Jan 21 2010Congrats: World's Largest Pokémon Collection
Uh-oh, looks like there's a new Pokémon girl in town! Move over, Belle Starenchak, Lisa Courtney's got you beat in the realm of Pokémon related memorabilia (larger shot HERE). Congratulations, Lisa, you could have sent yourself to college.
The 21-year-old, from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, has spent 13 years building up the collection which she said has swelled to more than 13,400 since it was counted by Guinness record-checkers last year and fills most of the house she shares with mother Sharon.
''To be in the new Gamer's Edition and to hold a world record for something you feel so passionate about is just an indescribable feeling,'' she said.''My family have been incredibly supportive considering the collection takes up the whole house, including my mother's room!
''I've even named the room where my main collection resides Pokemon Centre Europe.''
We all strive for different things. Some people strive for greatness, but Lisa -- Lisa here strives for fifteen of the same stuffed animal. FOR THE LAST TIME, HAND OVER A SQUIRTLE!
Pokémon fan earns world record with 12,000-item memorabilia collection [telegraph]
Thanks to Age and Ben, who collect phone numbers. From ladies. And, ,sometimes, men pretending to be ladies.
Reader Comments
1. Firsttard - January 21, 2010 11:56 AM
Firstard!
2. ~zeus~ - January 21, 2010 11:57 AM
damn it so close
3. catch22 - January 21, 2010 11:59 AM
sad...
congrats for reaching your pennicle in life at such a young age
and I am of course am reffering to both, the firsttard, and this lame girl
4. GiNa - January 21, 2010 12:00 PM
WTF! Really? If she ever gets some butt, that would be to soon.
5. BRICKS - January 21, 2010 12:06 PM
So I herd she lieks mudkipz?
6. Eric - January 21, 2010 12:17 PM
She looks like a He...
7. LSDiesel - January 21, 2010 12:22 PM
She probably does a lot of coke.
8. Sandra - January 21, 2010 12:23 PM
I HATE HER!!!
9. Name (required): - January 21, 2010 12:23 PM
I wanna take her virginity...
10. I never back down - January 21, 2010 12:24 PM
Yeah when i first looked at the picture i thought it was a young boy. :P This is so sad and of course it could be just some well of person living a successful life it had to be someone with their mother. :(
@5 Yeah i heard the same thing.
11. cabbo - January 21, 2010 12:30 PM
In the pic she looks like a 14 year old boy.
So she thinks she's caught 'em all, huh? Just let her wait until they release more Pokemon. She'll be collecting for a whiles yet.
@1 pfft. I eat pieces of shit for breakfast, and you're a gourmet course.
@2 you're leftovers.
@LSDiesel *SSNNNNNNFFFFFFF BULBASAUR! TACKLE! Snnfnff GET THAT WET TURTLE SON OF A BITCH! snf SUPER EFFECTIVE NOTHING! nf I TAKE IT TO THE OLD SCHOOL! WOOOOAHHHH!
12. Skeletor - January 21, 2010 12:36 PM
thats ricockulous
13. KYLE - January 21, 2010 12:37 PM
Some people just fail at life
FAIL
14. collin sainio - January 21, 2010 12:38 PM
that is fucking sick.
15. UnpaidParkingTickets - January 21, 2010 12:42 PM
Compulsive hoarding (or pathological hoarding) is a mental disorder marked by an obsessive need to acquire (and failure to use or discard) a significant amount of possessions, even if the items are worthless, hazardous, or unsanitary.
16. appsbyaaron - January 21, 2010 12:56 PM
I assume she "caught them all?"
17. Pikachu - January 21, 2010 1:02 PM
pika..................CHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!
18. mort - January 21, 2010 1:26 PM
what the hell is a pokemon?
19. Pat - January 21, 2010 1:28 PM
I'm not even gonna wade into this one...
20. JPX - January 21, 2010 1:50 PM
Gee what a surprise, she's fat.
21. ciao - January 21, 2010 1:50 PM
huzzah! for the chick with the largest collection of mutant animal toys...
is there a feature for the fella with the largest robut collection? There should....you know I'm right, go out there and find it. >:D
22. Carlos - January 21, 2010 1:50 PM
...... No comment
**FAILS AT NOT COMMENTING**
23. GrX - January 21, 2010 1:52 PM
@9 I second that.
24. Ken Goldstein Esq. - January 21, 2010 1:53 PM
CONTACT ME IMMEDIATELY.
25. Clint - January 21, 2010 2:29 PM
^NO.
26. voltron - January 21, 2010 2:32 PM
What a waste of time and money. I mean, think of all the Aquaman collectibles she could have bought with that cash!
27. Jaker - January 21, 2010 2:43 PM
Wow...So that's why all the stuffed Pokemon toys dissapeard from my local carnival...
Seriously, she has multiple copies of everything there...WTF? What's the point of having 30 copies of the same thing?
28. donald duck - January 21, 2010 2:57 PM
What. A. LOSER. but id still bone her then ruin all her toys.
29. The Geographer - January 21, 2010 3:28 PM
@15: I watch A&E, too.
I like how the article could have left it at "the collection fills most of her house" but oh-ho-ho no! "...the house she shares with her mother Sharon." as if we needed confirmation that yes, she does still live wtih mom. Mommy must be so proud!
30. Skeletor - January 21, 2010 4:30 PM
on a second thought, she could hold a massive furry orgy
31. Jiakasuma - January 21, 2010 5:03 PM
I thought it was a boy
32. Heather - January 21, 2010 11:43 PM
So I hear she likes mudkips....
33. Lady K - January 22, 2010 3:41 AM
Thats one sad ugly virgin
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i want a togepi plush!
34. Tojo Reeves - January 22, 2010 4:30 AM
I thought one the Clefairy plushes (Poke Doll perhaps?) was a Kirby.
And yes, I am on Geekologie at 4:30 in the morning.
35. Catalyste - January 22, 2010 4:49 AM
A sad day for the UK indeed....
whatever happened to the days where they proudly boast about their education?
*sigh*
36. Monkey - January 22, 2010 2:23 PM
Now just imagine what it would be like if she were to reproduce with Chris-Chan.
Brrrr....
37. rupa - January 22, 2010 3:56 PM
She looks freaking twelve.
Probably because she spent and wasted 13 years of her life doing this.
38. how to get him back - February 24, 2010 2:51 AM
Well that's a good collection!I like it.So i will keep following your each new post and also will share with my friends.
39. She has a hobby, get over it. - March 6, 2010 3:20 PM
I don't understand why you guys are saying she's 'wasting' her life. She obviously isn't if she decided to do this. All these hate comments, maybe you guys still haven't decided what to do with your lives yet. It's perfectly fine to have a collection over something you like. It doesn't matter how much you have, it's what you love, and you'll continue to do it.
That's a pretty cute collection though. ;v;