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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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(...) 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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(...) 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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(...) 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 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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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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(...) Happening here (ie, .nl itself) as well. Though actually, this year there was very little sinterklaas decoration in the shops, but the santa claus junk was even less this year (which is a reversal of trends). My guess is that retailers are (...) (25 years ago, 28-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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Op een zekere dag, te weten Sun, 26 Dec 1999 00:32:01 GMT, klom jasper@janssen.dynip.com (Jasper Janssen) in het toetsenbord en schreef ons: (...) Hmm, I'm a AFOL dutchman living in Austria (Vienna), but I didn't see these promos. Have to look more (...) (25 years ago, 28-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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(...) 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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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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(...) Wow, they have sinterklaas in Austria? I've always heard it was a Dutch/North-Belgium/...rn-Germany habit. Sure it wasn't from thereabouts? Jasper (25 years ago, 26-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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I have one 3438 McDonald's Restaurant that I would like to trade for one 1254 Shell Select Shop. Russell Clark (URL) 39423705 (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo, lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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Hi, A friend of mine has just come back from Austria and brought me some Cote Dor chocolate with free lego! The pack is entitled 'Sinterklass mix' I have a number of sets including 2881 and 2887. Jason (25 years ago, 23-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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*I* want 10-20 - for myself - not for Ebay or trade or anything else ;-) Though if I GOT 20, I could probably be persuaded to trade away some of the pieces here and there - but NONE of the windows or 2x8 slopes. (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual (...) (25 years ago, 21-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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Only 10-20? They told me they'd email me, too. So, I asked for 200! So, they said they'd call. -- Have fun! John The Legos you've been dreaming of... (URL) weird Lego site: (URL) Stangl, VFAQman wrote in message <385DE834.40159A7@vfaq.com>... (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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Hi Mark, I do have one extra I may be willing to part with. LMK Lego is not a toy, it's a way of life. Build on! ScottR swrunyan@uswest.net Mark Harrison <harro1@one.net.au> wrote in message news:385DDAFA.192D9C....net.au... (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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The US is currently out of them. They'll be emailing us when they get more in, but they limit each person to 3, so you'll need to find someone that wants less than 3 (personally, I want 10-20). (...) -- Tom Stangl ***(URL) Visual FAQ home ***(URL) (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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Is anyone in the US prepared to get me this set? Mark H. (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.promo)
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