>>57260295And Game Freak own TPC, he has NO pull, unless it's input on how best to sell toys to kids, which was his speciality all through the 90's and as head of TPC since 2000.
>>57260292I don't give a fuck your favourite got slapped with the re-tool brush, the fact the very first set of regionals included one for the mascot's ignored unloved shitmon but not the mascot itself, much less Game Freak ALSO making a meta comment in K. Raichu's 'dex entry just fucking proved that was their aim with the things. No Charizard, Lucario, Pikachu, Eevee regionals. Rowlet left alone (because borb sells bundles) but the ganky final evo changed utterly, the holy trinity of Gen 1 boring animal fire types all getting new forms and Vulpix suddenly selling gangbusters as every little girl in Japan wanted their very own Shiron. If they made a regional fucking Gengar, I'd have a different viewpoint, but the fact the only things that got regionals are all things I would expect to get a re-dress to try and make it catch with kids born in the '10's forward isn't giving me any other choice. Can only judge by what I see and outside the autistic watering holes of the Pokémon Internet, these things just aren't that massively popular with normalfags or kids.
