thursday, august 29th (last update: 6:02am)
wow... busy night... and no one to update for me. ^_^' so lets see... um... i spent a few hours working on forum stuff. thats really about it. ang didn't send me an islands card... hmmm.... [thinks] oh! in the next couple days we will have THE FINAL TWO PROJECT ZEO CARDS!!!! duh duh duuuuuuuuuuuun. yeah... expedition is coming out in two weeks. its really gonna be a great set. there are a LOT of tourney worthy cards in it, like vileplume, tyranitar, and vensaur... and all the colors seem to really get something from this set. except steel. of course there has never really been a good steel card except for steelix and well.. yeah. i think steel energy has seen more play outside of steel decks than in steel decks. although i DID have a steeldrill deck once. beedrill and foretress. hmm... i actually liked it. maybe i shoulds ee about making it mmf compliant. so yeah... where is this update going? its going nowhere fast, thats for sure. oh wait! we DO have news! booyah! starting the first week of september, the pokemon center in ny is going to have a display set up with an ecard reader and ecards for you to try out! you can try out the mini games, or have a look at the cool new ecards. and if you preorder ecards from pokemoncenter.com, they will ship on september 1st! e-kiosk   and just a final little note here. today is vash's birthday! in case you dont know vash, he does a lot of work on the technical side of sugarshock/zeo, and right now he is helping me with the new forums. he's one of those essential guys, that doesn't really get noticed all that much. ;) happy birthday vash!
	quote of the day you gonna eat that beetle or were you just putting sauce on it?

	wednesday, august 28th (last update: 3:31am)
well....eh....if i remember correctly, purity said i could update tonight, so...i will ^_^; hello, again...this is nestikal here updating again... go guest updaters.... anyway, not much to update with tonight. i guess some days are better than others =\ among the little ive got to update with is two new GBA colours! yay! gold and silver, to fit in with your pokemon games! gold! and silver personally, i think the silver looks a bit blue, but i'm pretty insane....o_o;;. they were just released in japan, so i expect they'll be out elsewhere pretty soon. pokemon.com just updated with TV guides top 50 cartoon characters of all time (isnt this old news tho? O_o). pikachu was ranked 15th. i wonder who voted for pikachu....>_o; i think thats all ive got for you...so, eh, yeaaaaaaaaaahhhhh.... [wanders off into shadows] ^_^; [wanders back from the shadows] pkmnx told me to add this on. could you put it on at the very end of my update? also, as i was just informed, the new pokemon anime series, Master Quest, takes place in the Whirl Islands, just south of Olivine City. i suppose it's to be like the Orange Islands series... [ech note] we actually got to watch 4 episodes of pokemon master quest at worlds... nothing too exciting relal,y and the opening theme song was... um... 'unpokemonish' to say the least. i belive it was performed by a group called 'grind' and basically it was 3 minutes of skateboard video rocking, with a television screen showing pokemon in the background. hmmm... maybe this wasn't the actual opening, but like a music video style intro that they used for worlds only... but then again, maybe not. Ang: yeah..that dead eevee is at it again. isn't that right betty? Betty: ...i guess so... Ang: Whats wrong Betty?   Betty: ITS CREEPY!
	quote of the day the 80s will be nice

	tuesday, august 27th (last update: 4:23am)
alright..... im outta here for a couple days.. im working heavily on the forums making some changes and everything. so tonight and tomorrow at least we have GUEST UPDATERS! WOOO! AHHHH-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAA!     *coughs, and regains his composure*   The first important matter of today's update is the muffled shouting coming from behind that door. *points to it* I'd just like to say that absolutely NO ONE is tied up, bound, and gagged sitting behind it, and I absolutely have NOT hijacked the site for my own evil intents. In further news, the sacks those people are NOT tied up in behind that door are firmly secured, but comfortably lined.   *blinks*   Soo, yes. Gloom here, with today's update.   First up, we've got some deck fixes up for you in the Atelier from Minimech and Nova. Nova and I are currently a bit busy getting together several articles for the Atelier on basic deck building, so if we haven't gotten to your deck in a while, rest assured that we will soon.   Following up my article last week on Pokemon Selection comes an article from Nova on basic deck building, focusing on Haymakers. If you're just getting into the game, or are just starting to play the game seriously and competitively, I suggest you go and read it. This article, as well as the previous one, will soon be up on the front page of the Atelier. It's a good read, and my apologies go out to Nova for having to edit it down a touch. Also, if you're trying to get a friend/parent/enemy to start playing the game, this is a great article to get them to read.   Beginner's Guide to Deck Building     In other news, Wizards issued a press release earlier today about the upcoming expansion set Expedition. You can read that here   And wrapping up, the Kids' WB! released its upcoming programming schedule, including the showing times for Pokemon Master Quest. You can view the full programming schedule right here   Oh, and for good measure, I'll take the next fifteen seconds to laugh maniacally some more.   Ahh-ha-haaaa….AHHH-haa…haaaa! AHHHHHH-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAAAA! [ech] yes folks... he IS administrator of the forums... you can all run in fear now. and just as promised yesterday, we have an article about legendary pokemon frooom sharkdog. you know... that guy from last night. yeah... that one.   legendary my....
	chrisbo explains the jackie chan action card game if both cards have the same value its..... KUNG FU TIME!!!!

	monday, august 26th (last update: 4:12am)
hey guys... remember shark!? of course you do.... shark is the 'anime dude' at zeo and has given us some cool japanese info in the past. anyway, he has spent the last two weeks in japan (lucky little....) and while he was there he took in such things as the pokemon center, the fifth movie, he got to play some pokemon advance.... oh, and he probably did some non pokemon related stuff too... [tries to ponder the fact of non pokemon stuff in japan....] so then, i've convinced him to give us some reports on what he did over there, and give us synopsis of the movie and pokemon center and the whole nine yards... so lets see what we have today... Pokemon V: Synopsis Right now Im in Tokyo, and I just came back from the cinema where I watched the latest Pokemon movie. Again, the line of movies is getting better, when I saw the 4th movie I was impressed by how different it was then the first three (by the implementation of alot of CGI) And with the 5th Im again amazed, although I can't speak japanese, I could follow most of the story (cause we all have to admit, its a kids show, so a kids movie). The animation is stunning, and the CGI is even more stunning. Ratiosu and Ratiasu are introduced very interestingly, around them a legend (which is also the beginning of the movie, the legend is explained by the means of pages in a book) Where, according to the legend, a boy and a girl were found on a beach in Water City (I dont know the exact name of the city), soon after a dark force rained over Water City and the children emitted a light that could save all, which changed them into Ratiosu and Ratiasu. The light of their power saved Water City and soon after a group of Ratiasu and Ratiosu came and took them into the group and away they went, but the guardians of Water City never left. After this introduction you find out that this was a book which was read by two top Team Rocket members, and their plan is to get their hands on the power of Ratiosu and Ratiasu. The scene switches to Water City where Satoshi and Kasumi are about to start in a water race, which will eventually lead Satoshi to meeting Ratiasu and Ratiosu and more friends, while the Team Rocket members set out their devious plan. Its really a good movie, and I do recommend it, even if its just for the graphics. And of course, the little short which introduces us to Yomawaru, Volbeat and Wynaut, which is easy to understand, and its nice to see a little comeback by the Pichu Brothers ^_^ In other news, at the end of the credits a large Pokemon logo (in japanese) appears with the words "Advanced Generation" under it, and a voice (probably) telling us that its coming soon. Which is a good thing ech note: he did NOT say 'its a good thing' he said, 'is a good thing' which a certain home apparel mogul does not lay claim to.... so tomorrow, shark is gonna have an article about legendary pokemon, or abundance of them, and meanwhile.. we can all drool over the cool stuff he got in japan.... i've already picked out the stuff I want... lucky lucky shark... hmmm.... lesse here. ang keeps giving me this link. i think he wants me to do something with it.... [thinks of what to do with the link] so in the islands tonight we find that that eevee that we thought that as dead, isn't as dead as all that. [hmm... i used 'that' too many times in that sentence]   [betty] looks like i owe you a coke... and also minimech updated the atelier with a deck.... this would have been posted in the updated sections part, but i haven't updated the main page to have that again... ;) deck atelier goodness!
	(mis)quote of the day... SHUT SHUT SHUT!!!!

	sunday, August 25th (last update: 5:33am)
just a couple things newswise today... and LOTS of scanning! pure got the latest coro coro and madly scanned... or was that scanned madly... hmm... well she wasn't mad while scanning i dont think, so she must have been scanning madly... um... or something. o_O (dont mind me... im not really all there) so in addition to all the new pokemon we already know, we also have that cute little raccoon... the cheerful lil dog, and the bluebird of unhappiness... as well as a very interesting warrior looking pokemon... anyway, until we can get it all translated we can only guess what it says or who it is... and we dont want to make assumptions on it, now do we? :) so then, pure is working on writing up the coro coro section, so look for that this week sometimes. scanning is only half the battle... @_@ and speaking of scanning we have some scanned fun from anguris neo and mt. we have a bit of info on the ecard reader, as well as the other non pokemon related applications (yes! non pokemon related! <gasp> what IS this world COMING to?!) and we have a really cool article from egm about ruby/sapphire... hmm... it mentions that you might not be able to import pokemon from r/b/y/g/s/c into rb/sp... i dunno... i think they'll find a way. i mean afterall, how else can you catch 'em all, right?! eReader goodness... little bit on ruby 'official' preview, including a questionable quote ;) and in a final bit of 'scanning' soslowpoke 'scans' the new expedition set on sale next month. get a quick overview of some possible good cards in the new set, and start planning your decks. its never too early to make a new deck... um... except if its 3am and the deck you make consists of sabrina's alakazam, brock's ninetales, and every single psychic pokemon known to man.... um yeah. THEN its probably too early to be making a deck....   the expedition for expedition hmm... i think i'll reuse that link name..
	quote of the day... do you have the pokeballs to take on two pokemon at once?!

	Saturday, August 24th (last update: 3:25am)
Gah!!! I've been roped into updating Zeo tonight! Ooooooooooooooh, SOMEBODIES gonna be taking a dive for this!! Anyway, getting into the spirit of things, here's oemthing interesting for you all to look in on, it appears that PokemonCenter.com is already selling boosters packs(in 5 or 10 pack bunches) of eCard, and they got a special shipping date of September 1st! Sure the reader isn't out yet, but how can you pass up getting those cutesy Wailmers and Larvitars?! [Ech] Eric....there are no Wailmers in eCard. [Eric] There aren't? Why not? [Ech] Well, because there just aren't. [Eric] Pfft, makes you wonder how Pokemon got so popular WITHOUT a big, crying whale. eCards, mmmmmmmmmmm...taste like chicken... [looks around the card display room, tattered Dunsparces abound as the dreaded Zeo Tumbleweed rolls about, lifting my foot, I spot the remains of an Islands card.] Ack...well, looks like Betty won't be joining us tonight, cause the tumbleweed took another casualty in its rolling rampage. Anyway, just to tide you all over, you can look at some card I did of that new Fire Pokemon everyone seems to be talking about. [Betty] I could think of SUCH a better link title. [Ang] Hey!! [Eric] ..ermm...[shoves Ang and runs off] [Ech] o_O [glances around cautiuosly]...ok, I think I lost them. Ech doesn't want me posting this, but I'm gonna give it a shot anyway, it's my comic, Road to Victory, and sicne I'm updating, and he said I could use whatever I want.....well....he also kinda said I couldn't use my comic, but what he doesn't know won't hurt me, ri---[HEROIC STOPPING SOUND]--Agh!!! [Ech] DROP THE LINK AND STEP AWAY FROM THE UPDATE!!! [Eric] Ah! It's the man trying to keep me down!!! Preel Preel Preel.... Well, that's about it, now I gotta run, cause Ech just grabbed a rock...uhm....LATERZ!!!! ~E.M.
	quote of the day... pfffft... fine. just means less brain goo for you then.

	friday, august 23rd (last update: 3:10am)
well pure is on a plane headed back home right about now... hmm... she should be somewhere over colorado i would assume, although seeing as how you're probably reading this AFTER 3am, then she's probably home... or something. ... um yeah. anyway, we're working on some stuff... a lot of behind the scenes maintenence stuff.... man, hard to beleive we're almost two, huh? just another month and a half.... so much to do... so much to finish.... hmmm.... lots of revelations in the wotc chat this week too. (oooh... that reminds me.. gloom finished an article but i forgot to link it... but i can at least post it... oh yeah, back to the chat) mainly a lot of people who are 14 now and realizing what will happen when they are fifteen.... aaaand.... the exclusion of promos 1-20 in the new modified format. modifying modified   ok, and as i said up there in brackets, gloom has an article for us! one of the most important things about building a deck is selecting the right pokemon... if you dont have the right pokemon, you're doomed fromt he get go [gloom] ....like PIDGEOT maybe..... [ech] oh shuuuut uuuuuup. i WILL make it work damnit! so if you want to learn a few tips on the right pokemon to select, go read the new deckbuilding 101 article (which i actually just dubbed it that now... pretty snazzy, huh?) deckbuilding 101: choose your poison (pokemon) island corner: [ang] i'm not sure about this one...it looks kinda...dead...but the couch its dead on is nice. [betty] LOVE that couch [ech] heeeeeey! you just recoloured the couch pure drew! [ang] ..er..yes. i did. [ech] ... [ang] its a cover [ech] o_O [ang] to protect the couch pure drew... [ech] PURE WOULD NEVER HAVE SUCH AN UGLY COVER ON HER COUCH!!!! [ang] from...eevee corpse [ech] oh... so its a body bag? [ang] yeah [ech] ok, cool. i like body bags [ang] ...this conversation will make the intro more interesting, you should include it [ech] yes it will... should i include this part too? [ang] er...i don't think so [ech] alrighty. please note: no eevees were harmed in the making of this card. a dunsparce got stepped on and a magikarp almost drowned... but not one eevee was hurt. nope, not one.
	quote of the day... hey look! MILK!

	thursday, august 22nd (last update: 4:20am)
[turns the stage over to poinko for two cards in the upcoming worlds expansion] Me and Ech had a lot of fun in the Sealed Legendary Collection booster draft, we entered under the name 'Team Redundancy Team'(which was thought up by MarsGuo). Too bad the judges kept getting our name wrong and calling us Team Redundancy. We needed 2 mascots, so we tried Wobbuffet and Sneasel. Then after losing 3 times we switched Wobbuffet with Gengar, and cleaned up until the finals when we were beaten down by Soslowpoke and his brother. Yikes. Here's our Mascot, tho, Gengar!(mainly because Pure wanted Sneasel for her team mascot. I don't blame her) Team Redundancy Team's Gengar   This silly card idea started when we noticed JDGloom had a serious penchant for swiping hotel supplies when no one was looking. I think all together he made off with 5 towels, 4 bathmats and 23 ballpoint pens. I'm sure that if he had a wrench, he'd have a brand new toilet and pulsating massasger shower head in his bathroom tonight. (JDGloom's real name and address witheld by request) KLEPTO Gloom! [ech takes over again] anyway, a couple other cards we're working on include..... sanki, the happy squid, octotpus of friendship, octoposse, pk's ddr challenge.... and many more (until we get tired of it that is) and we also have the rest of pure's worlds update! the first part took us up to sunday night at the zeo suite.... with dinner and dancing... er... cards.... part two includes our tour of wotc, the aquarium, toy store, the birth of not in the face, and more references to sanki the happy squid!   watch out for killer bunnies!   hmm... i still gotta write up one of those... however i KNOW its not going to be as exciting as pure's.... although i guess i COULD write about not in the face... man... devi cruz is just too powerful in that format....
	life lesson #536 starfish are hard. sea cucumbers are squishy. anenomies are creepy feeling.

	wednesday, august 21st (last update: 5:08am)
hmmm... not TOO much going down today, after yesterday's big ecard4 update. fixed a few links and names, as we're still finishing up the lists....and we're STIL in need of that elusive crystal crobat.... ah well... 88/88 and 2/3 hidden cards isn't bad for a set that comes out in 4 days, right? but we do have a peice of new, and an update! everyone knows that expedition is coming out next month right? right. in fact, its coming out in about 3 weeks... and we all know that we have a set list and pics.... but thats not the case at hand. today we want to talk about.... ecard2 and 3..... anyway, zeo news scout soslowpoke has a bit of ecard2 info for us. first off, we're all tired of little jungle sized sets, and so is wizards, so the next ecard set will be a combination of ecard 2 and 3 and it will officially be called.... card-e aquapolis. they hope to get the set out before the end of the year, but i think it might be more towards late january or february before we see aquapolis hit shelves. little interesting side note tho.... one of the names wizards was tossing around for ecard2/3 was atlantian... but it got turned down, apparently for aquapolis. there's a bit of lunchroom trivia for you all. so then we have expedition coming out in a few weeks... aquapolis coming out (hopefully) by the end of the year, and ecard4/5 slated for later in 2003... maybe around june? and as for the updated section... we have updated the zeo printed promo page with scans of a lot of the new zeo promos.... we have the whole baracus line as well as shining lapras... and we also have informatoin (but no scans yet) as to those elusive cards number 16 and 17....
	quote of the day I don't mourn those who fulfill their destiny. Especially when it's a creme filled destiny

	tuesday, august 20th (last update: 7:54am)
one word for you.... ecard4 [thinks] okay, thats actually two words... [thinks some more] ok, if you count 'e' as a seperate word, its actually three words... three words for you.... ecard4. thats what we have for you tonight, and hopefully everyone will love and appreciate teh effort that went into this. we have the entire set as well as images and lists of all the cards, barring that sneaky elusive (rumored) crystal crobat... HUGE thanks to magmar2000 who pointed us in the direction of these, but unfortunatly was too exhauted to finish up the list for pokeschool... and a really huge thanks to pure too, who stayed up a lot later than she should have getting the setl ist completed. as for me.... well... i just got all the images and made them look nice ;) a well trained photoshop script could do my job... wait... it did :D cards you'll see here... soon... but not too soon now.... if you'll excuse me.... its so very late... i mean early...i mean...... zzzz.......
	quote of the day check april 15th for today's quote

	monday, august 19th (last update: 5:23am)
alrighty.... lets see what we have for TODAY. o_o well..i was supposed to have a shellder..but that doesn't look like a shellder... betty: what is it, mistah neo?! i'm not sure...i guess we'll find out   betty: i'll get my swacking stick now then... i'm pretty sure i can find some scans too.... pure scanned a bunch of promos for me.. now where oh where did the.... oh here they are! first up both poinko and pkmnx handed out promos at worlds... they were both very goulish promos too... hahaha.... get it? goulish?! [waits] oh yeah! you donlt know yet that they're both ghost pokemon! now is it funny?! [waits some more] pffft... my humor is so wasted on you.... [random audience member] its wasted all right! ... so here are their promos! goulish gengar! mysterious misdrevus! more mysterious misdrevus! aaaaand pure and i also handed out some cards too! we finished up the baracus line with the fearsome TYRANITAR... (larvitar and pupitar were giving out at the eastern and central stadums respectivly) and then we also had a smaller run card called shining larpas. now the scan of the lapras itself is quite dark because it is in fact similar to the real shining cards... the pokemon itself is printed foil and the rest of the card is the standard gloss finish.... believe me, the scan doesn't show the details of this card. tyrant tyranitar! lovely lapras! and the final thing we have for today is another event report by joe. this time he was judging at gencon. read his report and find out how the event went down! gen con? why its a generic convict isn't it?
	quote of the day "...we need more drinks with stuff floating in it like orbitz... remember orbitz?" [shudders] "i hadn't until JUST NOW"

	sunday, august 18th (panic mode: 4am)
hmm... gotta reember to find the update table again... so we can post the things that we updated.... oh yeah, like nova updated THE ATELIER tonight with some new decks.... so we would have posted that there.. and we also would have posted a link to the AUGUST ARCHIVES that we posted today too.... guess we'll just never know about those updated pages.... :( Lanturn today, and boy, does it ever look HAPPY. I mean, wow. That sucker is really happy. All smiling and all. I'd be smiling too, tho, because I was better than the other fish. I was going around lightin' up the place. man....   Betty: ...smug "fish". and in addition to that we also have NINE cards from poinko. he recently thought it'd be cool to do a little mini set with all the babies... but NAUGHTY babies. evil evil little things... tracking mud through the house... stealing cookies.... playing with makeup.... such naughty little things.... teething troubles don't spoil your appitite you're too young for makeup quit being a bully! dont stick that in there! what have i told you about playing with matches?! you're tracking MUD everywhere! you'd better not be getting water on the floor dont you throw a temper tantrum... and if anyone was still interested... i have my little joke card of the bluebird of unhappiness.... tomorrow we'll have some worlds and gencon reports, some more cards, and scans of new promos.... all that and a giant smiley too....
	Book of Smiley, Chapter 2, verses 8-13: And the smiley spoke saying, all who use me in moderation shall be praised normal, and they who invent new versions of me shall be praised, for they are the smiley-makers... And they who misinterpret my smiley teachings shall be forgiven and I shall smile upon them, like thus: : - D and the people shall rejoice, like thus: 8 - D

	saturday, august 17th (panic mode: 4am)
o_o' its 4am and i have nothing to update with..... ssp sent me an 'update' but he forgot to attach the actual update itself!!! ....he did however remember to attach THIS which as entertaining as it might be... IS NOT NEWS... wait... maybe it is... [checks for subliminal messages...] NO ITS NOT! thats ok tho.. thats ok... cause we have good old ANG!!!! HE'LL GIVE US A NICE UPDATE WITH BETTY!!!! [ang]...well i don't have much to say tonight really. just a simple question. you think if you eat it, your teeth and tounge glow in the dark? Betty: I Never thought of that o_O'' oh great... even ang didn't have a long update. i mean last night there was DANCING... DANCING!!!!!!! ok.. dont panic... lets see if magmar has anything.... [mags] TELL THEM THE KECKLEON EPISODE IS ON TODAY!!!! oooh yeah! thats great! the keckleon episode is on today! so if you haven't seen it (which is like anyone in the us pretty much i think) then you should watch it. those keckleon are sooooo kawaii...... awwww... hmm... more news... we're on a roll now.... ah yes, pokemon.com has updated with some ecard reader information, but nothing we already didn't know... its just all some prerelease info and telling us to check back in september when they release the ereader. in case you didn't know it will retail for $40 and will include an ecard machope, machoke, machamp, animal crossing and a game and watch ecard. and lastly, in a great bit of forum news, we would like to congratulate/sympathize jd gloom who is now a full administrator of the forums. he's worked really hard for the site in both the atelier and the analyst, and he has done a great job on the forums as well.. and he will now be having a wider scale roll on the forums. so if you see him say thanks for the hard work and congratulate him on becoming an admin.
	note of the day... ”pure needs to go back to hawaii... my post card is getting old”

	friday, august 16th (last update: 10:00 pm-yesterday)
well, time for another update from pkmnx...making a grand total of two! huzzah! :D we have some more news for you tonight... first, ssp has dug up some info about the second expedition set... “The next expansion in the Pokémon TCG has been given the BETA name of Aquapolis.” hmm...sounds related to the fifth movie...but it’s still a beta... “Wizards suggested this name but sources say TPC rejected it.” well, maybe we won’t get that name after all. so what’s IN the set? “This set contains cards that appeared in both japanese e-card 2 and e-card 3.” wow, we’re finally catching up over here! anyway, this set has been given an ESTIMATED release date of the fourth quarter this year. wizards wants to get it out before the holidays...well! this is certainly something to look forward to. start studying those e-card spoilers for good strategies, boys and girls... since I haven’t finished work on my worlds report yet, you’ll have to settle for something else from worlds... dual trainer blanks! that’s right, my first attempt at a blank, the dual trainer blank, is available for viewing/downloading/using (but keep in mind that this is not an official zeo blank.) this blank was spawned from the idea of dual cards in Magic: the Gathering, which allowed you to play one of two spells printed on a normal sized card...this is the same premise, but with trainers. I’m sure you can all figure out how to use these. (by the way, these were seen at worlds on the jumbo dual trainers sugar/shock, given to pure, and hunter/hunted, given to ech. I’ll have pics of these soon.) here they are-dual trainer blanks! pick your poison also, we have another version of this card, where, true to Magic, both cards face the same way... the “real” dual trainer blank again, these are my first attempts at blanks, so forgive me. (the “echidna” text is sprawled all over them because he made the blank I made this off of-NOT because he made it or because this blank is any way affiliated with real zeo blanks.) send any feedback about these to pkmnx@sugarshock.net! if enough interest is given, I might make reverse holo/refractor/etc versions. last up, for those forum-goers who remember my frequent contests, just let me say that I will soon be starting another strain of contests, ranging from riddles to trivia to...well, I won’t spoil the last one for you. just rest assured if it gets going it’ll be big and interactive and fun and stuff! so there’s some stuff to look forward to. now, if I understand correctly, ech has some stuff to throw in... [throws in some stuff] actually, not so much me but from everyone else BUT me.... lets start with marril.... good old marrily marril... due to wacked out schedules and everything neither pure nor i have been able to make the weekly woct chats, but marril has. we have yesterday's chat all up and ready to read.. not much this time... and then the chat just before worlds as well.... a post worlds chat... ...a pre worlds chat too and pure also has some great update stuff for us. pure has two worlds reports for us.... one from herself and one from firefighter095! first off let's see what joe was up to in seattle.... joe's worlds report and then we have the coup de gras... [foreign word for the day kids... coup de gras. i want a 250 word essay in my in box about the origins of coup de gras by 5pm...] pure's report.... or at least the first part of it. here we have the events leading up to worlds and the event itself.. then part two (coming soon to a zeo near you...) will cover the days after words, including the octoposse and the tour of wtoc. worlds at her fingertips   and finally.. i made a fake card... but its really not all that exciting. more of a joke about one of the new pokemon.... [ponders]
	note of the day... ”it comes in three flavors: original, crunchy, and afgngfzzzzzz...”

 

	thursday, august 15th (last update: 2:30 am)
(yawn) Well after restarting Windows 4 times I finally got it to load up. You see, my computer is so stupid that it freezes while its loading -_- Anyways, I'm getting a new Dell computer within the next 2 weeks. [pk] Dude, you're getting a Dell? [soslow] Uhh yea what's wrong with it? [ssp's friend] Dude, you're getting a Dell [soslow] Why is everyone saying that??? [crowd] It's a commercial! Ooooh...isn't that the one with the guy that my cousin keeps kicking me off the comp so she can drool over pictures of him? =\ Well my new comp is coming with a CDRW Drive (like I need another one of those), DVDROM Drive, Expanded memory, Microsoft Workshop or something like that (trust me, after having a Word Processor that no one has heard of, this is a big plus), 6 USB ports, and (gasp)......PHOTOSHOP! I can make good fakes now! (If I could draw -_-) Okay so on to today's update... First off on the Agenda we have some information regarding the Nintendo E-Reader. The Reader will retail for a MSRP of $39.99 (Nintendo Power subscribers can use their Best Buy coupon in their August Issue to get this for only $34.99 =D) There will only be 200,000 Readers available in August and then another 300,000 available in December. (get them while they last!) The Reader will come with the following cards: Machop Machoke Machamp 1 Animal Crossing Card 1 Classic Nintendo Card and a big note: English Card-e cards are not compatible with the Reader from Japan, (dunno about Japanese card compatibility but I would assume that the Japanese cards won't work with the English Reader, but knowing TPC, I bet they would ;] E-Reader is due out September 15th! Time for...   (puts on black hat and glasses and distributes black glasses to the audience) We had Harry Potter Day at school one day (in the library) so they were giving out Black glasses to everyone and having drawings for the third book on paper back and stuff- It was sweeeeeeet =) I'll get a pic of me and my glasses tomorrow :) Well today's a day of very very sad news =\ It has come to my attention that the Harry Potter TCG is in it's final days :( Sources tell me that the Chamber of Secrets Expansion will be the last Expansion in this TCG, HOWEVER an e-mail from WOTC tells an inquirer that the Chamber of Secrets will be the FIRST Expansion for the 2nd book. Could this mean that we will be seeing more?? Well in anyway, just support the game and keep it alive!!! (and now time for more shameless self promotion) If you are in the Midwest area and are looking for a place to play the Harry Potter TCG, Pastimes in Niles, Illinois (Site for the ECSTS2 and WCSTS2 Pokemon QT's) will be holding monthly Harry Potter Tournaments on the third Saturday of every month starting in September! So if you are interested in attending, check out www.pastimes.net or you can just e-mail me at: JollyRancher04@hotmail.com, and I can tell you the details! ALSO, if you know where I can get Diagon Alley of Adventures At Hogwarts Boosters cheap (or a box for under $35) or if you want to trade with me, E-mail me at: JollyRancher04@hotmail.com And now back to Ech marril for whatever he has Hey everyone, marril here filling in for ech right now [looks over at ech in the corner] :/ anyways, we have some interesting thing today, an update to that desktop section, yeah! now you can have the shining lapars desktop as seen on the world staff promo on your computer, or the entire baracus line? right... over, er down there...   Ooh! Desktopidness!   Alright, all for me, lets just pass it back to soslow's final line of text in this update, bye everyone!... (3 days and I STILL haven't gone insane yet! I could do this all month!) [betty and anguris dance in, grabbing ech and making him dance with them] ang: tonights islands cards features three dancing pokémon betty: so we thought it appropriate to act out the art work! ech: o_o' GET OFF ME! Rudy's Dancing Sheep   [ang and betty let go of ech, and dance out]
	quote of the day... are you the biscuit?

   

	wednesday, august 14th (last update: 12:30 am)
Ok well after last night's abomination of an update. I'm here again for hopefully something better. -_- (ech didn't realize that I don't know HTML and he has to remove the little <> and [] I used when I mail him the update. Nor does he realize how much I can say about him in my Worlds report, but he's Canadian so I'll forgive him for that) [kick yourself] Let's see if he falls for that.. eh heh heh heh... (I am so alone) Anywho, today on the update schedule seems to be...ooh Pokemon Expedition Base Set Info! I'm as giddy as a school girl ;/ Okay here's what I can tell j00 bout Expedition Base Set. There will be 165 Cards in the set and 165 Reverse Holos. That makes it: 49 Commons, 38 Uncommons, 40 regular rares, 32 holofoils and 6 basic Energy! (2 of the regular rares are Special Energy o_O) Boosters have been reduced to 9 cards per booster due to the extra cost to print the dotcode technology. Each booster contains: 4 Common, 2 Uncommon, 1 Rare, 1 Reverse Holofoil, 1 Basic Energy There will also be 2 Preconstructed theme decks with this set, Echo (Psychic and Colorless), featuring Alakazam and Electric Garden, (I'm sure you can guess those types), featuring Vileplume Each deck comes with 60 cards (3 of them being rares) and 1 Random Reverse holofoil. I'm guessing they'll put some of each basic Energy in the Echo deck for Alakazams attack) The reverse foils in this set are not like the LC ones (that looked fake) but will be like the Magic holos (and the Japanese Southern Islands refractor foils) Like Legendary Collection, there will be a box topper in each booster display. (By the way, still 36 boosters per box) This set introduces Poke-Power and Poke-Body break ups, Supporters, and more! and some other fun information... Weezing has an attack called Misfire Warp Point is now Uncommon o_O There is a reprint of Energy Charge in this set, but it is called Power Charge (so you can have 4 Energy Charge and 4 Power Charge in your deck!) And of course, what would information be without a set list 1/165 Alakazam 2/165 Ampharos 3/165 Arbok 4/165 Blastoise 5/165 Butterfree 6/165 Charizard 7/165 Clefable 8/165 Cloyster 9/165 Dragonite 10/165 Dugtrio 11/165 Fearow 12/165 Feraligatr 13/165 Gengar 14/165 Golem 15/165 Kingler 16/165 Machamp 17/165 Magby 18/165 Meganium 19/165 Mew 20/165 Mewtwo 21/165 Ninetales 22/165 Pichu 23/165 Pidgeot 24/165 Poliwrath 25/165 Raichu 26/165 Rapidash 27/165 Skarmory 28/165 Typhlosion 29/165 Tyranitar 30/165 Venusaur 31/165 Vileplum 32/165 Weezing 33/165 Alakazam 34/165 Ampharos 35/165 Arbok 36/165 Blastoise 37/165 Blastoise 38/165 Butterfree 39/165 Charizard 40/165 Charizard 41/165 Clefable 42/165 Cloyster 43/165 Dragonite 44/165 Dugtrio 45/165 Fearow 46/165 Feraligatr 47/165 Feraligatr 48/165 Gengar 49/165 Golem 50/165 Kingler 51/165 Machamp 52/165 Magby 53/165 Meganium 54/165 Meganium 55/165 Mew 56/165 Mewtwo 57/165 Ninetales 58/165 Pichu 59/165 Pidgeot 60/165 Poliwrath 61/165 Raichu 62/165 Rapidash 63/165 Skarmory 64/165 Typhlosion 65/165 Typhlosion 66/165 Tyranitar 67/165 Venusaur 68/165 Venusaur 69/165 Vileplume 70/165 Weezing 71/165 Bayleef 72/165 Chansey 73/165 Charmeleon 74/165 Croconaw 75/165 Dragonair 76/165 Electabuzz 77/165 Flaafy 78/165 Gloom 79/165 Graveler 80/165 Haunter 81/165 Hitmonlee 82/165 Ivysaur 83/165 Jynx 84/165 Kadabra 85/165 Machoke 86/165 Magmar 87/165 Metapod 88/165 Pidgeotto 89/165 Poliwhirl 90/165 Pupitar 91/165 Quilava 92/165 Wartortle 93/165 Abra 94/165 Bulbasaur 95/165 Bulbasaur 96/165 Caterpie 97/165 Charmander 98/165 Charmander 99/165 Chikorita 100/165 Chikorita 101/165 Clefairy 102/165 Corsola 103/165 Cubone 104/165 Cyndaquil 105/165 Cyndaquil 106/165 Diglett 107/165 Dratini 108/165 Ekans 109/165 Gastly 110/165 Geodude 111/165 Goldeen 112/165 Hoppip 113/165 Houndour 114/165 Koffing 115/165 Krabby 116/165 Larvitar 117/165 Machop 118/165 Magikarp 119/165 Mareep 120/165 Marill 121/165 Meowth 122/165 Oddish 123/165 Pidgey 124/165 Pikachu 125/165 Poliwag 126/165 Ponyta 127/165 Qwilfish 128/165 Rattata 129/165 Shellder 130/165 Spearow 131/165 Squirtle 132/165 Squirtle 133/165 Tauros 134/165 Totodile 135/165 Totodile 136/165 Vulpix 137/165 Bill's Maintenance 138/165 Copycat 139/165 Dual Ball 140/165 Energy Removal 2 141/165 Energy Restore 142/165 Mary's Impulse 143/165 Master Ball 144/165 Multitechnical Machine01 145/165 Pokemon Nurse 146/165 Pokemon Reverse 147/165 Power Charge 148/165 Professor Elm's Training Method 149/165 Professor Oak's Research 150/165 Strength Charm 151/165 Super Scoop Up 152/165 Warp Point 153/165 Energy Search 154/165 Guard Spec 155/165 MooMoo Milk 156/165 Squirt Bottle 157/165 Upgrade 158/165 Darkness Energy 159/165 Metal Energy 160/165 Fighting Energy 161/165 Fire Energy 162/165 Grass Energy 163/165 Lightning Energy 164/165 Psychic Energy 165/165 Water Energy Expedition is due out at the end of August! Huzzah! (And I'll be gettin my boosters in the mail =D) Now its time for (thunder) Uhh sorry for that typo in last night's update. (I couldn't really be bothered to watch The Sorcerer's Stone for the millionth time so I could verify whether it was Twist or Swish- they both mean the same...I think O_o) We don't have that much information today except for some solicitation on my behalf. If you have an HP deck that needs to be fixed, I just opened a deck garage on Pojo.com It's called Soslow's Secret Shack (don't ask) So you can send your decks to me or any of the other fine mechanics there :D Oooh I did find out about the 5 Points from Gryffindor Promo I showed you last night. It seems that Wizards sent select book retailers, (Books-a-million, Waldenbooks, Hastings, Chapers, and other smaller one) the promos and they were to hand them out at their own discretion But most of them gave them out with purchase of the Goblet of Fire on paperback. But maybe if you're nice, you can just go up and charm them into giving you one. (If you need help with that, ask Pure, she's good at getting promos from the Pokemon Center :p) And also, if you know where I can find some cheap Harry Potter Diagon Alley or Adventures at Hogwarts Boosters/Displays (or if you can sell me them) drop me an e-mail at JollyRancher04@hotmail.com And the last thing on the update agenda (for me anyways) is to announce that Wizards of The Coast/GameKeeper stores across the country are offering a contest in which you have a chance at winning a $50 gift cetificate for any GameKeeper/WOTC Store- NICE!!! Anyways, here's what you do... You go in to the store and you'll prolly see like a poster saying enter to win or something like that. (its like a pop culture contest or something) So you go to the register and ask for one of those cute little entry form thingys. All you gots to do is look up at the poster that's got the silhouttes of 3 popular characters and just name who they are. (Really easy) And then fill out your name and junk and hand it to the register and if you gots all the mystery characters right, then you'll be entered in a drawing for a $50 gift certificate on September 1st. They're giving out 1 certificate per store so you actually have a chance o_O. Well that's all I have today..tomorrow's I'll have EReader info and some very, very sad info about the HP TCG :( (cries) (sniff sniff) We'll go back to ech and pure while I go and ..and.. (cries) WHAAAAA!!!! (And just to let you know, I haven't gone insane yet)
	note of the day... [quote here]

 

	tuesday, august 13th (last update: 5:30 am)
Otay people, 'tis I, soslowpoke here updating Zeo for the umpteenth time and uhh I'll be here all week :D~~~ So this week I will have Pokemon Advance Info, Pokemon Expedition Info, The GBA E-Reader Info, Pokemon Aquapolis(Beta name for next TCG expansion) info, and even (gasp) Information on the Wizards Set (well as much as I'm allowed to tell ;/) Oh and of course, every day I will have...   (people begin to leave) Aww COME ON!! We know there are <u>some</u> Harry Potter players out there, right? =\ Well for those Harry Potter haters out there, I unfortunately may have some info that would make you happy :(. =\ Anyways, we will also have random things ech adds, something from PK.. <crowd>What could it be? <soslow> ehh a blank =\ And...we'll have uhh something from Marril I think. (geez i'm doing a lot of thinking today) So well uhh on with the update! (I think) Okay well first I've got Pokemon Advance information for ya. Of course by now you know that the two new games are Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire. But what you probably didn't know is here these games take place. Well thanks to estellebeanie, the new part of the World were all these cute little advanced criters live is... HOUEN (according to corocoro) Of course, expect a name change to take place when the game hits the States. Also there are rumours that there will be more evolutions of Marill (yeah, he's already got a baby and a evo, now more @_@) and there may also be uhh and evolution of our favorite...Kecleon! By the way, "The Kecleon Caper" episode of the anime is scheduled to air this weekend!! (Sunday for those of us, like me, who are caught in some strange time warp near Chicago where Kids WB doesn't even air on the WB =\) I just found out that Kecleon changes colours!! <ech> That's because he's a chameleon Ohh... =\ Well I was looking on an episode guide and I saw there is gonna be yet ANOTHER episode just about Slowpoke!! W00t!! (sorry) Ok uhh that's it for Pokemon Advance info (I think) Oh wait! Did you know about the 2 on 2 battles? <audience nods> Oh... well what I think is gonna happen is that Pokemon Advance will like uhh have the 4 way link thingy so you can do a foursome with your friends. (that didn't quite sound right did it?) <insert little divider thingie> [ech obediantly inserts a little divider thingie] Ok now time for what you've all been waiting for...   Mwahahha (puts on his black pointed hat and glasses) [ech] what did i tell you about those... [ssp] uh.... not to wear them? [ech] ....nooooo... i said bring enough for EVERYBODY! [ssp] o_o' Uh... Today in HPZeo I'll show you some of the latest CCG Promos... First off, I have the picture of the long lost Season 6 of Leagues promo, Ollivanders. This pic has new art but isnt SHINY like the rest =\. [uhh center this and make it like a bit bigger] Let the Wand Choose You [make this a link to ollivanders.jpg] [ech] man, i love it when updates tell me what to do.... [frolics off happily] Purty, huh? And now here's a promo card that well..no one really knows where it comes from! [center and make it big] Don't you know how rude it is to point? [link to fivepoints.jpg]   Honestly, NO ONE knows how to get this sucker, some people just have it o_O And lastly, I have a pic of a promo card from the next HPTCG Expansion! Methinks its a Season7 league promo but yet there ain't a lil #7 on it.   [center and make big] Just twist, and flick! [link to hovercharm.jpg] [ech's note] the editors pokemonzeo.com would like to apoligize for the 'twist and flick' comment up there... everyone whom has taken first year charms knows of course that it is SWISH and flick.. not twist and flick. please remember this when you are reviewing for your charms exam, and don't ask ssp to save you from any rogue trolls... Well that's about it for my update today. I'm trying to find an Adventures at Hogwarts or Diagon Alley booster box online for under $30 so if you know where I may happen to come across one. (Or if you can sell me one) E-mail me at JollyRancher04@hotmail.com [turn it into an e-mail link] And also, if you have anything else for update fodder, just mail it to me! Now we'll see if ech has anything otherwise I'll see you all tomorrow and I'll have uhh Expedition Info and more HP Zeo (and If Pk has anythign, I'll add that too) (soslow hasnt gone mad yet) [ech] i beg to differ.... See y'all later! hmmm... lesse what i have for you then.... [ang looks sadly at ech. ech reads ang's update with 'betty' in it again. shudders] hey! look at this! we have a photo gallery! pure made a page with all the pics from sunday night dinner at zeo! we had a great meal (made by pure of course) and while we didn't do the draft we were planning on, a great time was had by all. its the zeo dinner! and last but not least tonight we have..... [shudders] ...anguris and 'betty' with an update.... [ang] yessss!!! in your FACE! [ech] who are you talking to? Storming its way up, the Turtle Pokémon Line ends today with its Islands Incarnation, Cissy's Blastoise. Which is...[drum roll] on a New Never Before Seen Blank™! Betty: I've NEVER seen one of those before! Is it new?! Excellent Perception of the obvious, Betty. Simply Excellent.
	note of the day... i could have put in a third quote about the vomit flavored beans, but i thought i'd spare you. you can thank me by making a little echian shrine on your desk.

	monday, august 12th (last update: 3:30 am)
so we're working on a few things including the words photo galleries and the writeups.... we took a lot of pictures this time, both of the event and of wotc hq that we have to touch up and write about. also, pure and i have to do writeups of the event and i'm pretty sure gloom and poinko are too. tomorrow for a couple days (depending on how insane he goes) soslowpoke is going to be giving us a couple updates, and pkmnx will be giving us some form of content... he just doens't know it yet ;) i also have minor updates to a couple sections that we'll post tomorrow or wednesday. just when i get a chance. In from Islands tonight is the another Sunglasses-less Turtle, Cissy's Wartortle. Of course, no one expected him to have sunglasses. Or pants. But thats a matter for another day.   Betty: <gasp> Why Mr. Tortle, You're Naked!!   he sure is, betty, he sure is. [ech] o_O who is betty? [ang] shes someone i decided needed to exsist for the sole reason of helping me with card intros. she'll be in and out. mostly in [ech] you mean like martin? [ang] exactly. but slightly more masculine. ...sometimes i wonder how he ever got in a position to update.... o_O
	quote of the day... i got it done before you even asked tonight! i'm being a good worker drone