Supposedly, the image on your right are silhouettes of new pocket monsters set to premiere in Nintendo's upcoming cash generator Pokemon Platinum. For those of you with very good sight, that would be them to the right of this text right here.Japanese site blue skY is reporting that this image is an advertisement from a Toys R Us in Japan. We'd like to comment further, but up until today, we didn't know there were Toys R Us chains in Japan. For those of you who're Pokemaniacs, care to comment on these?
Do they resemble the shapes of other Pokemon?
[Via Go Nintendo and Pokemon Platinum]
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8-07-2008 @ 5:27PM
Sam said...
I would rather see a new plot (not Team [insert name here] is trying to capture a legendary pokemon, beat them to it, and then beat the pokemon league!) then a bunch of new mutants to enslave.
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8-07-2008 @ 5:50PM
Mr Khan said...
New creatures would wreck the version's cross-compatibility with Battle Revolution and the other two versions
It would limit it in the way that trade between Gold/Silver/Crystal and Red/Blue/Yellow was. No trading or battling or Battle Revolutioning if you had one of these in your party.
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8-07-2008 @ 6:59PM
Zealot said...
As far as I know there's a slight precedent for this, considering that Bonsly was in Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness and was either uncapturable or had to remain in-game due to the game being released before D/P. I'm not entirely sure, as I never owned the game.
I wouldn't put it past Nintendo to do this sort of thing as a ploy to get D/P owners to shell out again if the new legendary forms aren't enough. Long-time fans who've played Yellow, Crystal, and Emerald know how much (or, rather, how little) to expect out of the third installments so this part of the Pokemon demographic may need a bit of a stronger nudge than usual this generation.
8-07-2008 @ 5:56PM
chibi_wings said...
If this little snippet is authentic, they are probably just different versions of D/P pokemon like Origin form Giratina and Sky form Shaymin. I can't see them adding new pokemon to the third installment. But then again maybe they felt adventurous at Game Freak and did add a few extra ones. Only time will tell.
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8-07-2008 @ 5:57PM
hvnlysoldr said...
Like Shaymin and Giratina they could just be new alternate forms from previous versions.
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8-07-2008 @ 6:27PM
elsng said...
They look strangely like Rotom-like forms of Pokemon, resembling antennae of something. Though the ones on the bottom look like mustard bottles.
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8-07-2008 @ 6:33PM
hvnlysoldr said...
That was also one of my thoughts. Rotom controlling through a TV
8-08-2008 @ 9:27PM
Sam said...
Yes, I agree with that. I was thinking that it was some sort of steel or electric type, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. As soon as you said that, I knew that that was it.
8-07-2008 @ 6:58PM
Tombstone said...
The green one looks like a security camera.
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8-07-2008 @ 10:11PM
Micah said...
OMG, it does. How funny. =D
8-07-2008 @ 10:17PM
kvp said...
Heres my theory. I don't think that they are new pokemon. But, instead, new, Robotic, or some type of mechanism, Frontier Bosses/Brains. i think this because there are 5, each a different color, and adding 5 new POKEMON would, as others have said, disrupt all the other games. :D
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8-09-2008 @ 3:34PM
chibi_wings said...
actually your theory that they are frontier brains/bosses, or whatever, could work. Serebii.net commented that Platinum will have 5 battle areas, (whereas Emerald had 7) and there are five of these silhouettes.
8-08-2008 @ 1:33AM
aj said...
Yeah, I call new Rotom forms. Maybe each colour corresponds to one of the elemental plates that you attach to Rotom to get the new form.
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8-08-2008 @ 10:59AM
Jay said...
1 Word. Rotom.
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8-08-2008 @ 1:16PM
Peter N. said...
I agree with everybody. It looks like Rotom. When I first looked at the figures, I was like "...are they new forms of Rotom?"
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8-08-2008 @ 6:17PM
StarkMevens said...
There won't be any new Pokemon in Platinum - it's just a third, improved version of Diamond and Pearl like Emerald or Crystal. Besides, someone would have found them in the D+P ROMs already.
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8-08-2008 @ 7:36PM
dagguis said...
I have a few theories, first one, they may be alt forms of the already known pokemons look closer to that orange shape it seems like registeelīs alt form, the purp one seems like a bloom boxed pikachu! :)
second theory, thereīs going to be a battle forntier, those are the frontier medals or idk howre they called (ive never owned emerald)
my third theory its
ROTOMīS ALT FORMS GALORE!!!!
:D:D:D
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8-08-2008 @ 7:37PM
dagguis said...
sorry its boom blox
8-08-2008 @ 7:37PM
dagguis said...
sorry boom blox
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8-08-2008 @ 8:40PM
Monodi said...
Will Pokemon be agin about animals sometime soon? I am not saying I hate it, but there is something about the new designs...
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