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GoblinGuy
>>184354 After re-reading the thread, I'm not sure you realize just how lucky I was to get the Chokipeta crafts. Let's put it into scope like this.
Chokipeta models (about 80-90 total), or at least the ones on the "gallery1" section of his website, were released from 2001-2005 in magazines and special giveaways. We have about 15 of the ones in gallery1, and we've have spent years looking for them.
The ones I got are all the newest ones. Pokepark, Clank, Chimchar, Chatot, Pikachu House are all considered "new" when comparing them to all the other models. The TaruTaru model was widely available because the book it's printed in is still being sold today. So I got some Chokipeta models, but if you consider their rarity, they were the easiest to obtain because it hasn't been as long.
Before I started using Yahoo Auctions Japan, we were lucky to even get one Chokipeta model in a six-month period, and it didn't happen very often. And it doesn't help that the magazines they were printed in plays second-banana to a different, more popular gaming magazine in Japan. So just finding issues of the magazine is a rarity in itself. Finding issues with the papercraft still in them is like losing a contact lens after walking a football field three times and managing to find it.
So "a few months" is an extremely short amount of time. I've only seen one of the older Chokipeta models on Yahoo Auctions Japan, and that was Torchic. It was still in the original magazine. Unfortunately, this was before I knew about Rinkya, so we lost it. So don't keep your hopes up for much, I've just been on a really lucky streak.
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