurpleDragon What I always seen is that most companies only ship to USA, Japan and some European countries, I'm from Brazil and most the time you need a third party just to ship you the product and 9/10 isn't even worth it because the shipping fees are like 10 times the price of the product, I wanted to get the Sims 4 Creator's Guide Artbook that is only 3 USD but the shipping fees are 35 USD lol
I have a whole box at home with old pokemon stuff from when I was a kid - you seriously opened up memory lane for me haha.
I do have some of the pencil toppers too, however, a different series I think and I got them from a capsule automate on the canary islands (a lot of the stuff I got from there). I only remember a manaphy and a mime jr. one rn but I had more.
Also, the same figures in at 6:48!! I got Snorunt, Glalie, again Manaphy and also Mantyke.
Otherwise gacha related were these pokemon mystery dungeon keychains as well as small figurines with one of the explorer pokemon on some piece of land and you could connect all the land pieces to from some sort of circle and story line if you collected them all. Also, I vaguely remember owning multiple sets of a three tier evolution line of some pokemons, but I only recall the Turtwig-Grotle-Torterra one. They were TINY and I was so scared I'd lose a piece eventually.
One of the most random things to me is this huge masterball I own with a Deoxys figurine on rolls which you could shoot out from it. Coolest is my gen1 pokedex^^
As for plushies, I got the same Psyduck one as you as a child haha, including a Blastoise and Poliwhirl from I think the same line? They look really similiar at least... And a bunch of different ones later on. 'Weirdest' are these pokeball plushies which you can turn inside out and I have a Maril which pops out its huge tail which somehow makes me laugh everytime.
This ended up longer than I wanted it to be, but maybe someone else will enjoy me reminiscing my childhood. ^^
what a trip down memory lane, you've unlocked some core memories from my childhood. I had at last on of every obscure toy you showed in this video but only remembered owning maybe two. Now, i have an itching urge to buy a view waps for myself after being struck by a wave of nostalgia and memorys that have been lost for a good 15 years after seeing them in your video omg
Back in the early 2000s I got one of those Burger King Pikachu plushies that somehow managed to remain in my dad's various homes following many moves over the years until ending in the hands of my younger siblings during the mid 2010s. It was even placed alongside a newer plastic Pikachu figurine in the shelfs, and that cross generation meetup was a great thing to see.
Can confirm the pokeball treeko was my first pokemon thing ever and his tail immediately broke off 😅
I also had a Treecko without tail and a Lickilicky without tongue
I loooved these! The capsule machines were most memorably in cinemas!
I got a Manaphy and was obsessed with it 🤩
10:02 - "I had a friend or realitive who had the same bank, but Pikachu sounded like it was getting kidnapped by Team Rocket!"
Seeing the rayquaza and entei collections warm my heart
I have an entire spot dedicated to eevee in my room,respect
you.... you unlocked the weirdest memory for me with the metal tags, I remember _having_ those, I would always clink them together. God thats such a throwback
So glad you just unlocked a childhood core for me, bc i was thinking about the pokemon toys i grew up with, specifically the pikachu toys, and i remember owning a pikachu room greeter since i like to press the button and then a few presses the part of the theme song came on, I didnt know what it was at that time until you brought up the togepi one and I was hit with nostalgia, thanks for reminding me, greetings from the US!
Great job CandyEvie! Collecting all the WAPs was truly an accomplishment, personally I really enjoyed this video. I can tell you put a lot of work into this.
Earlier this year I went to a restaurant with my family and noticed one of those capsule machines mentioned at the start of the video. No idea if they're the same ones but I got a very weird looking Charizard. There was a kid staring at the machine as we were leaving and I kinda wish I gave him the Charizard but I thought that might be weird. Now he sits proudly on my desk.
If the Italian surprise eggs are anything like kinder eggs, I'm pretty certain they sold them in poundshops or those sort of shops. I distinctly remember having three gen 3 pencil toppers and never being able to get any more
They DEFINITELY sold those eggs in the UK! I had the Whismur from that set and my brother had the Clefairy, and I have a very distinct memory of my dad giving us the chocolate eggs while we were sitting on our bunk beds
Kinder is actually an Italian brand, so is almost certain that they are the surprise Italian eggs hahahahahaha (they made some promos with pokemon back in the day and still make nowadays)
@@juniorbarranqueiroI'm pretty they weren't kinder. They were close, but those weird knock-off ones, where you got multiple off them for the same price as a single kinder egg
The brand is Dolci Preziosi, they collabed with a lot of japanese media including dragon ball and tokyo mew mew
I remember getting pokemon tazo from chips when i was a child. I still remember getting ariados from it. They were so cool, shame i lost all of them.
1. We both have our mums saved as Mother Dearest in our phones 😂
2. I have a jar of Pokémon marbles which are cool
I have a lot of pokemon stuff to this day, but one of the weirdest things of it is a bootleg pokemon towl. Its written "Pochemon" with bootleg Ash looking right into your soul
Man some of these old memories bring a tear of joy to my eye love walking down memory lane with other pokenerds
omg, I'm so glad you made this video. Really refreshes my memory. I've found soooo many figures in my parents' attic when I moved out, and now I clearly remember where they're from: Those Topps pokeballs! I've even got a clear Shaymin Sky Forme figure from them. Weirdly though, according to the pokemon collector's wiki at least, there's no clear Shaymin figure, only a clear Pikachu... maybe there were different lines in different countries?
11:10, i used to go to Greece on holiday every year as a kid. You won't believe how much bootleg stuff they sell there for tourists. Yu-gi-oh cards, pokemon merch, Medabots toys, beyblades and just mountains and mountains of china level bootleg stuff. It was an absolute nightmare for my mom XD
I'm over in the Netherlands and my local game store actually has one of those Pokémon capsule machines! Might try it out soon for nostalgia's sake
One weird Pokemon toy I had was a Meowth with a marble on the bottom to roll. I gave it to a friend when he told me he was moving away, only to be surprised when he moved back years later and returned it to me! I'm not sure if I still have it, but that's probably one of my favorite memories.
Omg I have a few of those somewhere, I think a Nidoking and a Poliwhirl. They may have done the whole original 151.
I have like 30-50 of those, I'm pretty sure they did all of the 150 xD
I have Clefairy and Psyduck from that same toy line, whatever it is.
7:10 i have those!! You've just awoken memories in me i didnt know i still had, thank you :D
11:58 can't believe I'm seeing Latvian Tazos in your video! And these are so nostalgic, I still have these from my childhood!
I'm from Brazil and I totally remember the Pokemon Waps! Panini was definitely a big part of my childhood
I unlocked so many childhood core memories with this video. I HAD A FUCK TON of tazos, they were metallic here in south America and the Waps? WE HAD THOSE TOO ! Man, I wonder what happened to my waps and tazos...
So what you could say is that you’re a POG champ *wheeze laughs
This is my favourite of your videos, it's got so many brilliant one liners
I had that piggy bank. I drove my mom up the walls with it. "Pi-Ka Pikachuuu" was permanently ingrained in my mind.
I collected a ton of those little Pokeball candy containers from the later gen 4 era and had SO many of the Heatrans that lost all four of their legs because of how incredibly tiny the joints were 😂
My local Cinema recently got capsule machines with Pokémon in it, they come in poke ball-shaped capsules. And the staff is pretty chill. They let me pick whatever Pokémon I wanted each time I went there
15:03 Lucy pays taxes to the Pringles man
think i remember a tiny gameboy-shaped thing, that was basically an enclosed view-master, it had stock pokemon art when looked inside, you could even change the picture. also vending machine pokemon figures which was basically tiny statues inside hard seethrough plastic with a solid colored flat base.
Back in 2021 during Black Friday I was at the mall to get Brilliant Diamond (at GameStop), when I saw a stand that had a bunch of Pokémon plushies that functions as a car Window hanger. I bought a Dragonite, Snorlax, and a weird one that's a combination of Eevee but with the colors of Jolteon!
Like a mid way evo between eevee and jolteon? 😅
@@frootloopthechatot9766 yes I currently have it sitting on my table in my room. It's like a Jolteon but without the spikes. You wouldn't know it's suppose to actually be an Eevee until you see the tail!
@@ShadyRK9 that sounds adorable!!
@@frootloopthechatot9766 alternative colored Eevee!
This was such a cool watch, I had at least one of all the things you talked about 😂 very nostalgic video haha
This video just solved a childhood mystery of "where the hell did we get these figures", the topps candy containers were fresh in my mind but i never remembered the name. I even found the exact one with heatran and froslass that me and my sister got when we were little.
I have some of those metal dog tags things, and the chain which I wore around my neck and felt cool as hell with. I was also around during the original Pokemania, got tons of plushes (including a bootleg Pikachu), Burger King toys, gold Poliwhirl metal card thing, and a knock off Golbat ring (?)
I had that same exact Pikachu piggy bank when I was a kid! Whenever you put a coin into it, Pikachu would make one of two sounds (either "PIIIIIIIIIIKA PIKACHUUUUUU" or "PIKA PIKA PIKAAAAAAAAA"), both of which were incredibly LOUD and recorded by the voice actor in a way that made it sound like Pikachu was in extreme pain. It was hilarious, terrifying, and financially responsible all in one go! 😂 Thank you, Lucy, for the blast from the past! 🙌🌟✨
As a guy who grew up in Greece i can tell you that these metal tags are popular with kids in the ages of 6-12 years old. We used to play a specific game with those metal tags on which you would bet on your tag and if you lost the game you would lose the tag. The Pokémon metall tags became popular in 2016 when pokemon go was the big thing, before that there were only ones with footballers (example; messi, ronaldo).
Here in Brazil, around the 2000s, we had a promotion that came with bottles of Guaraná soda, it was very successful at the time 😅
It’s a good day when Lucy uploads
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This reminds me of the time I was at my primary schools summer fair and someone was selling bootleg Pokémon figures at a stall. I bought one. I think it was a Treeko. Recently, I found a bunch at my collectors shop where I bought a latios
"It only cost me 90 pounds, but can you put a price on your childhood?" Is such a hard line unironically
My favourite thing in this video, growing up at the same time in the same country, is the fact you also call your mum mother dearest 😂
I actually always wanted to have a big pokemon merch collection as a kid but never had, so i always relieved myself by watching Lucy's merhes videos :')
Oh my ... I'm from Germany and I still have some of those metal dog tags in a box lying around in my apartment! So crazy ... this is like pre Gen 4 merch. I also have some plastic see-through cards with gen 3 Pokémon (not normal TCG cards) and those waps you showed at the end, they also sold them in Germany. Truly, some weird stuff xD
One thing I do remember from the early 2000s was these Pokéballs you could buy in your local stores and inside those balls would be a small bag of candý and a small Pokémon figur. Me and my friend used to collect these figures when we were kids.
Omg I remember getting a random Pokémon figure from some capsule machine when I was a kid! I’m pretty sure in the early 2000s stores just shoved whatever they could fit into those little capsule things lol
The bootleg metal tags are pretty interesting. At 11:01 it says "The authentic metal tags" on the box. Right... I'm sure they are. :P
I'll buy some if I find them.
You’re not crazy, the gacha machines were totally a thing in France too! I got a goot articulated Dialga from one of these balls, at the beach. And some other figurines.
13:13 these came to Brazil too! I loved how pretty they were. It was also through Panini with the Stickers Album
I remember a capsule machine with Pokémon figures in a movie theatre around 2009! Ended up getting a cherrim figurine :) I lost it but man, I wish I hadn’t
2004?? Pokemon boom and toy store in the 90s was beautiful ;w; also, POKEBALLS WERE EUROPE ONLY?! Such a huge part of my childhood..Still have mine, whole evolution line of squirtle in those figures and lugia and entei being my prized little ones 😁
I remember as a child in the early 2000's spending all my time at the 2p machines winning pokemon plastic figures with metal ball-bearing inside them... But there long lost to time 😅 never seen them again.
This video has made me feel so nostalgic i have a lot of the items shown in here laying around in my apartment. Ill take some time in my upcoming days off to dust them off and find a nice little spot to place them in. Thanks so much for bringing back some nice memories c:
Growing up in Australia we had a lot of the same stuff. I had some pokemon marbles, probably some of the tazos, some misc non-pokemon beanz, and some rectangular plastic tazo-adjacent cards of Scyther and Kabutops (from chip packets) which had that "tilt to see the other image" thing going on.
I also had a few plastic figures from 20ish years ago, the only surviving member being a really cool transparent Gengar figure which I squeezed into a tiny jar a few years ago and have not been able to pull back out since lmao
I remember those, but there was this Japanese import store with bins of figurines, both real and not.
Those Topps Poke Ball figures! That brought back some nostalgia! I don't remember ever seeing them in anything other than a normal Poke Ball, but I remember having the Lickilicky and Mantyke ones as a kid. I also had a tiny Eevee plushie that came in a similar Poke Ball packaging.
One of my favorite Pokémon toys growing up was a Squirtle toothbrush cover…I did not use it for it’s intended purpose.
As a Greek person I have to inform you that there was war and bloodshed for those Pokemon tags. Every time at recess we used to battle with these and whoever got to flip the stack with the most of them got to keep them. Needless to say there were many tears shed and many children complaining of "unfair advantages" due to "the strength of the Rayquaza tag" so much so they were banned in school. We did not care though, we all gathered in the hidden places of the courtyard and played anyways. These tags you found are a downgrade to the old ones though. Back in Diamond/Pearl and Platinum the tags had holo art and were shiny. If you had a shiny tag with a legendary at the time you were either rich to our eyes or the cool kid with the older sibling who gave it to them. I laughed when I saw them again. Thank you for sharing.
You know the day's gonna be good when Lucy uploads a new video
Very glad I managed to get my complete Waps collection for like £28, I think maybe 2-3 years ago. I also very much had a lot of nostalgia for them and kept forgetting their name, so I was so happy to find a complete set for so cheap. Weirdly tho, I swear the prices jumped after I bought it. I'm actually also collecting similarly odd/ interesting gen 3 products, which I've named my "Pokémon Corner Shop Collection", since they're all stuff I imagine being available in a corner shop or in shops like Spar (where I used to get my Gen 3 dog tags). The collection includes Waps, Dog Tags, Cracks, Chipz, Lamincards and I think some other stuff. Basically if it's made by Topps or Panini and is Gen 3 related, it's likely a part of the collection.
"pokemon corner shop collection" I LOVE IT lmao. perfectly encapsulates all this weird stuff
Hearing about Pokemon Bread Stickers is hilarious because if you're watching live streams of new anime episodes you will always hear the "pokemon pan" advert, it's got a really catchy song
This is sooo nostalgic, Pokémon Waps were my obsession I had so many of them and still find them cooler than cards for collecting as a kid, but mine have been lost through three house moving and miss them so much
This was such a nostalgic trip! I’m from the US, and mighty beanz was a favorite toy of me and my friends. I’m pretty sure I had a Pikachu bean but I don’t remember where I got it from. A lot of mom and pop shops I go to still have those gacha machines, usually about a quarter, 25¢ to 75¢. Gum balls and temporary tattoos were my favorites as a kid
OMG I still have my Waps case! Never finished the collection and my parents definitely disapproved of more plastic tat. Metal tags and beans too- anthing cheap and collectible was my jam. Thank you for this lovely trip down memory lane :)
Waps seem like something a kid would be obsessed about. They're shiny, colorful and stack. Even without Pokemon on them, which help, I think quite a few bright-eyed children would want a bunch of them.
Used to love Magnetix which I never really... had anything to make out of. They were very limited, but I still loved them because the metal balls were shiny.
Omg! I had that Mantyke, Weavile and that Volbeat as a kid too. I even destroyed the Volbeat's little antennas like you did as well. So bizarre because I was thinking of what became of that little Volbeat the other day and where on earth it came from 🤣 I think I also had a Regigigas one too where you had to assemble his arms and legs to his body.
God I had so many things from those capsules, and some of those beans. Sadly I think they all got thrown out many many years ago when Pokémon became ‘uncool’.
I still remember my first pokemon merch thing. It was a little dratini plush toy from KFC. Back then I had no idea what Pokemon was. I just thought Dratini was cute.
As someone who grew up in the 90s, I can tell you there are a ton of weird Pokemon stuff. Pokemon Tech Decks, Pokemon slider things, even a Pokemon Coin Battler game. I don't really have any of the weird products anymore sadly, but I did keep several that mean alot to me.
My dad was in the Air force at the time and he was serving in Desert Storm, so for the first few years of my life it was just me and her. One of the things we did alot of was play the Pokemon TCG. I remember once we went into a hobby shop and inside the case were Charizard, Blastoise, and Venusaur. She knew how much I liked playing the video games and my first starter was Charmander, and hers was Squirtle, so she bought me the Charizard and herself the Blastoise to use for our decks. I got my complete set, but she passed away before we could finish hers. Still looking for a Base set Machamp that doesn't cost an arm and a leg to buy.
Because my dad was in the Air Force, we also had to move around alot. I remember on the road to my current home, we stopped at a Walmart. This is where my love for Pokemon actually began. I remember one of the cashiers giving me a comic called "The electric tale of Pikachu". After reading that comic, I was hooked. My mother bought us Red and Blue, and even got me a Pikachu doll, and I still have all three to this very day.
Of course I had some other common things like Pokemon versions of Sorry, Guess Who, Monopoly, Beanz, Bouncy Balls, Clip n' Carries, and such. But the things that meant the most to me I kept, and I'll cherish them always, no matter how common they might be.