Event dates of 2025-03-02 - 2025-05-25 listed above. The red object is the explorer’s notebook.
This blog post states:
탐험수첩을 미션을 해결하기 위해서는 동봉된 스티커 2장이 꼭 필요하니 절대 잃어버리면 안 됩니다.
이렇게 롯데월드 전체를 돌아다니며 미션을 해결해야 해요.
미션해결시 소정의 선물을 주는데 아크릴 카드 홀더 키링을 받아요.
Which, through machine translation, states that you must use the stickers included to solve missions within the notebook. Solving the missions gets you this keychain (and maybe other variants? Not conclusively sure).
Most of this can be seen through reading the text. Google Translate has a translate text from images option. (The date listed says Heisei 10-11-01, etc.)
It can be helpful to recognize 小学館 as Shogakukan, which is printed on this insert, and 幼稚園, which means kindergarten.
225p - 2024-12-15? Master Kong Xiangbaocui Pokemon 151 Stickers
States that the event period is from 2024-12-15 - 2025-12-31, but not sure if actually released in 2024 due to the fact that the announcement is posted on 2025-01-10.
So, I had a bit of time to look through the images you provided, @sableguy, and I think you found the right answer — but we were working under a mistaken assumption: that the clear Starmie figure was produced as a clear variant. The answer seems to be that the 1996 Bandai Pokémon Box 3: Waterside and Town Pokémon (ポケモンボックス3 水辺と町のポケモン) figure collection is the correct product. However, it appears that the figures were produced using varying amounts of milky transparent and blue material to create different gradients.
I said “milky transparent” because the pictures clearly show that the truly clear transparent figures from the 1996 Bandai Pokémon Box 5 used a much cleaner and more translucent material variant. This seems to suggest that the clear figures in the 1996 Bandai Pokémon Box 3 are simply the result of production variation, not intentional variants.
Fading doesn’t seem to account for the difference, since some figures in the pictures are still in their original case and would likely have faded differently if they’d been exposed to sunlight.
Let’s take a closer look at the pictures you provided.
Regarding the telephone cards, it seems they might be bootlegs, as the backs do not contain any information that would actually allow you to make phone calls. However, I’m not sure if they were internal promotional cards, proofs, or just plain counterfeits.
This website states their card is a fake Mother Teresa phone card using the same back as mine. So it seems, my card is also a fake. It fits, that they state, their card is made out of cardboard instead of plastic, because mine is also made out of cardboard.
As for your observation about the Sitting Cuties plushies, it seems there’s more to the story. The same label appears to have been used for different variants. Once I receive my plushie, I’ll check the label myself and post an update here.
(I was informed by Julius19 earlier that Top-Insight is the licensee for Pokemon in Asia outside Japan, which means that Top-Insight cannot be the actual manufacturer of these items.)
I can’t find any information on Whiteland, but this company’s logo pops up on these stickers. Here is a higher quality image of the logo I pulled from a different sticker set.
For the purposes of identifying your items, this menko is from this box, which has an expiration date of 2001-11-16. Note the large spiky border on this card, which matches your Starmie.
It took a while to find some spare minutes, but I finally got the original post updated with all the info @sableguy provided. Such amazing details about those items—it’s truly an honor to have your help identifying all the collectibles. Thank you so much!
I also added some newly identified and unidentified items.
just added five new items to the “not fully identified” list. Maybe you have more information on one of them? Or maybe even on one of the older ones that still have some questionmarks.
identified by @bbobrob : (link), came within a plastic capsule that either contained Trading cards or a plastic toy (Gameboy)
quote: “The box contained both common non-holo and rare holographic variations of each card. These cards measure 23 mm wide and 23 mm tall and are made with a thin but sturdy cardstock.” (source)
#41 - Metal Coaster - likely from Nagatanien Curry (カレー) You can make out a very similar metal coaster on this boxart … I can’t exactly date this one yet, but the blog post it’s from was written in 2004, so it was at least made during that year.
@bbobrob : “is definitely by Sapporo Ichiban (company). I think it’s one of their noodle sticker sets, but not sure which one, as they released a few (and are still releasing to this day, I think). [26-01-2025]”
044: [YEAR?] – Meiji Pokémon Ice Get sticker (Golden Starmie)
@sableguy : “The back of the sticker states that it is from the “Meiji Pokémon Ice Get” campaign in Japanese. I could not find a year for this sticker.”
@bbobrob : “Called Meiji ice cream stickers (found this searching around on Mercari Japan). They were also apparently individual lottery tickets for winning a prize (?), and you could flip over the things on the back to reveal if you won? (Also read this on a Mercari Japan listing, and if you Google translate one of the backs, it says something along those lines).”
identified by @bbobrob : (link), came within a plastic capsule that either contained Trading cards or a plastic toy (Gameboy)
quote: “The box contained both common non-holo and rare holographic variations of each card. These cards measure 23 mm wide and 23 mm tall and are made with a thin but sturdy cardstock.” (source)
256p is a Zukan figure. They’re 1/40 scale gachapon figures, sometimes bigger with the bigger legendaries. Normally there’s pegs to hold up the figures but unsealed listings unsurprisingly tend to have the pegs missing. Non evolving mons either come by themself, in sets with other non evolving mons or occasionally paired with evo lines. According to the page I linked below, Corsola came by itself so guessing the seller of the linked image lost their Corsola base.
Zukan figures were originally manufactured by Yujin, but now by Takara Tomy ARTS since their absorption of Yujin.
257p is from Pokemon 151 Badge, a can badge series unsurprisingly featuring gen 1 mons. This page mentions they were released in 2001, which lines up with what I’ve seen from the occasional listing. I think there was also possibly a rerelease of the entire set (as in you could only buy all 151, not individuals) in 2013, but I could be wrong on that.
They’re also neat TCG wise because a decent chunk of the art was done by TCG artists. I have a vague recollection that the Magneton was done by Tomokazu Komiya, but I might be mixing that up. I swear I’ve seen a full list of who did what mon before, but I don’t have it offhand.
I was unable to find pictures of boxes, if any, where they came from.
259p - Zebra SARASA - Oceanic Operetta Marble Color 3-Pack Set
Came in a 3-pack sold at stores, it seems that “marble color” is specific to Zebra branding, so I would guess that this pen is sold as a Zebra SARASA pen specifically.
259p: ??-2019 - Zebra: SARASA - Oceanic Operetta Marble Color 3-Pack Set
@sableguy or anyone else: I sadly cannot find a listing for the Latias Shiritori card with the Starmie cameo. Would be great if you let me know, if you find a copy on buyee or ebay.
identified by @bbobrob : (link), came within a plastic capsule that either contained Trading cards or a plastic toy (Gameboy)
quote: “The box contained both common non-holo and rare holographic variations of each card. These cards measure 23 mm wide and 23 mm tall and are made with a thin but sturdy cardstock.” (source)
#41 - Metal Coaster - likely from Nagatanien Curry (カレー) You can make out a very similar metal coaster on this boxart … I can’t exactly date this one yet, but the blog post it’s from was written in 2004, so it was at least made during that year.
@bbobrob : “is definitely by Sapporo Ichiban (company). I think it’s one of their noodle sticker sets, but not sure which one, as they released a few (and are still releasing to this day, I think). [26-01-2025]”
044: [YEAR?] – Meiji Pokémon Ice Get sticker (Golden Starmie)
@sableguy : “The back of the sticker states that it is from the “Meiji Pokémon Ice Get” campaign in Japanese. I could not find a year for this sticker.”
@bbobrob : “Called Meiji ice cream stickers (found this searching around on Mercari Japan). They were also apparently individual lottery tickets for winning a prize (?), and you could flip over the things on the back to reveal if you won? (Also read this on a Mercari Japan listing, and if you Google translate one of the backs, it says something along those lines).”
identified by @bbobrob : (link), came within a plastic capsule that either contained Trading cards or a plastic toy (Gameboy)
quote: “The box contained both common non-holo and rare holographic variations of each card. These cards measure 23 mm wide and 23 mm tall and are made with a thin but sturdy cardstock.” (source)
