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The pictures above are from my WTB thread, but yeah.. the most obscure non-TCG item in my collection are defintely the (thankfully new/sealed..) female boxers of the Look Upon the Stars Pokémon Center product line, which features Seviper.
I also think the designers knew what they were doing, placing the Machoke + Seviper and Milotic both in the center, haha.
It came from an event in Japan called “Super Comic City” where amateur and original manga artists come together in a big convention. The artists and writers have since expanded on the series and moved onto official projects. While it isn’t an “official” Pokemon item, it’s still one of my favorite obscure pieces - especially since it has to do with Children’s Day which is one of my favorite niches.
I have a gold boarding pass given by ANA Airlines in 1997 if you boarded with them during a limited promo. There were 3 versions: Mew, Pikachu, and Mewtwo. Fun fact: the back has a space for the flyer to fill out their blood type.
I have a lot of weird and niche items, but I think the highest honor will have to go to my vintage Japanese Slowbro Christmas Tree that @Dyl gave me for Secret Santa
Nice. I have the Pikachu from the same set. Bought years ago, in the time I still bought cool non-TCG Pikachu items every now and then. Completely forgot I even had it until you posted this just yet. Always thought it looks great. Much better than the other gold Pikachu I bought around the same time: the Burger King golden Pikachu.
I’ve never seen this phone card before but I love it! Any idea what the card says on it? Just trying to get an idea of when it was released and what it is so I can keep it in my search list
Many people who collected Pokémon in Gen IV know that if you preorder DP (the DS copies) in Japan, you may get Dialga and Palkia figures made by Kaiyodo as bonus.
Little do they know that there are actually Clear (Dialga) and Pearl (Palkia) variants of those figures which can only be obtained by winning a lottery among Pokémon Daisuki Club members who preordered the games from Daisuki Select Shop. Only 250 each of these were ever released which made them extremely rare to find nowadays.
As for Platinum’s preorder bonus Giratina, there’s also the Metallic variant for Pokémon Daisuki Club members, although these are much easier to find than Dialga or Palkia as a total of 1000 figures were released.
I have to look to see if i ever got a 35mm copy of the Pokemon movie trailer.
I know i tried around 2017 but they were slightly expensive for something like that and then they kept getting more expensive once people realized they could cut them into film frames and sell them for a lot individually. Now i dont really see them pop up.
There’s a lot of neat and obscure stuff out there and seeing some of the things that have popped up in this thread has been neat. I don’t know if these are really obscure or not, but they certainly don’t seem to be common. And the first time I ran into these have basically been the only time I’ve seen then.
This Banpresto mini keychain diorama thing? I recently happened to see a Pichu/some-other-pokemon one, but those two were the only ones I’ve seen.
Bought years ago, in the time I still bought cool non-TCG Pikachu items every now and then. Completely forgot I even had it until you posted this just yet. Always thought it looks great. 
Much better than the other gold Pikachu I bought around the same time: 
