Want to be a part of our newsletter? You’re welcome to submit content including (but not limited to) questions, fanart, short stories, memories, photographs of your collection, or even Pokémon tattoos! We will happily publish them in our mailbag and share them in future issues of our newsletter. This week, we have an addition from Luca, a Pokémon fan from Germany, who has shared a Pikachu he made out of wood when he was a child.

Luca sent us a picture of this awesome wooden Pikachu he made when he was around twelve years old!

Luca Torres, Germany

Hello I wanted to send you my wooden made Pikachu. Since I was tiny I also enjoyed watching Pokémon as I think everyone here does. In art class around the 7th grade here in Germany (around age 12) we had a project to make a wooden figure of something.

I decided to [do] Pikachu because I was really into Pokémon at that time. Plus I had a friend then who had the nickname Pichu since she was cute and tiny. Well it was cool to make and it only took like 12 hours in total with the waiting time of drying.

Hi Luca, thank you so much for sending in your wooden Pikachu! This is obviously something very special that you created during your childhood, and I think it’s great that you kept hold of it all these years later. I hope Pokémon has continued to be something you have found enjoyable in the years that have followed.