Teach Me Something New

[mrbigchip]

Learn something new every time I come on here.

[mrbigchip]

That is such a random and obscure fact and I love it so much.

[Quuador]

There are two different Feebas in which the background reference Pokémon games. To quote the persons who originally posted them in related threads:

@c0ll3ct0r

To me, this image is a snapshot of lore. Southward view from the middle of route 119, a Feebas peeking out of the water from one of the 6 tiles, with all the weather going on, Tropius, the birds and everything. 10/10.

@nish

Feebas from Darkness Ablaze is in the lake at the end of route 2 in SwSh out by professor Magnolia’s house.

And apparently there are also a lot of Drifloon with places from the video games in the background (maybe a nice fun fact for @queendrifloon ):

@nish

This Drifloon has Jubulife City in the bg

and this one has the Valley Windworks in it

this one is in front of N’s Castle

this one is above several Unova places including Skyarrow Bridge

(Don’t ask me why there’s so many Drifloons okay, I just knew about the one at Valley Windworks and looked up the other artworks while I was at it and saw them.)

Greetz,
Quuador

[DarthEevee]

The castform art rare from surging sparks depicts castform illegally immigrating into the Paldea region. Castform cannot be brought into Scarlet and Violet

[Vertemes]

Only 29 pokemon can actually fly in real life, and only 14 are true fliers.

[pfm]

Who is this?

It seems that the Jessie and James design was being developed in late 1996 by Ken Suigmori as seen below [1] [image] Note how similar the design is to the card art below. [image] The anime began April 1, 1997 in Japan and obviously ran with this character design. [image] Interestingly, CoroCoro Comics in April 1997 show Jessie & James in a dark outfit similar to the card art and basically all other TR design prior. [image] The sprite above is actually from Pokemon Yellow (September 12,…

[SolemnStar]

and here I am, having only having learned of the silver stamp last year, and now you are telling me, you not only have the silver stamp, but this elusive silvery goldish style? Exhausting. Its already the most rare of the wotc stamps as is! Now I have another white whale to pursue! Thanks for sharing this insanely obscure thing.

[Dyl]

This poster shows an entire Unlimited Expedition (E1) Japanese set, though most have never been seen in hand and are thought to not exist.

[KantoHustle]

The rabbit hole keeps getting deeper the further you go!
It’s one of the things I love about this hobby, always more to learn and enjoy.

[BUEFFES]

Something that came to my mind recently.

Arcanine is considered to be a legendary Pokemon (see here:
Thread).

Be it legendary or not it represents or is inspired by a mythical lion figures in chinese culture. There are two different but similar figures one of them is called Qilin (麒麟) and the others are ShiShi (石獅). ShiShi means stone lion . Also here is a good article about this for reference.

This is nothing new so far. But :

That explains why Arcanine got a set dedicated to him or at least putting it on the booster and booster box artwork in simplified chinese “Fearless Terestal” and a exclusive SAR Arcanine EX in simplified chinese. To me at first this felt a bit random why Arcanine got a set and SAR like this.
Thinking about it like that it makes a whole lot of sense now to me.

[azulryu]

Love this thread. I think there’s no surprise that a few Gyarados cards are in game references (Shining Gyarados from the Lake of Rage being the obvious). But there is a sleeve that portrays the moment before Lance discovers the hidden Team Rocket base:

Also no Gyarados card features a female Gyarados which have white barbels. The closest we have is the red/white barbels from Base set:

[Quuador]

@azulryu

Also no Gyarados card features a female Gyarados which have white barbels. The closest we have is the red/white barbels from Base set:

Fun fact, we do have a female Magikarp with white barbels in the Base Set (and possible also Detective Pikachu set, although somewhat debatable):

Every other Magikarp has yellow barbels, and are therefore male.

Greetz,
Quuador

[Quuador]

And while being on the topic of gender differences in artworks, some quotes from my National Index including all Forms & Shiny Pokémon (W.I.P. - disbanded) thread:

The only pretty well-known gender difference in generation 1 is Pikachu. A Female Pikachu will have a heart-shaped tail, and there are a bunch of Female Pikachu TCG cards available.

There are however two more Pokémon with a gender variation that’s different than the other cards of the same Pokémon:

• Male Dodrios have black necks and Female Dodrios have beige necks. Almost all artworks of Dodrio are therefore Female variations. There is however a card, pictured above, which has black necks and is therefore a Male Dodrio.
• Male Magikarps have yellow barbels and Female Magikarps have white barbels. Almost all artworks of Magikarp are therefore Male variations. The artwork of the Base Set has white barbels however, and is therefore a Female Magikarp.

In generation 2 there is only a single card available as gender difference, which is Wobuffet. Female Wobuffets will have red lip stick, which can be seen in the artwork of the Generations - Radiant Collection set.

When the body leaf of Roselia is long it means it’s a Female, and when it’s short it means it’s a Male. Most of the Rosalia cards are either Female or kinda indistinguishable. The Roselia from Unleashed, which is at the left in the picture above, clearly has a short body leaf however, so is a Male Roselia.

Male Bibarel have additional beige cheeks, whereas these would be brown in the same color as the rest of the fur for Female Bibarel. All TCG cards are therefore Female Bibarels (here a reference picture from the Bibarel shown earlier in the full list), except for the Bibarel from the Pokémon Rumble set, which is a Male.

Male Buizels and Floatzels will have two beige spots on their back, whereas Female would only have a single spot in the middle of their back. About halve of the Buizel and Floatzel TCG cards don’t show their back in their artworks, so it’s impossible to determine their gender. Only the Buizel from POP 9 has a single spot, so is a Female, whereas all the other Buizels and Floatzels that do show their back are Males with two spots.

Male Tangrowth will have fingers where 2/3th part is blue, and 1/3th part is magenta, whereas with Female Tangrowth this is reversed, with 1/3th part blue, and 2/3th part magenta. In the picture above we see the two Tangrowth TCG cards with the most and least amount of red on their fingers, where the left one from Legendary Treasures is clearly Female, and the right one from Steam Siege is clearly Male.

And to also include the official Gender differences (note, I didn’t count Nidoran, because female/male have two different numbers in their National Index):

The only generation 5 Pokémon with gender differences is an official one, which is Unfezant (in the picture above the Male Unfezant is at the left, and the Female Unfezant at the right).

Generation 6 has two Pokémon with distinct Male/Female differences, all four available on TCG cards:

• Pyroar, which is a lion-Pokémon, where the male/female differences are similar as the differences in actual lions. The slender Female version can be found in the picture above, and here is a reference picture of the Male version with big mane.
• Meowstic, where the Male Meowstic are dark blue with white (right in the picture above), and Female Meowstic white with dark blue (left in the picture above). In addition, the color of their eyes, and shape of their ears, hair, tails, scarfs, and body are also different.

Greetz,
Quuador

[slowqueen]

@Quuador

Female Wobuffets will have red lip stick

Ah yes, this is how I tell who is a woman in real life too

[mrbigchip]

@Quuador dropping knowledge bombs all over the place. This is exactly what I was hoping this thread would turn into!

[c0ll3ct0r]

These Pokemon are lighter than the Pokemon they evolve from.

[DeekBoy]

I love that Japanese Jungle boxes have Alolan Exeggutor 19 years before he was released

[slowqueen]

In official artwork, Slowpoke is sometimes depicted with pink eyelids, and sometimes depicted with closed pupils.

I believe the only logical explanation is that Slowpoke has a Nictitating Membrane in addition to outer eyelids.

Pupil Closed (Nictitating Membrane)

Outer Eyelids

[dromanyte]

@Dyl

This poster shows an entire Unlimited Expedition (E1) Japanese set, though most have never been seen in hand and are thought to not exist.

In fact, in Pokémon Card Trainers Magazine, they used E1 Unlimited cards … e-Cards that were never seen physically in that variant.

For example, in Volume 15, they used Unlimited card images.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Clol7WaLy95/?img_index=1

In TV commercials they also used E1 Unlimited card images.

It seems that they used Unlimited variants as reference images …

Makes me think that they actually planned to release this expansion in Unlimited variant. However, it was cancelled for unknown reasons … This is just a personal hypothesis …

[c0ll3ct0r]

The two holos with no energies on the bottom of the card:

The holo with the most energies on the bottom of the card:

Cards with 4 attacks:

Holographic in japanese but not in english: