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Pokémon-Themed Game Boy Is A Kanto Region Map
Not every Pokémon-themed handheld has to be covered with Pikachu. This lucky fan-made Game Boy Color for example has the entire region of Kanto painted on its front by Belgian graphic artist Vadu Amka The purpose of this creation was to give the illusion that it’s an old and mysterious artefact found in the ruins.…
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Pokémon Make For Badass Mecha
Because Lugia, leader of the Legendary Birds, who can tear cliffs down with one wave of its wings, apparently isn’t terrifying enough by itself. So now here it is in the form of a flying death robot. The mecha-mon were posted to r/pokemon by the artist, derangedhyena. There’s five pieces of artwork in total, depicting…
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I’d Have Loved Some Pokémon Nesting Dolls Growing Up
I remember having an original, “fat” Pikachu plushie, which was nice enough, I guess. But as far as gameplay goes,matryoshka dolls are on a whole other level. At least compared to plushies. Pikachu and its ilk above are part of a series called “Pokétryoshka,” created and recently posted on Tumblr by Michael Myers of Drawsgood…
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CultureI Wish There Were Pokémon Toys Like This When I Was A Kid
So Pokémon wasn’t a thing in North America until I was 25—the point still stands. Younger me could have learned a lot from Battle Moves Pikachu. How to dodge, for instance. I recently got a chance to play with a pair of Pokémon toys from Tomy that should either be in stores now or in…
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Pokkén Tournament is The Pokémon Game I Always Wanted
The summer of 1998 found me weeding through my parents’ recycling for a peanut butter jar. Once I had found one and cleaned it out, I scrawled “Pokémon” on the side in permanent marker. I wasn’t exactly sure what Pokémon was, but according to Nintendo Power, it was the next big thing. A butter container…
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Pokémon Look Really Cool As Giant Mechs
Japanese artist 太斗· converts Pokémon into giant Japanese robots. And not just random ones, either, but characters from the Zoids universe. It’s a franchise that’s really popular in Japan in the form of model-kits. And indeed, they all look like images of an assembled mecha from a model-kit’s instruction manual. To contact the author of…
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In June, designer Karolin Gu started drawing one Pokémon a day, posting the results on Instagram in what she calls “The Tiny Monsters” series. She’s currently at Tentacool, ie. #72, and plans to eventually draw every Pokémon in existence. Only a few hundred more to go! You can follow her progress here Thanks to Tianlin…
By András Neltz
