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Pokemon Cafe secured, but it was quite a ride to get a slot.

I lucked out on getting a ticket for Pokemon Kanto Park and didn’t know if I could win a click-war to get a reservation for the Pokemon Cafe in Tokyo. TDR Explorer’s vid kinda really made me want to go and you can’t win if you don’t even try going for it right?
You can do it Maankatje! ( ◡̀_◡́)ᕤ

The slots become active at 6PM JST which would be 11 AM my time. Not waking up at the ungodly hour is nice for a change. And when the clock struck 11, the website was congested like heck. I had managed to get a partial confirmation but you had to go through the process within 15 minutes with your temp code and I couldn’t get in. ; (◞‸◟) The process was getting a bit too stressful and I decided to cut my losses. There is always Pikachu Sweets at Sunshine City.

A tad bit dissapointed I pinged my husband I didn’t get a slot but he was out with the dog, which gave me a bit of courage to try it again. Maybe some held spaces would have opened up and I would get a second shot at it.
And a second shot it was. Free slots and I panick clicked on one! ( ˶°ㅁ°) !! And when the merchandise preorder page opened up I knew I was in! Filled in my info, skipped the merchandise as I didn’t want the limited coasters and I got my confirmation e-mail.
WOOHOO! Except it was on the exact same time and same day as my Snoopy Museum ticket. (ᗒᗣᗕ)՞

Now what!? FFFFFFFFFFFFFF. I checked the conditions for my Snoopy ticket, and I couldn’t change the date. FFFFFFFFFFF. Well, it was only ¥ 2200 so forfeiting this ticket would not result in a big loss. Unless I try getting a different day for the Pokemon Cafe. And on the website I went again. ᕙ( •̀ ᗜ •́ )ᕗ

And guess what!!! I managed to book a different day, right around lunch time. PERFECTO!
There was much rejoicing. And because I am not a mean person, I cancelled my first reservation so some other lucky people could also go. So I was able to get my spot well over an hour since the click-war started.
And just like the Pointer Sisters, I am so excited!!! And I just can’t hide it!!!
Had to call my hubster on Teams, to squeal and unload my energy. He loves it in the morning, not! hehehe (˵ ¬ᴗ¬˵)

And now the other thing that I dread for this planned luncheon. What should I order!?
I know, I know it is still weeks away but I always have this dillema whenever I go out to eat.
I want to try everything but my stomach can only handle that much. (≖⩊≖)

The menu

I am heavily leaning towards the Friendship Curry, because I love curry and Pikachu is so cute I could die! But the Mimikyu’s Disguise Omelet looks nice too. Oh no I have keuze stress (choice stress in Dutch). Can’t have order envy, as I am flying solo this trip.
The Sparkling Parfait is a no brainer, deffo going to get that.

The drinks are another level of I want to try them all. (๑>؂•̀๑) Look at how cute these tea and matcha sets are. This will also be a tough choice but I have a enough nights to sleep on it.

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Bubbly Basin update – Pokopia

Me too.

The Bubbly Basin expansion for Pokopia is out a few weeks now and I am having much more fun in the game. I find the Magnemite form hard to use. I instinctly know how to go up, but moving Ditto down is much more counter intuitive. (ᵕ—ᴗ—)

The Bubbly Basin is underwater and you blow a small bubble to use as an air-helmet in your Squirtle form to be able to stay under water for long periods of time. Very handy.

And I love the water type Pokemon, Totodile and co are just the cutest! ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡
There is more room for me to build. I feared in the land area, that breaking down the default mountain, I would mess up the area. In Bubbly Basin, there is more flat space to create.

Don’t eat me!

When scrolling throuhg Insta I see people’s amazing builds just like the ones that blew me away in Animal Crossing. I don’t think I have enough skill to build something nice but I will try in Pokopia.

Like a Youtuber said, Pokopia has everything that Animal Crossing is missing and I seem to spend more time on Pokopia now than on Animal Crossing. And this cozy game is fun to play for a few hours a day, and you can even sink more time into it if you want. But for me it is ideal as its a handheld, I can spend time in bed when my legs are restless again. Or play on the couch after work to wind down and relax. (⸝⸝ᵕᴗᵕ⸝⸝)

Mew appears!

I am glad I got the Switch 2 for this game, I am having fun with Pokemon again. I feel connected with the younger me and welcome the return of playful excitement.

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Master Setting Pokemon

I started this year with collecting Pokemon cards again, I had given away my collection from when I collected in 1998. I think I quit after Team Rocket came out. After that my relationship crashed, stuffing me with a huge debt and I lost interest in collecting as I had to pay shit off.

At the beginning of this year I came across some streamers and fell in love with the illustration cards and started to look in to how much it would cost me to collect the cards with art I love. Welp, I knew scalpers were crazy when the news hit about the rampant storming of the Pokemon merchandise at the Van Gogh Museum. I was looking in total disgust how grown people, started foaming at the mouth to get their hands on Pokemon items to flip for triple or quadruple the price online. Also the gifted Pikachu card is sold online for insane prices.

I had to displeasure to deal with scalpers when it came to releases from Volks in the doll community. Some lowlife paid people to stand in line to get limited release dolls to later flip online to people who weren’t able to get any because of these rotten scalpers.
I have no love or scalpers, Reddit has no love for scalpers and because some Pokemon cards go for insane prices, criminals target them. Looking at you, Logan Paul, you larper-trash.

My own collections are steadily growing with me going through big bulk from online sellers or physical store. If it is too expensive, they can keep it. ٩(ˋᗣˊ*)و

My favourite artists I am trying to master set are: Yuka Morii 56/273, Asako Ito 21/36 and Tomokazu Komiya 25/278. I don’t know if I every will complete the Yuka Morii and Tomokazu Komiya sets as there are many rare and expensive cards in it. The various Ditto cards are super rare of the Morii set.
But it is fun when you find a card that you do not have in your set yet. Exhilarating even.

Because the Japanese, Korean and English version of the Snivy & Venusaur GX is too expensive I opted for the Italian one. Found a lightly played version of the promo and I am so happy to have this full art in my binder. The same seller had quite a few old cards that I still didn’t have in the Yuka Morii set, some having a poor quality but a steal for €0,50. ( ˶°ㅁ°) !! Making my set now 56 cards obtained of the 273 out there.

My poor hubby knows nothing of Pokemon and I am slowly filling him in to the wonderous world of Pokemon, he has watched me play Pokopia and starts to recognise some characters like Pikachu, Bulbasaur and Ditto. Even when I was flipping to my binders, he remarked I know that trashbag, pointing to Trubbish.

I doubt I will get him crazy for Pokemon, but he is sweet enough to join me on my quest for cards or plushies.

Again, I am hooked. 〜⁠(⁠꒪⁠꒳⁠꒪⁠)⁠〜

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Pokemon Kanto Park

I was a bit on the fence if I should get tickets only to find out I should have entered the lottery in July. .·°՞(っ-ᯅ-ς)՞°·. BUT, I am staying until November so I signed up on the only full day I had for the lottery. I checked how many people signed in and it was busy as fuck so there is a big chance I won’t make it. (╥﹏╥)

This is one of the few lottery visits I have squeezed in my itinerary. I might try to get a slot for the Pokemon Café but those won’t open until the 1st of September.

When I got Pokemon Blue in 1998, I was smitten with Bulbasaur. He has been my favourite ever since. While some other Pokemon are starting to grow on me like Ditto and Trubbish. ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡ His is called Fushigidane in Japan and with his little vines he is the cutest. No one can beat my bubbisaur. My hubby was sooo sweet to bring me this plush from the Nintendo Store NYC during his trip. This is the soda pop line and it is freaking cute. (˶>⩊<˶)

If I manage to get tickets, it will be a bit of a journey with switching two trains and the last leg with the bus or gondola. Greater Tokyo is huge, you should keep that in mind.

Fingers crossed I get a ticket, the results will happen by the end of this month.

And remember stay whimsical, embrace cringe. Fuck GenAI and flip a table.
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