@quuador, These seasonal drawings are great! The baby lugia reindeer is awesome!
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Here is my present from @pokekuma13!!
Iām so surprised this arrived before Christmas as this was sent from Japan.
Thank you so much for the amazing artwork and the cards!
As a fan of NGE and Pokemon, I couldnāt have imagined a better collaboration artwork than the End of Evangelion with Gardevoir and Pikachu. Iām also madly in love with the watercolor painted (?) Christmas Regice. The custom drawn artwork is professional! (Maybe I would like to commission something in the future)
The cards will be stored with great care in my collection, never to see the light of day again. (maybe not the latterā¦)
This Pikachu plush (surprisinglyā¦) will be the first pokemon plush I own.
(I do apologize for the messy desk and the horrible photography)
Thanks a buch again for the wonderful gifts!
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That Neon Genesis Evangelion art & card is SOOO dope! 
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@kaminoikari,that Regice painting needs to be framed and that nge card is just awesome. Love the whole gift.
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That Regice picture is godlyyyy
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Agreed, that Regice is crazy!
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Thank you so much @octaane for an awesome Secret Santa gift, I loved it!
I apologize for the absolutely potato-quality photo of my giftā¦ but thereās a reason for it. Unfortunately Iām not able to be home for the holidays this yearā¦ long story short, it was going to be much easier to have my gift shipped to my parentās place, so thatās where it was sent. Once it arrived I did a video call with my parents to open the package, and it was super fun! No doubt I enjoyed it the most, but I think my parents genuinely enjoyed going through the cards, too. My dad even listened to me explain how to tell the difference between old back Japanese cards and English cards. 
I love my parents to death, but smartphones are not their strongpoint, hence the photo that Iām posting here. I explained to my dad that everyone has to post their gift on the forumā¦ it was really nice of him to take the time to lay everything in the package out for the photo. 
@octaane couldnāt have sent a cooler gift! 2 new Japanese Neo Holos for me, some pack-fresh Rocket 1st edition cards (quite a few Iāve been planning to buy actually), and some neat vintage promos. I canāt wait to open the 3 Evolutions packs, plus there were a bunch of Evolution rares, including a reverse holo Dewgong, one of my favorite Pokemon!
Love the figures, too, especially the Onix! (I think theyāre Tomy?) I have a decent-sized collection going of small Pokemon figures, but these are all new for my collection!
And last but not least, not one, but two awesome drawings were inside, Charmander and Dark Espeon.
Thanks so much Octaane for an awesome gift and a fun Christmas memory with my parents.
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Shoutout to @connorc for the hella dope package. Itās no stranger my love for Jolteon and Gengar made me consider changing the name. Iām very happy with this package. All love brother. Thank you so much! 
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So I went to check my mailbox this morning and I found a small package in there that was from the US. I started to think - hmm, I donāt remember anything that I bought that hasnāt arrived yetā¦ Could this be my Secret Santa package??
And indeed it was! I opened the box and found a few small packages inside. My mom came to pick me up to visit her house at that exact moment so I had to leave it like that but I came home from there about an hour ago and I was so excited to get into opening the surprise package!
First I found this amazing drawing with Rayquaza and Alolan Vulpix, and found out that my secret santa is @gengarguy !
I wasnāt feeling like itās Christmas time before but honestly this package put me into that kid on Christmas mood! It was so much fun to open and I canāt really describe how happy and thankful I am for these gifts!
First I opened a package that had these 2 booster packs inside. Thoughtfully the santa had picked up Alolan Ninetales pack for Guardians Rising
Up next, some S3a and SM12a boosters! Yay!
Then there was a package with a thicc toploader that had many cards inside and I can only say that Santa nailed it for me! I love these cards so much and they included the Ex Dragon #19 Salamence which is one of my favorite cards of all time. Also, I still needed all those Salamence V cards in my Salamence binder! The ones I had bought I have set to side to be graded one day so these will be my binder copies! That is perfect as I was thinking about picking them up for binder at some point. And the Deoxys, I still needed that for my Holon Phantoms set. I love everything here and I can just say that Santa has been checking what I like. These made me so happy, now that I look at this photo Iām like āthis is so me!ā ;__;
There was one more package. It kinda felt like it had a graded card inside but I wasnāt completely sure. I opened it up and boom! Got my first ever CGC graded card! And of course itās Alolan Vulpix! Iām very happy with this one as well and will definitely keep it in my graded Alolan Vulpix collection. Itās also very nice to see the CGC case in person for the first time, I actually like it!
But it doesnāt end here - in this house packs donāt really stay sealed so I cracked them open andā¦
Christmas spirit blessed my pulls. Every single S3a pack had a holo, SM12a had those guaranteed GX and holo pulls, then Darkness Ablaze had a rainbow card!! I opened the Guardians Rising pack last and I was like thereās no way thereās a pull here. Oh how wrong I was! Got a Kommo-o GX!
I want to say thank you so much @gengarguy this has been an amazing and thoughtful gift which made me super happy! I really appreciate everything and you did really put me in the Christmas spirit I was missing! And what a perfect timing to arrive on December 23rd!
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Today a package reached my doorstep that was way too heavy and way too big for the single cards I usually order and was excited to see in what absurd way my cards were going to be packaged this time. But as soon as I actually opened the package I realised, I had my secret santa gift in front of me. The sender didnāt leave his forum alias but I have a pretty strong suspicion who it might be. Anyways, whoever it might be, thank you so much for this amazing gift! I really enjoy the Torchic drawing. Also I donāt know what the sweets were, but they were tasty.
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@xzini, Iām so happy that you enjoyed the gifts! I was worried with all of the shipping delays it wouldnāt get to you in time for Christmas. Luckily it got there just in time! Congratulations on the amazing pulls and have a Merry Christmas!
-gengarguy
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@gengarbrigade, of course, man! Iām thrilled I could send some items featuring your favorite Pokemonāhope you enjoy
I received my package from @djgigabyte, and Iām over the moon happy with his gifts to me!
The plushies are so wonderful to have, as I bought a Smeargle in Japan last summer but left it at my hostel, so itās like an old friend has returned! And the artwork is going up on my wall right away (big thanks again to your wife for her incredibly skillful painting!) The Regice ex was the last of the Regis I was missing from my PLAY promo trio, and the other cards fill in some gaps in my collections. There were even some other goodies I didnāt include in the photos. Cheers, and thanks for brightening up my holiday
This was my first Secret Santa with you all since I joined the forum in 2014, and Iām definitely going to make it a yearly tradition. Super grateful to be part of a community like this one.
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omgggggg that painting! so sick!
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@pokekuma youāre an amazing artist!
EDIT: @djgigabyte, youāre an amazing artist too!
Iām so amazed, my secret santa gonna laugh at the drawing I sent them LOL
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@djgigabyte Wow what a painting! Pokemon company needs to immediately hire your wife! That looks better then any card in the hobby! Iām just stunned at how beautiful it is!
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Between this and the Regice painting posted earlier in the thread, Iām feeling kind of ashamed at how bad my drawing was lol. Some really awesome art and gifts in this thread!
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Iām really glad you liked your gift @kaminoikari and that it managed to get to you before Christmas! It was a lot of fun picking out the gifts and planning the drawings
The Regice Santa painting was actually done by my wonderful friend mewinabucket and I drew the Neon Genesis Evangelion Gardevoir. Mew helped me make the purchases and shipped out the package from Japan (Iām based in the U.K. but I figure youād appreciate some Japanese ex cards/merch aha). Iāll make sure to pass on everyoneās compliments
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Merry Christmas, Iām so glad you got a kick out of this! The figurines are much loved from my childhood, as are the cards. Santa told me that you had a soft spot for Dewgongs (donāt tell anyone I have a direct line to him).
As an aside, some wonderful soul sent me a Neo tyranitar rare, and a full set of a neo-era common and uncommons - they hit the spot and are much appreciated! Thank you, secret santa! They made me smile; Iām trying to finish my neo sets, and these 100% help.
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Let it be known that @teamrocketop is an amazing Santaās helper! They got me a bunch of cards of my favorite PokĆ©mon/characters and included this SUPER cute Pikachu from the PokĆ©mon Center! Heās sitting beneath our tree now enjoying the next few days of the holiday.
Play-by-play!
This super cute box arrived on our doorstep today:
Awesome storage pieces and a really cute drawing of my favorites (minus Magikarp, who couldnāt make it to the snow party because it makes no sense for a fish to be there!):
An AMAZING assortment of cards:
And this beautiful Pikachu with a funny Santa beard!
THANK YOU AGAIN @teamrocketop! You made this weird whack 2020 Christmas that much better. 
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This was delivered to me a couple days ago and I just got around to opening it! Needless to say I was pretty shocked at the contents. Thank you so so much @tenaciousm17, I love my gift so much. When I saw the Revelation Lugia book I freaked out, I loved the PokƩmon 2000 movie so much as a kid, and this is something brand new to my collection. I also love the Dark Gyarados, Pikachu, and Charmander cards. Everything is so epic and fits perfectly into my collection. Thank you again and Merry Christmas @tenaciousm17.
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