Hello everyone,
This is a guide on the XConcepts Pokemon Mini-Skateboards. According to the copyright on the back of the boxes, they were made in 1999, but but according to the Pokemon News article from March 1st, 2000, these were available at the American International Toy Fair in the year 2000. I can’t tell if these were only released at the Toy Fair, if these were revealed at the Toy Fair and then released elsewhere, or if these were sold before the Toy Fair and just happened to be mentioned on the Pokemon website saying they would be available at the Toy Fair as well.
Here’s the original picture from the Pokemon website that I was able to find from Wayback Machine, which is unfortunately really low quality. I don’t know if that’s due to Wayback Machine compressing the images or if that’s because the original website had uploaded a super low-quality version. As you can see you can barely discern what’s on the boards, and you definitely can’t read the text below them, so I believe that there is a higher quality version of this image out there (or at least there was at one point). If anyone happens to have the original image I’d be happy to add it!
Something interesting that I noticed is that the website mentions that there are “68 Pokemon finger skateboards” and the image has 68 skateboards as well, but there are actually more than that (I’ve come up with a total of 74).
The size of these Mini-Skateboards (sealed) is approximately 7.75in x 5.5in x 1.5in
Pokemon Included
- Aerodactyl
- Arcanine
- Articuno
- Beedrill
- Blastoise
- Bulbasaur
- Caterpie
- Chansey
- Charizard
- Charmander
- Charmeleon
- Clefairy
- Cubone
- Dewgong
- Dragonite
- Dratini
- Dugtrio
- Eevee
- Ekans
- Gastly
- Gengar
- Geodude
- Goldeen
- Gyarados
- Hitmonchan
- Horsea
- Hypno
- Ivysaur
- Jigglypuff
- Jynx
- Kadabra
- Kakuna
- Kangaskhan
- Koffing
- Lickitung
- Machamp
- Machop
- Mankey
- Meowth
- Metapod
- Mewtwo
- Moltres
- Nidorina
- Oddish
- Parasect
- Pidgeot
- Pikachu
- Pinsir
- Poliwhirl
- Porygon
- Psyduck
- Raichu
- Raticate
- Rattata
- Scyther
- Snorlax
- Staryu
- Tangela
- Tauros
- Tentacruel
- Vaporeon
- Vileplume
- Voltorb
- Weepinbell
- Weezing
- Zapdos
- Zubat
Unreleased Board
From what I can tell, the variant of the Butterfree featured in the original image was never released, but was instead replaced by this Butterfree:
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Board Variants
I’ve been able to track down five boards that weren’t featured on the original list, as seen below. I’m not sure if these were released at a later date or why exactly they weren’t included with the original list, but from what I can tell the packaging is identical to the rest so I don’t believe that they are from a different set or release period.
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Chansey - the only difference between this board and the one featured in the original list is the background.
Pikachu - this board is the same as one of the other Pikachu boards (same background) except Pikachu is standing vertically instead of horizontally.
New Boards
Four of the boards feature Pokemon that weren’t in the original list and are completely new boards:
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Gastly
Goldeen
Koffing
Mewtwo
Original Boards (Alphabetical Order):
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Aerodactyl
Arcanine
Articuno
Beedrill
Blastoise
Bulbasaur
Caterpie
Chansey
Charizard
Charmander
Charmeleon
Clefairy
Cubone
Dewgong
Dragonite
Dratini
Dugtrio
Eevee
Ekans
Gengar
Geodude
Gyarados
Hitmonchan
Horsea
Hypno
Ivysaur
Jigglypuff
Jynx
Kadabra
Kakuna
Kangaskhan
Lickitung
Machamp
Machop
Mankey
Meowth
Metapod
Moltres
Nidorina
Oddish
Parasect
Pidgeot
Pikachu 1
Pikachu 2
Pikachu 3
Pikachu 4
Pinsir
Poliwhirl
Porygon
Psyduck
Raichu
Raticate
Rattata
Scyther
Snorlax
Staryu
Tangela
Tauros
Tentacruel
Vaporeon
Vileplume
Voltorb
Weepinbell
Weezing
Zapdos
Zubat
It was so funny to watch how confused the seller was as we and a few others bought out their inventory.
