Aside from matters of meeting people and cosplay (IC: "characters"), I also get - mostly through Ash - a few odd things (but still related to Pokémon) from time to time. In this case, "odd" does not mean "weird", but disjointed or unrelated, like the contents of some drawers in some homes - even I have some. As a result, sometimes I don't know what to do with them or how I'd put them up on this blog for discussion - the latter until now. I thought of rounding them all up in one post as the odd things that they are.
Seen here are three kinds of those odd things. Perhaps the oddest thing would be the Team Rocket sticker that features the well-known trio from the anime, inset in a large "R" and illustrated in a monochromatic line-art style. It's a very expressive sticker, though it's not one that I would have chosen by myself for my own collection - hence introducing another oddity element. Regardless, through a convention, the sticker is now in my possession, and it's still a Pokémon thing to be appreciated.
The next odd thing would be the mini figure of Pikachu. It came to me by way of one of my good friends in the last convention I sent Ash to. Pokémon figures are pretty common, of course, but then again, this one is in an uncommon state: it could use a bit of help in the painting department to restore some of its lost details - similar to some mini figures from a long time ago. The figure being given to me is still a nice and appreciable gesture, and it may be up to me to find a way to improve on this token of friendship.
Last up is the selection of TCG cards. Like the figures, cards are pretty common, especially if they were extracted from a booster pack. But these didn't come from one, and they instead came from a goodie bag given out by a certain someone from a major recent convention. Though there are exactly five cards and one of them is a Basic Energy card, one of them is actually a promo card and the numberings are all different, which practically shoots down the possibility. So, oddities are abound in this usual fare.
I expect to obtain more odd Pokémon things from conventions (and festivals) as I attend them through characters as proxies, so these odd Pokémon things may only scratch the surface of the possibilities. Certainly, though, if they can't all be discussed at length and they might seem disjoint to each other as well as Pokémon merchandise itself (both mine and in general, then there would be a place for write-ups such as this one. The wonders of Pokémon things may never cease - even with odd possibilities of them.
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