This February Pokémon is going Mewtwo crazy with a download for Pokémon Black and White versions to get the Legendary Pokémon into your games, a return of the Psychic-type to the Pokémon Trading Card Game, a cartoon episode you can watch online and exclusive wallpapers to enjoy too! You can read more about these exciting events in Pocket World, on sale now with Mewtwo on the cover! If you want to download and enjoy this brilliant Pokémon in your games, the distribution starts on 12 February and runs through to 6 March.

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The National Media Museum in Bradford is having a fun Moshi Monsters Half Term from Saturday 4 February through to Sunday 26 February. It’s free to get in and packed with fun Moshi activities to keep you busy on your school break. There will be Moshi Monster clay animation workshops using the cool Clay Buddies packs. Pop-up online Moshi stations for some online gaming and you can step into a Moshi world in their virtual media studio. If you’re around the Bradford area then do pop along and let us know what you find by emailing photos and stories to getintouch@pocket-world.co.uk!

From a simple online game to complete world domination! That’s the way that Moshi Monsters is going with the game increasing its player base by one per second and expanding from being originally UK players to American, Australian, Canadian – you name it, they’re playing Moshi! This takeover of the world is now affecting toy shops too! It has started already at The Entertainer in Birmingham, England with a special Moshi Zone where Moshi-loving kids can try out the latest Clay Buddies craft packs, enter colouring competitions, have a Moshi tattoo painted or even meet Furi in the flesh (or should that be fur)! This phenomenon will soon be taking over a toy store near you as more and more Moshi Monsters products fill the shelves. It won’t be long before you will be getting your own Moshi Zone!

Pocket World is an exciting new magazine from Imagine Publishing, packed with all the friendly monster brands that young boys love the most. We cover Pokémon bigger and better than any other magazine, plus we have some brilliant new monster names to introduce you to… Moshi Monsters and Bakugan along with old favourites like Beyblade, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Power Rangers and ThunderCats!

Each issue is a lively mix of news, features, reviews, posters and fun reader sections like Design-A-Monster, where you get to send in your own monster creations, and Ask Professor Yew, where you can ask any monster question you like and get an answer from our in-house Prof! All this plus monster jokes, a quiz, competitions and excellent free gifts with every issue!

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POCKET Monsters

POCKET Gaming

POCKET Money Toys

POCKET Trading Cards

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We hope you’ll love Pocket World. Email us by clicking below and let us know what you think! You can buy a copy now direct from the ImagineShop by clicking the link below…

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Team Magma are on the prowl in Hoenn!

As Ash and his travelling companions entered the land of Hoenn, they were confronted by troublemakers that make Team Rocket look like a comedy double-act…

In the Pokémon: Advance Generation series of the anime, there’s an episode called ‘A Ruin With A View’ in which Ash, May and Team Rocket themselves come across Team Magma attempting to discover the secret of a set of ruins while in Oldale Town. Magma is an evil organisation (much like Team Rocket) led by a guy called Maxie, and their goal is to release Groudon, the beast of the Earth, back into an unsuspecting planet where the Pokémon can eliminate all the water and create new lands, just like it did millions of years ago in the past. Team Magma use Fire-type Pokémon like Mightyena, Golbat and Houndoom, and their arch enemies in the series are Team Aqua.

While Team Rocket attempt to do battle with Team Magma when they are confronted by them in the ruins, they take one look at Magma’s vicious Fire Pokémon and Jessie and James start to run for their lives! Meanwhile, Ash and May are getting a lesson in the ancient ruins of Houen from the archaeologist Umezu, when he gets an alert that his precious ruins are being ransacked by a group looking for ancient Pokémon – Magma! Little do they know that these ruins are only accessible with four special sphere keys that only Umezu has in his possession!

Pirates, Water Pokémon, a vast ocean and a travelling circus – what on Earth are Ash and his pals up to in the ninth Pokémon movie? Pokémon World investigates…

In the centre of a vast ocean, a simple but beautiful lone Manaphy Egg floats down to the depths, then the tranquillity and call of the Water Pokémon is broken by a bunch of evil pirates led by the king of pirates, Phantom. These watery wasters attempt to capture the special blue egg for their leader. It’s a double-cross, though, as one of the pirates isn’t all he seems! Jack Walker is a Pokémon Ranger in disguise, and when the moment presents itself he grabs the Manaphy Egg and makes a daring escape from the pirate ship, outwitting the guards every step of the way.

Meanwhile, Ash and the troupe are doing their usual ramble through the wilderness between Pokémon battles when they come across a travelling circus where Water Pokémon perform to great crowds. They tag along with the circus, getting to know the performers – Lizabeth, Meredith, Ship and Kyle. They discover that these circus performers are descendants of ‘The People of the Water’ and they, along with Jack, are trying their best to deliver the Manaphy Egg back to the Sea Temple. It’s not plain sailing though, as the pirates are soon back on their trail.

In all the commotion the little egg hatches, and the Manaphy that emerges becomes attached to May in a big way! It appears that Phantom is desperate to get his hands on the Manaphy so that the Pokémon will lead him to the Sea Temple and its special treasure – the Sea Crown! With the Sea Crown in his clutches, Phantom will have enough power to take over the world! He eventually catches up with our Pokémon-loving buddies and it’s up to Ash, his mates, Lizabeth and Jack to protect the Manaphy and stop the evil pirate once and for all!

The Cast of Characters

As well as Ash Ketchum, the hero we all know and love, each Pokémon movie introduces a host of new characters to get excited about. The lead in Pokémon Ranger is played by Jack Walker, as he is the Pokémon Ranger himself! Then there’s the character of Lizabeth, the teenage girl that the gang come across as one of the ‘People of the Sea’. Phantom is the nasty pirate leader who is out to capture the Manaphy Egg so that he can find his way to the Temple of the Sea and Judy is the Mission Coordinator for the rescue mission Jack Walker is on – he talks to her through a special talk-back system!

Jack Walker

Lizabeth

Phantom

To start off our collection we have 380… yes 380 wallpapers for you. These include classic scenes from past Pokémon Trading Card sets, brilliant group shots from videogames and some rare wallpapers from other countries including some very interesting Japanese ones. Just click on an image in this gallery to call up the full size wallpaper, then do your usual keypresses or mouse selections to set the image as your wallpaper. Enjoy!

Ash and Dawn Start a Diamond & Pearl adventure

With May having departed from the gang at the end of the Advanced
Generation, the Diamond & Pearl episodes start off with Ash all alone, but not for long…

May decided that she would like to travel to Johto and Max has gone back to Hoenn, but it’s not long before Ash meets a ten year old girl who lives in the region of Sinnoh – this is Diamond & Pearl country (as you will know if you’ve played the Nintendo DS games)! Dawn aspires to become a Pokémon Trainer so she sets off to the Pokémon Laboratory located in Sandgem Town on her bike. She hopes to get her starter Pokémon! Unfortunately the road system confuses Dawn, but she battles on and eventually arrives at Professor Rowan’s lab and is rewarded with her first Pokémon from a choice of Turtwig, Chimchar or Piplup – she chooses Piplup.

Ash on the other hand arrives in Sinnoh on a ship and it’s not long before he has to battle Team Rocket once again as they attack from the air in their special balloon! In the ensuing battle, Ash loses Pikachu in the forest. Pikachu appears in front of Dawn as she makes her way to Jubilife City and we see that Ash has met up again with Brock as he searches for his yellow PokéPal. It’s not long before Ash is reunited with Pikachu and Ash and Dawn become firm friends and decide to travel to Jubilife City together.

A Little Bit Of Heart And Soul!

We’ve been pretty excited since HeartGold and SoulSilver rocked up in the office. Perhaps a little too excited, seeing as how we saw fit to take on this month’s challenger using only Pokémon we’d just captured and started raising in the new games. Had we put enough time in to come out victorious with such a fresh squad, or would our newcomers be trampled? If you think you have what it takes to beat us, email us at pokemonworld@imagine-publishing.co.uk with your Friend Code!

Team Lukémon

Feraligatr
Water

Ampharos
Electric

Dragonite
Dragon/Flying

Decent Pokémon but all still with untapped potential.

Team Adam

Hitmonchan
Fighting

Gengar
Ghost/Poison

Garchomp
Dragon/Ground

A beastly team that doesn’t pull any punches.

FIGHT!

We’d simply grown too attached to our new HeartGold/SoulSilver team to go back to Platinum for this issue’s challenge, so fearing the worst we decided to brave it with the new guys. They’d done pretty well against the Trainers of Johto and Kanto, but it didn’t take long for us to be reminded that competitive battling was a whole different ball game!
We decide to open with Dragonite, which the opponent answers with Hitmonchan. Knowing how unprepared we are, we’re in two minds whether to flee, fearing the off-chance that Hitmonchan had learned Ice Punch, but we decide to risk it. This turns out to be the first of several poor decisions on our part and as our Dragon Rush attack goes soaring wide of the mark, the frosty punch comes as an immediate response and lays out the dragon in a single blow. Not a good start. Not wanting Feraligatr to suffer the same fate, should Chan know Thunder Punch, we opt for the comparatively safe option and put Ampharos up. An early Thunder Wave gets us off to a good start and despite the lack of super effective attacks, we manage to Discharge a fair few times before Hitmonchan can even break his paralysis. But by then, it’s too late for him – he’s hurt Ampharos a fair bit, but a final Discharge and the punchy Poké goes down for one a piece! Out comes (the annoyingly resistant) Garchomp, forcing a switch on our part since that Earthquake is all but inevitable. It does indeed come, and Feraligatr switches into it for a fair chunk of ineffective damage. He next tries to power up with Sword’s Dance, but it’ll be his undoing – Feraligatr’s Ice Fang lands hard for quad damage and down goes the big hammerhead. We could win this yet!
Gengar arrives last and we’re ready with Crunch, but disaster strikes as a critical (and presumably Choice Specs-boosted) Shadow Ball tears through Feraligatr for a shock KO! Begrudgingly, we put out our already weakened Ampharos, but he too suffers the same fate – we’ve forgotten how quick and deadly Gengar can be and paid the ultimate price! A win for Team Adam as the reigning champs go down! Congratulations!

THE FINAL WORD

Our first loss of the year! Heartbreaking as it is to see our new friends shot down in flames so easily, we do have to wonder if even some of our better squads could have stood up to this relentless onslaught. The opposing team was obviously well trained and there was no way for our relatively untrained Pokémon to pull through. Next time we’ll be ready…