10/29/13 (by Erikr)
Gosh I am so behind, this one took place close to 2 months ago and here I am only updating it now :facepalm: I do apologize Erik but better late than never. I've almost forgotten the details <____<
Anyways, from what I do recall. Erik's grail of all grail (Ariel DA LE100 Carousel) came around on auction on DPF and we had discussed earlier about how he only needs a few pins left to complete all the Ariel DA LE100 pins (quite specific of a collection, but I like it!). You know what I always say "the smaller collection, the better!"
Anyways, I told him that since I knew he wanted it I'd help him out however I could (which eventually only involved 1 pin but I was happy too). Before he even won the auction (he had a good lead though, but I recall the auction getting quite fierce towards the end) he asked me for my address. I, like the ditz, said "Why?" (in hindsight, I don't know what else I was expecting. Maybe an Edible Fruit Basket? A Swedish jig? Christmas Carolers? IDK my BFF Jill...) and he just responded with some vague response (I don't recall what it was).
Skip to a few days later I received a package from him (he's located quite close to me so mail travels quick) and inside I found what was a siggy pin at the time:
With a little note (you can read it). I kept the note in order to take a photo of it tonight, but he mocked me for it last time we saw each other (which was last week :lol
so if you want to know Erik, now that I took a photo of it. I did the following to it:
So the paper is now gone...but the pin is not
5/4/13 (by MotherKnowsBest)
To keep in theme for this entry, I'm gonna try to keep my gifs related to the pin at hand
So we'll start off with:
2 grail zaps in a row, I really don't know what to say anymore with this community...really...I mean, what do you say? What can one do?!?!? But I digress, this came in the middle of finals week and this is probably the first finals week that has really destroyed my sleeping schedule. I'm usually very prompt and strict with sleeping since I know just how important it is but this zap needed to be written about...ASAP because I fear once my head touches that pillow tonight, I woke wake up for weeks :lol:
Anyways, with my first final yesterday, I have been swamped studying, that was where I was today, at school...studying. Really boring, I know, it always is. So I return home from studying to do what I do best during this time...STUDY SOME MORE -__-
Said nobody during finals week...EVER!!! Right now, books are the bane of my existence, to be specific...textbooks. Ugh!
So I got home, being very tired (as I still am) and I might just fall asleep on my keyboard at any seconsyxrbgggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg...crap -__- anyways. I did the routine question to my mom "Did anything come in today?" although I knew I wasn't expecting anything after recently becoming a Helga Sinclair-completionst, BUT you know what she said (come on, if she said what she normally says this wouldn't be here ;D).
SO, I did my usual:
ran inside quickly, dropped my stuff and unpacked, washed my hands (I hate touching new stuff with unclean hands) and ran to the dining table where the package was sitting in very nice blue tape, might I add. I quickly scanned the package, jumping straight to the top left where I saw who it was from, and at first I was like:
BUT then I realized the name and I was like:
If anyone saw Angie's recent completion of the most beautiful set in the world, they know how I have been pining for that set for months now. So if you read that thread, you'll see this little altercation go down that went something like this:
- Angie told me she got the BatB pin
- I congratulate her with much jealousy lol (not gonna lie...I was) and ask her how
- She says got 2 trade requests
- I ask what the second person wanted
- She said she now had both
- I spaz
- I spaz even more
- I spaz a little more than is healthy
- Okay this is ridiculous now
And I immediately PM'd her to be told that the pin, once received, would be on hold for me. I was so excited!
Skip to today, I knew what that package was...Opening it with the utmost care, this is what was inside:
The note, upon closer inspection read this:
After meticulously opening the box...just kidding, I opened that box up as fast as possible, throwing caution to the pin and ribbon EVERYWHERE!!! And by everywhere I mean like 1/10th of my dining room table.
At this point in time is that part where you feel like you don't want to open the box because you don't know what was inside it...it could be anything. Heck, IT COULD BE ANOTHER BOX! So I didn't know what to do. I ran to my mom, pleaded her to open the box, jumped back and sat on the ground, not breathing and one eye closed. She thought she knew what she was holding, but neither of us knew for sure.
I watched as she opened it and with one look, she nodded her head, showed me the pin I died.
Yes, I know...HOW BEAUTIFUL IS THAT PIN?!?!? I'm staring at it now as I type this and thinking about it, I think this pin might just barely tie the LM pin for being the nicest one so far in the set. I'm really taken aback, I didn't expect it to be this beautiful.
I mean, wow...just wow. I still cannot believe that I know have 5 out of the 6, all of them are so beautiful and just wow ^_^ This now officially means that I am done searching for the set! I don't have Sleeping Beauty yet, Marissa (beeatingu) is holding that pin for me but once I can find the Mermaid Nemo pin...I'm done O_O Then what will I do?!??! I cannot believe that not even 12 months after I started pin trading, the set that got me to start pin trading in the first place is now almost done. Thank you so much Angie, I feel so honored that I was your FIRST grail zap, but I think grail zapping runs in your family or something.
The whole Wax family (lol I love that last name) is so awesome! Thank you guys so much, I do mean it, and I'm sorry for any grammar mistakes in this passage, I'm really tired right now but this zap couldn't wait...it really couldn't. AHHHHHHH!!!
3/22/13 (by docfish2u and disneygirl333)
No other gifs better describe by reaction. In case your wondering how it went down, I'll tell you exactly how it went down:
"It was a cool, misty evening, around 9:42pm. You can tell it's late but not night yet because outside was pitch black; the street lights were not on (and they turn on at 10:01, signaling nighttime). Kupo was sitting at home with his dog, his mother had gone out with friends and so had his brother. He was preparing to head to a friend's house as well, it was spring break after all. After studying a bit and watching over an online tutoring session, he decided he had best make a quick stop by DPF, you never know what crazy surprise releases may have befell Disney Soda Fountain, especially after the recent announcement of the Kevin PTD AND the April Beloved Tales pins. He tried to make it in and out of DPF quick and without word, hoping nobody would notice him...when all of a sudden:
"'OH NO! I'VE BEEN DISCOVERED" proclaimed he with only his dog to hear him exclaim those words. Trying to avoid the obvious pop-up that appeared on his screen, he noticed the title of the PM was "gnfdfjlokwadjslnwokjrgnrejgln" by disneygirl333. This was obviously a very peculiar PM so he opened it very quickly and saw a jumbled mess of what looked like was supposed to be a composed letter, it read:
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mkngrwjAKGNJWOKRg;nflxjorkwaglnfjwrklgnjrwkmag ,bjnraegknbd njfwemrbjknfkelmd frm hnjrg nrje mbjn eMATT GO HOME... CHECK YOUR MAIL. :rant:
erghjlfegkraO3JWAGBK3erwbaeQJORGKRWOKEJBDTKWROjewr kwrojgkwrojgkwrogjfhxlrwokjgdknwrjGBKRWJGKRWdgkrwo kjwbjerbgjkewrrwgkrwgrWEGKWRBTKRWRWOGHKFRWOKGNXFMK RWGMNFRWJGKRJKREGHF'"
The only discernible words in that statement clearly hinted at him going and getting his mail. However, Kupo had woken up at 2pm that day and, seeing the red flag on the mailbox down, assumed someone in his house had already gotten the mail. So obviously his reply was along the lines of "nothing came today."
Effective immediately after sending such a letter, a reply came from disneygirl that stated:
"Go check it again!"
So, Kupo figured might as well as he was heading out the door anyways to a friend's house. Lazily he put on his shoes and strutted to his mailbox to peer inside and see nothing but hollow emptiness that was the back of his mailbox. However, when he opened the box, what was in the box???
[video=youtube;Dx_UJxuQGXo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx_UJxuQGXo[/video]
He felt nothing because he had already assumed there was nothing. Then he decided to check the mailbox adjacent to his that belongs to his aunt and cousins.
THERE WAS MAIL!!!!
All of sudden, Kupo was nervous, a package was neatly placed on top, he mentally thanked the postage lady for that. He calmly walked back to his house, not wanting to seem like a complete dwindling idiot to his neighbors and upon going back inside, he nonchalantly sorted the mail, brought the package to his dining room table and inspected it. The package was from WA.
"'I haven't made a trade with someone from there recently'" he though. However the name was all too familiar. The package was from docfish2u, one of the infamous grail slayers.
It didn't make any sense, docfish2u had already grail zapped Kupo before with the Jessica Rabbit as Ariel pin (refer below for that story which is one all its own). Curiosity killed the cat...HE HAD TO SEE WHAT WAS INSIDE THIS PACKAGE!!!
Carefully opening up the package he took out its contents, a white letter that Kupo knew of all too well, he had received one of those letters before, along with another orange letter that was very different in format from doc's letter and something wrapped in red bubble wrap. He picked the letter up and it read:
"'Hi Kupo,
So disneygirl333 and I were talking the other day and she wanted me to buy her a pin on Ebay and then trade for it. So we worked on a deal for this little pin I think you might like. I would not have been able to get this pin were it not for her.
You have been zapped by Sir docfish2u, Grailslayer of DPF (again) and his most excellent helper, mistress disneygirl333
OPEN THE PACKAGE BEFORE YOU READ THE YELLOW NOTE!!!"
Not being one to disobey orders, Kupo opened up the package first...out slid a plastic bag that had a white foam bag inside it. The white foam bag obscured the contents of it making the object inside it less clear. However, Kupo knew EXACTLY what it was, after all, he had seen it in photos nearly everyday for the past 7 months.
I'm gonna let you (the reader) take a moment to soak that in...
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done soaking yet? No, okay...I totally get it, I'll let you soak it in a bit more
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4 words: GRAIL...OF...ALL...GRAILS
Words really can't explain how he felt right...they still can't hence the lack of description right here. Emotions can be listed but it was just..wow O____O Just staring at it he didn't know how to respond. He was holding the pin that made him start pin trading, it was amazing and yet didn't feel believable. It was just...yeah, "wow" still makes the most sense haha xD
After the shock and the world came back into focus, he picked himself off the ground where he had promptly fell onto and read the final letter, this one written by disneygirl333.
It basically explained how this pin originally belonged to her but she worked out something with docfish2u to trade it to him SOLELY for the purpose of zapping me for a pin she was also in love with. She included photos from 2 of the 3 BEST Disney films EVER (Lilo and Stitch is missing) and drew Kupo's favorite Sugar Rush racer on the front (Gloyd Orangeboar) to make the letter that much better, as if he wasn't already on Cloud Nine.
Safe to say after this he immediately went on chat where disneygirl333 was conversing and made a huge mess of the chatroom. He apologizes to jadestarr, lost-sun-princess, starry_solo, MischiefManaged, tokyodisneydad, alicec86, and disneygirl333 for ruining what probably was a very nice chat conversation. After a brief discovery that everyone in chat was already in on the surprise, he thanked everyone, logged off, jumped onto the nearest cow he could find, and flew it over the moon and back where he and the cow talked about monkeys, ice cream, and Maggie Moos (apparently cows think Maggie Moos is a sexist depiction of cows everywhere, who knew?) before going to his friend's house"
THE END
And that is EXACTLY how it went down, literally word for word, step-by-step, nothing above is false. Okay, well maybe the part about the lights, but nothing else. Everything else there I GUARANTEE YOU is complete fact...especially the part about the cow <_<
These are the total contents of the package:
Thank you so much doc and disneygirl, you literally made this entire break amazing and THEN some. Still feel all tingly all over haha xD
P.S. The pin is only that much better because disneygirl got it from Rasputin, so this pin is a mix of doc, disneygirl, and Rasputin which makes it all the more better ^_^
SAFE TO SAY I AM SLEEPING LIKE A BABY TONIGHT!!!! Not really...I ain't sleeping, just staring longingly into the distance that is the pin
P.S. Because I know David is dying to know, I'm getting much better at editing my signature thank you very much ^_^ This one only took me 6.3 hours so joke...IS ON YOU!!!! AS YZMA SAID...HAHAHAHAH...I WIN!!!