A Leafeon collection? Madness!
I've been playing Diamond again. (I beat the Snowpoint gym recently. Yes, I've had this game since Christmas 2007, and it's taken me 7 years to get this far. Looks like I average a gym per year?)
C finished the game a long time ago, and bred and EV-trained me a whole bunch of Eevees, and then evolved them so I now have all of the Eeveelutions I want. (Basically, everything but Glaceon, since it's not terribly useful. It's trying to be Vaporeon, but its stats aren't all that great.) Anyway, out of all the Eeveelutions, Leafeon has just about the best stats, and it's started to grow on me. I'll admit that at first, it didn't strike me as particularly cute, and a fox evolving into a vegetable? Madness. But Leafia (he nicknamed them all with the Pokemon's Japanese names) is starting to grow on me. Also, pure grass-type FTW, because so many of them are grass/poison, which makes dealing with Psychic types really annoying.
I've already got the Pokemon With You badge, with the 201(2? 3?) clear file, the 2009 clear file, and the My Pokemon Collection plush on the way. I don't really want to turn this into a full-fledged side collection, since I already collect 3 other Eeveelutions (Umbreon, Espeon, Vaporeon). If at all possible, I'd like to keep it as a "random items" collection, the same way I collect Flareon. (My lack of Flareon collecting, though, is because a) I haven't used it in the game because there are far better fire types out there, and b) none of the plush appeal to me.) Leafeon merch, mercifully, is sort of the same way, so I'm thinking select plush (MPC, Pokemon Center Standing, maybe the Tomy and Canvas) and figures/accessories (Ippai figure, Pokemon center strap, possibly the Pita Poke and the Pokedoll figure). If I do get a collection going, it's going to have to be kept as a secondary side, kind of like my Lapras collection, but Leafeon has a whole lot more merch...
It's sometimes hard to distinguish between what I have a soft spot for vs. what I want to collect, and how actively. I've mostly been trying to stick to Pokemon I used when playing Red back in the day, with Umbreon and Espeon from G/S. Umbreon and Vaporeon are pretty rock-solid in my collection (I think I have 7 official Umbreon plush and my desk buddy, the bootleg Pokedoll, and 6 official Vaporeons), but I only have 4 plush (and a couple kid figures) for the Charmander line. (It doesn't help that Charizard merch tends to be expensive because he's popular, and that Charmander plush frequently tend to be on the derpy side.) So he would be a main collection, but that doesn't seem to have panned out yet. There are several Pokemon that I used in Red that don't really have much merch (the Abra line, Sandshrew/Sandlash, the Pidgey line), and while I love snakes, Arbok has relatively little merch as well. Meanwhile, I keep waffling on creating Sentret/Furret and Aerodactyl collections. I'd probably have the best luck with Sentret/Furret, wouldn't I?
C finished the game a long time ago, and bred and EV-trained me a whole bunch of Eevees, and then evolved them so I now have all of the Eeveelutions I want. (Basically, everything but Glaceon, since it's not terribly useful. It's trying to be Vaporeon, but its stats aren't all that great.) Anyway, out of all the Eeveelutions, Leafeon has just about the best stats, and it's started to grow on me. I'll admit that at first, it didn't strike me as particularly cute, and a fox evolving into a vegetable? Madness. But Leafia (he nicknamed them all with the Pokemon's Japanese names) is starting to grow on me. Also, pure grass-type FTW, because so many of them are grass/poison, which makes dealing with Psychic types really annoying.
I've already got the Pokemon With You badge, with the 201(2? 3?) clear file, the 2009 clear file, and the My Pokemon Collection plush on the way. I don't really want to turn this into a full-fledged side collection, since I already collect 3 other Eeveelutions (Umbreon, Espeon, Vaporeon). If at all possible, I'd like to keep it as a "random items" collection, the same way I collect Flareon. (My lack of Flareon collecting, though, is because a) I haven't used it in the game because there are far better fire types out there, and b) none of the plush appeal to me.) Leafeon merch, mercifully, is sort of the same way, so I'm thinking select plush (MPC, Pokemon Center Standing, maybe the Tomy and Canvas) and figures/accessories (Ippai figure, Pokemon center strap, possibly the Pita Poke and the Pokedoll figure). If I do get a collection going, it's going to have to be kept as a secondary side, kind of like my Lapras collection, but Leafeon has a whole lot more merch...
It's sometimes hard to distinguish between what I have a soft spot for vs. what I want to collect, and how actively. I've mostly been trying to stick to Pokemon I used when playing Red back in the day, with Umbreon and Espeon from G/S. Umbreon and Vaporeon are pretty rock-solid in my collection (I think I have 7 official Umbreon plush and my desk buddy, the bootleg Pokedoll, and 6 official Vaporeons), but I only have 4 plush (and a couple kid figures) for the Charmander line. (It doesn't help that Charizard merch tends to be expensive because he's popular, and that Charmander plush frequently tend to be on the derpy side.) So he would be a main collection, but that doesn't seem to have panned out yet. There are several Pokemon that I used in Red that don't really have much merch (the Abra line, Sandshrew/Sandlash, the Pidgey line), and while I love snakes, Arbok has relatively little merch as well. Meanwhile, I keep waffling on creating Sentret/Furret and Aerodactyl collections. I'd probably have the best luck with Sentret/Furret, wouldn't I?