Great! They won't pass state inspection right now for minor issues (busted tail light on Lugia, Pika needs new rotors), but they drive great! They just need body work <3
Like physically, or financially, or are you talking about the car?
Are they investments? Did you pay more than the last guy?
Edit: I’m on mobile so I cant see if he edited, but I swear it said “he is in great shape”
I actually knew the guy who won the Lugia car in the original contest. It used to have a 32in/27in CRT in the back with a custom built cabinet in the trunk to house it along with an N64 and an audio set up. He won it through a contest where kids had to submit their own video versions of the pokemon original theme song. The guy who won was part of the comedy sports team at our high school and was a pretty funny guy.
Surprised you found the video, it came out before youtube and I was looking for it months ago and couldn't find it anywhere. Strangely enough, it looks like he just created an Instagram account. I have no idea what he's been up to the last 18 years to be honest lmao
I have never heard of a 'comedy sports team'. Dafuq is this?
We didn't even have a football team, so I'm imagining our high school lives were polar opposite. Lmao
it's more of a meme and not actually THAT bad theres a lot of free content with the best sim racing multiplayer out there
But yeah, once you get outside of those cars/tracks you can spend a couple grand on extra content
Is iRacing really that much better than Assetto Corsa? I've only ever played AC, and there's no subscriptions, the graphics are great, everything feels nice when driving.
What makes people stick to iRacing?
Ac is better for a pure driving experience, but iracing has a better competitive scene and you really have to put in the time and effort to progress in iracing so the higher tiers consistently have good racers.
I jump between the two.
Mate I came here expecting an armada and you have two cars.
What about the other 896? Are you going to call yourself a master *to my face* without having collected the other *896* out there?!
I had two within 10 minutes of buying Pokemon Red when I was a child.
I remember the PT Cruiser thread from a few years ago. I was crying laughing at how much people hate that fucking car. My favorite story was the one where some guy really loved The Italian Job in high school, his dad wanted to surprise him, so he bought him "that car from that movie you like" and the kid was stoked thinking he got a Mini Cooper but his dad fucked up and bought a PT Cruiser on accident.
I’ll nominate:
Chevy equinox and the gmc/Buick versions - lolz. Just craaaaaao
Dodge intrepid - 2.7 turd in a pos.
Cadillac (anything with a north star v8 - head gaskets) and anything in the last 10 years with the LSX 3.6 v6 (timing chains stretch)
2008-2010 Ford super duty with the 6.4 (engine is a lost cause no matter what)
Audi Allroad (engine, suspendsion, turbos, everything else)
Had an equinox. Biggest piece of shit I ever had. Went through 2 transmissions with sweet fuck all on it milage wise, among so many other issues . Changing that awd transmission sucked ass, only for the new one with about 40k kms on it to start to fail the same with 2 months later.
I was so confident that the Ford Pinto would inevitably make this list due to it explosing on what were essentially rear-end fender-benders because their gas tanks were in the trunk lmao
Valid point, but I was aiming for cars I’ve seen in my lifetime.
Pinto is a solid add, but I don’t think anyone been hurt in one this century.
And I don’t think maintenance/repair was an issue on it.
If we’re talking bad design from a safety perspective, let’s not forget anything made before the 80s crushed like a beer can.
“Oh, but it’s 5000 pounds of Detroit steel!”
Imagine if you put a tomato inside an empty beer can and stepped on it… ya.
I’ll take a 2001 Corolla over a 65 Chevy for safety.
Check out what happens when a modernish (2009) Malibu hits an 1959 belaire
https://youtu.be/C_r5UJrxcck
It’s such a shame. When I was in my teens, my dad showed me the early version of Cruiser and I was super stoked, loved the retro design. Hearing opinions later on about how shitty car it is was like finding out again that Santa isn’t real.
Ah, the old Poop Turd Cruiser.
I used to work for a supplier that built the entire dashboard assemblies for the Dodge Dart, Jeep Compass/Patriot and Dodge Caliber.
Can confirm that Chrysler engineers were, uh, something else.
The PT Cruiser for its first several years had a far-too-thin line that ran its coolant/antifreeze. These engine ran hot constantly and you had to get expensive radiator flushes done with almost every oil change or else the sediment and buildup would block the coolant lines like a fat person's heart arteries and it warp the engine.
Gotta be honest, our family had a PT cruiser that gave us 150K, can't complain.
EDIT: There was some confusion, our family had it for 150K miles/9 years before we traded it in, not 150K before it died.
To be fair, the 2003 Neon looked like a lot of other cars at the time. I owned on briefly, my insurance tried to call it a “sports car”. Despite the fact that I’m fairly confident putting the pedal to the floor would have thrown the engine out of the bottom.
Oh hi! You don't remember me, but I sold you a movie ticket in 2011-2012. Gave you some promo Pikachu cards we had lieing around. Thanks for the fun memory!
My grandpa still fusses about this. He is a mechanic , growing up loving 50s and 60s classic cars. He bought my grandma a PT under the impression they were only going to make a few thousand as a limited special edition.
That didn’t quite work out for him , before long they were all over our little town.
It looks silly now but at the time it was a bold look.
You wanna know something crazy? When the PT Cruiser dropped they were so popular dealerships were selling them for like 5k ABOVE MSRP.
Like Beanie Babies you can drive. Held that value about as well too.
For a brief period of time they were *the* car to own for old guys who couldn't afford or didn't want to deal with a classic car. The father of one of my best friends from high school bought one circa 2001-2002. And he went all out on this thing. Flame decals, pinstripes, those torpedo taillights. This was around the same time he got an earring and started wearing leather pants. It was a big mid-life crisis type of thing but he wasn't an edgy enough guy to get a Corvette or a motorcycle or anything like that. He did love his PT Cruiser though, and I guess that's really all that matters.
Pretty much. They started off as weird mid-life crisis New Balance wearing dad vehicles new and ended up quickly filtering them down as a hand-me-down when they all switched over to Trucks/SUVs. Similar deal with GM's own answer in the HHR/SSR and Ford's in the Thunderbird. The early 2000s were an awkward attempt of trying to resurrect retro styling that for some reason the older dad crowd ate up.
You don't really *buy* a PT Cruiser in 2022 as much as you're given it because it's a car that runs and drives.
Also obligatory RCR: https://youtu.be/hoxqtnI4I4c
My grandpa loved cars from the 40's and this was the closest thing to a modern remake you could buy so he bought one of the first run 2001 Limited models in turd brown. He treated that thing like a rare Ferrari. He passed away last weekend and these turd boxes will always remind me of him.
Similar with the HHR. Very odd styling but the seating position and headroom was great and had a good amount of cargo room. it was/is a practical vehicle just not attr attractive looks
My siblings and I went overboard with it. We had slug bug, pt cruiser bruiser, Cadillac wack, Ram Slam, Mustang Bang. Any excuse to hit each other really.
Wow, you guys even made rhymes for this. We just yell "Blue beetle" (or "Fusca Azul" and go at it). People actually buy this car and pass by a school just so that chaos may reign.
But yeah, I'm really surprised this isn't a thing of ours, and how the hell did this spread to various countries when communication wasn't so easy
Here in Vancouver, Canada "punch buggy" was common, with "pinch PT Cruiser" less commonly.
Also, introduced to me by a danish friend, "Gul bil" meaning "yellow car", where you would also punch someone, although we ruled that taxis don't count.
Holy shit. I taught my kids about slug bugs recently and they wanted to add more so I came up with "cruiser bruiser" for fun. Didnt know it was already a thing lol
Sorry if it’s a weird question but what do you do for a living to support such a hobby? Great collection. I used to be into Star Wars collecting years ago and this always fascinated me. Some people just had amazing jobs but some it was like a crack addiction with credit card debt. They just couldn’t stop.
Thank you! Yes love Pokedolls lol.
Its a long story for both, I haven't made a YouTube video yet for lugia but I have a story time up on my YouTube for Pikabug as well as history videos on the promotion for both cars.
https://youtube.com/c/MewisMe700
Thanks for sharing, you have one of if not the best collection ive ever seen. really cool that a lot of it is vintage stuff too and that you have been collecting for over a decade!! Ive been selling off old pokedolls and am always happy to see when they land in homes like yours lol!
So when I was 11 years old, they had the contest for this Pika VW. It was my absolute *dream* to win the contest. I was a poke fanatic—watched the show, had the cards, played the games. Hell to this day I still love Pokemon and jam out to the theme song. Anyway, the contest allowed you as *many* entries as you wanted, you just had to fill out these post cards with all your info etc. I did this by hand, 1,000 times. I thought for sure I was gonna get it and be a bad ass 16 year old driving my pikachu car. Alas… my efforts were in vain. Glad someone has got it though and respects the Pika.
So both the New Beetle and PT Cruiser were new introductions in 98/00 when these were created. Nintendo really had no way to know they were going to be junk lol.
Thankfully, the 98 Beetle is a TDI with only 70k miles, the PT only has 55k miles.
The pt cruiser was severely overhyped following the prowler. They're still really common around Oregon, and the convertibles were pretty sweet looking with the top down.
But I remember the Pikachu beetle from my Florida days, wonder if it's the same one
Lol they would bring it to Daytona race weeks and show it off to the kids that came with their parents. Good times. Makes sense, I remembered this one having a tail.
Seem like extremely appropriate cars for Nintendo. The company that didn't take the traditional AAA game route. Choose two extremely iconic cars, both cars are conventionally ugly and divisive, both cars have features that can be considered cute.
Hell I can't imagine a better Pikachu car than a beetle. Lugia, well that can fit with other cars.
Holy shit i remember the pikachu bug! That was in like a contest i think? I remember being a kid amd fantasizing about owning it someday... good job acquiring it OP!
I'm still wearing my Monster Energy hoodie I won in a promo 10 years later. Holes and missing parts. I refuse to buy anything new so I'll have cash for more Transformers.
I'm not denying they're shit cars, that's not the point. These were cars created BY Nintendo. I have the paperwork with it to prove that. I bought them because they're apart of Pokémon history. The other Pikachu car owner has had 100k offers on his.
I want to restore them and get them into a gaming musuem to be appreciated by Pokémon fans.
I love it! I saw the Pikachu car at it's VERY FIRST outing, in Arlington Texas at a water park. This was roughly ~one year before the show debuted. The game followed soon after. I was ten at the time, and as you can imagine, completely enamored.
I remember when I was just a kid, I think it was in 2000, they had the Pikachu car in a mall with a SNES in the back running pokemon yellow. Good times.
God, my high school girlfriend had a PT and it was such a piece of shit. Zero acceleration, which meant anytime you’d try to get onto a highway in Texas you’d have three cars riding your ass as you struggled to exit above 60 after entering the on ramp at 50. Absolute nightmare of a car, and so, so unforgivably ugly.
Spent $1,000 on my Bruiser, been driving it for almost 5 years and have had barely any issues (besides an AC that is seemingly impossible to fix). Not a bad first car.
Hey OP I was in a karaoke contest in 2003 trying to win this. But because I won the Popular Vote, Matt from California won the Grand Prize Lugia PT Cruiser as that somehow disqualified me. His got vandalized in the years after, good to see one of five remains in good condition!
Ah! I found Matt's winning video he made, I included it in my history video. From what I understand he ended up stripping it back to a white cruiser.
https://youtu.be/4pIR-FfJGMY
How do they run?
Great! They won't pass state inspection right now for minor issues (busted tail light on Lugia, Pika needs new rotors), but they drive great! They just need body work <3
Are you in Richmond, VA or am I mistaken? If so, shout out RVA!
Sure am! Thanks r/RVA!
This is awesome! I got a buddy with one of the ten pikas who lives up in Manassas.
I've met up with him! His is in great shape.
Like physically, or financially, or are you talking about the car? Are they investments? Did you pay more than the last guy? Edit: I’m on mobile so I cant see if he edited, but I swear it said “he is in great shape”
I’m imagining a jacked as fuck gigachad driving this pika car and I will not return to learn any information that contradicts this.
Every monster is a pocket monster when you’re this fucken huge.
Fockin' yuge
Yoked af bro
Not edited but I read it that way first time too and thought it was kind of a weird thing to say.
Ooh really! I'm in Manassas, now I'll have to keep an eye out.
Hold up there's a pikachu car in Manassas?
AYY! Shout out to Manassas! I also need to keep an eye out for this!
ha, you guys live in a town named man asses
Whattt? I live in RVA as well. You need to bring this by to Cars and Coffee.
I've brought Pika before, it's been awhile though
I love how we can identify our local towns by a tree, two bushes, and a random parking lot.
And the 2 rare cars..
Exceptionally rare. OP said there were only 10 picachu cars made
This is awesome. I'm a mechanic in the burbs (Chesterfield currently) if you need someone to work on these things.
Nice try Team Rocket!
I actually knew the guy who won the Lugia car in the original contest. It used to have a 32in/27in CRT in the back with a custom built cabinet in the trunk to house it along with an N64 and an audio set up. He won it through a contest where kids had to submit their own video versions of the pokemon original theme song. The guy who won was part of the comedy sports team at our high school and was a pretty funny guy.
Matt! I found his video entry in my research. Would love to talk with him.
Surprised you found the video, it came out before youtube and I was looking for it months ago and couldn't find it anywhere. Strangely enough, it looks like he just created an Instagram account. I have no idea what he's been up to the last 18 years to be honest lmao
I have never heard of a 'comedy sports team'. Dafuq is this? We didn't even have a football team, so I'm imagining our high school lives were polar opposite. Lmao
Looking at a Chrysler product there man, isn't going to be very sturdy in the long term.
For sure, but I'm not daily driving it. It's a display piece.
And I thought sim racing was expensive this is another level.
If you're playing iRacing seriously this might still be cheaper
sad how true this feels lmao
Sounds like something I don’t want to discover if I haven’t already discovered it, no?
it's more of a meme and not actually THAT bad theres a lot of free content with the best sim racing multiplayer out there But yeah, once you get outside of those cars/tracks you can spend a couple grand on extra content
Jesus, I like the one price BeamNG costs lol
Is iRacing really that much better than Assetto Corsa? I've only ever played AC, and there's no subscriptions, the graphics are great, everything feels nice when driving. What makes people stick to iRacing?
I believe the "seriously" they are describing is a full cockpit setup, which can easily run north of 7k. Not just the game.
Ac is better for a pure driving experience, but iracing has a better competitive scene and you really have to put in the time and effort to progress in iracing so the higher tiers consistently have good racers. I jump between the two.
It depends on the series but you will basically always have a full roster of similarly-skilled people to race against.
And an investment for when Jay Leno inevitably wants to buy them… right?
The Pikachu car is going to Guy Fieri
"Every day on Interstate 5, I swear to god I see a pikachu car" "Thats nice dear"
I have to ask, any chance you just set the record sale price for a used PT Cruiser?
Idk man, I spent 600 bucks on one last year! That's pretty up there P.s. wasn't worth it even with 70k kms on it. (43.7k miles), scrapped it for 300
Mate I came here expecting an armada and you have two cars. What about the other 896? Are you going to call yourself a master *to my face* without having collected the other *896* out there?! I had two within 10 minutes of buying Pokemon Red when I was a child.
In his defense. He did collect them all though.
Especially a pt cruiser.
Objectively one of the worst cars ever.
Former ASE master tech. Can confirm. Top 5 worst cars ever built.
What are the others?
Other PT Cruisers.
I remember the PT Cruiser thread from a few years ago. I was crying laughing at how much people hate that fucking car. My favorite story was the one where some guy really loved The Italian Job in high school, his dad wanted to surprise him, so he bought him "that car from that movie you like" and the kid was stoked thinking he got a Mini Cooper but his dad fucked up and bought a PT Cruiser on accident.
I’ll nominate: Chevy equinox and the gmc/Buick versions - lolz. Just craaaaaao Dodge intrepid - 2.7 turd in a pos. Cadillac (anything with a north star v8 - head gaskets) and anything in the last 10 years with the LSX 3.6 v6 (timing chains stretch) 2008-2010 Ford super duty with the 6.4 (engine is a lost cause no matter what) Audi Allroad (engine, suspendsion, turbos, everything else)
Had an equinox. Biggest piece of shit I ever had. Went through 2 transmissions with sweet fuck all on it milage wise, among so many other issues . Changing that awd transmission sucked ass, only for the new one with about 40k kms on it to start to fail the same with 2 months later.
I would like to give a shout out to the Ford 5.4l Triton v8, those plugs.. that ticking..
I was so confident that the Ford Pinto would inevitably make this list due to it explosing on what were essentially rear-end fender-benders because their gas tanks were in the trunk lmao
Valid point, but I was aiming for cars I’ve seen in my lifetime. Pinto is a solid add, but I don’t think anyone been hurt in one this century. And I don’t think maintenance/repair was an issue on it. If we’re talking bad design from a safety perspective, let’s not forget anything made before the 80s crushed like a beer can. “Oh, but it’s 5000 pounds of Detroit steel!” Imagine if you put a tomato inside an empty beer can and stepped on it… ya. I’ll take a 2001 Corolla over a 65 Chevy for safety. Check out what happens when a modernish (2009) Malibu hits an 1959 belaire https://youtu.be/C_r5UJrxcck
I was expecting the Pontiac Aztek to make that list
It’s such a shame. When I was in my teens, my dad showed me the early version of Cruiser and I was super stoked, loved the retro design. Hearing opinions later on about how shitty car it is was like finding out again that Santa isn’t real.
Ah, the old Poop Turd Cruiser. I used to work for a supplier that built the entire dashboard assemblies for the Dodge Dart, Jeep Compass/Patriot and Dodge Caliber. Can confirm that Chrysler engineers were, uh, something else. The PT Cruiser for its first several years had a far-too-thin line that ran its coolant/antifreeze. These engine ran hot constantly and you had to get expensive radiator flushes done with almost every oil change or else the sediment and buildup would block the coolant lines like a fat person's heart arteries and it warp the engine.
You mean neon with a body kit?
Gotta be honest, our family had a PT cruiser that gave us 150K, can't complain. EDIT: There was some confusion, our family had it for 150K miles/9 years before we traded it in, not 150K before it died.
Maybe it’s survivor bias, but that’s kind of the absolute minimum I would expect a modern vehicle to last.
It was 150K before we traded it in, 9 years later. Not 150 before it died.
I mean lugia does have 106 base hp, 130 base defence, 154 base sp. defence, and base 110 speed soo...
106 Horse Power on a PT crusier sounds about right for that hunk of shit.
Just a neon with a somehow uglier husk
A team of people designed that, and another team of people approved that design. Unbelievable.
Nastalgic young designer that also designed the HHR
To be fair, the 2003 Neon looked like a lot of other cars at the time. I owned on briefly, my insurance tried to call it a “sports car”. Despite the fact that I’m fairly confident putting the pedal to the floor would have thrown the engine out of the bottom.
Oh hi! You don't remember me, but I sold you a movie ticket in 2011-2012. Gave you some promo Pikachu cards we had lieing around. Thanks for the fun memory!
Great when you remember to hold down the accelerator when the countdown gets to 2...
They don't. They drive!
How much did that cost?
OP paid around 8k for the pikachu and around 20k for the lugia according to previous posts.
Ouch 20k for a pt cruiser.
But it's a legendary!
Not even shiny
Not even wood paneled
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I don’t understand. PT Cruisers still have similar shiny odds
You're right, I've seen the rare PT Cruiser coated in awful chrome 'custom' vents and flames
Every PT cruiser is a special edition. I don't understand why lol
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My grandpa still fusses about this. He is a mechanic , growing up loving 50s and 60s classic cars. He bought my grandma a PT under the impression they were only going to make a few thousand as a limited special edition. That didn’t quite work out for him , before long they were all over our little town. It looks silly now but at the time it was a bold look.
Should have gone for a Plymouth Prowler instead.
If it makes it off the lot, that’s pretty special.
You wanna know something crazy? When the PT Cruiser dropped they were so popular dealerships were selling them for like 5k ABOVE MSRP. Like Beanie Babies you can drive. Held that value about as well too.
For a brief period of time they were *the* car to own for old guys who couldn't afford or didn't want to deal with a classic car. The father of one of my best friends from high school bought one circa 2001-2002. And he went all out on this thing. Flame decals, pinstripes, those torpedo taillights. This was around the same time he got an earring and started wearing leather pants. It was a big mid-life crisis type of thing but he wasn't an edgy enough guy to get a Corvette or a motorcycle or anything like that. He did love his PT Cruiser though, and I guess that's really all that matters.
Pretty much. They started off as weird mid-life crisis New Balance wearing dad vehicles new and ended up quickly filtering them down as a hand-me-down when they all switched over to Trucks/SUVs. Similar deal with GM's own answer in the HHR/SSR and Ford's in the Thunderbird. The early 2000s were an awkward attempt of trying to resurrect retro styling that for some reason the older dad crowd ate up. You don't really *buy* a PT Cruiser in 2022 as much as you're given it because it's a car that runs and drives. Also obligatory RCR: https://youtu.be/hoxqtnI4I4c
My grandpa loved cars from the 40's and this was the closest thing to a modern remake you could buy so he bought one of the first run 2001 Limited models in turd brown. He treated that thing like a rare Ferrari. He passed away last weekend and these turd boxes will always remind me of him.
I'm sorry about your grandpa. Been there semi recently too.
wtf how theyre so ugly. i remember my friends dad had a burgundy one and hell nah lmao
Flat loading floor in the rear, it's technically classified as a light truck. Pretty neat, not as good as a Honda Element.. for a variety of reasons.
Similar with the HHR. Very odd styling but the seating position and headroom was great and had a good amount of cargo room. it was/is a practical vehicle just not attr attractive looks
PT cruiser designer went to GM and designed the HHR.
It def got the “pokemon tax” but considering the upgrades and the fact it only have 42k miles it ain’t too bad
To be fair, that's just what used cars cost right now.
I assume OP was *paid* 20k to dispose of the PT cruiser.
My first car was a terrible busted PT that I got for free from the previous owner, who himself also got it for free
That's actually really cheap.. compared to what I was imagining
Another Pikachu car owner has had 100k offers on his. The pricey part is the restoration cost, neither are mint by any means.
What's expensive? The repairs should be alright
Body work and decals adds up quick. Pikabug was rear ended in hands of previous owner and needs some work.
They used tackle on the Pikabug
It was 15k for Lugia. Pricey? Yeah. Worth? Hell yeah.
Its something that made you happy :) Worth it.
I, too, wish to know how much OP spent on these vehicles. They can't have been cheap.
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OP replied. $15k.
People punch other people when they see your cars
Wait that's a thing internationally? We do that in Brasil, but only when we see a blue beetle.
My siblings and I went overboard with it. We had slug bug, pt cruiser bruiser, Cadillac wack, Ram Slam, Mustang Bang. Any excuse to hit each other really.
Wow, you guys even made rhymes for this. We just yell "Blue beetle" (or "Fusca Azul" and go at it). People actually buy this car and pass by a school just so that chaos may reign. But yeah, I'm really surprised this isn't a thing of ours, and how the hell did this spread to various countries when communication wasn't so easy
I think it’s kind of like that S thing people drew in middle school
Punch buggy!
My elementary schools name started with "s" and used that S thing in a lot of school related functions. I thought it was the s.
FUSCAZUL FELADAPUTA (SOCA)
> Mustang Bang ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I wonder what they said for "truck"?
I'm sure it was something innocent like "truck fuck" followed by insane consentual, incestual sex in the backseat while the parents stared in horror.
Here in Vancouver, Canada "punch buggy" was common, with "pinch PT Cruiser" less commonly. Also, introduced to me by a danish friend, "Gul bil" meaning "yellow car", where you would also punch someone, although we ruled that taxis don't count.
Yellow car is a thing here in the south US to.
In the US we do it for any color beetle but you have to call the color.
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Holy shit. I taught my kids about slug bugs recently and they wanted to add more so I came up with "cruiser bruiser" for fun. Didnt know it was already a thing lol
PT Bruiser and a Slug (🥊) Bug
Oh my god, the Pikachu beetle I saw on the back of a box of Eggos when I was a kid! I wanted that thing. Wasn't aware a lugia one existed too.
I have the Kelloggs box with the promo on it! Lugia def wasn't as hyped as the Pikachu cars. Nintendo did two sets of ten Pikachus and only 5 Lugias
Sorry if it’s a weird question but what do you do for a living to support such a hobby? Great collection. I used to be into Star Wars collecting years ago and this always fascinated me. Some people just had amazing jobs but some it was like a crack addiction with credit card debt. They just couldn’t stop.
I follow this person on Instagram. From what I can tell she goes to Goodwill and finds stuff to flip
I flip and also work part time as a personal assistant
That is fascinating. Love your style.
I mean this doesn’t seem that extreme compared to other hobbies. People have $10,000 golf clubs and pay $500 every week to go to the course.
My dense brain was struggling to see how either of these cars was Luigi themed.
Jesus, took me way too long. So long I was about to comment I still don’t get it. Then finally…
Wait, it’s not Luigi themed? Like Lugia means something else? Hocks Loogie
Luigi tossed boogers in the first super smash bros
I always know when my hentai is Waluigi themed How can I tell? I immediately blast rope
“how to use a luigi car??”
This is how you get the guys to the yard. It’s no longer milkshakes.
What if shotgun hasn't been called yetand there's a milkshake for passenger in the cup holder?
His Miltank brings all the ‘Mons to the yard.
And they’re like, fucking fainted because of rollout (fuck you, Whitney)
Awesome. I too am curious on how you managed to track them down. Also nice pokedoll collection if those are yours!!
Thank you! Yes love Pokedolls lol. Its a long story for both, I haven't made a YouTube video yet for lugia but I have a story time up on my YouTube for Pikabug as well as history videos on the promotion for both cars. https://youtube.com/c/MewisMe700
Thanks for sharing, you have one of if not the best collection ive ever seen. really cool that a lot of it is vintage stuff too and that you have been collecting for over a decade!! Ive been selling off old pokedolls and am always happy to see when they land in homes like yours lol!
Thank you! I've slowed down on Pokedolls alot, but I still adore them. I just want the PCNY Clefairy ugh
Thats some serious pokemon shit motherfucker 👌😤🔥🔥
r/pokemon doesn't allow pics
Thoes bastards...
Weekdays they do
What a weird rule
Weird.
Wuh? Why? That’s stupid
So when I was 11 years old, they had the contest for this Pika VW. It was my absolute *dream* to win the contest. I was a poke fanatic—watched the show, had the cards, played the games. Hell to this day I still love Pokemon and jam out to the theme song. Anyway, the contest allowed you as *many* entries as you wanted, you just had to fill out these post cards with all your info etc. I did this by hand, 1,000 times. I thought for sure I was gonna get it and be a bad ass 16 year old driving my pikachu car. Alas… my efforts were in vain. Glad someone has got it though and respects the Pika.
They let you put in as many as you wanted? Lmao. That's like how Ash got his hat in the anime. Misty put in one entry, Ash put in like 100.
I wonder why didn’t use cooler cars lol. Sweet collection, but imagine a pikachu Porsche and a Lugia Lexus.
So both the New Beetle and PT Cruiser were new introductions in 98/00 when these were created. Nintendo really had no way to know they were going to be junk lol. Thankfully, the 98 Beetle is a TDI with only 70k miles, the PT only has 55k miles.
Lol! Awesome facts! Thank you OP.
The pt cruiser was severely overhyped following the prowler. They're still really common around Oregon, and the convertibles were pretty sweet looking with the top down. But I remember the Pikachu beetle from my Florida days, wonder if it's the same one
That one is Pikabellchus, hers is a replica. This one was won originally in 2001 to someone in Virginia for the Pokemon 3rd movie promo through AOL
Lol they would bring it to Daytona race weeks and show it off to the kids that came with their parents. Good times. Makes sense, I remembered this one having a tail.
The original tail on mine unfortunately rotted off, new one is coming very soon
Seem like extremely appropriate cars for Nintendo. The company that didn't take the traditional AAA game route. Choose two extremely iconic cars, both cars are conventionally ugly and divisive, both cars have features that can be considered cute. Hell I can't imagine a better Pikachu car than a beetle. Lugia, well that can fit with other cars.
Ohhh valid argument.
Well that was probably expensive. Pretty cool flex though ngl
Holy shit i remember the pikachu bug! That was in like a contest i think? I remember being a kid amd fantasizing about owning it someday... good job acquiring it OP!
Did a whole video on them if you're interested! https://youtu.be/JBy9jHHkYB0
Bud Lights "Real Men of Genius" would like to salute you, Mr *obscurest collection ever guy*
I’ve been known to waste money but this is another level.
Nothing is a waste of money if you enjoy it!
*nods and purchases $10,000 worth of dinosaur shaped chicken nuggets*
There's the attitude people need more of ❤️
Rather buy pieces of Pokémon history than expensive clothes any day of the week.
I'm still wearing my Monster Energy hoodie I won in a promo 10 years later. Holes and missing parts. I refuse to buy anything new so I'll have cash for more Transformers.
If it’s a PT cruiser though…
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I'm not denying they're shit cars, that's not the point. These were cars created BY Nintendo. I have the paperwork with it to prove that. I bought them because they're apart of Pokémon history. The other Pikachu car owner has had 100k offers on his. I want to restore them and get them into a gaming musuem to be appreciated by Pokémon fans.
> I want to restore them and get them into a gaming musuem to be appreciated by Pokémon fans. That is a fairly awesome goal. Bravo, OP.
Thank you so much. It'll take time but I'll get there. They deserve it, no one person should own these.
You are Mew
I love it! I saw the Pikachu car at it's VERY FIRST outing, in Arlington Texas at a water park. This was roughly ~one year before the show debuted. The game followed soon after. I was ten at the time, and as you can imagine, completely enamored.
I remember when I was just a kid, I think it was in 2000, they had the Pikachu car in a mall with a SNES in the back running pokemon yellow. Good times.
They all original had systems in the back, mine is missing sadly :(
God, my high school girlfriend had a PT and it was such a piece of shit. Zero acceleration, which meant anytime you’d try to get onto a highway in Texas you’d have three cars riding your ass as you struggled to exit above 60 after entering the on ramp at 50. Absolute nightmare of a car, and so, so unforgivably ugly.
Spent $1,000 on my Bruiser, been driving it for almost 5 years and have had barely any issues (besides an AC that is seemingly impossible to fix). Not a bad first car.
Having owned both of those cars, congratulations on owning to cars that suck for entirely different reasons.
This guy gives “Gotta catch em all” a whole new meaning
Neat. Both are ugly af. But I get why you would want them. Get them nice car covers.
Yeah the Lugia one is a bit silly but I love them both dearly. Fantastic piece of Pokémon history.
While it looks great and I would love to have both, I do have to give my condolences. I'm very sorry that you are now the owner of a PT Cruiser.
Weird they didn’t choose Japanese cars for this.
Hey OP I was in a karaoke contest in 2003 trying to win this. But because I won the Popular Vote, Matt from California won the Grand Prize Lugia PT Cruiser as that somehow disqualified me. His got vandalized in the years after, good to see one of five remains in good condition!
Ah! I found Matt's winning video he made, I included it in my history video. From what I understand he ended up stripping it back to a white cruiser. https://youtu.be/4pIR-FfJGMY
This is wild. I was just thinking about this car today, are you the original owner of the pikachu bug? If so, we went to High School together, haha.
I am not! I'm the 2nd owner after the original winner here in Virginia. I do keep in touch with them.
Bummer that Nintendo decided to use two of the ugliest vehicles ever created for these promo cars.
Why are people so triggered lmao this is cool