This has been a long time coming and I’ve put it off for long enough. I didn’t want to take everything down just to take pictures, but since a recent addition forced me to completely reorganize it was the perfect opportunity to document and show everything off.
TCG
Got a great deal on the Aqua’s EX because of a slight bend in the corner. I picked up each of the Legend halves separately after waiting ages for cheap listings to come by. I’ve had the full art Primals back when I was actually playing the game instead of just collecting. I think the normal was a gift and the shiny I bought myself. The holo promo ex I also waited to find cheap. That one’s fun because younger me thought it was a myth 
. Only ever saw it in super grainy photos and with all other exs/EXs I knew of being foil I couldn’t comprehend it coming in both non-holo and holo.
I think I got both of the Primal Clash EXs in the same gift as the normal Primal. The V and the Dark Explorers ones were all from my brother, he actually plays the game so I can count on him for modern Kyogres and cool gifts. The DE full art was one I wanted for such a long time because I thought its pose matched the Ancient Origins Primal. I really liked the idea of the two Kyogre EXs facing each other and the two Primals doing the same in similar poses. The Call of Legends Shiny was the first shiny card I ever saw, ever got, and might have even been the first Kyogre I ever got. One of my classmates had it in their binder back in middle school and it being both shiny and legendary made it the coolest possible card for tiny me. I don’t know what I traded for it back then but in that moment I probably would have given anything .
_____'s Kyogre was another myth one. I only ever saw blurry scans and of course none of the English sites I knew about documented it. I had forgotten about it until I found an eBay auction for it. Crystal Guardians, normie Primal, and EX promo were all more brother pickups, shout out to him. 037 ex I got in an auction but didn’t notice it was creased. I want to replace it someday but I also don’t want to pay the cost of a clean replacement so I put up with this one 
. The new ex I got in an auction for $0.01 before shipping which was funny.
Aqua’s holo was another crease fail until I managed to find a replacement for even less than I paid for the first, which was nice. Legends Awakened reverse and Emerald holo came bundled together for a decent price. Call of Legends reverse and Cosmic Eclipse cracked ice were just standard eBay pickups and the Play stamp my brother got me.
Brother also gave me the four non-Primal Clash ones here. The non-holo I’ve had since PC came out and the cracked ice I bought when I thought I was only going for foils.
Spirit links I’ve also had since Primal Clash and the jumbo Primal was a more recent pickup, they’re a little beat up but finding nice Jumbos has been hard.
Other Non-TCG Cards
Mainly just random eBay finds I wouldn’t pay more than a few dollars for. I think they’re all knock-offs, Eif, ID, Peru, etc.
Couple of tiny lenticular cards I got from my big proxy purchase, not sure what they’re actually from but I like them. Topps Advanced card was another cheap eBay impulse buy. A few custom cards I made in middle school found in a stack of old documents. They’re kind of cringey but I think it’s fun to include them in the collection with everything else.
Japanese Arcade Tokens
This section was the initial reason for my whole Japan proxy order. I found a handful of tokens on eBay then fell down a Bulbapedia rabbit hole. These one are Battrio and I think I got all the Kyogre ones. I’m happiest about finding the white one since I couldn’t find it outside of Japan and it got listed mid-search, so I wasn’t even sure if I’d find it at all.
Tretta! I was unable to complete this set, there was one more Japanese one that never showed up and three more that were released outside of Japan. Bulbapedia didn’t even list the other three so learning about those was a surprise. I found the ones I’m missing on shopee.tw but I don’t have an easy way to order from there and proxy fees cost more than the total price of the tokens.
Ga-Olé is another incomplete one, and currently the biggest hole in this mini-collection. I’m missing seven and they’re all either obscure tournament variants or a special lottery prize. I found two of tournament ones on shopee.tw like the trettas, and I could technically get a few other of the missing ones off eBay but the prices there are absurd. I think the lottery one’s supposed to be worth something between $30-$60 going by sold prices but one’s been listed there for several years now at $300. I guess they can price it however if it’s the only one but geez.
Mezastar is another completed set as far as I’m aware. I believe the black frames were just normal tokens from the machine, yellows seemed to be media inserts, the reds were McDonald’s toys (and I know one’s technically Groudon but Kyogre is there too), and the purple was a reprint. The metallic blue one was a nice find because it was a lottery prize that I didn’t know about until I already started shopping. It was the most expensive at around $30 but I’m happy to pay that for set completion, better than the $300 Ga-Olé one anyway 
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Frienda is technically complete if only because there has only been one. This token was actually just releasing near the end of my hunt so I held off on finalizing things until I could pick it up.
Figures
I believe these guys are finger puppets? Or maybe they’re just hollow figures. We’re entering the portion of my collection that I don’t know very much about. I bought a huge lot of Kyogre figures and while that’s great for the collection it does mean that I’m not sure where most of these came from. If anyone recognizes stuff and cares to help with identification I’d appreciate the help! For these I do know that there is a shiny version like the front two and I’d love to get that some day. It’s just super expensive for such a small piece so I’m not racing for it.
These ones are blaster/launcher toys. They were not part of the big lot but I still don’t know much about them. I just found them from three different sellers and loved that there were opaque, transparent, and silver variants of the toy. Only the opaque still had the actual missile though so I don’t know if there were other versions of that.
These two are 1/20th scale figures, and the Primal was the reason I had to redo my entire shelf and had the chance to take pictures. The normal Kyogre came in the lot but given it was sent with the box I believe it’s the official Scale World figure. The Primal I bought second hand but it’s from SGX Studio and I guess an unoffical continuation of that Scale World line.
I think all but one of these came from the aforementioned lot and as such I don’t know origins of most of them. I do know some of them though, Battle Figure, Trading Figure Game, Primal Kyogre Collection, the one I added from outside the lot is just a tiny bootleg. Though even if I don’t recognize everything I’m super happy to have found that listing, it just about doubled the size my collection at the time and gave me so many unique additions. It was a score, even if my wallet hurt afterwards.
Miscellaneous
Plushes! I have the Pokémon Center Primal, Sitting Cuties, and I think the last one’s a bootleg but I still love it.
Packaging and sealed! Empty Primal Clash booster wrapper, empty EX Collector’s Tin, and sealed Monster Collection figure.
Coins! I have the normal blue cracked ice coin, the Sapphire pre-order coin, Topps Chipz puck, weird military challenge coin, and a couple tiny Japanese coins from the proxy order. I don’t really know anything about the Japanese coins but I’ve seen a few other versions of in different colors or with a clear coating which would be cool to find.
Digital! I got my shiny Kyogre in OG sapphire after building a Lego robot to help. It’d just press the right button combination to do a soft reset whenever I used the remote, but it ended up being a bit of a double edged sword. It made resetting super easy, but it was so easy that I reset on two shinies before finally keeping the third. Took me over 100 days, 16 hours a day, 55,543 resets, and almost 2k AA battery charges but I finally got there. Probably should’ve just shiny hunted like a normal person but this was more interesting (Also fun fact! I had that GBA strapped into the robot under a desk lamp so long that it actually discolored the plastic. It has yellowed since and is back to one shade but the plastic under the light was noticeably whiter than the plastic that was covered and blocked from the light). Then with help from a friend we got that Kyogre traded all the way up to Home 100% legitimately, all through official games and hardware (then restored a save backup on the GBA, so technically that’s the unofficial one). The others are just all from the Shadow Kyogre weekend in Pokémon Go, six normies and a shiny. Could be fun to chase other PoGo variants, purified, lucky, normal, etc.
Brick/brick built! Nanoblock set, Japanese MegaBlocks set, MegaBlocks character brick, and custom Lego upscale of the Nanoblocks.
Actually miscellaneous! Fishing lure, glass bowl, toy watch, and Advance Movie chip were all from my proxy order. I know there’s a shiny fishing lure too that I’d love to get, but I’m not yet at the point of my life where I can drop $900 on a single plastic whale. The newspaper clippings were a cool eBay find, they’re teaching English with Pokémon scenarios. From the translations I’ve seen it’s basically “‘It’s raining hard’ That means it’s raining a lot, but also strong or violently, as if Kyogre is making it rain.” “‘Look at that!’ You would say that if you see something cool or special, like a Primal Kyogre” I’m just paraphrasing my memory of Google’s translations though, so forgive me if I’ve completely butchered it.
That’s all for now!
By my count I have 138 unique Kyogres/Primals, and I am loosely aiming to reach 382 since that’s the dex number. Still a long way to go, more than double even, but having this thread should help me keep track of and document everything. Thanks for reading! It’s a long one so hopefully I’ll be able to post it without breaking everything.
(Update 2/23/2026):
It’s been about a month since the first post and while I haven’t grown the collection a ton I did manage to get some fun additions.
Shirts
Uniqlo x Pokémon Masters EX Villains shirt. Kyogre’s only a small part of this shirt but they are a part of it so it still counts. It’s not quite my size but I got a great deal on it and if it’s going to be more for displaying than for wearing it the actual size doesn’t matter all that much.
Dolly Noir x Pokémon Hoenn Region Kyogre Over Kimono Tee. This one was such a lucky find, I really wanted some of the Dolly Noir stuff but it felt kinda expensive so I was dragging my feet. Eventually this shirt ended up selling out. But then I came across an eBay auction for one in my size and managed to get it for much less than it would’ve been on their site. I feel a little bad that I underpaid so much but I’m also extremely happy that I was able to find one.
Plush
Pokémon Center 2005 Kyogre Pokedoll. This guy was a really exciting find. I’ve seen the pokedoll Kygores online every now and then but they are always so expensive. Unlike the Primal plush I got a while back I wasn’t the only one to find this auction but I still managed to win. They weren’t the cheapest purchase, and they do have a couple of small stains and a few cracks in the red, but I love them anyways. I do believe they made two sizes of this design so I guess I have to keep an eye out for the other one to complete the pair. I’m assuming this is the smaller of the two but I haven’t seen a good enough size comparison to know for sure.
Miscellaneous
Glass Pokéball Light. This was just something I’ve always seen around and decided to finally go out and look for one. It was concerningly cheap and almost certainly even cheaper to make, but I still think it’s neat. The stand is plastic, the glass has some defects, and the hologram is a little wonky at odd angles, but it was literally $1.34 so I can excuse the cheap thing being cheap.
3D printed Yin and Yang hanger ornament thing. My parents just got some crazy multi-color 3D printer so I wanted to put together a model and test it out. Something I’ve always thought would be a fun idea was to have the two colors of Kyogre in a Yin and Yang pose. They have the teardrop shaped bodies and even the circle on their fins so I thought it would work perfect, but I never saw anyone else do the same concept so I had to make it myself. I found a model rip from the 3DS that fortunately still had the armature intact so I could pose it the way I wanted. Then I modeled a square hole in the body and converted the textures into something the printer could read. Each half took about 15 hours and while they didn’t turn out perfect I think they’re good enough. I did have to draw on the eyes myself though so I definitely could have done a bit better there.
Only five things this month but that’s where I’m at. Should be up to 143 unique items and I am practically out of space (I was out of space last time too, it’s just worse now). I’ve started looking into glass cases so hopefully I’ll be able to upgrade from the bookshelf soon and get everything to fit together in a nicer way.
(Update 5/21/2026):
It has been a while! I probably should have updated sooner, but every time I was always just waiting on one more thing, and the next thing, and the next thing…
But now all the things are here so I can post a big update!
Tokens, Coins, and Cards
First off I want to shout out @squirtle1000 who kindly helped me get these four Tretta tiles while on their trip to Taiwan! I found them on Shopee ages ago but never had any way to purchase them so I am really grateful for their help. These theoretically complete my Tretta collection, but I have seen people with tiles that should have been white but had clear glitter plastic instead. So there may be 1-2 more Kyogre Trettas out there but I haven’t been able to find any official confirmation that those are real so I don’t really know.
Some small things from another Japan proxy order I did. I was lucky to find one more of the Ga-Olé disks I was missing, but only one. I still have six more unique disks to find, but now there is only one artwork I don’t have any variants of. The little foil card I just thought was neat and then a couple TCG coins. The blue came in a two pack with a Groudon for fairly cheap but the gold was a pain to get. I went for the cheapest listing I could find but it was still way more than I’m used to seeing TCG coins go for, I don’t know what its deal is but I’m glad to cross it off the list.
And these are just some assorted stickers I got together off eBay. I’m always happy to see Kyogre lots like these, especially when I don’t have any of them already.
Miscellaneous
EX Collector’s Carry Tin. It’s pretty worn but somehow the Kyogre/Groudon side is relatively unscathed. I won it for cheap in an auction but it was in Canada so it ended up to being a lot more after shipping.
Empty Primal Clash tin and sealed Knock Out Collection. Some late Christmas gifts from my brother. I haven’t been super into sealed product but I’ll admit it’s growing on me a bit. Old ones get crazy expensive so I doubt I’ll be going after anything like that, but I see no reason to open modern stuff when I mainly want the packaging anyways.
Sealed Roulette Yo-Yo. Speaking of sealed… I had no idea such a thing existed until I saw on eBay for a crazy price. One thing I’ve picked up on since I started browsing Mercari Japan is that there are a lot of people dropshipping pokémon stuff from Japan. Sure enough, I found the original Mercari listing after a reverse image search and it was a lot cheaper.
Disk Launcher. This was something I passed on during my first proxy order that I came back for this time. I was worried since the proxy marked it as “Air Transport Prohibited,” but it seems that everything from Amazon gets that label so I decided to risk it. Being off Amazon I assumed it was something recent/still in production, but the year on it is 2008 so I’m not so sure anymore.
Puzzle Base Figure? I don’t know what this guy is but I know that I have a different one with the same base and I really wanted to connect them, so that’s the whole reason I ordered it
Primal Kyogre Mug. Since the bowl set from the last proxy order arrived safely I wasn’t too concerned about this one. I paid for the protection services as last time and figured that would work, but tragically it did not. I glued it together as carefully as I could but it looks pretty bad. 
There’s another one listed for $7 so replacing it wouldn’t be too difficult, but I’m honestly tired of international shopping at the moment so I think I’ll just try not to resent the busted one. The worst part is the stupid Groudon one it came with was perfectly intact. 
Neon Green/Yellow Jacket. I doubt this is official and as far as Kyogre clothes go this one is meh, but there’s a bit of a running joke in my family about me and this awful shade of green so I just had to get it.
Wind Up Toy. I already had a normal one of these but when I saw there was a metallic/sparkly version I knew I wanted to get it. I don’t know why but things with same mold but different plastics/finishes delight me.
Filigree 3D Print. My dad printed this for me. He’s been pushing the new 3D printer to its limits ever since it got here. This thing has so many tiny details and needed so much support material I’m astonished he could get it looking as good as it does. I’m a little confused why the designer didn’t give it the right number of fingers but I’ve been too lazy to model the missing ones to glue on.
Umbrella. This is just so funny to me. I love all of the weird and specific Kyogre merch there is. In hindsight though I really shouldn’t have bought it. The length was definitely a contributing factor to the disgusting shipping costs I had to pay… among… other things.
Picture Frame. I don’t care much for Manaphy but this product line pairs them with Kyogre a lot. The designs match the bowls I got last time so it seems to be the same line as those.
Bottle Cover and Straw. Another item from the same seller as the picture frame, and probably the same product line. I do think what they did with the head on the straw is pretty neat, though it probably works better if there’s actually a bottle in there.
Plushes
AliExpress Shiny Bootleg. I love the classic blue and red but I felt that the collection desperately needed some more pink. This guy matches my other knockoff plush, though I think they completely gave up on that ribbon above the eye.
AliExpress Shiny “Boss” Bootleg. I couldn’t just get one shiny plush when they made two different ones. Instead of copying the Tomy plush design this one copies the “Boss Costume Collection” one.
Actual Tomy Plush. This guy came up for a decent price on eBay and since I’ve had the knockoff for so long I grabbed it for comparison. It’s a bit longer, the eye ribbon actually lines up, and it’s a lot softer! I know that Tomy’s done a few plushes like this one so I’m not sure which version it actually is, I didn’t see a date on the tag. Apparently one version had sewing needles left in it??? 
Kyogre Sun & Storms Key Chain. Another eBay score. It’s a really modern plush, they’re even still selling it on the site, but I got it for a fair bit under Pokémon Center price so that’s a win.
Aaand here we get to the “other things” I mentioned with the umbrella. I went a little crazy with the plushes this time around and they take up quite a bit of space, who’d have guessed? These and the umbrella are probably the biggest culprits behind the disgusting shipping price.
Arcade Prize Plush? I’m not 100% sure but I think this guy is a recent arcade prize. A bunch of them started showing up for fairly cheap while I was putting the order together and since I was going for the biggest diversity of plushes I could I obviously added it to cart.
All Star Collection~~… or not? I swear, it is so difficult for me to tell the difference between some of these plushes. I wanted the regular All Star Collection plush since I think that one’s the counterpart to my Primal, and I thought this was it but evidently not. It’s pretty small, so it’s probably either Pokémon Fit, Sitting Cuties, or just a small version of the All Star Collection. I really wanted to avoid the small ones since I already had a small plush and I hate having duplicates, but in a fortunate twist it seems that those are not all the same thing as I previously believed. This guy is ever so slightly scaled up from the small one I already have. I don’t know if that’s just a manufacturing difference, Japan vs US, or if they are actually different products, but it is technically different and that’s good enough for me.~~ Ok so I think I figured out where I went wrong here. All Star Collection is its own product line and that is probably what this plush is from. I had assumed All Star was just the “default” plush line and this would match the “default” primal I have, but that primal would be from the Pokémon Center plush line so its counterpart would actually be the Pokémon Center Kyogre.
Plastic Eyes. I don’t know which one this is, I only know it’s different because the eyes are plastic instead of embroidered. I remember now, it’s the “I Choose You! Plush.” It has been out for a couple years but is still being sold. It’s a pretty small, pretty modern plush. I think.
Boss Plush. Another reason I wanted that knockoff boss shiny was because I planned to get a real one with the proxy. The first listing I watched sold while I was waiting, and the second one refunded after I purchased, but fortunately there was still a third at roughly the same price point.
“Hybrid” Plush. I don’t know what this one actually is, but I liked it since it kinda seemed like a hybrid between the Pokédoll line and the normal ones. It has the webbed fingers and vinyl patterns like the pokédoll, but it’s normal shaped and not just a ball. It was more expensive than the others and probably much older.
Pokepark Plush. This was the main driving force behind doing another proxy order, and making it plush focused. I knew this was a rare one and I wasn’t sure if I’d be able to find another at a similar price point. Sadly the poor guy is disintegrating, though I was expecting that with it being 20 years old and made of that kind of pleather/vinyl/whatever it is. I’m going to need to figure out a good way to store them, I want to keep it part of the display but they are huge, sticky, and deteriorating. I have it just sitting on top for now but I am super worried about what’ll happen if it gets dusty. It might need its own box.
Ichiban Kuji Key Chain? And now for the most expensive item in this order by far, which was probably a bad decision because I know absolutely nothing about it, this thing! Combining the fact I had never seen or heard about this guy before, it still having the tags, me running out of time for the order, and me hyperfocusing on the plushes for whatever reason all contributed to the impulse buy. I think they came out to around $90 which was more than double any other individual thing in the order. Hopefully I didn’t overpay or fall for a bootleg but I just thought it was neat. It looks like a pokédoll, but it’s not actually a pokédoll, but it seems official, but I’ve never heard anybody so much as mention it, so I don’t really know what to think. They’re just a little guy.
And that’s the update!
Assuming I haven’t either lost track or lost a whale, that should put me at 182 unique objects. 47.6% complete, and an even 200 away from the goal of 382. Thanks for reading!
Oh but one more thing.
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