Yes, whenever you have a TCG product that includes a figure, in Europe we get the same product without the figure, usually with a jumbo card instead... and that's very sad, because TCG figures are beautiful and very well made!
I've played Blue when it came out, then played (multiple times) Red, Yellow, FRLF, then Yellow on Virtual Console... I'm ̶a̶ ̶b̶i̶t̶ a lot tired of Kanto, honestly. And I'm one of those who loved/loves the franchise since day 0.