A long-awaited update has finally come! It’s been almost a full year since I’ve updated on the Hoppip/Skiploom/Jumpluff collection, and there’s been a few Buyee packages in-between then and now, so I have a fair amount of things to show. But my free time has been quite limited, so I figured, instead of trying to gather everything for one giant update, doling out the collection updates piecemeal is probably the better way to handle the forthcoming updates.
Friendly additions
First, I’ll start off with collection additions that have come from E4 members (@joponnes, @mrbubbles, @connorc) from E4 events or other means.
The hanafuda card, the Frito Lays buildable Hoppip, and the Carddass cards are all pieces I’ve had my eye on but hadn’t acquired yet. And I’m very happy and grateful to have received these additions through fellow E4 members. This just makes them all the more special 
(Also, now that I have the true buildable Hoppip item release, I’ll probably break out the bootleg one from South America and actually build that Hoppip)
Plushes
I am quite fond of plushes, but I don’t like how expensive they are compared to other items, so my plush collection is quite limited at the moment. But with the help of @connorc (with the Hoppip), I’ve completed the Pokemon Fit/Sitting Cuties series for this line. And the plushes are absolutely adorable!
I mentioned it before in the Secret Santa post, but I originally thought I had ordered the whole Fit line through Buyee, but when my package arrived, I quickly found out the Hoppip was huge and not the Fit plush. I think it’s a Banpresto plush, but I had made the mistake because I bought a slightly cheaper listing with a not-very-good close up picture and thought it was the Fit plush because of the stitching and the design of the leaves. But it just turned out that this Banpresto plush just has a very similar build to the Fit one 
But happy to add a giant plush to the collection too!
Topps cards
Great additions, and I’m very happy to have the complete line. One seller also had the German version of the Hoppip card, so I just picked it up because why not. (I quite like Hoppip’s German name)
Ensky/Amada/Korean stickers
Shown in the top row are the Korean bread stickers, which I’ve just started to pick up. I was lucky to have found one with a sealed Hoppip too.
The sticker on the bottom left is an Amada Skiploom from the World Hobby Fair set, and I’m very happy to have found this one as this completes my World Hobby Fair set for the Hoppip line. After this, as far as I’m aware, I’m only two more stickers away from a complete vintage Amada/Ensky set for Hoppip/Skiploom/Jumpluff.
The middle is the Jumpluff Pro AR sticker (I think also by Ensky?), which also completes the evolution line for this set. I forgot what company the bottom right sticker is from, but I’m quite happy with that one too as I don’t often see stickers from that set. Overall, some great sticker pickups!
Miscellaneous stickers
I really love the colors in the top row of stickers—they’re so bright and cheery. Gathered from nidokingdom’s Instagram post, they are a product of Showa Note. I think the bottom set is a set of flake stickers. Don’t know/don’t remember the company, but I’m glad the listing I bought had (hopefully) all three variations: normal, metallic-ish, and clear. I thought there were only two in the listing (and therefore in the set), but was happy to find the third.
Pochibukuro (gift envelopes)
I didn’t know these were a thing, so after finding this listing, I now have another random product to look out for! In case anyone is interested, the front of the bottom right one is below:
Calendar and newspaper cutouts
I’ve already talked to @Quuador and @joponnes about the seller/listing I got these from, but I picked these up from a seller that has a bunch of species-specific listings that often contain calendar items and sometimes random items that look like newspaper cutouts. I noticed similar items in Quuador’s and joponnes’ collections, so it seems this seller has been supplying species collectors for many years!
Lenticulars
I love lenticulars, so I was, of course, very happy to add these to the collection. They all feature the entire evolution line, which is awesome. The item on the left is a sealed Greek Tazos from the Tazos 3 set. The middle item seems to be an official item from Simplified Chinese set related to Cheetos (I’ve seem a similar-looking item in a different language but forgot what set it was). And the right-most item is a bootleg that looked pretty neat at first, but the lenticular effect is actually quite awful. It’s hard to cycle through the evolution line without the picture looking like some awful mutant combining all three pokemon. The individual pokemon can be found in the gallery below.
TOMY Ponjan tiles and accessories
Ponjan is a kids version of mahjong. The Hoppip line was lucky enough to feature in two sets: one regular size and one travel-version size. The second picture is of the box for the travel version, which also features Hoppip, and the last picture is a score sheet from the full-sized version that features the Hoppip line. There are additional game accessories featuring Hoppip, but I’m not too bothered with acquiring them and actually actively chose not to, due to one of the pieces being a whole game board which is really big and unwieldy for storage.
That’s it for now! Hopefully I’ll have more time to sort through more items to post about in the near future. In other news, the Expedition reverse set is well on its way to completion. I’m hoping to have the next update on that be the final update/complete set, but we’ll see how progress on the last ~10% of cards goes.
Thanks for visiting!
But I wanted to update the Expedition reverses I’ve acquired since the last post for this part of the collection. You know, in case it comes in handy for… somebody. I did fulfill my goal of reaching 75% completion for this set for 2024, so I’m happy about that! I think a lot of the ones left are rares or popular pokemon, so things have slowed down a bit. But I also just haven’t been looking as much. I think I’ll try to bring some focus back to these reverses next year to try to get ever closer to completion.
at least the piles from that one mercari seller seem to have the exactly same kinds of items 