The official GTS website journal has posted a question asking, "Which of these is your favorite game feature?" The options you can vote for are Pikachu, Piplup, Shaymin, and Meowth. This is the first time Shaymin has been acknowledged on an official English Pokemon website. Could this random question be foreshadowing an upcoming Shaymin reveal?

Thanks go to Ultimatedra for spotting this! You can see a screenshot of the poll below.

According to Kazuki Yao, a famous Japanese voice actor, he will be providing the voice for Gym Leader Byron in both DP105 and DP106. His blog states that both episodes will air on December 4th together. These two episodes may revolve around Ash trying to earn his Mine Badge. The episodes follow DP103, "Chaotic Melee in Canalave City!" which airs on November 20th.

As we reported the other day, DP108 would be named "Riley and Lucario" according to Yuu Mizushima, the voice actor of Riley in the episode. Following the voice actor's original post, he confirmed on his blog that the Riley episode will air on Christmas Day. What happens on Christmas involving presents? What sort of present does Riley give you in Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum? Will Ash and crew receive a special Riolu present on Christmas Day? We'll seeeee...

Thanks go to Heeroesferret for personally discovering the above information concerning Byron's voice actor and the air date for the Riley episode.

• 11/06 - DP101: Rival Trainer Jun Appears!
• 11/13 - DP102: Hearthome Gym! Vs. Fantina!
• 11/20 - DP103: Chaotic Melee in Canalave City!
• 11/27 - DP104: Cresselia vs. Darkrai!
• 12/04 - DP105 & 106: Byron episodes
• 12/11 - DP107: Unknown episode
• 12/18 - (Break?)
• 12/25 - DP108: Riley and Lucario!

The title of the 11th Pokemon movie in America is apparently going to be Giratina and the Sky Warrior. It was originally named Giratina and the Sky's Bouquet: Shaymin in Japan (click that link for our movie summary). The English title was revealed on Sarah Natochenny's resumé, who voices Ash under Pokemon USA. The movie will undoubtedly air on Cartoon Network early next year.

Happy Halloween! Today there were several kids around campus (this is at UCI) dressed as Pokemon characters, including Ash and Pikachu. We also saw several Pokemon characters at our house, including a Lucario, many Pikachu, and a couple of Ash (of course, the Joker was the most prominent costume). But of course, Pokemon is dead!

On January 1st, a blister pack containing two Bonds to the End of Time and one Galactic's Conquest booster pack will be released in Japan for 945 yen. The product will contain two special promos - Mismagius GL LV.X and Electrode G.

Obviously, this confirms that Bonds to the End of Time will continue to feature SP Team Galactic Pokemon. But what does "GL" stand for in Mismagius' name? "Gym Leaders?" Are we finally getting a new Gym Leader set (at least partly)? There really is nothing else this could mean, so this will most likely be the case. Remember, Bonds to the End of Time will be released in Japan on December 26th, but we will obviously have information before then!

PokeAni has confirmed that the title to DP104 is "Cresselia vs. Darkrai!" It will air on November 27th in Japan, and may actually be a one hour special. This will be the first time Cresselia has been seen in the anime, whereas Darkrai was the star of the 10th Pokemon movie, The Rise of Darkrai. Exciting news!

The name is Bond... James Bond. I would have posted this story this morning, but we couldn't decide on the set's name translation.

The next Japanese set is named DPt2: Bonds to the End of Time (let's abbreviate it as BET). Other than its name, all we know about the actual set is that SP-Pokemon will make a return from the previous DPt set (three classic reprints and shiny Pokemon aren't confirmed yet, but will probably make it into the set). Its theme deck is "DPt Starter Pack SP: Infernape VS. Gallade," obviously featuring the two Pokemon in 30-card half decks. The set will be released two and a half months after Galactic's Conquest on December 26th, making it a faster release than usual. We'll bring you more information on this set when we hear more!

Small note. Infernape and Gallade both belong to members of the Elite Four. SP-Pokemon aren't necessarily tied to Team Galactic, so maybe we will get some Elite Four Pokemon (like maybe Infernape E4 or Gallade E4)? A random theory, but we'll see...

Thanks go to Bangiras, Heerosferret, and Deep_Throat for the translations and heads up!

SteveP has updated his Deck List program with Stormfront cards. For those of you who do not know, his program allows players to fill out deck lists for official tournaments. You will never have to handwrite your deck lists ever again! In the future, you can access his program in the left menu under "T.C.G."

Speaking of updating programs, Redshark should be updated with Stormfront cards soon. We'll keep you posted on that.

The box ratio for Stormfront booster boxes seem to be two LV.X's, one Charizard line card, and two shiny cards. I previously reported that our prerelease had some boxes without any Charizard line cards, but it turned out some people kept their discoveries a secret. We are now certain that almost every booster box of Stormfront has either Charmander, Charmeleon, or Charizard.

I've updated some of our Stormfront scans with better-quality ones. Thanks go to Dylan T., Dave R., Michael L., Zane D., and Torterra Chips for sending in their scans! If anyone has the theme deck holo cards, please e-mail us 300 DPI scans of them! Thank you! As usual, we will be replacing all of the scans with high-quality ones in a few weeks once Shakespeare has time to collect and scan them all.

Here are the theme deck lists for Stormfront. I will eventually put these on their own page, as with all theme deck lists. Thanks go to people from the Huntington Beach, CA prerelease for donating their deck boxes to me and Chrisbo for digging through the trash to find a Raging Sea box. XD

"Dark Rampage" will probably be what players want to buy, as it has two Cynthia's Feelings, two Great Ball, one Luxury Ball, and 13 basic Darkness Energy.

Raging Sea

• 1x Gyarados (Special Holo)
• 4x Magikarp
• 1x Sceptile
• 2x Grovyle
• 4x Treecko
• 1x Abomasnow
• 4x Snover
• 2x Bibarel
• 4x Bidoof
• 2x Finneon
• 2x Switch
• 2x Potion
• 2x Mom's Kindness
• 2x Energy Switch
• 2x Dusk Ball
• 1x Luxury Ball
• 15x Water Energy
• 9x Grass Energy

Dark Rampage

• 1x Tyranitar (Special Holo)
• 2x Pupitar
• 4x Larvitar
• 1x Staraptor
• 2x Staravia
• 4x Starly
• 1x Skuntank
• 4x Stunky
• 4x Machop
• 2x Bagon
• 2x Potion
• 2x Energy Search
• 2x Cynthia's Feelings
• 2x Energy Switch
• 2x Great Ball
• 1x Luxury Ball
• 13x Darkness Energy
• 11x Fighting Energy

Boohoohoo suckas! The quiz question asked last week was, "Which of the following Pokemon is the heaviest?" The correct answer was Groudon, which 47% of the voters answered correctly. This is the first time the correct answer has been in first place, since in previous weeks, wrong answers were selected overwhelmingly over the correct answer by the majority. Unfortunately, half of the voters STILL did not get the question right! That means it counts as a loss! 7-0 WPM.

At least you are all improving, albeit the fact that last week's question was super easy and no one should have gotten it wrong. (I know, I'm mean to you all, but that's so you get mad and start improving!) This week's quiz question is now up. Remember, 51% or more of the voters need to choose the correct answer for it to count as a win.

Have you chosen most of the answers correctly in these past few months? Are you tired of getting grouped in with the losing majority? Are you reading my posts thinking to yourself, "YOU [bleep]! I ALWAYS CHOOSE THE RIGHT ANSWER! STOP TALKING DOWN TO ME!" Think you're smart when it comes to Pokemon? Well then, you should join the PokeBeach forums, where the majority of our members choose the right answers on these quizzes! If you join, be sure to introduce yourself in the "Welcome to the Beach" subforum! Joinnnn usssss...

I might consider changing the win rule to, "If the correct answer is in first place, it counts as a win," but I'll think about it and post my decision next week. It seems like the majority will never answer the quiz questions right 51%+ of the time, which is why I might have to reconsider what counts as a win. We'll see...

It seems the Dialga, Palkia, and Darkrai LV.X tins that were released this past spring have been re-issued at Target and now contain a Pokemon Trading Figure Game figurine. The figurines come from Next Quest, the first Pokemon TFG set. The tins apparently still cost the same price and come with four booster packs, a LV.X, and the figure. You can see a small image of the updated tin packaging to the right. Thanks goes to Omahanime for the news!

For those of you wondering what happened to the Trading Figure Game, we posted in August that Groundbreakers, the next set, is delayed until March. We'll see if it's delayed again in a few months!