About Dialga FTW

Last update: July/6/2011

Links!

Here are some other Pokemon collecting sites you might enjoy! If you'd like to link me on your site, send me an email at happyjolteon at gmail dot com.

pkmncollectors!
Pkmncollectors - the community with all those other great collectors! If you're into Pokemon collecting, you should definitely check out this community.

Sunyshore!
Sunyshore! The largest Raichu, lion, and electric collections you will ever see! Also home to the great Sunyshore Pokemart with many excellent Japanese items.

Deep Fusion

Deep Fusion is my friend's combined art gallery and Pokemon collection site. There is some great art as well as some very extensive collections! ^_^

Collectorviper

CollectorViper is my friend Callyfin's Pokemon TCG collection, scan, and news database. Check it out for the latest card news and great card scans!

Mamoswine's Pokemon Collections
MAMOSWINE! is a collection site for Mamoswine and family, Flaaffy, human character collections, and more!

Hanten Sekai Banner
Hanten Sekai features an extensive collection of both formes of Giratina! She also has a site for ghost-type Pokemon and many other collections here.

The Littlest Samurai banner
The Littlest Samurai houses Tamago226's very extensive collection of Mijumaru/Oshawott, and also his evolutins!

Soul Dew Banner
Soul Dew is a collection site dedicated to Latios and Latias, Pokemon I collect as well!

Ancient Pillar Site Banner
Ancient Pillar is a collection site focused on legendary dragons and Arceus, but Shaymin, Cobalion, Terrakion, Virizion and Keldeo make appearances as well!

Tuesday's Plushies Banner
Tuesday's Plushies is not a collection site, but rather a gallery for the (mostly Pokemon) plush she's made, as well as information about commissioning her for a plush of your own. She made the Vibrava and Flygon on my Dragons page!

Captainangel's Collections Banner Captainangel's Collections focuses on bat Pokemon (the Zubat and Woobat evolution lines) but also includes collections for Carnivine, Spinarak line, and Cacnea line!

Slothyshroom Collection site Banner SlothyShroom is a site showing collections of the Slakoth and Shroomish evolution lines (sloths and shrooms!) but features a few other Pokemon as well.

Mareeps: Pokemon Collections
Mareeps.com is a collection site for Mareep, Flaaffy, and Ampharos, aiming to build the largest and most complete collections of those Pokemon!

Sacred Field Banner
Sacred Field is a collection site for the Legendary Beast Trio (Entei, Raikou, and Suicune), as well as Absol.

Glacidea no Hana Banner
グラシデアの花 is a collection site dedicated to Shaymin's Land Forme merchandise, also maintained by the owner of Sacred Field.

Denki Pulse: Luxio Pokemon Collection
Denki Pulse focuses on Luxio, and aims to build a complete collection! There are a good number of unique custom Luxio here as well!

Fernchu's Pokemon Collections
Lunatic High: My friend Fernchu's Pokemon collections. She collects quite a few Pokemon!

Lips and Hips Site Banner

Lips and Hips: A Jynx/Smoochum collection site, showcasing kylie_fanatic/Eddie's collections.

River's End Site Banner

River's End: A Vaporeon collection site, showcasing Key's extensive Vaporeons and other collections.

Pokemon Passions Site Banner

Pokemon Passions: A collection site for Flareon, Absol, and others!

Chikorita and Friends Site Banner

Chikorita and Friends is of course a site focused on Chikorita, though she has a building collection of the new Pokemon Shimama there as well!

Cuddle's Pokemon Ranch Banner

Cuddle's Pokemon Ranch showcases collections of Suicune, the Vulpix, Eevee, and Zoroa evolution lines, and many more!

Sealed Chamber Banner

Sealed Chamber focuses on Kaiyodo collections, that company that makes the Pokemon prerelease figures, Trading Figure Game, bottle cap figures, and more!

Tiffany's Collection A collection site and wishlist, primarily focusing on Lt. Surge~

Moonlight Flare Kisune's Pokemon collections. She focuses on Eevee evolutions but also collects others such as the lions and Plusle/Minun. This site is no longer being updated but it has some good pictures of rare items!

Why do I collect Dialga?

I've been collecting Pokemon since I started playing the game in 1999, different Pokemon over the years as my favorites changed - first Abra, then Meowth for a long time, then Jolteon for a long time after that. When I started collecting really hardcore at LiveJournal's pkmncollectors, I started to get discouraged about how little Jolteon stuff there was to get, and how quickly those few things were snatched up by other people. I wasn't that attached to Dialga at the time but I thought it would be fun to collect - lots of stuff and not very popular. But I've grown much more attached to it as I've collected it, and now he's surpassed Jolteon as my top favorite Pokemon. (If you're interested in seeing my Jolteon collection, check the Jolteon page.)

I love looking back at this: Here's my collection when I first started collecting Dialga and had bought a few small things on eBay, in addition to things I'd have bought anyway:

Collection as of 9/30/07

(This is actually minus the special DS, but other than that, this is all I had at the time.) A few months later it outgrew the table, then a shelf, then two shelves, and now I have a hard time getting everything visible in one picture. 

Who are you?

I'm an adult collector living in the US, enjoying Pokemon and teaching myself Japanese in my spare time. I've always been drawn to collecting; I collected cats when I was little, and helped with my parent's antiquing business when I was growing up. Collecting is in my blood ;)

If you have questions or comments about the site, or Dialga stuff you know about that I don't, you can email me at happyjolteon at gmail.com (with the @ put in if you're not a spammer).

What's pkmncollectors?

LiveJournal's pkmncollectors community. You probably didn't ask this because you came to this site from there, but it's a haven for people like me who enjoy collecting and sharing their collections with others (whether that means selling, trading, or just showing off).

Where did you get all that stuff?

A lot of the Sources listed for these items are Yahoo! Japan. Once I first exhausted eBay, pkmncollectors, and local retail stores for readily available goods, I bought most of the other stuff on Yahoo! Japan using a deputy service (Shopping Mall Japan). I'm not using SMJ anymore due to poor quality of service and fees I encountered, but that is how I got quite a lot of the stuff I have now. I'm now signed up with Noppin (formerly Crescent Shop), which I personally think is much more reliable and better overall.

Of course, I'm always still checking eBay, pkmncollectors, and those local stores for more Dialga things! I've also been to Japan a few times and picked up many additions for my collections there.

Are you selling anything?

None of the items in my personal collection are for sale, but I do sometimes get extras of a few items, like duplicates of Chou Get because I can't tell if it's a pose that I already have...feel free to email me and ask, but please don't be upset if I only have one and won't be selling it.

Do you collect anything with Dialga?

Not exactly. There's a lot of stuff out there that has Dialga and Palkia (or Dialga and Darkrai or Giratina) half and half. I can't really call these Dialga items, so I don't count them as part of the collection really, but if I happen to have them I may still include it here. If something comes with a bunch of Pokemon though, and I can take the Dialga and make it an individual item, I'm all for it.