SO...
I've been looking all over the place for old school Pokemon figures, I KNEW I should have got them all when I had the chance.. wow, okay. I'm starting to sound like a nerd, big time (I just can't help myself)!
I developed a pretty impressive collection of TOMY Monster Collection figures about 6-7 years ago.. but it turns out, I've lost some, and apparently I don't have anywhere near as much as I originally thought. I found my figure set about 4 months ago, and picked up from there -- I've gotten into the habit of collecting again. For a while there, I was having an especially difficult time finding a Nidoran (F) figure, and a Weedle figure.. but ironically, they popped up after a short period of constant searching on eBay. The most recent difficulties as of late have been finding either an official Ponyta or Magneton figure.. Maybe I'm being ridiculously picky, but the bootleg figures are so... BAD. D:
cgi.ebay.com/Ponyta-77-Rapidash-78-Pokemon-2-New-Figures_W0QQitemZ350097387908QQcmdZViewItem
cgi.ebay.com/Pokemon-Diamond-5cm-Action-Figure-No-253-Ponyta_W0QQitemZ320297447762QQcmdZViewItem And THEN, just when I thought I might be on to something..
cgi.ebay.com/POKEMON-DIAMOND-PEARL-PONYTA-FIGURE-WITH-MARBLE-QC02_W0QQitemZ120304117271QQcmdZViewItem Just another bootleg.. and it isn't even really Ponyta! It's just a Rapidash wannabe with a not so great paint job and no horn on it's head. It IS one of the better bootleg figures I've seen, though. Turns out, this collecting crap is kind of difficult. Haha. I'll stop being a nerd, now.