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== Discussion of Pelican's 2025 pen releases ==

* Oh, I love it. I love it. All right. Next pen I want to talk about Pelican's been on a kick so far in 2025 to the shock of no one. This is a very much not me pen, the M200 marbled red special edition. And knowing a lot of the things that you like as pens, do you like just Pelicans in general? And then what do you think of just like a very class? This is a very classic Pelican. This one is very classic. It's gorgeous. It's beautiful. It's not for me. Right. I'm shopping in your store and buying the unicorn Bennu. Right. Yeah. So exactly. It is very elegant. It's a very beautiful pen. It is too tame for me. Mm-hmm. But I do like Pelicans. They have a lot of nib options. I like that I can easily take out the nibs and move them around. And sometimes they make something funky enough. They do some wild ones that are really, really nice. Most of the time they're too expensive. But when they're not, there are funky options that I enjoy. What is your favorite Pelican barrel size?
* The 600. Yeah. I think that's my too. Even though I tend to have mostly the 400s and I have one 800. Can you use a 1000 if someone gave it to you? Like they're the most expensive, biggest. Yeah. That seems like a fire hose type of pen that you would make sing. Like I've tried and like zero chance I could use that pen. I have one 1000 that was a gift for my dad. So it will stay forever. It was actually the 1005, the clear one. Oh, wow. Yeah. And it has a triple broad on it. So, you know.
* The ink capacity does not last very long.
* But it's beautiful. Yeah. You just kind of broke my brain with that combination of pen and nib and ink. And just think, just like, you just need a bottle attachment to the pen somehow. Pretty much. Pretty much. And it is a ridiculous pen. It is a very large pen for my hand. But because it doesn't last very long in terms of the ink, I'm never getting to the point that I'm too tired with it. So it's kind of perfect. Okay. Cool. Cool. So I did find a couple of new Pelican, other Pelicans more in the opposite end of the 1000 price spectrum, like the Pelicano. I put a link in the show notes. Did you see this Pelicano? This is called Magic Ocean. Oh, I'm into this. Like, what is Pelican doing? And why don't they do this more? This is a... Let me just describe to the listeners. Yeah, for sure. So the Pelicano is one of their little weird entry-level pens. They just kind of go make weird shapes and designs out of these pens. But it's light blue and pink. And it looks like it's got like fish scales on it, like a mermaid or something. It is awesome. Like, I am way into this. It is so good. I do... Could you imagine if this was like an M600? Oh, it would be so perfect. An M400. I will take anything at this point. Yeah. I love it. I love that it's called Magic Ocean. Yeah. I'm definitely going to get one. So this is one of those things that just really caught me by surprise. Like, they dabble in the wild colors. Like, I have another link to like the Pelican style. And they look like Tron pens, if anyone here is old enough and remembers the movie Tron.
* Oh my gosh, it does. Yeah. Yeah, they're black and neon. And they're just... They're awesome. I was like, this is Pelican, huh? And it's like, I'm so into this. Give me one, like you're saying, give me one 600 where you just get dumb like this. Give me a Magic Ocean 600. Like, just have fun. Have fun with it, Pelican. Go for it.
* They're really nice. I think they're a lot of fun. And I think kids and adults alike will enjoy these.
* So that's what I was thinking. It's kind of a surprise for Pelican in my head. But in reality, I don't think it is probably like in Germany and like in their home country. Because we'll get feedback from time to time when we talk about Pelican. And it was like, yeah, the fountain pen market is such and such. But they really just own like all of like the store shelf and the regular pens, standard pens, low level fountain pens. That's why like there's between the Pelicano, the style, the Ineos. They have all these brand new colors that I'm just seeing here in the past couple weeks. And I'm here for Pelican. So keep doing that. I'm happy about it. Yeah, yeah. You know where you can get a Pelican, Aziza? At our good friend's pen chalet. So this episode of the pen addict is brought to you by pen chalet. They sell authentic, amazing roller balls, fountain pens, ballpoints, mechanical pencils, and so much more. They have all your favorite brands like Monteverde, Pelican, Lamy, Pilot, Namiki, Sailor and Kaweko. And of course, an authorized dealer. They have very fast and reliable customer service. They run special discounts twice a month, including closeout specials every two weeks. They're always adding new styles of pens every single month. As well as the brands I mentioned earlier, pen chalet sells limited edition pens and all the accessories you ever need. Like pen carrying cases, pen holders, refills, fountain pen converters, and so much more. They have free shipping on orders over $75 in the United States. And they also sell internationally with very reasonable shipping rates. Pen chalet has low prices on high quality pens and offers a 100% satisfaction guarantee. So go to penchalet.com slash pen addict to get 10% off anything at pen chalet and to see this week's exclusive offers for listeners of the show. So Aziza, this is the time where I go to the site, go click the YouTube radio podcast button and type in pen addict. And then we get special deals for listeners of the show. And I have to say, I was spying this list already. And they have a Scribo Puma on here, which has been on my list forever.
* And it is at a ridiculous price. And I almost bought it yesterday when I was preparing for the show. That is a ridiculous price. Yeah. And they have an extra fine nib. And I don't know what I'm going to do. I just spent a bunch of money at the California pen show. And I've kind of been waiting for, you know, to find one of these at a deal or whatever. It's ridiculously good. So go check out everything that Ron, our good friend over at pen chalet has. There's Caran D'Ache 849s. There's Gioias. They still have some of the awesome pink Fisher space pen that I mentioned last time. So some really, really good stuff over on the pen addict page, even color verse ink. So go check out everything that pen addict has, pen chalet has to offer in this wonderful selection of products. So head over to pen chalet.com slash pen addict. And thank you so much to pen chalet for sponsoring relay and the pen addict. So yeah, they almost pre-show cost me money. That's how good some of their deals are over at pen chalet. And the color verse ink. It is so cute. The Feli set. It's the little cat. It's so cute. They're so good. All right, Aziza, before we get into it, we have a shout out of the week. Shout out of the week. So we had to do a little throwback to Myke singing the shout out of the week there. We have an Instagram account that you introduced to me called Ichi.Day. I-C-H-I.Day. Y'all need to go check out this account. If you like pens, if you like ink. This is a beautiful, beautiful Instagram. So this is something that you shared with me. And what do you think about this account? I find the demonstration of the art and the ink so incredible. I-there's a lot of cats as well. Yeah. So it doesn't hurt. But the entire grid layout, the way the art is presented, it's so consistent. And the art itself is incredible. And I really love seeing inks being used in this manner. You know, not just from a pen, but in an artistic form, like a full page of inking. I love this. It's so inspiring and so much fun. Yeah. And they use a Hobonichi planner for a lot of their art. So if you've already failed at 2025. Like I have.
* Just go look at Ichi.Day and get ideas on how you can have spreads across the pages that you are already not using. But you can't let that, you can't let that notebook go to waste, Aziza. No, it's, this is exactly what I'm doing. I'm just throwing ink on it. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's beautiful. So I love this. I gave them a follow and this is completely, completely up my alley. So thank you. Thank you for that.