Hallmark always has a wide variety of Christmas ornaments every year, and in the past few years they’ve even had lots of video game themed ones!  I got a bunch of them this year as well, as I always do, so let’s take a look at them!

Super Mario Collecting Coins

Mario of course, gets the lion’s share of ornaments every year, being the most popular Nintendo character and all.  But this first one’s pretty cool.  You can flick the lever on the right side and Mario will jump and hit the block.  And then a coin will pop out of that.  And if you put the included watch batteries in it, it’ll make sounds as well!

Propeller Suit Mario

This is part of the series: “Powered Up With Mario.”  I’m a little surprised they didn’t go with Elephant Mario since Super Mario Bros. Wonder came out last year, but this one is better than I expected.  The helmet is a shiny metallic finish, and has the Mario M symbol on the sides (since you can’t see them from the picture).  And the propeller spins around too!  I always thought the characters looked dorky when they put on this suit in the games, though.

Mario Kart Toad

Every year they also do a Mario Kart ornament, seeing as though that’s one of Nintendo’s biggest selling properties.  In years past they’ve had characters like Mario, Luigi, Bowser, Yoshi, and Donkey Kong.  And I’m happy to say that this year’s is Toad!  Toad has always been my favorite kart racer since the first game, and he’s my favorite Mario character as well (with Luigi being a close second).

Boo

Hallmark also does miniature tree ornaments, and this year’s little one from Mario is Boo.  I guess you could also use this as a Halloween ornament.  And yes Hallmark makes those, too!

Mario Items

This one wasn’t in the catalog, but Hallmark did have this one on display so I pieked it up when I got the others.  It’s just a bunch of Mario items and I kept them in the box since they showed up better like that in a picture.

Blastoise

Pokémon is another one of Nintendo’s big franchises, and they got a few ornaments as well.  One of this years is Blastoise.  He’s a pretty big and beefy ornament.

Magikarp

Now, I can understand why they’d want to make an ornament out of Blastoise, one of the final evolutions of the three original starter Pokémon.  But Magikarp?  He’s one of the weakest Pokémon out there.  But he did get his own mobile game with Magikarp Jump!, so maybe there is a fanbase for this fish after all.  I’m surprised the fins and whiskers on this ornament don’t break.  In the picture below I kept him in his famous flopping pose. Karp! Karp!

Poke Balls

Pokémon also got some miniature ornaments as well in the form of six Poke Balls.  I kept them in the shell they had them in the box since they showed up better in a picture that way.  I can recognize the regular Poke Ball, Super Ball, Ultra Ball, and Master Ball, but I’m not sure what the last two are.

Celeste

Animal Crossing is my second favorite game series of all time (right behind Pac-Man, my first), so I’m glad they had another Animal Crossing one this year.  My favorite character is Blathers the owl, and I’d like to see an ornament of him sometime, but his little sister Celeste makes for a cute ornament as well.  Animal Crossing has so many characters they could keep making ornaments of them for decades!

Pikmin

Last year’s big surprise for me was the Metroid Samus ornament, as I never expected them to do that.  This year’s big surprise for me was the Pikmin ornaments.  I just never thought that game series was that popular.  But I’m not really a big Pikmin fan myself.  The cool thing here is that there are three separate ornaments of the Red, Blue, and Yellow Pikmin.  I kept them in the case they came in for this picture because there was no way they’d stand up on their own.

Sonic Collecting Rings

Other game characters besides Nintendo got ornaments as well, and Sonic the Hedgehog got a couple.  This first one is huge!  When I hold it in my hand, it covers my whole palm!  It’s light enough that you can hang it from a Christmas tree, but you can also stand it on display all year, which is what I imagine most people would do.  Anyway, when you put some batteries in it (not included), and press the button, the whole loop lights up.  Sonic goes around the loop, and when he collects the rings, the light goes out around that ring and it makes the ring collecting sound.  And when Sonic gets to the bottom of the loop, they make that “Eerrk” stopping sound.  Very cool for Sonic fans, but also very expensive!

Sonic Santa

The other Sonic ornament has him in a Santa hat and sack.  I’m surprised they didn’t do a Shadow ornament, since he’s a star in the new game and movie.  But I guess Shadow is too edgy for Christmas.

Kingdom Hearts Mickey

A couple of years ago, Hallmark had a Kingdom Hearts ornament with Mickey in his regular outfit holding a Keyblade.  This year he’s in his Organization XIII style cloak.  Hallmark does a LOT of Disney ornaments every year, so I’m surprised they don’t do more from this series.

Bonus Ornaments

And those are all the ornaments I got from Hallmark this year.  They had other video game themed ornaments like from Minecraft, Fortnite, Master Chief from HALO, and an original Xbox console.  But I don’t like those games as much and I never had an original Xbox, so I didn’t get them.  Plus I spent enough money on ornaments as it is!  But I got a few other ornaments from other places this year, so I thought I’d show those as well.

Pac-Man

I got these from Wal-Mart.  They’re just molded plastic and don’t do anything, but still cool.  A few years ago, Hallmark did some ornaments of arcade games like Pac-Man, Galaga, and Joust, and they had lights and sound effects.  The arcade cabinet one here doesn’t, but that’s OK.  I liked it anyway.  I wish they’d do more arcade classic cabinets in the future.  The pixel Pac-Man is also neat, but there’s a missed opportunity here to do ornaments of all four of the ghosts as well.

Bluey

A close relative got me these ornaments at Hobby Lobby since I like the show so much.  Luckily she got them on sale.  I’m surprised Hallmark didn’t do any Bluey ornaments this year since the show is so popular.

Baby Garfield

Even though the box says Hallmark, I got this one at Wal-Mart as well since it’s so gosh darn cute.  I was really into Garfield when I was a kid.

And that’s all for now!  Which ornaments were your favorites?  What ornaments would you like to see in the future? Let me know in the comments.  I would like to see Kirby, Pac-Man, and Mega Man ornaments from Hallmark.  Don’t forget to check out my previous articles on Hallmark ornaments with the links below.  Later!  –Cary

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