Anecdotally, I'm a fan and generally pick the rarer ones. Eg I had a pair of socks and a few stickers made for my kid which had rarer pokemon.
If OP got a tattoo of Pikachu, it was interesting to me that he picked the most mainstream pokemon (I assumed he was a huge fan)
But from the response, my sample of 1 assumption checks out:
"When I was planning it was obvious there'd be a Pokémon due to his (continuing) interest in those and to me as a non-fan that's the most immediately-recognizable one."
I have a child, and I got a sleeve made up of various things that he was obsessed by over the years.
So there's a Moomin character (Little My) because we're in Finland and he loves them, there's Tom & Jerry because he loved those cartoons, a new-life mushroom from the years we spent together playing Super Mario Bros on the Nintendo classic.
But rather than list all the parts, you can see where this is going now, there's also Pokémon because he was obsessed with playing with the cards, memorizing all the evolution chains and stats/types.
When I was planning it was obvious there'd be a Pokémon due to his (continuing) interest in those and to me as a non-fan that's the most immediately-recognizable one.
Plus the colour works well with the colour-choices made in the other pieces. Although ironically the part I like best is the "naked" LEGO minifig. I like to colour him in with felt-tip pens every now and again, or draw a facial expression on him to reflect my mood when bored in meetings.
That's so cool! I'd love to see a picture of the whole thing.
I had some cartoon crochet socks made for my kid as well, haha! Pokemon, Naruto, Club Penguin, Road Runner... (he's 1 and so these are mostly from my childhood)
It's hard to have the complete thing since they wrap around my forearm, but I made a post just for you (due to the road-runner reference, he's included along with Coyote!)
Why do you find it in interesting that someone chose something mainstream? Isn't that the definition of mainstream, that it's a common choice?
Anecdotally, I'm a fan and generally pick the rarer ones. Eg I had a pair of socks and a few stickers made for my kid which had rarer pokemon.
If OP got a tattoo of Pikachu, it was interesting to me that he picked the most mainstream pokemon (I assumed he was a huge fan)
But from the response, my sample of 1 assumption checks out: "When I was planning it was obvious there'd be a Pokémon due to his (continuing) interest in those and to me as a non-fan that's the most immediately-recognizable one."
I have a child, and I got a sleeve made up of various things that he was obsessed by over the years.
So there's a Moomin character (Little My) because we're in Finland and he loves them, there's Tom & Jerry because he loved those cartoons, a new-life mushroom from the years we spent together playing Super Mario Bros on the Nintendo classic.
But rather than list all the parts, you can see where this is going now, there's also Pokémon because he was obsessed with playing with the cards, memorizing all the evolution chains and stats/types.
When I was planning it was obvious there'd be a Pokémon due to his (continuing) interest in those and to me as a non-fan that's the most immediately-recognizable one.
Plus the colour works well with the colour-choices made in the other pieces. Although ironically the part I like best is the "naked" LEGO minifig. I like to colour him in with felt-tip pens every now and again, or draw a facial expression on him to reflect my mood when bored in meetings.
That's so cool! I'd love to see a picture of the whole thing.
I had some cartoon crochet socks made for my kid as well, haha! Pokemon, Naruto, Club Penguin, Road Runner... (he's 1 and so these are mostly from my childhood)
It's hard to have the complete thing since they wrap around my forearm, but I made a post just for you (due to the road-runner reference, he's included along with Coyote!)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DU-S6uVjHvB/
I did search but I realized even, when I scrolled back, I'd never shared the complete set just a couple of images of stuff in-progress.