The pokemon tree house
Welcome to the pokemon tree house, where small side collections and those without a place hang out =3
Collection goal: I want to complete my vespiquen and combee collection (there isn't much merch!) and obtain one kid of every Johto pokemon. I also want one kid of every pokemon on my diamond/pearl team.
Vespiquen and combee collection
Fun fact: I have a crippling phobia of bees, wasps and hornets with a lesser fear of insects...
...Which is why it was an obvious choice to collect bee and bug pokemon (?!!)
I don't know either >_<' but bug pokemon are somehow much nicer than real life insects, despite their rather scary statistics. For instance, did you know that vespiquen is 3 ft 11 inches tall, the same height as a small child while combee, described as a 'tiny bee pokemon,' is 1 ft tall! That's a whole twelve inches of angry, territorial bee D= RUN, RUN AWAY!! DX
Despite the whole insect phobia i really, really love some of the bug designs. They're so creative and you can really tell that the creator of pokemon based the series on his love of insect collecting.
The pokemon i love the most are: vespiquen, scizor, ledian, ariados, heracross and illumise, so i'll probably work this into my 'collect all the Johto kids' goal at some point, since most of them are from the johto era.
Anyway, enough waffling - enjoy! XD
...Which is why it was an obvious choice to collect bee and bug pokemon (?!!)
I don't know either >_<' but bug pokemon are somehow much nicer than real life insects, despite their rather scary statistics. For instance, did you know that vespiquen is 3 ft 11 inches tall, the same height as a small child while combee, described as a 'tiny bee pokemon,' is 1 ft tall! That's a whole twelve inches of angry, territorial bee D= RUN, RUN AWAY!! DX
Despite the whole insect phobia i really, really love some of the bug designs. They're so creative and you can really tell that the creator of pokemon based the series on his love of insect collecting.
The pokemon i love the most are: vespiquen, scizor, ledian, ariados, heracross and illumise, so i'll probably work this into my 'collect all the Johto kids' goal at some point, since most of them are from the johto era.
Anyway, enough waffling - enjoy! XD
Normal kid
Kid figures! Vespiquen and combee have two designs each to my knowledge. I think queenie here looks particularly adorable in tiny kid form, but who doesn't? Kid figures are cute!
'Pointing' vespiquen kid
Another kid! I think she's an attack kid. Not sure what attack though - probably attack order. This is my favourite of the two because the pose is more dynamic...and she looks less chubby with her arms out XD
Vespiquen chou get
A vespiquen chou get figure.
These things are tiiiny, around 1" tall, with wobbly plastic rods that fit into the bottom to hold them up and let them swivel and turn. Their bases also have notches like a puzzle so that many bases can be fitted together.
I backed out of buying the combee one because i'm a derp, but found this lady instead and i'm very happy =D
These things are tiiiny, around 1" tall, with wobbly plastic rods that fit into the bottom to hold them up and let them swivel and turn. Their bases also have notches like a puzzle so that many bases can be fitted together.
I backed out of buying the combee one because i'm a derp, but found this lady instead and i'm very happy =D
Combee chou get
Ack! I can't take a decent photo of this - it's so tiny the camera won't focus properly T_T
Heeee~ i found another combee chou get, this time for sale with the clear combee kid and vespiquen magnet!
It's just so cute and way, way larger than i expected it to be! I was thinking about zukan size (i.e. tiiiiny) but actually it's a great size. The bases of these guys interlock as well, and they're green like grass which makes me really happy for some reason! XD They co-ordinate perfectly with my treehouse X3
Heeee~ i found another combee chou get, this time for sale with the clear combee kid and vespiquen magnet!
It's just so cute and way, way larger than i expected it to be! I was thinking about zukan size (i.e. tiiiiny) but actually it's a great size. The bases of these guys interlock as well, and they're green like grass which makes me really happy for some reason! XD They co-ordinate perfectly with my treehouse X3
Grass terrain combee kid
Another kid - combee looks so cute and goes very well with my tree house =D
I'm kind of wondering though..this combee is so happy....where does her mouth go when she evolves, or is it just closed? Weird.
I'm kind of wondering though..this combee is so happy....where does her mouth go when she evolves, or is it just closed? Weird.
Clear grass terrain combee kid
Wow, my first clear kid! Well technically genesect is, but he hasn't arrived yet
Clear kids are rather rare - the early sets had clears randomly packed into boxes of normal kids but as time went on they discontinued that. Now they're only available in special sets (like for promoting movies and such) or as prizes in UFO catchers, lotteries, magazines etc. As such, i was really lucky to snag this one in a sales post. Weirdly though, vespiquen clears pop up quite frequently when i search, so maybe some clears are more common than others that or vespiquen is just unpopular.
Clear kids are rather rare - the early sets had clears randomly packed into boxes of normal kids but as time went on they discontinued that. Now they're only available in special sets (like for promoting movies and such) or as prizes in UFO catchers, lotteries, magazines etc. As such, i was really lucky to snag this one in a sales post. Weirdly though, vespiquen clears pop up quite frequently when i search, so maybe some clears are more common than others that or vespiquen is just unpopular.
Cloud terrain combee kid
Attack! Attack!
This combee looks to be dive bombing some poor pokemon, or her queen's opponent...she's not very happy about people attacking her mother XD
This combee looks to be dive bombing some poor pokemon, or her queen's opponent...she's not very happy about people attacking her mother XD
Charms
Combee and vespiquen charms! Kinda confused how these didn't come with a third 'male' combee in the line :/ I know he can't evolve, but he's still important XD
I would have kept these guys MIP but unfortunately the plastic wrapping got mashed in the mail, despite being sent in a box roughly 5 inches deep and 6/7 inches wide filled with packing material :/
It doesn't matter though, because it gives me an excuse to use these beautiful charms instead of keeping them minty ^_^ I especially love how vespiquen is flying at an angle instead of a straight on pose. Pretty!
I would have kept these guys MIP but unfortunately the plastic wrapping got mashed in the mail, despite being sent in a box roughly 5 inches deep and 6/7 inches wide filled with packing material :/
It doesn't matter though, because it gives me an excuse to use these beautiful charms instead of keeping them minty ^_^ I especially love how vespiquen is flying at an angle instead of a straight on pose. Pretty!
Very tiny vespiquen magnet
I know nothing about this very small magnet other than i got it as a freebie =3
I suppose it could possibly be part of a sheet of Ensky magnets but as far as i'm aware they usually have the name and number on the sheet and not the part that pops out. Hmm...a mystery!
I suppose it could possibly be part of a sheet of Ensky magnets but as far as i'm aware they usually have the name and number on the sheet and not the part that pops out. Hmm...a mystery!
Custom stickers by Ditto9
TCG
Combee card! I forget which set this is from, but it's very cute =3
The above 4 combee and 2 vespiquen cards (as well as two ampharos, two azumarill and a typhlosion) were part of a trade with Ubi_chan over on the PKMNcollectors livejournal community. Thanks to her, my vespiquen and azumarill collections have grown so much! <3
Other bugs!
Team pokemon
Other pokemon
Johto pokemon
Aipom collection
On the left: kid figure On the right: Jakks figure
I love the jakks figure! It is rather large with a very bendy, poseable tail. I didn't get it in the greatest condition, but it's still cute.
I love the jakks figure! It is rather large with a very bendy, poseable tail. I didn't get it in the greatest condition, but it's still cute.
Xmas UFO plush
The item that started my aipom collection - i saw it while trawling ebay for the halloween sableye UFO and i noticed 1: it's cute and 2: it looks like a 'light' version of sableye, the same way clefairy/able looks like the 'light' version of gengar. I bought it as a counter to the sableye plush and they go very well together. After that...aipom love exploded XD I've never even used in ingame, how weird is that?!
Johto pokemon zukan pieces
With a teeny tiny aipom zukan piece, misdreavus and tyranitar line. Which leads into...
Tyranitar stuff!
Just a few kids and a zukan in this collection. I remember trying desperately to buy this guy from the game corner and failing cause i'm not very good at the games...and money was hard to find DX good times