ITT: Pokémania (and Gen I/II merch from the 90s and very early 00s)
my bro choked to death trying to eat one of those...
>>56893627Crystal and the excessive filler episodes in the anime killed Pokemania.
>>56893637Was it the rev-top koffing by any chance
>>56893637Yeah, Burger King is pretty fucking awful food in general
Magic
>>56893627I had a Charmander beanie baby type toy. I think it came from a fast food restaurant.
My parents purchased me a framed poster that had every one of the original 150 (this was before New was a thing).I believe it's still in my closet at their place. I'll need to recover that soon.
>>56894015why did they try so hard to make poliwhirl popular
>>56894057Possibly KFC I know they did something like that.
>take those weird pokemon finger puppet toys>put a ball bearing underneath so you can slide them around on your floor or table>mfw playing with the best damn waste of money in the Pokemon franchiseI wish they never stopped making these li'l fuckers
>>56894015>is it bad for themnope, millennial here, I turned out finenow to go back to the pokewives thread
>This kill the skarmory is gen 3 retards
>>56893627I have a bunch of these
>>56893663>Too much skin exposed; winking is a problem
>>56896137I had these >GOLD COATED!!
>>56893627Pre-TPC merch was pretty wild. GameFreak was pretty liberal and hands-off about other companies producing Pokemon-related stuff.>>56894372Any actual Pokemonfag remembers Skarmory from anime. It was PoTD in episode where Ash's Cyndaquil learned how to use Ember.Sadly, most "Pokemon fans" nowadays are phoney social media drones that post pictures of their overpriced, shitty merch online for clicks. They don't play games, they watch anime, they don't play with card. They just buy shit.
>>56896155Diglett
>>56896178He's doing a bang up job
>>56893637Natural selection, I guess
Violence!
>>56896176>Sadly, most "Pokemon fans" nowadays are phoney social media dronesSee, I reckon XY was when Pokémon lost it's "soul", so to speak. XY was 3D, which most Pokémon fans wanted, and it was easy to access with a lot of Gen 1 mons shoved in.
>>56896206Semi related to the merch/stuff thing from this franchise but I noticed even the unofficial Pokemon magazines over in Bongland became really sterile and soulless around gen 6/late gen 5. Back then, they used to give coverage on stuff happening in Japan like episodes, games and even showcases of past trading card releases on top of fanart, tips and special articles.
>>56896251I remember getting an issue (I think it was called Pokémon World?) Back in the early days of platinum, and it was PACKED with stuff.
>>56896294That's the one I was thinking of. We got fucking page spreads of Rise of Darkrai and a full plot synopsis before that even released in the US let alone the UK. They actually had British expats iirc write in their "From Japan" column too.I remember when XY were soon to come out, I bought an issue and it was totally gutted of stuff, just kids puzzles with a stock image thrown in and really patronising tutorial into the basics of picking a starter and forgetting moves when this was once the same place that gave tips of Battle Frontier and battle items.
>>56896137I have a couple of these unopened, but the boxes are beat to shit.
>>56893627Dang, I had more of these than I thought.
>>56896199>Canada>North Carolina
>>56896199Based North Carolina man.
>>56894154I don't know if they still are produced today but the finger puppets were a huge fucking thing in Japan due to gacha machines or something. Multiple of every Pokemon.
>>56893627Mewtwo was cool because it came in a big tube instead of a pokeball.
>>56896484Man, the DS era was great for the community.
>>56893627That burger King event was so fucking fun. I had a ton but the only ones that I remember are Gengar and Sandshew. Was one of them a spinning top? I know I had one that spun.
>>56893637This actually happened. Some retard suffocated himself with half of the pokeball the toys came with.
>>56893627just go to >>>/vr/ nobody here cares
>>56898437You're so right bestieAll these other posters are just in your head bestie So true bestie
>>56893627Zoomie here born in 2000. What was Pokémania like?
>>56898944I had a bunch of those things by they were digimon.
Remember these little bastards? I knew so many kids who split them open for the toy inside only to find that they were tiny.>>56898987Oh shit, nice!
>>56898994I had a Dragonite one. We bounced it on top of the school's roof.
>>56898998Perhaps he's still there to this day...Watching.Waiting.Anticipating.
Shit, remember when you'd get little things like this in crisps? Pokémon Tazos. So cool, man.
>>56898962It was crazy. Take any recent fad (like fidget spinners or whatever) and multiply it by 20. That's what Pokemania was like. Toy stores were 80% Pokémon products. Children's clothing stores were full of Pokémon shirts, bags and hats.Kids collected all things Pokémon they could find. Cards, stickers, bouncy balls, everything you could collect. There were regular fights over Pokémon collections on every schoolyard to the point where teachers had to ban Pokémon stuff from school.As weird as it seems, the games themselves weren't actually THAT big. Only a bunch of kids in my class played it. Most just watched the anime. I remember the music CD being really big too, almost everyone had it.
>>56898994I had Blastoise and either Vaporeon or Jolteon. One day I just cut them up and got the figurines out of there. They were way smaller than they looked from the outside.
>>56899013I didn't even know the games existed until the fad was on its way out.
>>56898257>Some retard suffocated himself with half of the pokeball the toys came with.It happened at least three times, actually. All of the deaths were infants.
>>56899046Yeah, the games were really not that important in the grand scheme of things. Not everyone even had a Gameboy, so the majority never actually played the game.
>>56899056Or if they did know about the games, it was a spinoff like Snap.It was way easier and less expensive(up front) to just buy toys.
Brought this bad boy with me into reading time at school. Teacher confiscated it because it 'taught the theory of evolution'. I simply swiped it back when she wasn't looking because even as a kid I knew that was a bullshit reason.
>>56899051KWAB
>>56897463These toys are so kino.
>>56899109America is so fucking weird.
>>56894154Shit, I bought a couple of these for a buck at a convention for my brother. Love those things.
>>56899109I remember the actual official pokedex book falling apart for nearly EVERYONE
I bought this big window sticker thing from an old guy on marketplace last month, I assume it's an old store display but I couldn't find any info on it
>>56899241This actually happened in the UK believe it or not
>>56893643Nah, Gen III was the death of Pokemania. Gen II has 30+millon sales.
>>56899723Really? Bongs really are just Diet Americans.
>>56899109>theory of evolution>pokemon don't evolve but metamorphose insteadLul
>>56899007I remember those! They were basically the main Pokemon merch in Poland, lmao.What I would like to figure out is a really weird thing I saw years later on one random festival in my town. You see - there was a lot of series of these things - OG, Tazo 2, Duo (stickers on top), Glow in the dark, Trio (Triangles) etc and years later we got irrelevant gen 3 steel series... and then on festival on random stall there was poster/game may for plastic Gen I-related "Pokemon Tazo 3", in Polish, showing not existing tazos and rules for some curling/boule-inspired game. There was never Pokemon Tazo 3 in Poland, mind you and I can't find anything about it. I know that "Pokemon Tazo 3" existed in other countries but from what I saw it was different.
>>56899730Pokemania rolled well into gen 3, as someone who was there. I would say it was truly over by the time gen 4 rolled around.
>>56896176>Any actual Pokemonfag remembers Skarmory from anime. It was PoTD in episode where Ash's Cyndaquil learned how to use Ember.I never liked this argument because it fails to consider the possibility of a kid not watching every single episode of a cartoon. It wasn't like now when you can see everything on-demand.
>>56899730>>56900255No, it died near the end of Gen 2, a few months before Gen 3 came out. I remember going to see 4ever in theaters and it was completely empty.
>>56898962It was so big that I remember seeing in the local paper about somebody catching them all. Front page. No picture though.
>>56900255>>56900313Big revelation for both of you - Pokemania was not a consistent worldwide event. It started and ended at different periods of time in different places.
>>56898962peak demon slayer level popularity but worldwide instead
>>56898962I remember when I was 3 or 4 years old I went to Toys-R-Us with my dad every Saturday to buy some packs. There would always be a crazy mob formed outside the store. When the doors opened, everyone would literally run as fast as they could to the Pokemon section and grab packs. I remember grabbing Base set packs with Charizard on the front. I remember I opened foil Alakazam that day and was very happy. Pokemon Red/Blue was many people's first video game, mine included. Unfortunately, Yugioh took over sometime after Gen 2.
>>56899109Dude Lmao I remember my ultra Christian friends would have to play Pokemon games behind their parents backs because "it taught evolution".
>>56899730Gen II killed Pokemania.
>>56900714Your ass getting old killed Pokemania. And it's not even a joke, it's the sad reality - kids that lived through Pokemania just got old. Pokemon was kind of exception among kids-oriented franchises because it survived like 3 times longer than usual toyetic slop but it just could not win with passing time. Later companies tried to recreate it by importing other hobby anime (Beyblade, Yu-gi-oh!, Bakugan etc) but none could repeat success of Pokemon.
I remember having a transparent gengar toy that was super cool
