The curious case of Chinchou EX Hidden Legends 57

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OK, I got a quite interesting PM the other day from Maverick Nate, the guy who runs the TCG section on Bulbapedia.

Apparently, this card randomly was an English exclusive - he can’t find the Japanese card it originates from. Is he pulling my leg? (I’m too lazy to find out myself).

As he says:

The one numbered 56 appeared in the Japanese counter part set, Undone Seal, but number 57 did not appear until it was reprinted in EX Legend Maker/Mirage Forest. Thought you might either be interested in another English exclusive card, or would be able to tell me how wrong I was if it does in fact have a Japanese origin and I somehow missed it., =p

Anyone able to shed some light on this?

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Bumping this. Does anyone know whether this was first released in Japan or not?

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No Clue…sorry

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I do.

This HL card, have the same attacks as the LM one, Just different artwork.

And that HL artwork is English exclusive.

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Cheers jason, you are awesome!

Why on earth would they randomly make an alternate art version of a random card? I guess we will never know for sure…

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It’s 2026 and I’m making a JP/EN Chinchou/Lanturn binder. Glad I found this thread as I was trying to figure out if this was some kind of oddball English exclusive. Seems it is! Here is the card in question:

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15 years later…

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Isn’t it fun to get reminders from the times when the back pain was away and knees worked like they should :ok_hand:

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This was new information to me! And are Chinchous bulb things supposed to be flat? I always thought they were bulbous.

Very cool to be species collecting Chinchou/Lanturn though! I will try to collect the line with one for every art :slightly_smiling_face:

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I stumbled across this Chinchou/Lanturn line by Kusajima about a month ago:

So I started looking at others and really liked a lot of the artworks. Also I think it’s kind of cool that there are only a couple of Lanturn holos and neither Pokemon has had a full art of any kind (EX, GX, V, VStar, IR, SIR, etc).

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