An Alpha Charizard as a Mystery Gift is a bit random... unless it is a hint towards Mega Charizard Z appearing in the DLC? I got the gift Charizard, not sure if I'll use it for anything though.
Nice to see that the Hoenn starters are confirmed to be coming back! ...but their Mega Stones are locked to online battling. Oh well. I recently bought a three month-subscription for NSO just to be sure, and it looks like I'll need it. Since the Hoenn starters are back, I hope the other missing Megas will return as well. Lati@s, Rayquaza, and maybe Primal Groudon/Kyogre as well.
Slight update from me before the DLC drops tomorrow. A few days ago, I experienced a glitch in the game. It only took over 80 hours of playtime. I had just entered a Battle Zone and was going to look for trainers, when I suddenly fell through the floor. At first, I thought "wait, was there a hole or a slope here?", then I realized what had just happened. I took a screenshot as I was falling:
Lumiose as seen from... below?
I kept falling for a while, then the screen turned black, the game loaded, and I was back at the last Pokémon Center I had visited. I hadn't lost any progress, so nothing really bad happened. But it was a bit scary, I was afraid I would have to reset my game and lose a lot of progress.
Today, I finally completed the last Pokédex research request and got the Shiny Charm!
Winning 1000 battles took a while, but that's because I didn't do it in a very efficient way. I managed to train a lot of Pokémon along the way, though. But I don't have anything on level 100 yet. All members of my in-game and post-game teams are at level 90, some are at level 91. In case the Mega Dimension starts at level 100, I guess I'll have to level up a bit more. I have a bunch of Rare Candies and a ton of Exp Candies, so I can just use them, it should go quickly.
Other than that, the only thing I haven't done in the game yet is to find all Colorful Screws. Still missing 8 or so, I think. But no panic with them, I'll find them eventually.
Either way, I'm ready for the Mega Dimension tomorrow! I hope it will be fun.