I move into my college dorm one week from today, and I'm still not done with the new website. Oh well. :( This week, we really should be getting POP 6 scans and news (possibly even tomorrow).
Shieldon DP08 Promo - The eighth Diamond and Pearl black star promo, Shieldon, is now available at Target in three-pack blisters. Each blister pack costs $10.99 and features two Mysterious Treasures booster pack, one EX series booster pack, a Shieldon coin, and the Shieldon promo. The packaging and the Shieldon promo can be seen below (click the thumbnails for larger pictures). Thanks go to Shakespeare, our master card scanner, for the promo scan!
Pokemon League Delayed - Pokemon League has been delayed by a week due to shipment problems. You can view the announcement from Pokemon Organized Play below.
Several of the materials for the Oreburgh City league season were not delivered to our warehouse in time to make the September 15th launch date. Unfortunately, this means that we've had to push back the launch date by one week.
The new start date for the Oreburgh City league season is September 22nd. To reduce the effects on the general league schedule, the additional week that was added to the Veilstone City season to compensate for the holiday season has been removed.
The new Sinnoh cycle season schedule is now:
Oreburgh City: 9/22/2007 (Next Saturday) to 10/27/2007
Eterna City: 11/3/2007 to 12/8/2007
Veilstone City: 12/15/2007 to 1/19/2008
Pastoria City: 1/26/2008 to 3/1/2008
Hearthome City: 3/8/2008 to 4/12/2008
Canalave City: 4/19/2008 to 5/24/2008
Snowpoint City: 5/31/2008 to 7/5/2008
Sunyshore City: 7/12/2008 to 8/16/2008
We apologize for the inconvenience that the delay may have caused. If you or your players have any questions or concerns, please email them to leagues@pokemon-tcg.com and we will do our best to answer them.
Thank you for your patience and understanding in this matter.
Sincerely,
Pokemon Organized Play
Watch Mystery Dungeon 2! - How would you feel if you randomly woke up one day and discovered you were a Piplup? TV Tokyo is now airing the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Time and Darkness Expedition television special on their website, which answers that very same question! The special is almost 30 minutes long, and to watch it, scroll down on the page linked to above and select "1Mbps" if you have a high-speed internet connection, or "500kbps" if you have a slower connection.
GTS Website Up! - The official Diamond and Pearl GTS website is now online and running! The website shows details of trades going on around the world (although they are probably not in real time), including which Pokemon are traded the most, what their individual attacks are, and all sorts of statistics concerning different countries and the most popular Pokemon traded in those countries. You can also bookmark your favorite Pokemon and countries for easier access to statistics on them.
The website, however, only seems useful for satisfying curiosity about trades going on around the world, since no actual interaction can take place between your DS and the website (it is only for viewing statistics on trades, and nothing else). Since you can see the attacks of Pokemon being traded, I guess the website could be used to extrapolate what types of strategies people are using for certain Pokemon, but other than that, it is just for fun it seems. Still quite an interesting website, though!
Is anyone besides me having trouble remembering the set name for Secret Wonders?
New "Moon Hunting / Night Dashing" News - New news for Japan's DP4 set has just come in from the official Japanese TCG website, and it now officially confirms that our Secret Wonders (DP3) set will be a combination of both Japan's Shining Darkness (DP3) and Japan's Moon Hunting / Night Dashing (DP4) sets, as we predicted earlier this week.
Moon Hunting / Night Dashing will feature two 30-card theme decks, each themed after Electivire and Magmortar (pictured below). Since both cards are in our Secret Wonders set (DP3), but come from this Japanese set (DP4), we now know that our Secret Wonders set is a combination of both Japan's DP3 and DP4. Most of the card images revealed on Monday are from Japan's DP3, and now we have these DP4 cards in our English set (I am trying to be as clear as possible with explaining this). However, as we previously discussed, cards like Darkrai, which were originally in Japan's DP3 set, will probably be removed from our set and placed into the next American set to coincide with the release of Dialga vs. Palkia vs. Darkai, the 10th Pokemon movie. The DP4 cards substituted into the set are probably making up for the DP3 cards taken out.
Pictures of three new cards were revealed as well, featuring Cresselia, Glaceon, and Leafeon. However, the images are too small to read, so translations are not available at this time.
It appears that Latios, Latias, Roserade, and Floatzel will appear in DP4 based on the wallpaper below, which was previously unknown. To download the wallpaper, select your screen resolution below, save the image to your computer, and set it as your desktop wallpaper.
EDIT: Added Secret Wonders card images (they are above the press release and set logo)! The contents of the news story have also been updated, so please read it if you already were here earlier today.
America's DP3: Secret Wonders - The next American Diamond and Pearl TCG set will be named Secret Wonders. It appears that the English set will actually be a compilation of both Japan's DP3 set, Shining Darkness, and Japan's unreleased DP4 set, Moon Hunting / Night Dashing (for more information on the Japanese DP4 set, due to come out in October in Japan, check out our [July news story] on it).
The images we received today are of cards from the original Shining Darkness Japanese set, but there are new cards included as well, such as Weavile. This leads us to believe that such cards come from Japan's Moon Hunting / Night Dashing (DP4) set, featuring Cresselia, and that our Secret Wonders set will comprise of cards from both sets.
In previous years, sets themed after movies have been released at a later time and out of order to coincide with their movie release. This occurred with EX Legend Maker, which was themed after the 8th Pokemon movie, Lucario and the Mystery of Mew. Its release was pushed back and switched with the release of EX Delta Species in America, when originally, it was supposed to come out before EX Delta Species (this is why EX Legend Maker interrupts the Delta Species Pokemon sets - it came out after it was supposed to).
Unlike the above method of pushing movie-themed sets back to a later release, as the case would have been with Shining Darkness (since it is themed after the 10th Pokemon movie, Dialga vs. Palkia vs. Darkrai), it appears (note: appears) that PUSA has taken a different approach this time. For the most part, the Secret Wonders set we have seems like it will largely comprise of cards from Shining Darkness (DP3), but theoretically, cards like Darkrai, which appear in the 10th movie, will be removed from this set and placed into our next set (which will be released around the same time as when the 10th movie comes out in America). The cards that are removed will probably be replaced with cards from Japan's DP4 set (the Cresselia set), which already seems to be the case with Weavile.
For spoilers of Japan's Shining Darkness set, [click here].
BELLEVUE, Wash.-September 10, 2007-Pokémon USA Inc., a worldwide leader in the trading card game
industry, today announced the latest Pokémon Trading Card Game expansion, Diamond & Pearl-Secret Wonders,
will be released on November 7. The expansion features more than 130 cards, including even more brand-new
Pokémon for players to collect for the very first time.In Secret Wonders, players travel deeper into the Sinnoh region, where they will discover more exciting
Pokémon. Pokémon with different versions, each with distinct characteristics; Pokémon with Items that
continue to give awesome advantages; more of the useful Unown that work so well as a group; and additional
Pokémon LV.X all come together to make Secret Wonders a secret worth uncovering!The Pokémon TCG: Diamond & Pearl-Secret Wonders expansion will be available in two 60-card theme decks-
Powerhouse and Lavaflow-as well as in booster packs. Theme decks and booster packs go on sale in stores on
November 7, priced at $11.99 for the theme decks and $3.79 for the booster packs. Each booster pack features
10 randomly inserted game cards. Theme decks include a unique coin, an updated rulebook, card list, a oneplayer
playmat and damage counters.
Munchlax in SSBB - The Super Smash Bros. Brawl website has updated with the next Poke Ball Pokemon - Munchlax!
When Munchlax is released from its Poke Ball, it walks around on the field and eats any item it sees. This isn't good for important items, such as the Smash Ball, which allows a character to use their "Final Smash" attack.
So far, we know that Goldeen, Chikorita, Deoxys, Groudon, and Munchlax will be available in Poke Ball items in the game. Who could be next? Arceus? I wish...
For more pictures of Munchlax, visit the Super Smash Bros. Brawl website.
STILL working on new layout and content. The Modified Card-Dex is what is taking the most energy and time to finish.
Cranidos Promo, DP07 - Like with Buneary yesterday, Cranidos comes in Mysterious Treasures value packs at Target, each available for $4.99. To recap, each value pack contains one Mysterious Treasure booster pack, one POP 3 booster pack, and either a Cranidos or Buneary promo (look at yesterday's post for Buneary). Thanks to omahanime, we finally have Cranidos' scan, which you can view to the right (click the thumbnail for a larger image).
Battle Road Locations Posted - The Fall Battle Road location list is now available on the official Pokemon Organized Play website. Get your "EX Holon Phantoms and on" decks ready! For more information on Battle Roads, click here.
New Forum Additions - If you are a frequent poster on our forums, you may have noticed our new Article Submissions and Card of the Day forums, but if not, let me explain what they are.
If you have ever been interested in writing articles on the TCG for other people to read, but have not known where to post them, we now have a place to accommodate such a need! Whether your article concerns cards, decks, tournaments, people, or anything, feel free to post it in out forum's Featured Articles section. There, forum members and visitors can both read and comment on your work. If your article is deemed "well-written and insightful" by readers and our staff, we will post it in our future "Featured Articles" section on PokeBeach, where thousands upon thousands of visitors can read what you write (plus, each article will be introduced on this main page first, so it's almost like having the spotlight).
Our new Card of the Day section is something our forum members have been requesting for quite some time, and is a feature many websites have, but oddly, one we, a TCG site, do not! Well, now we do. Every day, one card will be posted in its own thread, and anyone can give their own mini-review on whichever card is chosen for the day. Of course, we still have our PokeBeach Strategists' card reviews, but now there will be two places to read reviews on cards - one place run by normal members, and one run by select individuals who have proven themselves excellent players. Everyone can give their opinions and reviews now!
Mystery Dungeon 2 Commercial - A new Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Time Exploration and Darkness Exploration commercial has been released! This one features new animé and game-play footage. Click the picture below to go to the Japanese Nintendo DS website to watch it.
You know that Pokemon cheating has become more-than-prevalent when you see two seven year olds at Target with Action Replays and Pokemon Diamonds (especially when they shove their shiny Ho-Oh and Lugia in your face). -_- On a different note, we should be getting POP 6 news / scans within the next week.
DP 06 Promo - Buneary - Thanks to Arri, we have a scan of the eighth Diamond and Pearl Nintendo promo, Buneary, which you can view below (click for a larger picture). Buneary comes in the new Mysterious Treasures value packs, which are now available at Target for $4.99. Each value pack contains one Mysterious Treasures booster pack, one POP 3 booster pack, and the Buneary promo. Target should also have Cranidos promos in the value packs, but we do not have a scan of one yet.
More SSBB News - Earlier today, the official Super Smash Bros. Brawl website updated with the Pokemon Stadium stage's music, which combines the common gym theme from the RPG games and the Pokemon evolution song. You can listen to the song in the second news story on the website.
I also did not notice this yesterday, but Diamond and Pearl Pokemon are now confirmed for Super Smash Bros. Brawl. If you look at the "Flying" stage picture, right below Meta Knight's sword, you can see a flying Drifloon. Click the picture to the right to see Drifloon - I have circled it in red.
Looong update today. Sorry for the recent lack of updates - I broke my laptop cord, and since it is a "special" type of cord that you can't buy in stores (so that you can pay Toshiba more money if it breaks), I had to order a new one. I have been using my mom's computer, but since I have two other brothers who are in school right now and constantly need it for homework, it's hard to use. College starts in exactly three weeks! :D
Redshark Mysterious Treasures Patch - Redshark now has a Mysterious Treasures patch available for download! To download the patch, [click here], and to read the release notes, [click here]. You simply need to install the download and move any of your deck files from the old Redshark directory into the new one (as detailed in either the release notes or the main Redshark page).
Future GTS Trading Website - The official Pokemon Game website has announced an upcoming Pokemon Global Trade Station (GTS) website that will provide real-time statistics on Pokemon traded around the world via the GTS. Such statistics will include which Pokemon are traded the most, as well as the most common Pokemon traded for in individual countries. The website will not open until "later this year."
The announcement also states that visitors can bookmark their favorite Pokemon and find out if they are "available," including from which countries. This could possibly mean that players can somehow organize a trade through the website (what would be the point in finding out if a Pokemon is available, including where it is available from, but not be able to trade for it?); however, the article itself is vague in describing the main aspects of the future website, and no further details are currently available on any specifics. We will just have to wait and see if the website is more than just Pokemon statistics for satisfying one's curiosity!
Too bad the website didn't open a few months ago. Perhaps if Nintendo saw the sheer amount of trades involving Darkrai, Shaymin, Arceus, shiny Pokemon, maxed IV'd Pokemon, Starmie with Pressure, Gengar with Wonder Guard, hacked Pokemon in general, etc., they would have done something about all the cheating. I am sure they know about all of the cheating going on, but you would think that by now, they would have the ability to at least block trades involving obviously hacked Pokemon...
"Updated" Diamond and Pearl Tins - Remember those three tins we posted back in July, featuring the regular Torterra, Infernape, and Empoleon cards from the Diamond and Pearl set? Apparently, the cards featured in those tins have now changed, and definitely for the better!
The tins now feature Torterra Lv.X, Infernape Lv.X, and Empoleon Lv.X, each from the Diamond and Pearl set, but with different (and much cooler) artwork! Each of the cards are labeled as Diamond and Pearl (DP) black star promos, numbered DP09 through DP11. The tins will officially be released in about a week for $16.00 each, and will contain four Diamond and Pearl series booster packs, in addition to one of the Lv.X promos. Some stores already have the tins, so check your local store to see if they have any!
Thanks to bretthll, Shukuen Shinobi, and Uzumaki Naruto, we also have pictures of the cards and of the tins. To view the tins, click the thumbnail above and to the right. To view the new Lv.X cards (which, again, are just reprints of the D/P set's, but with different art), click the thumbnails below.
Pokemon Stadium 2 SSBB Stage - The Super Smash Bros. Brawl website has a new update regarding a new Pokemon stage in the game. The stage will, at first, appear like a normal Pokemon Stadium, but as time passes, it will transform into four types of fields - "Electric," "Ground," "Flying," and "Ice," while different Pokemon appear in the background of each type of field (such as Dugtrio appearing on the Rock stage in the ground). The Rock stage will cause a mountain to spring up in the middle of the field, the Flying stage will increase the jumping power of every character, and the Ice stage is going to be extremely slippery, causing characters to slide all over the place. Click the thumbnails below for larger pictures of each stage.
The website includes pictures and descriptions of each of the types of fields, spare one - the electric stage. Wonder why...
Time for a site status update, since there seems to be no Pokemon news at the moment! Luckily for me, my first year of college does not start until September 20-something, so I still have some time to finish the projects I have been working on since before summer started. :D
Chat Room Quiz - Today at 4:00 PM, PSD (California time), we will be conducting a Pokemon quiz in the PokeBeach chat room. If you want to compete with many other PokeBeach members to test your knowledge in the three main Pokemon fields (TCG, Anime, Games), feel free to join in!
Forums - If you have Diamond and Pearl, you should definitely check out our highly active PokeBeach Wi-Fi League. In the League, you can post a "My Player" forum thread containing Pokemon you want to trade and Pokemon you are looking for (instructions). Usually, someone will request to trade with you within a day at the most! You can also setup battles with other people. If you are more of a TCG player / collector, you can check our our Deck Garage forum (for posting decks to be fixed by other members) and Trading Corner (for trading cards). To do anything on our forums, you will have to register first, though!
"Stupid, Time-Consuming Layout" Update - You don't have to read this - it's just an informal "what I have been doing and why the new site layout is not up" update for anyone interested. Remember how I said I was making a new layout almost six or seven months ago, posted a preview of it, and then constantly stated I was working on it? Well, I still am, and that's all I have been doing this entire summer (I have no life anymore).
When I say "layout," I do not exactly mean the layout-layout - I am also referring to the new website content and features, which are actually the aspects of the new site that are keeping the layout from being put-up (if that makes any sense).
The new Modified Card-Dex, which I have only been working on with Meowth346 for what seems like the past year (almost literally), is still not done because it is jam-packed with so many new filtering and searching features (the reason I have not updated the old Card-Dex in months is because I have been working on this). It is essentially the "core" of the new site, since the set scan pages draw from it, the tournament-legal card listings draw from it, and the new "search for a card" feature draws from it. Without "it," the "core" of the site will not exist, and that's no way to open the new site! You can't open a new project with less features than it previously had. When it is done, though, I think every player will find some good use for it - I myself have been using it constantly, even though it's still not complete. We also have another secret project in the works, which is now one month old, but I doubt it will be ready until 2030 or so. :p
During this summer vacation, I have also been experimenting with a content management system (a way to easily post news and content pages through a program that manages everything, rather than making every page individually using pure, cold HTML and coding). With it, posting pages and news will be much easier, and when it comes time to college, "easier" is what I will need. This is also holding me back from getting everything together and up - there is just so much that needs to be done to have it completely ready for me by the end of the summer.
Unfortunately, I start my first year of college in only a few weeks, so I am scrambling to finish everything - the Modified Card-Dex, content pages, working on the new CMS, etc. At this point, I know that everything I wanted to be available by the end of the summer will not be posted in time, so it seems that I will have to add new pages during the school year instead. I honestly, honestly wish I could clone myself to finish everything faster, but I am only one (crazy) person.
Anyways, I plan to have the "core" of the new site up and running by whenever the week before I start college is, even though not everything I planned to have ready will be. Yes, I do not know when I start college - I don't even know what today's date is - all I know is that I have to finish this layout before summer ends!
PokeBeach Strategists Chosen! - After almost two weeks of careful consideration and debate, we have chosen ten new PokeBeach Strategists! If you were chosen, please check your private message inbox on PokeBeach's forums immediately. Congratulations to all!
- Burninating_Torchic
- Dendrobatida
- EspeonShock
- Krucifier
- Muffins
- Red5bv06
- smacktack15
- Teddiursa
- TylerM
- Woody
SSBB Pokemon Trainer's Moves - In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the Pokemon Trainer character controls three Pokemon, each capable of different attacks (movesets).
A few minutes ago, the official SSBB website revealed some of the attacks for each of Pokemon Trainer's Pokemon. Squirtle can use Waterfall and Withdraw, Ivysaur knows Bullet Seed and Vine Whip, and Charizard can perform Rock Smash and Flamethrower. Each of the Pokemon will have one more Pokemon attack, but the website did not reveal which (anyone want to bet Blast Burn, Hydro Cannon, and Frenzy Plant, and as final smashes for each corresponding Pokemon?).
For details of the attacks and which buttons on the Wiimote activate them, visit the front page of the Super Smash Bros. Brawl website.
Sorry for the lack of updates - I have been working on the new layout and content, as usual (and yes, six months have probably passed since I first started :p). I am sloooow, but I want everything to be perfect. ;)
Mysterious Treasures Theme Decks - Thanks to Shakespeare, we have both theme deck lists for Mysterious Treasures. Since I am re-doing all of the content and don't feel like putting the theme decks on to an "old" type of page that is going to be re-written anyways, I'll just copy and paste them below:
Armor Fortress
- 1 Bastiodon 21/122 (Special Holo)
- 2 Shieldon 63/122
- 2 Totodile 106/122
- 4 Bronzor 74/122
- 4 Doduo 50/122
- 2 Dodrio 46/122
- 4 Spheal 102/122
- 2 Sealo 62/122
- 1 Walrein 39/122
- 1 Mantine 29/122
- 4 Armor Fossil 116/122
- 1 Quick Ball 114/122
- 2 Fossil Excavator 111/122
- 2 Bebe's Search 109/122
- 2 Potion 118/130
- 2 Energy Search 117/130
- 8 Metal Energy (setless)
- 16 Water Energy (setless)
Skull Charge
- 1 Rampardos 33/123 (Special Holo)
- 2 Cranidos 43/123
- 4 Geodude 84/123
- 2 Graveler 51/123
- 3 Spinarak 103/123
- 1 Ariados 20/123
- 4 Surskit 104/123
- 2 Masquerain 55/123
- 3 Kricketot 86/123
- 1 Kricketure 27/123
- 4 Skull Fossil 117/123
- 1 Dusk Ball 110/123
- 2 Fossil Excavator 111/123
- 2 Bebe's Search 109/123
- 2 Potion 118/130
- 2 Energy Search 117/130
- 10 Fighting Energy (setless)
- 14 Grass Energy (setless)
