Reply To: Toy Meets Hobby: Pokemon for the Tabletop?

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@mecha82 :

I’m assuming that it would be this game :

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/24127/pokemon-trading-figure-game

https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Trading_Figure_Game

It sounds stupendously complicated compared to standard trading card games.
And I suspect that the existing pokemon figurines already made it even less likely that people would like it.

I’m guessing the target demographic being kids makes it difficult to market games, especially when you’ve got incredibly successful franchise on the gameboy. It’s probably the only franchise in the world that can afford to sell multiple versions of the same game every release. It probably makes sense to pokemon fans, but to me it doesn’t.

Anyways …

@mage : that little beasty looks great. If you had used a bit of that green stuff to create a texture across the entire model then it might helped hide the ‘crime’ a bit better.

I think there are plenty of toys out there that could be painted for use in a tabletop game.