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| So how many other parents are going to have to battle the kids over which fast food place to go to? Hubby's gone for the week, I'm thinking "cool, I don't have to cook, the kids will be happy with McD. & we'll get our fill of the sets." But nooooo, (...) (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) I can be a total parental marshmallow -- our McD is three businesses away from our Burger King (hey, it's a small town; we only get *one* of anything). But my kids don't know about the Pokemon toys. (...) :) Steve (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) fast (...) my (...) Heh, Heh...yet. If they have friends into Pokemon, it's only a matter of time. :) Julie (25 years ago, 9-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) fast (...) my (...) I've got you both beat, my twin boys are only 8 weeks old so I get no lip about infinite stops at McDonalds. I just hope Pokemon is gone by the time they can care. My fingers are crossed. Cheers, Mark L (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) I dunno, I put Pokemon in almost the same boat as Sanrio/Hello Kitty, which is still around. Plus Nintendo is milking the snot out of Pokemon. In Japan there is already released two Pokemon games for the N64 called Pokemon Stadium (1 & 2) (...) (25 years ago, 10-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) Two words: Beanie Babies. *That* market dried up; Pokemon took its place... Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) I still see Beanie Babies all over the place, sure, there's not riots for them, but they're still there. Also, you forget that Pokemon is inherently a video game with marketing devices in the form of toys, tv shows, a movie, and cards. Kya (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| What is this so called Pokemon? -- Have fun! John The Legos you've been dreaming of... (URL) weird Lego site: (URL) Morden wrote in message <382a007f.8688312@lu...et.com>... (...) time (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) Beanie Babies are suposed to go out in December or 2000. As for Pikachu replacing Mario? That CAN'T be possible! I hate pika and i love mario! And guess what? Pokemon Yellow has less pokemon in it then red or blue which is crazy. Oh. And (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) john ~ oh, it's some amorphous, big-eyed thing that kids today are just crazy about, ~ and it's nowhere _near_ as cute as the original casper, felix, or FABULAND! later ~ craig (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) place... (...) The *toys* are still there, but the market is all but gone. (...) You've forgotten the best feature of Pokemon, and the biggest thing it has in common with Beanine Babies, Hello Kitty, etc.: it's a short-term revenue machine (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) Well, it's a video game for the Gameboy where the object of the game is to go around and collect all 151 Pokemon (or Pocket Monsters). Kya (who's going back to playing Gran Turismo) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) Three word? Pokemon Beanie Babies... (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) Okay, four words: Hello Pokemon Beanie Babies... Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| Five: Where is this thread heading? -Nick Sproaticus wrote in message <382AFAE8.F4CE117E@io.com>... (...) (25 years ago, 11-Nov-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| But Pokémon is *so* fun! I got the Red version this cristmas, and I can´t stop playing! I´m hooked! Kya Morden wrote: <SNIP> (...) Hmm... Hello Kitty? Well, I guess it´s bigger in Japan than here in Sweden, I´ve never seen any Kitty stuff here. (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) It´s a fun, great video game from Nintendo. You collect and train small monsters (Pocket Monsters). When they are strong enough, you can battle other trainers, and earn badges. If that´s not enough, there are 150 kinds of pokémon. Besides (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) It's also a cartoon (anime - japanese animation), and, most importantly in geek circles (I think), it's a collectable card game, rather like Magic the Gathering. The official Pokemon web site: (URL) apparently covers the videogames, comics, (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| [moving to off-topic.fun] (...) There is also a manga(comic) version. Oh, and I don't think it is the "geek" crowd that is collecting the cards; I think it is mostly kids and the anime fans who like Pokemon. Now why can't the good stuff like (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| Yeah, but it all started with the videogame didn´t it? I read that the idea for pokémon came in 1995, when the game started to be developed. Perhaps the anime came before the game. I think it did, because the "pokémon" show was on the TV news when (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) I do remember hearing about that in the news, but I don't think it was Pokemon <remembers the episode of the Simpsons where they featured them going to Japan then watching one of those cartoons and getting sezuires> *starts to laugh* But (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) G/S has been out in japanese for a few weeks, and has been widely played by all sorts of pokemon geeks who don't know a word of japanese.. (...) In the Japanese, there's red and green which came out first and were released in English as red (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) I got me an emulator and downloaded it. Big mistake. (...) I've seen the stuff exactly once, in Britain a long long time ago. (...) Something like 270. That Togepi thingy is in there as well. Apparently once it gets some levels it's actually (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) It was indeed an episode of the Pokemon cartoon that caused a an epidemic of epilepsy attacks among japanese children. What's hilarious / really sad is that one of the the evening news shows in Japan showed a clip from the same cartoon while (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) Hello Kitty is still popular in Japan, and there is a small market here in the US. According to Animerica, the TV show is on Toon Disney. Jeff (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) I dunno, the US market seems to be, if not large, at least reasonably fanatic. Hello Kitty mobile phones. Hello Kitty Gameboy Colors. Hello Kitty laptops (seriously!). OTOH, a pink cartoon-covered laptop does have that way of saying on the (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) the (...) Hello Kitty's popularity in the US is also denoted by: Entire stores dedicated to selling the Sanrio franchise, similar (but not quite as large, robust, or as numerous as the Disney and Warner Brother stores). -- jthompson@esker.com (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| Jasper Janssen skrev i meddelandet <38ae76f6.619576759@...et.com>... (...) Of course, you have to play it on Gameboy if you want it to be fun. (...) Sweden, (...) 270? Well, perhaps that´s not so bad at all, if you can still trade pokemon. That´s (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) Huh. Never seen or heard of these. Oh, well, guess I was mistaken. Maybe it is just the area I live in. I did see a picture of either a Hello Kitty Phone Card vending machine or a Hello Kitty Phone Card advertisement; the picture wasn't good (...) (25 years ago, 30-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| (...) Hmmm. Thinking of getting one, but $100 for the colour I can't afford, and $45 for the pocket is too much. Maybe if I can find a second-hand. (...) The cartoon, the girl carries it around all the time after a certain point (somewhere between (...) (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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| can we move this thread to lugnet.off-topic.fun? (25 years ago, 31-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.admin.general)
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