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Hiya Bill! Did you hear about the little wind-up Pokemon Toys? I think their called Rumble Toys, and they’re so cute! I finally got my first Starter Set (The Oshawott line) for my birthday, and I absolutely love them! Do you collect any? Also, how do they make toys of rare ‘Mons so accurately? Like, my friend has a Zekrom (He spent so long trying to get one, its crazy) and it looks just like the ‘Dex says the real Zekrom would. It has Teravolt and Dragonbreath, too! Isn’t that awesome?

I have indeed heard of those! My partner and editor collects them, actually.

[[HEY, BILL. WHY DON’T WE TALK ABOUT YOUR EXTENSIVE COMIC BOOK COLLECTION IN PUBLIC? —LH

Oh, could we? I never get a chance to do that! —Bill]]

Strangely, although one would think I’d be enthusiastic about collecting pokémon merchandise, I … actually don’t. I only really buy or otherwise acquire them if I think one of my friends who are avid collectors would like them.

From what I understand, though, the company that makes them, Wonderko, prides itself in creating extremely realistic depictions of pokémon with built-in mechanisms designed to create a limited number of scaled-down replica moves. For example, the Zekrom toy is programmed to use “Teravolt,” which is really just an electric shock delivered by a tiny battery and channeled through its surface.

If anyone’s wondering why a toy would be capable of this, the power of each of these “moves” is scaled down enough to be relatively harmless to humans, but really, the toys are simply inactive figurines without the accompanying Wonder Key. Most parents know better than to give their children said key, but on the off-chance that they do, collectors of these toys argue that the resulting shock (or what-have-you) would be an educational experience for a child who might wish to handle real pokémon in their future.

In my personal opinion, that sounds like a lie, but seeing as I know nothing about raising human children, I can’t really dispute it.