Pokémon Colosseum Collection!

[gigab00ts]

Hello! Thanks so much for accepting me! ;w;

My name is GigaB00ts! (Or, Giga/Bernie)
I'm extremely passionate about one Pokémon game in particular; Pokémon Colosseum for the GameCube. I grew up playing this game and i'm recently replaying it again, i've probably played through it dozens of times now.

I'm a collector at heart, and once I realized how

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[mayziken]

Hey, welcome! Colosseum is an awesome game.
I love the kid figure collection you've got for it, that's a really fun idea!

I don't have any of those items sadly; but if you're interested in non-game related Pokemon Colosseum merch there's a decent amount of it out there! I own one bookmark and the limited edition BradyGames guide, which includes a really neat game guide, and art book!

A good/easy way to find the Japanese items would be to use Mercari.jp or y!j auctions, as I see the games and discs up there all the time. For example, here's a Celebi bonus disk, although it is around $130 USD. If you're willing to wait you'll be able to find some good deals!

[gigab00ts]

Thank you! Glad to be here <3
Haha I'm glad you like the figures, I'm proud of how it turned out once I found that shadow box! I had bought most of them at a convention I went to, and i bought the remaining ones on eBay.

Ohhh, I am in fact interested in non game merchandise! I don't know what's all out there in the world related to this game, but I'd love to have anything I can for it. Those two things are definitely things I'd add to my list, I love guides and art books, and I didn't even know there was a bookmark!

I need to figure out how to make an account on Japanese mercari, I've seen it mentioned in another post here but I couldn't figure out how to do it.

[mayziken]

There are actually several bookmarks! My friend Skydramon has a set of them :)
Sadly the art book isn't much art; it's got the 3D render of every Pokemon and the only 2 or 3 pieces of concept art known to exist for the game, so it's quite special just for that reason!

For Mercari.jp you'll need to use a middleman service, which is essentially a service that lets you shop on Japanese mercai or y!j.
People have lots of personal preference depending on which service they have good/bad experiences with, what their fees are, and how they operate.

I personally use two depending on the items I'm buying--Zenmarket for y!j and some more niche Japanese websites (you can input links from pretty much any Japanese marketplace and they'll usually buy for you), and a more niche service called Wakuwakumono for items that I really want handled well, items where I need to communicate with the seller, or for items that Zenmarket can't purchase (some people refuse to sell to proxy/middleman services like Buyee and Zenmarket, and Wakuwakumono is run by two

[gigab00ts]

Ooooh! A whole set of bookmarks??
Also ahh that's no big deal, I personally would want it anyways haha. I know I used to have a guidebook for colosseum but I can't find it anymore, I wonder if it's the one you said you had.

Oh wow, I've never bought anything on a middleman site before. Would you be able to link me to that guide? I'm definitely gonna need it.
Technically I have found the e reader cards, but they're such an obscenely high price on eBay, I was curious if I could find them cheaper straight from a Japanese site. I've heard that things are sold far cheaper in Japan itself rather than if they know they're selling overseas

[nickle4apickle]

This is awesome so far! Good luck in your hunts for the Japanese items!

You wouldn't by chance have scans of the manga starring Wes they made, would you? My husband's been looking for it for ages!

[gigab00ts]

Aw, sorry, I actually had no idea such a manga existed ;v; I'm still pretty new to this collecting thing, so I haven't done research outside of what I know for sure exists.
I wish you luck in finding that though! If you find anything, tell me! I'd love to see for myself (and possibly find out where I can buy that manga. There's a real lack of Wes specific merch from what I could find)

[nickle4apickle]

Ah, OK, no worries! I understand that! I remember finding out about so much more Pokémon merch when I joined this community, too! (And I've been out of collecting for a few years, so there's so much to learn about again! XD)

I'll try my best to remember to tell you if we ever find it! But I'm honestly loosing hope - according to that article I linked, it was never compiled into stand-alone volumes, it was just in a few CoroCoro issues. ;-;

My husband would loooove if there was Wes merch! Wes is his fave protagonist~

[gigab00ts]

I just learned there's colosseum bookmarks haha, the fun never ends when you're collecting something like specific Pokémon merch ;v;

Awww, I guess it's time to scour corocoro then! Perhaps around the era that colosseum came out? Back in 2004

Ikr!! Wes is such an awesome protagonist, he's got so much edge that no other protag in Pokémon has had ever or since. I'm so sad that nothing was truly ever made for him... a figure would've been so cool.

[flammablelizard]

Welcome to the community! :D You have such a fun collection! I absolutely love your display of kid figures for the Pokemon you can catch in the game. Pokemon Colosseum has a special place in my heart, and it makes me happy to see so much love for it! Best of luck with finding the awesome merch on your wants list!

[gigab00ts]

Wahhh thank you! <3 Hearing how much people like the kid figure display definitely makes me happy, it cost a lot to get them all (about 500 dollars total) so it makes it feel more worth it haha.

I love Colosseum ;w; My big goal is to play through the japanese version and catch all the pokemon, including all of the e reader ones and bonus disc ones, and make them a big team of 58 pokemon that i can trade through to all the games i can, like a little nostalgic family <3 Id be accomplishing my childhood goal