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October 2006 was the month The Pokémon Company launched the Pokémon Trading Figure Game in the UK, we actually got it before the Americans or Japanese, but what exactly was it all about?
Well the makers of the Trading Card Game often had requests to make a collectable figure game but they didn’t want to just throw any old game together, instead they took years to develop this new game and asked Japanese model makers Kaiyodo Co., Ltd to come up with the special sculptures that the figures are based on.
Players battle it out on a choice of playmats, with Trainer Cards, Trainer Figures and of course the Pokémon figures all used in the game. Spinning the Pokémon and reading off the outcome on the dials determines who wins and who is loses a battle.
At launch you could buy the game at all good toy shops like Toys R Us, Argos and Toymaster, and the first version was called Next Quest with Groundbreakers soon following on. The plan was to release new expansions to the game, allowing you to build up an impressive collection of figures, just like players do with the trading cards. Unfortunately The Pokémon Company weren’t that impressed with the sales figures of the game and have since dropped it, preferring to concentrate on the Trading Card Game. You can still pick up figures and game packs though if you shop around on the internet.
Pokémon Trading Figure Game Facts
• General producer at Pokémon and one of the designers of the original card game, Mr Tsunekaz Ishihara, designed the figure game.
• Pokémon USA hoped that players would collect lots of figures and build up impressive collections.
• The models were actually sculpted by Kaiyodo Co., Ltd in Japan.
• The first release of Pokémon Trading Figure Game included 40 figures including fan favourites like Pikachu and Charizard.
• Then there were special Trainer figures and limited edition models to find!
• The game is won when one of your Pokémon lands on your opponent’s goal, or if your opponent can’t attack, move or use their Trainer.
• Trainer Cards are also included, but can only be used by spinning a Trainer figure and getting the go-ahead! They boost your Pokémon’s powers.
• Players each spin their Pokémon during play and the winner of a battle depends on the part of the dial each Pokémon points to. Blue beats everything, purple beats white and two whites mean the strongest attack wins.
• A miss will lose to all attacks and if both players spin the same colour, nothing
happens and you have to spin again.
• So, time to start shopping then eh? Next Quest Battle Starter sets will give a boost to any Pokémon fan’s figure collection with six Pokémon and three Trainers.
• The full Starter Set includes three Pokémon figures with bases, one Trainer figure, a two-sided playmat, two-sided collector’s sheet, a rulebook and three Trainer cards.
• The Battle Starter Set has yet more PTFG googies! Six Pokémon figures, one Judge figure, two Trainers and lots of Trainer cards
They should bring it back to the uk and try it out again.
I agree with riolu.
Yeah you guys are right. I hate people who laugh at you for having toys but there great fun to collect and play with.:))
i agree i wish it was as popular as the tcg can you imagin the tcg places but insted with tfg? bring the back and try again i say!!!!
i esspecily love the salamence and dratini figures and also imagin gen 4 pokemon like that? (waaaaaay to cool!)
Looks like it was gr8!
these brilliant figures where amazingly good when i used them back then.Bring them back and see if people get attracted to it.Pikachu rocks!
iv got sum there great
i think that they are cool and should be back in good game shops
they will sell well
i espesially like the lugia and ho-oh figures , they are mega cool !!!
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i hope they come out with a garchomp figure cuz that would be so awesome
cool i wanna get them
there all so cute and adorable
there cool!!!!! i like lots of cuties like buneary evee and cutie cleffa
i love the idea its mega cool
why u called mantine is stupid
POKEMAD THINKS IZ GREAT IDIA AND AGREES WITH RIOlu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i agree with pokemad and riolu…
Theese look great and its a pity that they didnt do so well,I mean Id
buy em.
i tnink its cool it didnt last long though. altough i made a microsorf power point presentation about it
i wish i had some
HELOOO!!! NOW… I THINK THIS FIGURE SET IS SOOOO! COOOOL!
they r really cool. i have two , but i wish i had more. i have number 26 and 17
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