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╭━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╮ 　はじめまして！ 　ポケット　モンスターの　せかいへ　▼ ╰━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╯ #ポケモン30周年

30 years of collecting Pocket Monsters. #ポケモン30周年 #PokemonDay #Pokemon30

Happy #PokemonDay!! Here's some scribbles of the whole gang

gen 10

Merchandise is doing a lot of heavy lifting for Pokémon’s 30th anniversary. I actually found that Pokémon Presents a little disappointing, considering it was celebrating such a big milestone. The only new game announcement was spoiled by leaks months ago…

30周年！

More pictures have been released of the special 30th anniversary Pokémon Red & Green-style Pikachu plush and keychain. www.pokemon.co.jp/goods/2026/0... This is some of my favourite merch/plush they've ever made.

Chonkachu

If they release the ‘physical’ edition of FireRed and LeafGreen for Switch in the west, I will definitely pick that up, but otherwise I’m good with my originals (the Analog Pocket is technically modern hardware, right?). But I do think it’s great that these aren’t locked behind the premium NSO tier.

With the recent FRLG news, I'd like to remind you that the Buried Relic holds some information that may come in handy in your new adventure: - Utility Pokémon beyond battles. - Shiny hunting info and tips. - Unown's wacky shiny odds and other wild facts. Links below! ⬇️

The only one of these I currently have is the Surging Sparks SIR. Praying for a god pack from my Ascended Heroes ETB(s) because I NEED both of those Pikas!

⚡ Spotted at Pokémon EUIC! Pokémon Center reveals a 30th Anniversary Pikachu plushie 💛 Too cute to resist—yes or YES? 👇 #Pokemon #Pokemon30

Pikachu Plush

While working on a JavaScript search function for PokéPrint’s checklists, I somehow broke the table sorting algorithm I was using. No idea how I managed that… but in my quest to fix it, I found a jQuery plugin that works exactly as I want it to, and now code is so much neater!

Thank goodness they’ve raised the Mega Shard inventory cap!

While I respect and understand peoples’ decisions to keep their Pokémon TCG products sealed (even though I think sealed collectors are partially to blame for ruining this hobby), the only Pokémon TCG products I would be interested in keeping sealed are Theme Decks and World Championship Decks.

According to my Nintendo Year In Review stats for 2020, 2021, and 2022, I have played *at least* 1,156 hours of Animal Crossing: New Horizons. For some reason, my Switch stopped counting my hours at 660. Has anyone else encountered an issue with their Switch not logging their playtime accurately?

Hmmm… do I upgrade to the NSO Expansion Pack just to get the ability to purchase character icons from my favourite video game of all time, even though I already own four copies of said game and absolutely do not need or want to purchase a premium subscription to play it on a third console? Hmmm…

Me: I don’t want to fully get back into collecting Pokémon cards. Also me: Should I do a full Pokédex binder?

Traded-in a bunch of cards to my local card store the other day, and used the credit to add two new cards to my N collection!

金銀26周年おめでと！！

Man, I spent SO MANY HOURS essentially abusing a trade bot in Scarlet and Violet to acquire hundreds of Fresh-Start Mochi in order to erase hundreds of Pokémon’s EVs, only for Legends: Z-A to have an NPC that erases EVs for a measly five (JUST FIVE) Mega Shards.

Happy New Year!! 🌸🐎 #pokemon #HappyNewYear2026

Just for fun (and in preparation for Pokémon HOME rewards), I decided to do an Alpha Living Dex in Legends: Z-A. I bought 20 Jaw Fossils and after only one reset (40 fossils revived total), I ended up with not only an alpha Tyrunt (1/100 odds), but a shiny one (1/4096 odds) too!

With Kalos being the region that Vivillon first appeared in, I find it hard to imagine that they wouldn’t do some kind of event to allow us to natively obtain all of Vivillon’s patterns in Legends: Z-A, like how they had the GO postcard system in Scarlet and Violet.

I wonder if Legends: Z-A is the reason that Xerneas and Yveltal are the only box legendaries that are unobtainable in Scarlet and Violet. Was this subtle foreshadowing?

OH MY GOD

I visited a local card store last week with a friend. She was there to trade-in some stuff, but I was just browsing. My partner met us there (to pick me up) while I was admiring certain cards on wishlist that they happened to have in one of their display cabinets.

I think Legends: Z-A has the most balanced shiny-hunting of any Pokémon game so far. And by balanced, I mean how shiny hunting is insanely quick, easy, and stress-free in the base game, and then the DLC pulls a “hold my beer”.

I did a couple of the postgame DLC missions in Legends: Z-A yesterday (possible spoilers so will post as a thread):

I unlocked the Shiny Charm in Legends: Z-A yesterday and have already failed two Hyperspace shinies due to the timer running out right as they shined. Yay.

I’m training up competitive team for tackling Ranked Battles in Pokémon Legends Z-A. I haven’t done any EV training since Gen IV - my gosh, it’s so much quicker and easier now! It’s actually super fun making builds with optimal EVs, IVs, Natures, etc…am I into competitive Pokémon now?

75 hours into Pokémon Legends: Z-A and I literally just found out (by finally reading through the Tourist Tips, no less) that you can mix-and-match certain clothing item sets to get even more customisation options. Absolute game changer.

I finally finished the main story of Pokémon Legends: Z-A. I was a little sceptical going in, knowing that it was going to be more battle-focused (compared to how Legends: Arceus was very catching-focused) but I actually really enjoyed the battle mechanics of this game.

I had a couple of duplicate N cards that I didn’t really need in my collection binder, so I turned them into pin buttons!

#NintendoYearInReview annual summary thread:

#PlayStationWrapUp annual summary thread:

Me: I’m done buying Pokémon card booster packs. They’re too expensive and it’s super unlikely that I’ll pull the specific cards I want. Also me:

Finally @slix.poliwager.net, we can do our Lucky Trade!

held

Got her!

The new Japanese “MEGA Dream ex”expansion is has some gorgeous cards! I had no intention of getting back into buying boosters, but I’ll at least be picking up the English “Ascended Heroes” Elite Trainer Box when it releases. I want all of these for my collections (N’s Zekrom will be the ETB promo).

So Zeraora will natively obtainable in the Mega Dimension DLC with my OT, in whatever Poké Ball I choose to catch it in… Right? Please?

Anthea & Concordia finally making their first Pokémon Trading Card Game appearance in 2025 is not something I expected.

It’s disappointing that Pokémon Pokopia will be a game-key card, but at least it’s better than a digital-only or code-in-box release. In saying that though, between everything getting DLC and/or software updates, nothing these days is truely a physical complete-on-cart (or disc) release anymore.

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I have made a crazy amount of progress on PokéPrint-related projects this week. I finally found a JavaScript sorting algorithm that actually works. I was stuck on that for TWO YEARS. It’s not perfect, but it works. Takes a second or two to load, but at least the page doesn’t crash anymore.