So which is the shiny one?
A Pokémon of a Different Color
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Re: A Pokémon of a Different Color
#22I got a Pikachu tattoo a few years ago, and after agreeing the design/placement the artist held up a series of coloured inks and made me do a binary-search, saying "This one, or that one?" and I think there were about six to choose from. To me it was obvious there was one correct colour for Pikachu to be, she approved of my choice and said "Ahh yes the original design" which puzzled me at the time, but I guess there…
Interesting choice, why Pikachu?
I always feel like it's too mainstream, I like the uncommon ones more
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#23Whats the deal with this artwork? I got into Pokemon as a kid in the late 90s* including all the Gameboy games through Sapphire/Ruby and I don’t remember any of this washed out art (like the Ditto example, it’s always been pink!). Did I just miss this phenomenon entirely because I grew up right before it became big on the internet? * I think I’ve still got a VHS tape of the promo material Nintendo used to originally…
It was in the manual and the Player's Guide. You can find ditto on page 47 of the latter.
https://www.scribd.com/document/586237858/Pokemon-Red-Versio...
https://archive.org/details/NintendoPower1998PokemonRedBlue/...
Re: A Pokémon of a Different Color
#24I got a Pikachu tattoo a few years ago, and after agreeing the design/placement the artist held up a series of coloured inks and made me do a binary-search, saying "This one, or that one?" and I think there were about six to choose from. To me it was obvious there was one correct colour for Pikachu to be, she approved of my choice and said "Ahh yes the original design" which puzzled me at the time, but I guess there…
Interesting choice, why Pikachu? I always feel like it's too mainstream, I like the uncommon ones more
Why do you find it in interesting that someone chose something mainstream? Isn't that the definition of mainstream, that it's a common choice?
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#25I got a Pikachu tattoo a few years ago, and after agreeing the design/placement the artist held up a series of coloured inks and made me do a binary-search, saying "This one, or that one?" and I think there were about six to choose from. To me it was obvious there was one correct colour for Pikachu to be, she approved of my choice and said "Ahh yes the original design" which puzzled me at the time, but I guess there…
Interesting choice, why Pikachu? I always feel like it's too mainstream, I like the uncommon ones more
I have a child, and I got a sleeve made up of various things that he was obsessed by over the years.
So there's a Moomin character (Little My) because we're in Finland and he loves them, there's Tom & Jerry because he loved those cartoons, a new-life mushroom from the years we spent together playing Super Mario Bros on the Nintendo classic.
But rather than list all the parts, you can see where this is going now, there's also Pokémon because he was obsessed with playing with the cards, memorizing all the evolution chains and stats/types.
When I was planning it was obvious there'd be a Pokémon due to his (continuing) interest in those and to me as a non-fan that's the most immediately-recognizable one.
Plus the colour works well with the colour-choices made in the other pieces. Although ironically the part I like best is the "naked" LEGO minifig. I like to colour him in with felt-tip pens every now and again, or draw a facial expression on him to reflect my mood when bored in meetings.
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#26I am eternally grateful to media people who care a lot about this stuff. I know that it has an impact on my life that I’m not aware of, but I can’t bring myself to dive into this. I am glad that there are people who are into it, though.
> I know that it has an impact on my life that I’m not aware of
I'm really skeptical about this. Maybe someone who knows more about this could say a bit more about it?
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#27Reminds me of when the internet collectively realized that the Sugimori watercolors for the original 251 Pokémon had been scanned and reproduced with the completely wrong colors in western media for over 20 years: https://kotaku.com/pokemon-ken-sugimori-original-art-red-blu...
WHAT WOW
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#28So which is the shiny one?
Ha, I thought it was amusing that the color space/profile mystery involves Pikachu of all mons, since Pikachu is famously part of the "shiny palette that's nearly indistinguishable from its regular palette" club :)
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Interesting choice, why Pikachu? I always feel like it's too mainstream, I like the uncommon ones more
Why do you find it in interesting that someone chose something mainstream? Isn't that the definition of mainstream, that it's a common choice?
Anecdotally, I'm a fan and generally pick the rarer ones. Eg I had a pair of socks and a few stickers made for my kid which had rarer pokemon.
If OP got a tattoo of Pikachu, it was interesting to me that he picked the most mainstream pokemon (I assumed he was a huge fan)
But from the response, my sample of 1 assumption checks out: "When I was planning it was obvious there'd be a Pokémon due to his (continuing) interest in those and to me as a non-fan that's the most immediately-recognizable one."
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting choice, why Pikachu? I always feel like it's too mainstream, I like the uncommon ones more
I have a child, and I got a sleeve made up of various things that he was obsessed by over the years. So there's a Moomin character (Little My) because we're in Finland and he loves them, there's Tom & Jerry because he loved those cartoons, a new-life mushroom from the years we spent together playing Super Mario Bros on the Nintendo classic. But rather than list all the parts, you can see where this is going now, ther…
That's so cool! I'd love to see a picture of the whole thing.
I had some cartoon crochet socks made for my kid as well, haha! Pokemon, Naruto, Club Penguin, Road Runner... (he's 1 and so these are mostly from my childhood)