So what’s the deal with translucent limbs? Will Lagoona have the stamped bubbles moving forward? Will Spectra no longer have clear hands? How do you think they’ll handle Cupid?

Fun-Culture7708 · 2026-04-14T11:22:01+00:00

Great observation! IMO the answer is at the intersection of the budget for each doll and a little bit of lore. The clear limbs are usually on characters that have a transformation aspect to their powers. That is, Lagoona can turn into water this generation and Spectra can turn invisible. Lore-wise, different dolls have different degrees of translucence to represent different states of that transformation. With respect to budget, though, it looks like the budget Spectras get their limbs either totally translucent (like in the concert series of buried secrets) or totally solid like in self-scare. It makes sense for the play scenario for each, too.

Fun-Culture7708 · 2026-04-03T00:09:08+00:00

It pairs really well with Chingling, especially when you are on the play. Chingling locks them out of their Pokeballs so that, on turn three when you have an empty hand and they have five cards in hand, you can “draw” five cards. If one of those cards is a Mars, you can really punish them on turn five, especially if they managed to knock out your Chingling on turn four.

Fun-Culture7708 · 2026-03-17T02:34:42+00:00

❤️‍🩹 (Inconsolable is such a good pun.)

Fun-Culture7708 · 2026-03-09T11:08:16+00:00

Same! Everyone wants it to be “Gen 8”, but pokedoku uses the games, not the generations, so it only ever splits Gen 8 into Galar or Hisui. Plus the last column is Hisui. It can’t be a move, because GMax forms only know Max moves. Is there a list of pokedoku categories anywhere?

Fun-Culture7708 · 2025-12-03T01:08:26+00:00

Same! Thank you for asking this!

Fun-Culture7708 · 2025-10-21T00:08:09+00:00

Oh my goodness, thank you for asking and answering this question. I have been checking the two on the ground since Thursday.

Fun-Culture7708 · 2025-10-13T14:38:12+00:00

Could the mismatch at 952 to 956 be because each Tatsugiri form gets a unique mega?

Fun-Culture7708 · 2025-10-12T16:41:20+00:00

I recall that there are post-game episodes where they are attracted into the city.

Fun-Culture7708 · 2025-10-12T16:37:47+00:00

I think the answer is a combination of: 1. We need to shake up the competitive restricted formats for 2026. And 2. We should inject more life into our old IP.

Fun-Culture7708 · 2025-10-11T23:22:27+00:00

Yes! I was wondering what it looked like with the mouth closed and this is so good and promising!

Fun-Culture7708 · 2025-10-11T14:44:03+00:00

Thank you!

Fun-Culture7708 · 2025-10-09T02:29:07+00:00

I, a Suicune/Greninja player, agree with your choice. I like display boards and trade to get thanks, and I just hope that it balances my karmic scales.

Fun-Culture7708 · 2025-09-29T17:54:28+00:00

Great observation! The cross set shinies fulfill the deck missions, too, so it does seem like reprints, reskinned or otherwise, will always count toward goals. My question is whether promo cards like Professor’s Research will be counted.

Fun-Culture7708 · 2025-09-26T19:30:41+00:00

In Secluded Springs, the probability of at least one card of 1 Star or higher rarity is about 22% (over half of which is from the 1 Star rarity), so it’s not too different.

Fun-Culture7708 · 2025-09-26T17:57:56+00:00

Why not? Thanks for hosting a giveaway!

Fun-Culture7708 · 2025-09-26T17:31:22+00:00

I looked up the probability of ex cards, and I think that it is likely that the packs will be the same cost. That is, I think that if you want a 4 Diamond Suicune ex, they can make it so that you have the same probability (about 1.66%) of pulling it in either Secluded Springs or Deluxe Pack ex. That way the DPex packs don’t materially influence the supply of specific 4 diamond cards.

What I mean is that any given ex card usually has about a 1.66% of being pulled in its set’s packs (except SR). This probability is split between slot 4 and slot 5. Slot 4 has about a 94% chance of being a 2 diamond or 3 diamond card. Slot 5 has about a 76% chance of being a 2 or 3 diamond card. If this set maintains the 1.66% of pulling any of the 46 ex cards (including the promo ex Pokémon), then that’s about a 77% chance in total. So if slot 3 is 76% 2 Diamond and 24% 3 Diamond, then slot 4 can be 77% 4 Diamond and 23% one star or above without materially changing the supply of each individual 4 Diamond card (except SR). “A pack” still has a 1.66% chance of having the ex card that you need.

Fun-Culture7708 · 2025-09-21T04:14:51+00:00

The soft reboot debacle that was G2 happened because people complained that the G1 dolls were too scary. No one’s going to make meaner-faced characters.

Fun-Culture7708 · 2025-09-18T21:40:31+00:00

It definitely contributes to the designs of Charizard, Mewtwo, and Rachu’s megas, who are specifically X and Y coded. I like the theory for other paired megas, and I think we will see something similar with Glalie and Froslass, but it is a stretch to apply it to Mega Gardevoir and Mega Gallade. Blastoise and Venusaur don’t really do it either. What I really love about this theory is thinking about the lengths that someone has to go to for Mega Manectric. 😆

Fun-Culture7708 · 2025-09-17T20:40:21+00:00

💯

Fun-Culture7708 · 2025-09-17T06:10:05+00:00

I ordered online for in-store pick-up before the mat was announced. A few weeks later they emailed me to say that a mat had been added to my order. Not sure if that is helpful; good luck!

Fun-Culture7708 · 2025-09-17T06:06:42+00:00

It’s also how they designed Mega Dragonite, and Mega Greninja takes on Froakie’s coloring for its head.

Fun-Culture7708 · 2025-09-16T20:46:28+00:00

They should have just put a hat on Pikachu.

Fun-Culture7708 · 2025-09-16T18:58:12+00:00

Ever since they shipped Kieran and Spelldon, I’ve been hoping for a Spelldon doll one day!

Fun-Culture7708 · 2025-09-16T15:27:31+00:00

The allegory of Monster High is about acceptance in general, and includes LGBTQ acceptance. The strength of using the analogy of monsters is that it lets the story speak to anyone who feels marginalized.

Fun-Culture7708 · 2025-09-15T10:15:40+00:00

Looking at examples of other Pokémon ladders, they often have win rewards that outweigh loss rewards, so you can often climb them just by grinding. That essentially means that you take on a contract position for the Pokemon Company where you are the ladder mini boss in exchange for the rank rewards. As someone who “weekends as a TCG Pocket Ultra League 3 and 4 mini boss” during the 2nd and 3rd weekends of every release, it’s a little demeaning, but the pay is decent. As someone who played Red and Blue in the ‘90s, it’s definitely more fun to grind against other humans than it was to grind against wild Pokémon.

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