I thoroughly enjoyed reading this from start to finish and appreciating your collection. I loved seeing it change over time. As a fellow Muk appreciator, your collection blows my mind.
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Thank you for kind words for both of you! @citriina yeah i’m finally quite happy how i’ve managed to arrange and display my slime army, i’m glad it pleases the eyes of someone else too 
and i’m sure the play muk will eventually arrive, just the regular waiting time of european collector 
@D3F14NC3 nice to see someone else appreciate slime, you have some excellent choices as pokemon sprites too i see 
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**laughs in brendan
What a marvel. What a joy. Comprehensive, elegant, orderly, sophisticated… slimy yet satisfying. They really are eye exploding pages to look out dear Jopo. The purple green combo really packs a gnarly punch. And I’ve said it before but I’ll say it like the broken record I am. The boys have been gifted with high art through and through with scarcely any mediocrity. One of those (sets of) mon’s that has gotten special care throughout the ages.
Hell I can even appreciate the rainbow weirdness just 'cause it’s you and you have that power.
It’s the second time I’ve seen your “frand” art (friend fan art), but that muk is profound. What art! Number one slime collector in the universes. Represent! Thanks for sharing amigo, it is appreciated always.
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Another amazing post–the slime boys should be proud to be enshrined in such a collection! I certainly looked through all the pictures 
Looking through all your non-TCG stuff is especially fun because it gives me ideas of what may be out there for my species!
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Love the non-tcg collection!!! Some real underrated gems like the bandai snacks seals you got in photo #36!!! Also, I have a question, I noticed you have 2 of each 2000 dunkin/boomer cards but they look the same, are they different in the back?? Thanks for sharing!!
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@brendantheclayboy talk about characteristic responses in ones collection thread i love it that i can count on your posts being the wild rides they are every time i see your post on my thread. And you are right, i can easily get caught in idea that my guys have been skipped in so many sets or releases but the fact is there is anyway so much art, products and releases where i got really spoiled with the quality of slime that i have nothing to complain.
@bbobrob my boys puffing up their chests, and always fun to hear another species collector taking notes, can be a lot of differences between gen 1 and gen 3 merch but always also the shared merch, really hoping to one day see your non tcg post and witness what you’ve managed to already find
@Julius19 thanks! And i’m not surprised it was you who noticed the snack stickers snack muk stickers are actually in top 3 of my main wants right now so hoping to widen that section as soon as i can! And the dunkin sticker doubles are actually crimped error ones, i bought a grimer sticker and after receiving it i noticed it was a crimped one which i thougt was funny. Then not very long after that i went to visit my parents and found a small old stash of my forgotten pokemon stickers and, imagine the odds of it, i found a crimped muk sticker i must have opened myself as a kid, the luck of that happening is just so nuts that it’s one of my favourite pairs in my collection
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Yeah, I realize Gen 1 probably has a lot more things out there (they were just putting Pokemon on everything back then), but like you said, there will be some overlap!
I’m way behind on an update to my collection thread 
Things just keep piling in a corner while I push the update off. I should probably give up on hoping to organize it all in one afternoon and should just start working on it piecemeal.
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I’ve done both ways, used my free weekend completely to catch up with my new arrivals and the good old dad tactic of 5 minutes hobby time per day repeated every day for a month to catch up with everything
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Where to even begin?
I remember what feels like years ago asking you why you collected these two - you said something along the lines of “everything deserves to be appreciated at some point” and so started a collection of what was probably the most disliked Pokemon along the lines of Jynx and Mr. Mime.
And holy crap! I never thought I’d say I’d be jealous of a GM collection, but you succeeded in your mission of having people appreciate these two more. Because I’m finally sitting down and enjoying my time looking through these.
Seeing the Venonat Cameo, the Shiny Alolan Grimer. The sheer horror-defining depiction of Grimer in Team Aqua’s Grimer. And I had no idea that a Dewott card cameod one either! I love that you have a section dedicated to your favorite arts. Never knew they had a baby-form of Grimer in consideration either.
And the non-tcg sections are just so much fun. It’s interesting to see how many different things Grimer and Muk showcased in that Gyarados didn’t. I love it in part because half of them I don’t think I’ve ever seen before so it makes me excited to think what might I be missing? It gives folks a reminder that there is always more and that variance really can define a collection. So glad you also included that 4-Frame comic into your collection.
I only have one question:
As you are now an expert at this time, can you explain why TPCI hasn’t seen the potential to make a Ditto-Muk Promo card yet?
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@azulryu you are one of my original big idols of species collecting so it’s always nice to hear big words from you and yes, i’m genuinely surprised and flattered how well people here have accepted my guys as great collectables and are taking part in my passion of collecting them, it still gets me off guard tho and i didn’t expect for example all these posts about this update but it’s as heartwarming as anything in this hobby can be! And there’s no way that comic didn’t find it’s way in my collection and about that ditto question, it hasn’t really been a realistic hope until now! It feels like tpc/tpci have only recently started using more creativity and imagination with their cards and artworks so anything like that feels more realistic now. The use of ditto in cards after yuka morii’s clay set has in any case been super dull and it has missed a lot of it’s potential until now with the recent numel ditto appearance, so i do hope that would lead in more similar card ideas. They have after all combined the two slimes in plushes already so the idea already lingers somewhere in their minds!
And @Kijamon i agree that this is a must have i’m still in process of getting a middleman to help me with a pokemon center order, the pain of being a european collector, but there’s no way that sweater doesn’t eventually end up spending the whole winter on me
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If you get stuck drop me a pm. I live in the UK
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Thanks but unfortunately UK pokemon center lacks some items i would need so i rely on US this time
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Life has been a bit too much of a mess lately, the twins both had their tongue tendon operated which has me doing tons of post-operative mouth treatment and they just hate it. In addition our fridge had broken which led in water damage in our kitchen and possibly in living room too and it probably forces us to move out for a while and renew the whole floor in our home after the water has been dried.
But E4 is awesome, these two packages arrived some time ago, massive thanks to both @citriina and @drxfrd Citriina very kindly offered to gift me the play muk she obtained (but i have to say i like the blue muk variant even more) and Drxfrd agreed to part with this magnificient grimer error he showed in another thread. The help people are willing to offer to grow my slime army takes me off guard every time.
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I’m glad it arrived safely! And I hope your living situation will improve again soon 
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Which grimer/muk tcg card was the most difficult to obtain?
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@drxfrd thank you!
@cyberurchin from the official ones definitely 3rd print fossil muk since i managed to find L2 unlimited reverse holos in quite early phase, i know a lot of people struggle with them. But the ultimate tcg mun grail is still on different level. It’s not an official release but ultimately the most difficult tcg muk is cosmos foil fossil muk which i’ve decided to try if i can obtain it. I’ve already gathered funds if an opportunity to buy it comes but it very rarely appears for sale so not sure how that’ll go, if anyone knows of a copy for sale any leads and hints about it are highly appreciated!
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Long time with no updates, even though the purchases have been slower lately i have lots of things not posted yet but i’ve accepted i don’t post the majority of them until i have some quiet and peaceful time to write even a little something about them. But since i have little time now i wanted to post really big purchases i made last year for display, the fossil pack i have already had for a long time but both rocket gang packs were bought after last summer. This now means that i have all the artworks presenting slime in tcg packs, even though there are a lot of other products with same artwork like booster boxes and the english team rocket booster i consider this sealed tcg slime goal 100% met, couldn’t be happier that it was possible to do with 3 different and beautiful japanese packs since they are such gorgeous ones compared to majority of english ones. I’m also excited that from the first 4 expansions 2 booster pack arts had slime presented, that’s huge! One of my favourite display pieces atm and a marvelous sight to regularly stare at.
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What an update this is going to be. As a starting point this is about modern grimer and muk releases that get released every now and then, lucky for me. I do regularly searches in pokemon center webstore since they occasionally add some minor grimer and muk items that i manage to buy from ebay afterwards. But this time it was big, several pieces including clothes, figures, pins etc, i also got several messages about them here and on ig from different people since people guessed correctly about my interest towards them. I didn’t want to buy it all since a lot of artworks were repeated but what i wanted i yearned so badly. But you can’t buy anything from pokemon center from mainland Europe. This was were eveyone’s favourite gyarados enthusiastic stepped in picture.
@azulryu very kindly agreed to middleman my relatively big order which i couldn’t thank enough. Let’s take a look at what he helped me to obtain from pokemon center, this is the first phase of what makes me deeply grateful for him.
The clothes look absolutely awesome, be it halloween or christmas or wednesday, i’m rocking it with style from now on. The only issue with them is that i forgot that European L is different from US L so i now have to start drinking grease to fit in them properly. But the size issue doesn’t take anything from the beautiful looks of the clothes. The figure is also a gorgeous piece and it found immediately a place from my display, regardless of the fact that i thought it was about the size of re-ment figures but it was around three times bigger in every dimension instead, i guess everything just is bigger in US. It was also the first official figure type product of alolan grimer, about time! The pin also is a perfect display piece, representing that cool looking horror film poster theme also featured in the t-shirt and sweatshirt.
But that’s not all. At this point i have to mention that a search for different metal figures of grimer and muk has been what i’ve hunted most viciously regarding non-tcg already for some time, and with one type of figure being the most wanted. Muk & Professor Oak figure was something that took me almost two years until i managed to obtain even the first variant last summer, that was with a help of @Quuador but it was actually two of the existing four variants that i managed to get at the same time then, i’m so behind with my posts that i actually haven’t posted them here at all yet. But they were so beautiful in hand and my heart yearned for the other two variants so i could display and admire them all together. So my heart skipped a beat when my searches alerted me that a third variant was up for grabs on ebay, only to see that the seller only ships in US so i’m forced to use forwarding services with monstrous fees and shipping costs in Finland.
But i’m not forced to do that since it’s exactly the same time frame where Azulryu is helping me, and he agrees that i can send this package too to be middlemanned with my pokemon center order, later i also learn that he had to build a custom made box to be able to send my order. Couldn’t get any better than this, pokemon center order and the third variant of my most wanted figures, right? Well guess what, just after the appearance of that third muk & oak variant the fourth and final variant i was hunting also gets listed on ebay, and again only to be shipped in US, what are the odds. You can bet i was messaging Azulryu again and you already know he was willing to help me with this listing too. It feels unbelievable that i searched even one variant of my favourite figure so long and then i get all four in two events where both times i get two of them simultaneously, and also both times with help of E4 people. I’m adding here a photo of all four figures next to each others, this is the second phase of my gratitude for Azulryu.
So i got everything i wanted and it was all beyond amazing, But i also got more, something that i didn’t expect and what felt even more amazing in massive amounts. Azuryu had messaged me about a manga book featuring grimer that he was willing to gift for me so i knew i was also getting an extra item with my package, but what i didn’t know was that he included so much more. My eyes were wide open when i opened all the extra packages he had included. There were tcg, non tcg, art drawn by him, gifts for my kids and i’m not sure how but even multiple grimer and muk items that i hadn’t ever even seen gifted for me! I opened every package in absolute shock.
I still don’t understand how he managed to add this many grimer and muk items i was missing and that i was not even aware of in the package. The cards he had drawn immediately found their place with my art commissions too. I’ve also enjoyed different ways of preserving pokemon tcg history but i’ve put off doing it with modern ultra rares since there’s so much of different rarities in english and japan that i was missing that it would get in way of my other projects if i concentrated on that, so i’ve abandoned the idea earlier even though i’ve really wanted to do something about it. But he gifted me so much of them with massive variety that it was a no-brainer now. I’ve placed all the different ultra rare variants in english and japanese i now have in a binder and the variety of modern pokemon is a beautiful sight to see.
I didn’t have any clue of the wild ride of gratitude i would be getting into when i first asked if Azulryu could help me but doing so led in one of my favourite collecting experiences ever. I can’t thank you enough and i’m glad i can call you my friend!
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Yes you got the sweater! I’m so happy to see you were able to grab it.
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