Fellas! I am a simple man from Australia with a major project to share - I’m collecting every Rotom I can get my hands on. Plushes, pins, sleeves, but most importantly I’m on the hunt for every printing of Rotom in every language.
As we prepare to open the dusty doors to the Old Chateau, let me tell you a bit about why I have decided to begin a long adventure like this in the world of Pokemon!
I have loved Pokemon since I was young, about 6 or 7 years old. I started with Pokemon Platinum and SoulSilver and have many memories playing those games as a kid, from my first encounter with Giratina to finally managing to beat Cynthia and Red after losing multiple times and even all the times I got caught playing my DS all night (That damn Mario DS always ratted me out, I bet Nintendo made it talk just to get me in trouble), but the best one was finding and learning about a special Pokemon my dad caught for me.
My father worked a lot when I was young and would always leave really early in the mornings but my family always went to take him to work together, I can still remember the 3am drives with my parents listening to David Bowie and Electric Light Orchestra while half asleep in the back seat of the car. Looking back I appreciate that he was always able to say goodbye before he went off to work and I drifted back to sleep.
There was one day where my father borrowed my DS for the day and when he came back he showed me Rotom. I had never seen it or heard about it until then and I loved it from the start, making its way into my team (until Cynthia, I had another line-up for the Elite 4/Champion battles from what I remember).
I replayed Platinum recently on an emulator and the whole Chateau is such a cool area, with the spirits around and the ominous painting that’s always staring, leading up to the Rotom in the TV. I was one of those people who thought Rotom was legendary because of this encounter back in the day and can understand why that was a somewhat common thing. The legendary theme playing through the battle, the rarity of Rotom in the Pokemon universe (at the time) and the requirement of an event item to find the other forms all add to this.
But with all that said behold! The start of my collection!
It may not be much right now but it will grow and I’m making this topic to show how it grows over time, both for my satisfaction and the enjoyment of the other Rotom fans out there! I have made an imgur gallery of the binder that you can see here but I’ll also showcase some of the highlights from February to April now:
This is just a great piece of art, I love that you can find the appliances all around ready to be possessed. I still need to find it in English, fingers crossed I see one at my next card show!
Rising Rivals was the first set to feature the different forms, I’m looking forward to having them all in the binder! They’re also the first and only cards for each form that have the electric type in the TCG, it’s nice having them at the start of each section before it switches up.
This is the Staff stamped promo from Ultra Prism’s prerelease, a card I picked up before I decided to start working on the full Rotom collection, getting these in other languages will be difficult for sure
This is my serialised Eif Origins rotom, number 1/58. These were made for a Hatsune Miku crossover with Pokemon, I don’t particularly care about Hatsune Miku but it’s a cool piece of the collection for sure!
This was a gift from a vendor I met at my first card show! He’s a great guy, I put in an order with his store after the show and got this as a really nice bonus. I always appreciate hand made and unique stuff, it’ll always have a place in the binder.
This is a shirt I got from Star Salts! My unofficial card show uniform now, the way all the Rotoms are taking over various Windows 95 apps is just really cool and creative!
Adding new things to this collection feels great, I’ll be doing monthly updates! Should hopefully have some cool stuff coming in for May that I’m excited to show off. Thanks!
