On July 10th, 2010, Movie 13 ("Ruler of Illusion: Zoroark") hit theatres, and along with it came unusually sparkly, twinkling movie heroes! I am not talking about teenaged vampires, folks - I am talking about shiny Raikou, Entei and Suicune, of course! With their dramatic entrance onto the big screen, we first got word that anyone pre-ordering a movie ticket would get to pick one shiny beast to be downloaded into their game. That was only the start -- soon posters went up in the Pokemon Centers of Japan advertising a unique promotion for shiny beast lottery prizes. They were the first shiny Pokedolls - along with charms, and stickers - and we fans of shiny Pokemon or the three beasts were only about to start getting our heads spun around! The merchandise came pouring in, and here on the SPECIAL SECRET SHINY RAIKOU POKEDOLL PAGE I have documented many photos of him, Shiny Raikou Pokedoll, my favourite shiny Pokemon of all time!

Shiny Raikou Pokedoll(s) were given out from June 19th until July 25th, in the summer of 2010, as a special promotion for Movie 13. These are officially the first shiny Pokedolls ever made! An estimated 150-250 dolls were given out per Pokemon Center over the course of the month. Please meet my first Shiny Raikou Pokedoll, Romulus, with his brother Remus, my regular Raikou Pokedoll.

You can see how different their mane patterns are!


Shiny Raikou Pokedoll's legs are much fatter and squishier as well, making him shorter.

★★　MY SHINY POKEDOLL ARMY!　★★
I aquired Romulus and decided I would not win a doll in the lottery, as many weeks had passed and I had won roughly 150 stickers and two or three charm sets. Then one fateful day in early July, it happened - I won a Shiny Raikou Pokedoll at the Tokyo Pokemon Center! I could not believe it! Two days later, at the Yokohama Pokemon Center, I won TWO MORE?? This was too much for me to handle!! I ended up with my own little army of Shiny Raikou Pokedolls?! Witness the beauty! Each of them has such varied expressions!



Remus is very happy to feel like he is the more unique doll once again!

But Romulus will always be king of the mountain.

Although two of my precious sons have gone on to new (caring and loving!) homes to live with other Raikou, one of the fellows got his tag a bit bent on the trip home. Well I can't hand out a toy with a bent tag, can I? I follow the code of the crazed toy collector after all! Meet Hercules, who is my hands-on Shiny Raikou Pokedoll, my buddy who travels with me, and dons a collar woven for me by a dear friend. I am glad to keep a Raikou I won myself, and I am very proud!

★SHINY RAIKOU MC+ FIGURE・色違いライコウモンコレプラス★
Shiny Raikou MC+ is a special limited edition, not for sale figure limited to only 1000 each. You had to mail in two proofs of purchase of any Takara Tomy MC figure, and could possibly win one of the beasts of your choice! Well, I got the two proofs of purchase and printed out the postcard to mail ... but I was in the USA at the time, and distracted, and so to make a boring story short, I never mailed them. How would I get my beautiful, gorgeous, sleek and shiny Raikou MC+? To Yahoo Japan we went! And low and behold!

★SHINY RAIKOU ZUKAN・色違いのライコウ立体ポケモン図鑑★
Hah, you think it stopped at one single plush? Keep dreaming -- Shiny Raikou got so many toys, you could shake a stick at them! And get your hand bitten off. By a vicious and powerful Shiny Raikou. :) This was the first set of zukan figures on red bases - and the first shiny zukan figures ever! All three beasts got these beautiful and bright 1/40th scale figures.

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