May Archive


Thursday, May 31st
(last update 3:30 am est)


hmmmmm...... we seem to have made a DISCOVERY!


Neo Discovery in fact...

thanks to my no fail sources, we were able to get some Neo Discovery packs just a few days early... and from there, we've managed to make a preliminary set list. It is by no means the actual card list, as there are some gaps in it, but hopefully we'll be able to fix it up soon.

so then.... i guess you're all anxious to see the cards.... so go for it!

discovering discovery




You mean there's ANOTHER Mike now? O_o

MTM is back to making Druthers cards in Akimbo this week. Today Pure took on the task of making Mike Elliot's Blastiose, as per how MTM made it in
Akimbo. Nice little card, and yet another reason for people to start playing evolutions again....

Siphoning goodness




Two... count 'em two!

well due to damned dsl disconnections last night, we were unable to bring you Machamp, so tonight, as to keep up with the fake a day streak, we have Machamp and Bellsprout.

Hmmm... this machamp looks just a wee tad egotistcal... as all machamps do i wager. hmmm... alrhough if i had 4 arms and bulging muscles i'd feel the same i guess.

I rule THE WORLD!


and from the king we head to the kawaii. ^_^

such a cute little bellsprout, just just a tad of attitude i think. as pure said when she drew it, 'it looks like a model in a jeans commercial'

anyway.... sashay is good for a quick damage fix then getting sprout back to the safty of the bench, while Tricky Root has a gaurenteed effect... can't dislike that!

root for me

UPDATES
DISCOVERY!!!! • Bellsprout • machamp • M. E. Blastoise



Wednesday, May 30th
(last update 2:30 am est)


damn man...

pure was just about to send me the images for the coro coro section as well as Machamp and other update stuff... when her DSL died. -_- After trying for a couple hours, we resolved ourselves to the fact that DSL wasn't coming back tonight, so we're going to have to make due.

and not that it's a bad thing. We have a good number of things to bring you today... just not everything we had hoped.

i spent some more time working on a secert project this evening, as well as getting more accessories for all to use! We added a White UltraPro Sleeve, as well as two special ones from Japan! Gold and Silver Pocket Monster Sleeves direct from the PokeCenter in Japan! And if that wasn't enough, we also have White and Black trimmed Toploaders to use too! Add those in the with other sleeves, symbols, and holosheets... Nice!

as if it wasn't a tough enough choice before




KidsWB Ratings

Kids WB has finished the 2000-2001 season.

How did they do? They came out as the #1 ranked broadcast network for Kids 2-11, Kids 6-11, Boys 2-11, and Boys 6-11.

How did Pokemon do? Pokemon the Johto Journeys dominated the #1 program among all of its competition in its time spot, including cable for Boys 2-11 and Boys 6-11, and is ranked #1 among all broadcast competition in Kids 2-11 and Kids 6-11.

For May Sweeps, Pokemon the Johto Journey also ranked as the #1 overall program for Boys 2-11, and Boys 6-11. It also came in at #1 for broadcast program for Kids 2-11 and Kids 6-11.

(thanks to affiliate
Pokeschool for this info)



Rocket's Fried Zapdos... we do Zapdos Right!

hack took the chance in the most recent Analyst to short circuit the big yellow bird. No.... not BigBird... the OTHER one. Rocket's Zapdos.

Everyone thinks the Zappy will rule the STS, but WotC must have left it in for a reason. Hackerster shows us three very good (and uncommons too!) cards to counter the flying thunderstorm.

Power Shortage



First Annual Mechawards!

well.. they're the first.... maybe not annual though. ^_^

Mecha was running a contest on the forums for the past fer weeks to come up with the most illogical refractor card... and here are the results!

[raises a flag and plays the anthem]

UPDATES
Mechawards! • More Cool Accessories! • Takin out Zappy... • Damn DSL



Tuesday, May 29th
(last update 4:30 am est)


okay.... an hour and a half ago, hack said that in half an hour i'd have a new analyst on my desk... well, seeing as how i dn't have a desk, i also don't have an analyst... :P That shall come later today or tomorrow.

i also did some work on a new tutorial for everyone, and i'm putting up the finishing touches on that as we speak. Check for that later today or tomorrow as well. In the accessories section, we should have some new stuff for you to use before the sun sets, so make usre to come for those!

and pure is busily working too. She got her coro coro on the weekend, so she's madly working on that, in addition to 2 or 3 super secret projects (i've lost count... i only have one secret project... she has like 3... :P) that she's working on, so we should have a lot more stuff later in the day and week!



HEADLOCK!

seriously... who LIKES the machop family? i mean the whole 4 arm thing is very disturbing.... and what the hell ARE they? i mean they have tails... or at least machop does... i dunno... maybe they're the Missing Link™.....

anyway, i think that Machoke wouldn't be too bad in a damage swap deck. could be a tad costly, but effective. As for Stranglehold... well thats really self explanitory.... add that in with Good old Rocket Training Gym and Dark Muk... can we say TOTAL retreat denial?

you're not going anywhere!

UPDATES
Machoke to start off....



Monday, May 28th
(last update 3:30 am est)


oooooh! lots of cool new stuff today!

pure certainly wasn't resting on her short break... in fact she did a lot of work! catching up on some of the things needed for the site.

first off, we'd like to congratulate katy who was the winner of the last zeo contest. ^_^ Hopfully katy'll like the promo pack thats on it's way.....

and speaking of contests, purity, and souvineirs.... pure just happen to have a contest where you can win stuff that she got on her trip. ^_^
Check it out



Man.... if we wanted rules we'd read the rulebook...

i really do feel sorry for those poor mater trainers tho... i mean they get some of the stupidest questions asked, and yet they still manage to have a (relativly) good time i think...

Your Homework.... READ THE RULES!




More STS Fun!

Two days in a row hack has a new card spotlight for us. Tonight we look at those infernal baby pokemon. You see them everywhere... you hate them... so let's see what we can actually DO with them now!

Wonder if they're housebroken...



pssst....do you like stuff?

....well, we have a bunch more of it! Moltres2k and Shining Celebi we both hard at work and have given us some stuff for the site! On her 'weekend off' pure managed to get this all HTMLed and UL so that we can share it with everyone else!

Moltres made us like half a dozen new colored Holosheets. Now you can have Zeo Blue and Sugarshock red holo cards! as well as some other choice colors. ^_^. Find all of them over in our
accessories pages.

And then ShiningCelebi added his experiances about PaintShopPro and turned it into a Tutorial on the ins and outs of this popular program. If you use PSP, this is a must! Find it over in the
Tutorial section of the site!



...and of course....

hmmm..... you know, we've been doing the zeo edition card a day since December.... meaning we've almost gone 200 days in a row without missing.... not bad... not bad at all.

anyway, tonight we have a Machop. It's a gutsy little thing too. While most people change pokemon when a bigger more intimidating one comes out, machop here likes the challenge of bigger pokemon, and can be rewarded for it.

Chop THIS

UPDATES
PSP Tutorial • Machop • WotC Chat • Analyzing Babies • Pure is Back!



Sunday, May 27th
(last update 4:00 am est)


...please don't look at the timestamp on the update. I really really tried to get to bed early. -_-

anyway, i haven't burnt down the site yet... and pure is coming back tonight, so i think i survived the weekend! ^_^

well, on a spur of the moment thing (that and the fact that hack said he could have a new analyst to me in an hour, so i needed to kill time...) i updated the Analyst page with the updated zeo tables, as well as a cool new logo. ^_^

Today hack takes on the remainder of the Challenge Stadium cards which is essential under the Rock(et) on format.

Your house or mine?




A Kazam never forgets...

At least according to it's pokedex info it doesn't. Man... i'd hate that seeing as how there are many many things i'd like to forget.... oh! like that time... when that person..... er.... nevermind. ^_^'

Alakazam is a fun yet powerful card... that is if you like a helluva lot of coin flips. ^_^

flippa flippa flippa

UPDATES
Analyst Mania! • Ka.... ZAAAAAM!



Saturday, May 26th
(last update 4:00 am est)


.....a lone echidna.....

oooooh.... looks like i'm flying solo this weekend. pure is taking a small trip up to boston so i get run of the site till sunday night! hmmm.... although i DID promise not to burn the site down in her abstentia....



Thank your Lucky Stars

first off.... it's read as 'alpha waves' I mean sure i COULD have put 'alpha waves' but the alpha symbol just really seems to do it justice, no? I mean its one thing to make a fake card.... but its something entirely different to make one that will increase someone's thought power. ^_^

oh yeah.. the card itself. :D I like it.... its power can easily get those needed items, whilst it's attack will get rid of your opponent's needed items. Its a win win situation! .....well, unless you lose.

Kadab!

....okay..... echy...sleep.....now...... just two more weeks until MY vacation.... i hope i can last.

UPDATES
Kadabra!



Friday, May 25th
(last update 2:00 am est)


alright.... there's kinda a storm here... the cable has been knocked out once, and my cell phone is dead (cause i went to call the ISP and find out what was up) so i'm doing this update while everything is nice and WORKING....

we've contacted teh winner of the latest Zeo Contest, and once we determine information, we'll share it with the world. ^_^

we've been doing some retooling over the past couple days, and things should nearly be back to normal. Once again, pure is working on a super secret project that will blow you away... and not only that, but she had time to make up some more Clip Backs. She posted another dozen or so bringing our total up to over 100 i beleive. ^_^

good thing we're not doing the contest again...

i've been busy at work, as well as working on some of the site. MT has been helping too pointing out dead links, and helping fix them. The new Neo Gym section should now totally work.... not it's just a matter of filling in the blanks. hehe... no pun intended.



An Abra that doesn't suck

i always admire abra....i think pure does too. <sniff> look at him... sitting there... sleeping. he looks so happy.... just sitting... <yawn> sleeping....

I know what you're thinking.... well, actually i don't, because i'm not sure myself. I mean abra could be good.... Granted it only has 30 HP.... but it cna also be nearly invinsable too... i guess it kinda get weighted out in the end

at least SOMEONE on zeo gets sleep

...now if you'll excuse me, i think i'll make like an abra and doze......

UPDATES
More Clip Backs! • Sleepy time.... • Retoolin' retoolin' retoolin....



Thursday, May 24th
(last update 4:00 pm est)



hey! got a midday update for you! we have a bit of info on neo discovery....

as you all should know by now, the new set ships today. here's what wizards has to say about the new expansion...

The Neo Discovery Set, The Latest Pokémon Trading Card Game Expansion, Goes Beyond The Ruins

Newest Card Set Introduces New Pokémon and Game-Play Rules

May 23, 2001 (Renton, Wash.) -- Following the release of the highly anticipated Pokémon®: Neo GenesisTM trading card game (TCG) set, the Neo DiscoveryTM expansion takes Pokémon trainers in search of the world that lies beyond the ruins. The journey awaits.

The Pokémon Company and Wizards of the Coast Inc. today announced the release of the newest Pokémon trading card game set, the Neo Discovery expansion. The Neo Discovery set expands on the trading card game that has become an international phenomenon over the past two years. It is the second in a sequence of Neo sets that started with the Neo Genesis expansion, which introduced all-new Pokémon, new expert game-play rules and new types of Pokémon Tools.

The Neo Discovery set debuts the Unown Pokémon (mysterious glyphic creatures resembling coded letters of the alphabet) and features 17 all-new holofoil cards, including Darkness and Metal Pokémon. The Darkness and Metal Pokémon have new corresponding Energy cards. Pokémon Tools are special Trainer cards that players attach to their Pokémon to affect game play. The Neo Discovery set gives Pokémon trainers the opportunity to develop new decks and strategies while adding a new level of excitement to the wildly popular game.

The Neo Discovery expansion reaches store shelves in early June. Individually wrapped booster packs (MSRP: $3.29) contain 11 randomly inserted game cards and offer trainers the chance to play with and build customizable game decks. Wizards of the Coast also offers two theme decks: "Brain Wave" and "Wallop." Each 60-card, preconstructed theme deck (MSRP: $9.99) includes a holofoil premium card, a 32-page advanced rulebook, 10 damage counters, a Poison counter, a generic counter, a collectable metal game coin and a game card list.

More information on the Neo Discovery expansion and the Pokémon TCG League can be found at www.wizards.com/Pokemon/discovery, or call (800) 324-6496.

The Pokémon trading card game has become an international phenomenon, with children in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia enjoying the game. Since the Pokémon trading card game debuted in January 1999 in the United States, more than six million children have played the game. The goal of the Pokémon trading card game is to train, battle, trade and collect various game cards in an effort to become the world's greatest Pokémon trainer. In addition to the trading card game, the Pokémon phenomenon includes Nintendo's Game Boy® and N64® video cartridge games, the number-one - rated animated children's television program on the WB network, comic books and a vast assortment of toys.

Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro (NYSE:HAS), is the worldwide market share leader in the trading card game and tabletop roleplaying game categories. A leading developer and publisher of game-based entertainment products, as well as the owner and operator of one of the nation's largest specialty game retail chains, the company holds an exclusive patent on the play mechanic of trading card games (TCGs) and produces the world's best-selling Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering® TCGs. Headquartered near Seattle, Washington, Wizards of the Coast has international offices in Antwerp, Paris, Milan, London and Beijing. For more information on Wizards of the Coast, visit the company's website and electronic retail store at www.wizards.com


thanks to mastermarril2k for giving me the link!



-_-

miss us? as many people noticed, zeo was kinda missing in action for the past two days. seems as tho someone played a 'practical joke' on us.... :/

anyway, after much time on the phone with tech support we were manage to resolve the issue and we're back! betcha you thought we'd be gone for weeks, like last time huh? nope! not us! we managed to UL the entire 500+ mb site and we're back in business!

and in case you've been.... well pretty much anywhere but here... you might not know that Neo Discovery should be shipping today for sale next week! wooo!!!! start saving those pennies. :D

and good old Mechachu has posted this week's
Fan Fakes. and trust me, they're BIG. ^_^



Get Training!

unfortunatly due to server problems, most of our Neo Gym worst wen unnoticed.... but we're back and so are they!

now for your faking enjoyment we have roughly 250 of all the possible 324 Neo Gym series... the rest coming very soon. hmmm... i think that brings our total blank count up to around 800... you should be able to find something that suits your fancy.

just don't make "ech's dunsparce"...




Triple the Fakeness

hey, just cause the site was down for a couple days, doesn't mean we were! Keeping up with the fake a day zeo tradition, we have Primeape, Growlithe and Arcanine!

Frenzy 'o Fun
Playful Companion
I hope you have rabies vacination....

UPDATES
We're BAAAACK! • Primeape • Growlithe • Arcanine! • Fan Fakes • Neo Gym!


tuesday, May 22nd
(last update 4:30 am est)


for those of you who missed it last night....looky here!!

THE WAIT IS OVER!!!!

 

it pays to have sources!

this time we've managed to get an OFFICAL RELEASE DATE for discovery! Thats right... no waiting until July.... no waiting until June....

Discovery ships MAY 24th!

woah! thats like in THREE DAYS!!!! It's official sale date is June 2nd...it'll be sent to stores later this week! Pending Wizards shipping delays, you can be ripping open new packs in just insde of two weeks!

okay.. pick up your jaws... just remember, you saw it here first. ;)




oh man are we ever tired....we've been working on the big project since...well, scroll on down the main page here and take a look. since we said so. we were really hoping to have it up tonight, but we just aren't gonna make it....its four thirty and i'm ready to die....but we came pretty close!

we know that we're still missing a lot of blank types, and neo gym is one we've had a prototype of since before genesis came out. meanwhile, we've come out with reverse holos and refractives of most of our card styles....not to mention neo 4 and the new 'light' (ok ok or 'kind' or 'gentle' stop emailing me whenever i say 'light' :P ) backs, and ech thought, you know what would be great....to have the complete set of neo gym, all in one update! now....that is one seriously large number of cards....324 to be exact. some of you might remember when we put up the regular genesis set....we thought that was a lot of work but this was tough! at any rate, we dont have the complete set up tonight. not only do we have to do 324 blanks, but 324 html pages as well--ouch! anyways, if you head on over to the american blanks pages, you'll be able to do a bit of blanks harvesting, as we do have a fair chunk of them over there now. if we don't go insane from too many blanks and too many people complaining that we don't have enough, that section should be totally filled in during tomorrow's update. how about that?

and that's not all that's been churning around behind the scenes....believe me, there's a lot going on in both the blanks workshop and the special projects unit.

oooh! ooh! i wanna see the neo gym!!!

oh and check out that new organization of the blanks....ech outdid himself! of course now he's gonna feel obligated to redo the other index pages...poor poor ech...you do one thing around here and then you realize you gotta do six more.....



card of the day? what card of the day?

oh yeah....primeape....well, to be honest, he's gonna be putting in a delayed appearance. it took me all freaking day to get the light evo bars done...ask me in the chat sometime (nicely) and i'll tell you all the problems i had with them...and my hands are in agony. i don't wanna draw primeape with my feet (altho that would certainly prove the people wrong who say i can only draw one way) so you will need to give me at least a few hours sleep to recuperate. and if you are good and don't come in the chat and yell at me for not doing primeape so you can look at him while you eat your breakfast, maybe i will draw a primeape with my feet and post it after i do the card. that should be incentive enough for anyone.....


enough of purity's pointless chatter.....

i'm tired, i get like this when i'm tired. what was i saying? oh yes. it's time for me to shut up, load up, and go to bed. :D see you tomorrow, but most likely not before noon. hehehe.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

UPDATES
where's primeape? • neo discovery shipping date!!• poor tired team hoax


Monday, May 21st
(last update 10:30 pm est)
 

THE WAIT IS OVER!!!!

 

it pays to have sources!

this time we've managed to get an OFFICAL RELEASE DATE for discovery! Thats right... no waiting until July.... no waiting until June....

Discovery ships MAY 24th!

woah! thats like in THREE DAYS!!!! It's official sale date is June 2nd... and it'll be sent to stores later this week! Pending Wizards shipping delays, you can be ripping open new packs in just insde of two weeks!

okay.. pick up your jaws... just remember, you saw it here first. ;)




...pure thinks shes so smart just because she outsmarted me and let the world see the evil duck... just remember.. if it gives you nightmares, don't come crying to me!

today we have some cool news, as our Affiliates Section is starting to shape up. Currently we have 3 out or 4 listed, with the last one just being finished.

Sugarshock Come on... don't tell me you haven't been here! Sugarshock is like the site on the net like none other. it has a ton of cool info as well as great ideas, and a great webmaster. ^_^

Team Compendium Again.. this site is a must see. TC, is THE source for all rulings Pokemon. They have archives of all the rules and intricacies of the game. If you ever have a dispute on rulings, head here first.

Pokeschool Pokeschool is an all around site. It has focuses in all pokemon aspects, and isn't over run by the attitude that one can get from some of the other mainsteam sites. Check it out for cool news and info.

You can find these nestled in our sidebar. ^_^ (Note: Flashbar upgrade coming later this week)



need... more.... blanks...


Marril really outdid himself today.... He took it upon himself to make us come Rocket Versions of our Gym Blanks!

Now for your faking pleasure we have all the original american gym rocket version. Hmmmm.... offhand i think that brings our total blanks up to around 500.... not 100% sure tho. maybe we'll have to count them one day.

I always thought s. kadabra should be dark




Swipe some cards

MasterMarril was quite busy today... and got us some really cool GBA/eCard news from the E3...


May 19, 2001

Nintendo announced the strange but interesting E-Card peripheral back in March, and it was E3 when it made its first appearance. Like Diddy Kong Pilot, the device was only accessible when tethered to one of Nintendo's many Game Boy Advance jump-suited models.

The E-Card reader is essentially a game cartridge with a reader, sort of like a rumble pack cartridge on the Game Boy Color. The game itself is housed within the device, and you swipe compatible cards in the slot -- in the case of the Pokemon game built-in, one side of a Pokemon card activated little minigames within the reader -- some minigames require more than one card swipe. For example, if you swipe the Pikachu card, you have to swipe the Pichu card to gain access to a strange game where you control Pichu and stop the growth of Sunkern before they grow off the screen. One game featuring Machop and a bunch of rocks required five different card swipes. Nintendo's really going to clean house on the next edition of Pokemon cards.

Nintendo hasn't announced a US date for the Pokemon E-Card, but the Japanese public will get theirs this November.


woah...... O_O

what more can i say.... eCard is going to be BIG... and if anything 'saves' the TCG it'll be this.



...and a mankey to boot (around)

ok.... get it out of your system.

we don't like mankey. we see it as another useless pokemon that is just meant to pester and annoy. but seeing as how (much to my dismay) we didn't dis the 'duck, i guess mankey deserves it's spot in the limelight too... even if it IS just a mankey.

so then, for you makney lovers out there... here's mankey's 15 minutes of fame on Zeo.

Gotta love me?

UPDATES
Mankey • Rocket Mania • Affiliates • eCellant eCard



Sunday, May 20th
(last update 4:00 pm est)

 

i got the golduck!!

well well well.....
ech was sneaky...he thought he could fool me with a decoy...but timbuktu prevailed and now that he's gone from league, i was able to rescue the card of the day....and it looks like it's two cards today!

he tried to decoy me with this one....

but here's the real one!

 




well well well...

we worked all day on something huge for the site, and if all goes well it'll be up tomorrow. :D We've also managed to hammer out an affiliation with another cool website, bringing our affiliation total up to 4. You should see that becoming official sometime next week.

And in a peice of uncomfirmed news, we have reports that 4Kids i currently Dubbing the Mewtwo Lives special from last new year's eve in Japan. Now that would just be killer if it was a made for TV event, but i think it'll somehow make it's way onto video instead.

Lastly, the E3 was in full force and from it wego an idea of Pokémon's future... in an interview on
GameSpot with Nintendo's Tom Harlin reveals that Pokemon is here to stay....


Q: Where's Pokemon? [on game cube]

A: Coming. Again, we'll wait for the wow factor. Pokemon is going to turn into a franchise similar to Mario with new games and new innovation. Pokemon is not going away so look forward to more Pokemon in the future, and we'll have to wait and see on what date.

Ooooh..... It's pretty hard to make a 'fad' into the 'franchise', huh? Dispite what Hasbro reports (Q1/01 sales down 40% due to pokemon...) pokemon is here to stay... and for a long time too. full interview




Burning with Desire

we have more tomodaichiagi fun for you day.... presenting Purity's entire Charmander line. ....ooooh smoking.

As with most other Tomodaichigai cards, these were done nearly a year ago. Man... you can sure see an improvement in the art, and in the cards themselves.... what a difference a year makes.

Mander?
Char.... MEEEEL!
Zaaaaaaar.......



Hahahahah

it's a dead duck!

I warned you all, ut you didn't beleive me. GOLDUCK GIVES ME NIGHTMARES... I have been beaten too many times by Purity's [D][D][D][D][
P][P] Dark Golduck... and now i'm taking revenge!

I have stolen the zeo edition golduck card and nothing at all can stop me! Mwahahahahahaha. This is one dead duck!!!!



[looks at the clock] ...man, i'm usually not this insane at this hour.... must still be wired on coke. Anyway, we should be back for an afternoon update

UPDATES
charmander -> Charmeleon -> CHARIZARD • ...golduck is missing?



Saturday, May 19th
(last update 4:00 am est)

 
so.... whats going on you ask? well let's see...

Pure tried to get Corocoro for you, but sadly it hasn't arrived yet. Hmm... looks like we'll have to wait until next week for corocoro craziness.

We've both been busy in the blanks workshop, and we have some cool things in store over the next little while. just wait and see.

..and if anyone is interested, EVNY2k1 should be up a couple days... ^_^



Ledgendary Fakes

hmmm.... been a while since we posted tomodiachigai cards, huh? Let's see... today's cards are Circa June 2000, and tied in with some fanfics that we were writing... in fact, pure is reposting them over on the
forums right now!

Gryphon!
Phare!



Psy-yi-yi-yi

look at this lifeless vacent expression.... just makes you want to love it to death... ^_^

Just ducky is a running joke because pure's Ducky deck CANNOT BE BEATEN BY THE LIKES OF ANY NORMAL DECK!!!! I seriously have nightmares about golducks pecking my eyes out....

Anyway, Brain Warp is semi useful... if you want to risk it that is.

not tonight, i have a headache

UPDATES
Psyduck • Phare • Gryphon



Friday, May 18th
(last update 4:00 am est)

 
yaaaay... the weekend is here!

for those of you that live throughout the British Monarchy, this weekend is a long weekend as we celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday. For those of you in the US, you still have another week to wait for your long weekend....

anyway, i think that this weekend i'll try and rebuild a page from past year... EVNY2k1 is coming in just 23 days.... and if you have no idea what that is... well then, i guess you'll find out, won't you. :P

and lastly, i'd like everyone to glare at our 'friend' dunestar over there. See... back when Neo3 came out, if you all recall, Mr Dune over there pulled a Shining Gyarados... well he's gone and done it again. -_- He went and pulled a Shining Charizard from a neo4 pack. Man.... some people have all the luck, and here i am, doomed to never get a shining card... :P



The Cat's Meow

oooh.... more bad cats.... gotta love those! (remembers how deathly allergic to cats he is) ^_^'

anyway, Persian can hold it's own in a cat fight, and it can very easily power itself up for a catalystic reaction (ok, i know it's reaching with that one) ...anyway, any attack that will let you retreve those highly desireable Dark energies, has to be worth strong consideration...

dark matter(s)

hmmm... i'm so tired... and thats really all i can think of right now... but check back in the afternoon.... we should have some more posted. ^_^

UPDATES
Puuuuuurrfect



Thursday, May 17th
(last update 4:00 am est)

 
looking for our greeting card section?
you can find it here...

we received a lot of entries for the conest... now we just have to sort through them and pick a winner. stay tuned...

Today in exicting site improvemnt measures we did.... Graphical enhancements.... oooooh..... we worked on a lot of the tables to make them look more finished, and matching. Very spiffy. ^_^

Also updated the
Main Archives to include the first half of may. Go there to see what you're missing!

...and sadly... today is the last day for
Sugarshock Forums. Seems like the zeo forums kind of took over. Go check them out one last time. You won't be sorry you did.



Needs more Training

Hack has delivered the long awaited Analyst 13 that wraps up the Trainer card constraints on the sts.

Analyst #13

 



Go ahead... try me....

[ekans] ekansss ekans ekans.... (pokemon not bad)
[koffing] koff koff koffing.... (masters make us do bad things)
[ekans] ek ek ekansssssss!! (only bad masters, not pokemon!)
[meowth] but i do bad things without my masters... (but i.....oh wait. don't need to subtitle it.....)
okay... before you're wondering if i've gone off my rocker again, thats a quote form the Anime if you're not aware. Anyway, ekans and koffing say there are no bad pokemon... but i beg to differ. this here meowth seems to be a bad influence, being able to turn other pokemon bad just by being near them... the thing i fear most from this felon feline is a 'Dark' Wiggly's Do the Dark Wave for 90-100.... ouch! >_<

you talkin' to me... are you talking to me?

we've also updated the Zeo edition page, given it a teeny bit of face lift, as well as add a bunch of missing trainers, pokemon, and jumbo cards. Hopefully there are no broken links now....

UPDATES
Bad Scratch Cat • Main Archives • Analyst 13




Tuesday, May 15th
(last update 3:30 am est)

 
looking for our greeting card section?
you can find it here...

and for all you that haven't heard, we have another contest... and what i'm gonna do is sneakily extend the deadline by a few days. Two days isn't that much time to search through all the cards, so why not have another go. The details can be found in Thursday's news... Deadline is tonight at 11:59:59 EST... don't miss out!

We've also painstakingly updated the Japanese Promo Guide and put all our cool Japanese Promos in one easy to reference guide. You can find it in the
TCG Section



People! Keep Mech in a Job!

[mechachu] please! i'm begging you! we need more fakes on the Forums... i'm gonna be out of a job! any fakes! just submit them!

[ech] mecha.... are you soliciting fakes again?

[mecha] no no! i swear! in fact i was just posting this week's fan fakes.... see?

Ghostly Images....

 



forsooth those that cower in fright....

...for one must beware of what bump in the night....

okay... so thats not how it goes... but anything with forsooth in it can't be that bad, right? Today we have a Trainer card that is sure to conjure up some fun... i'm sure you'll have a haunting good time with it.... mwahahahahahahahaha
[pure] ech! stop scaring them!

Haunting Images....

...and if the card wasn't enough to make you shiver.... how about a full sized desktop?

Spiritual Madness

 



...all that and a Diglett too...

if you've spent any time at all with Dugtrio1951, you'll know one thing... Dugtrios are Fuzzy. Hence, Diglett are too.... (of course he always says they have arms and legs and mouths....)

This Diglett will surely pack a punch to it's grass toting rivals, even if it is only one punch... it's second attack is pretty good too, just have to make sure to use it wisely.

look ma! no hands!

UPDATES
Diglett Dig, Diglett Dig... • Dopplegangers abound.... • mech will work for fakes!



Monday, May 14th
(last update 3:00 am est)

 
looking for our greeting card section?
you can find it here...

and for all you that haven't heard, we have another contest... and what i'm gonna do is sneakily extend the deadline by a few days. Two days isn't that much time to search through all the cards, so why not have another go. The details can be found in Thursday's news...



Promotacular!

once again we fixed up a poorly neglected section of the site, and finally linked all the Printed Promo Edition.

here you can find information about the cards that we've actually printed and handed out, along with their origin, print run, and extra notes.

...watch for this section to expand greatly over the next couple months... ;)

Unowns and Onixes await!

 



aaaah!!!! a moth!!!!

come come... nothing to be afraid of.... it's just a little moth. it can't hurt you... much. >:D

Slap on [G][P][D] on this sucker and you can 60 damage with a chance for Poison and Confusion... with moths like this floating around its no wonder some people are afraid of them

a moth... KILL IT!!!

 

UPDATES
Venomoth • Printed Promos!




Mother's Day
(last update 4:45 am est)

 
happy mothers day to all the loving mothers out there. if you want to send of recieve a mothers day greeting, head on over to our
Mothers Day eCard section

and for all you that haven't heard, we have another contest... and what i'm gonna do is sneakily extend the deadline by a few days. Two days isn't that much time to search through all the cards, so why not have another go. The details can be found in Thursday's news...



balnking trainers.....

saturday was spent updating another neglected section of the site... this time the Trainer blanks section has had MAJOR revisions.... over night we went from 3 trainers to 36 trainers! not bad huh?

Big thanks goes out to MM2k for thinking up a lot of these ideas, as well as making them for us, as we as MarsGuo who helped by making expanded blanks at 4am.... Big hand for both these guys!

Good Set needs Good Trainers

 



is it a pokemon or a mop?

no offence to mop lovers out there (since i'm sure there's not venonat lovers) but venonat really does look like a mop, or shag carpeting again... but then again... even the ugliest caterpie can turn into the majestic butterfree... as this venonat will turn into... :/ well... a big ugly moth.

Shag Carpeting is an all or none attack, while Scope lets you look at and face down card in play. Pretty handy when trying to figure out what prize to take.

My Veno-sences are tingling!

 

UPDATES
Venonat • eCards • Trainers Galore!




Saturday, May 12th
(last update 4:30 am est)

 
contesting situations

you knew we had another cool contest going on at zeo, right? And this one is really simple to win!

all you have to do it take a look at the
Clip Backs section, and then see which ones were used in the Zeo Edition.

email us your entry and you could win a promo prize pack consisting of various promos... and it could be any promo that wotc has released since we have them all!

hurry tho, because the contest ends midnight est tonight!

have fun!




psst... didn't you get a card yet?

...don't tell me you forgot mother's day tomorrow! well, not to worry because we have a bunch of stuf that you can do for your mother.

for those of you that remember the eValentines, we now have eCards for mothers day.. and you can also print them out and give them to her too!

send your mom some flowers, or at least a sunflora

or how about using one of the lovely love blanks that pure made? you can make your mother a fake card showing her how much you care. ^_^ or better yet, maybe use the picture from the eCards and the love blanks to create something really cool!

love blanks

 



ech vs. sensei passe now?

yup! it's all about ech vs. mtm now!

after a comment that mtm made about my favorite computer platform, things kind of got... 'spirited' you might say. ...and then when mtm did come to... he stuck his foot in his mouth again! :D

don't worry mtm... i still like you.... i would watch Weedle very closely tho... read about it all in this week's WotC Chat Report

MTM Rap et al




have your vorpal blade handy?

....it's the choice of the MUSHROOM?!?! O_o

okay... no offence to 'sect lovers out there.. but what is wrong with it? I wouldn't let a mushroom be telling me what to do. I mean sure mushrooms are smart and charming and all... but still... it's a mushroom!

[mushroom] pssst.... you... come 'ere

 

UPDATES
Parasect • eCards • Contest! • WotC Chat Report



Thursday, May 10th
(last update 2:59:59 am est)

 

contest time!!!!

ok...i figured we should have another contest. this is one that all of you have pretty much an equal shot of winning, too.....you don't need to make anything, but your knowledge of the zeo edition might come in handy.

now...you've probably noticed that i did a bit of work over in the clip back section. about time huh? eep....well, i thought we could have a bit of fun with it. a lot of (but not all) of the clip backs are really backgrounds i made for the zeo edition. see where this is headed?

ok, zeo fans...you have until midnight on saturday, may 12th, eastern standard time, to send me an email with the most clip backs correctly listed with the zeo edition card they are featured on. (and you can only count the unown temple wall once, thank you very much ;D ) we will draw one winner from all of the correct answers. that lucky winner will win a fabulous pokémon promo pack, containing an assortment of promo cards from both this year and last.

list the clip back names as they appear on the clip backs page, along with the card they appeared on, and email your entries by midnight est on saturday!

have fun!




hah!

i finished the update before 3am! go me!

anyway, to make up for yesterday, we have a plethor of stuff for you today, so get cracking and get reading!

one of the things we added today was an updated
Staff Page to recognize all our hard working blankers and special projects team. Go staff!


MTM's fakes, take two

MTM is back this week with another Akimbo, and again he has an interesting card. Seeing as how we made the weedle last time, we have a proud tradition to uphold... so we give you... Kierin's Mewtwo.

see what happens with no donuts?



You mean desktops don't have to be scary?

Let's see... those Lugia were kinda frightening... the onix was threatening... that mewtwo is enough to give people nightmares....

the next addition to the Zeo Desktop Gallery is.... Lapras! And it's such a cute little lovable lapras... even if you don't like lapraseseseses, this one may just change your mind.

as you can see, pure used a totally different method of coloring on this one. Unstead of the usual airbrush that she does the zeo edition with, she used water colors. It sure is amazing what a little change in medium can do. ^_^

puuuur....
take a look at our other desktops



clip 'n save!

pure has once again been very busy in the Clipbacks section adding another couple dozen clip backs bringing the total up to nearly 100. @_@ use these clip backs to bring life to your fakes, or just if you don't feel like making a background. They are totally free domain.

snippy snippy



prime example of why NOT to mess with these things

so THATS why they're so ticked... you disturbed them when they were snuggling... don't you know better than to tick off a 'tuff?

i'll snuggle YOU!



...check back later for a new contest... i would have posted it now, but i kinda forgot the details. ^_^'''

UPDATES
Tuff Wiggly • Clip backs galore! • Staff pages • Kierin's Mewtwo • Lapras desk



Wednesday, May 9th
(last update 3:00 am est)


One Peeved Puff...

ouch.... look at the look on this Jiggly's face... kinda reminds one of
Zeo Igglybuff from way back when.... guess these 'buffs, 'puffs and 'tuffs aren't happy enough to have their faces on this stuff. [everyone groans]

very cool attacks this puffer has. it will put youto sleep and make sure you stay asleep.. while it's 'tuff bothan beats them up for the ko... [everyone groans again]

get jiggly wit it

sooooo...

right now we have jiggly and jiggly is it. unfortunatly pure's dsl went out just as we were working on the rest of the update material -_-

hopefully she'll have it back soon and we can carry out the continuation of our collossal conceptions... [people throw fruit at ech]

UPDATES
Just a Jiggly.... for now



Tuesday, May 8th
(last update 4:17 am est)


Chatting up a storm!

man.... i give purity a lot of credit. these chats are very VERY hard to do. -_-' anyway, this week's wotc chat is now up in the wotc chat section where you can read about wotc chats... man, i said wotc chat way too much in that sentence... pretty soon the wotc chat police are gonna be after me about saying wotc chat too much in one wotc chat report....

guess what? wotc chat here!



Firefox!

okay, so for all of those that thought Vulpix was a bit on the wimpy side, we give you.. NINETALES.... a formidable evolution solution... yeah, i guess you can say it has 8 attacks.... yeah... i really am tired. :P

8 attacks?! @_@

UPDATES
Ninetales of Fury! • WotC Chat



Monday, May 7th
(last update 4:00 am est)


ooooh....

lotsa cards for you to start off the week.... and with more to come later today!



Three... count 'em THREE fan fakes!

the little robo rodent (aka mechachu. :) ) is really getting into the fan fake spirit.

This week he picked a trio of fakes from new zeo forumer, poinko. Go take a look at this weeks offerings in....

fan fake mania (insert echoing effect here)



ooooh... new medium....

well let's see.... things are going good at the Pokémon League here (aka Echidna Gym)... we got the new
Igglybuff promo, as well as have an all around good time. Anyway, as usual with the box that the Iggly comes in, i recieved another dozen of those wretched styrofoam cards that wotc sends (any gym leader will know whati mean) So then, being bored and not wanting to play cards anymore.... and with someone pestering me to make him a fake card... i came up with this!

pfft! paper be damned!

ooooh..... styrofoamy...

anyway, for some reason he didn't WANT a styro fake, so i got stuck with it.... -_-' anyway i made a couple of them, but the tyranitar was my favorite.

hmmm..... should we post Styrofoam blanks on zeo? ....although some people might not be able to find them... ;)



Foxfire!

aaaw..... kawaii lil vulpix...

anyway, you'd be surprised at how many attacks and powers we come up with from the Pokedex info... like today's for example. who know that vulpixes were afraid of things?

anyway, vulpix has a very useful power for then your opponent comes up with a big bad pokemon that can KO 'pix in one hit. think about it...

git back here you lil pix!



This Week on Zeo...

pure has ta bunch new non zeo cards she made that she should post later today, and as usual we're revamping neglected sections of the site. ^_^

UPDATES
Vulpix • Styrocards • Igglybuff • Fan Fakes



Sunday, May 6th
(last update 5:00 am est)


man... how come my mid day updates are never as good as pure's? ^_^

as our Flash enabled friends may notice, we have a slightly updated sidebar other there. Version 3.2 of the sidebar (damn you Hack, you know how i hate version numbers) and it has the STS Link on it. ooooooh. Spiffin!



more stuff for you to use!

anyway, we continue revamping sections of the site, and today we've added a ton more accessories for you to use!

now to go along with your symbols and stars we have presentation methods! We have Toploaders, screwdowns, sleeves.... the works!

and also, thanks to Eric's Mewtwo we have Gym Leader Badges there too! They're all there right from the boisterous Blaine to the seductive Sabrina. (give me a break... it's 5am and it's really hard to think up pairing words)

presentation is the key...



Chit Chat

alright... we've also updated the WotC section with the Chat from April 26th, and we're busily working on May 5th's chat as well.

btw, for those of you that think doing up the chat is a peice of cake, let me tell you, it's not. :/

It takes about 2 hours to sort through the logs and divide the information up into the proper sections, and then another 5 to 6 hours to make it presentable. -_-'

chatting it up with the mt's



and of course....

[thinks long and hard]

....here's clefable. -_-'

ok, ok... let's see here. Well, i COULD tell you about the really reeeeeeally bad attack that i suggested for it. Double Double Edge... basically it did 40 damage to clef and one of your bench in order to do 40 to the dp and one of thier bench.... not exactly the greatest, huh?

oooh... comets



later today or tomorrow on Pokemon Zeo...

we have the Fan Fake of the week with Mech, and more ECSTS Analysis by hack... not to mention more behind the scenes work by pure and your's truly.

UPDATES
More accessories • more chats • more cards!



Saturday, May 5th
(last update 1:00 pm est)


hey! we got sts info for you!!

thanks to mastermarril2k, we have an update over in our sts section! wotc has announced the preregistration phone lines for the 2001 ests, as well as important information on deck lists, deck checks, and permission slips. there are pdf files for you to download, and fill out. anyways, if you are planning to attend, it's very important that you go read this info!

the phone lines are open!



...so very tired.... -_-

Dunestar has an interesting article for us. The lucky dog got to play with a GBA (must have pushed aside the scores of smaller kids. ^_^) and he has a full fledged Dunestar style report for us.

man... i am sooo considering buying one, pending the price up here.... >_< Damn exchange rate.

<sniff> no more creamed spinach



Star Gazing

[reads clefairy's info] ...this thing came from the moon? O_o' uh... ok... sadly, i think that the two most boring episodes of pokemon i had seen, were the two featuring clefairy. I dunno... it's gotta be just me becaue when the anime came out, Clefairy was going to be Ash's starter pokemon until the rat edged out in popularity. Just think, instead of seeing pika everywhere, we could be seeing clefairy.... of course that's not nessisarily a BAD thing mind you... just different.

So then, today's card as you may have guessed is... CLEFAIRY! Such a cute little thing too. Starlight, Starbright is a bit risky but it can be worth attempting in order to do Fairy Slap.

I wish i may, i wish i might



hmmm.... if it weren't so late i'd post some other stuff... but as it stands i'm so deadly tiremrfk/ brnf' ' ;lmsjkgs;a'90i45[q, <- (read that as my face falling on the keyboard. :D )

UPDATES
Clefairy • GBA News • ECSTS Preregistration



Friday, May 4th
(last update 6:00 pm est)


...is it just me, or are the weeks getting longer and longer? seems like there just isn't enough time in the day to do everything that needs done... hopefully the weekend can bring some relief.

Update: (6:00pm) We finally updated two more neglected sections. First off, we've added more to the TCG Index, including the links to the Neo4 Lists and Intropack spoilers. You can also find all of Mechachu's translations in there.

TCG Mania

Second section is the Accessories portion of the Card Blanks section. We added Promo Symbols, Prerelease Symbols, 1st Edition Symbols and more!

Accessorize!




The King of Pokemon

well... maybe not the KING.. but it's the last of the Nidos, so i'm pretty darn happy about it. (as you can tell, the nido's aren't exactly my favorite linage) If you thought that Nidorino was ticked.... wait until you see this Nidoking. The big brother of the Nido clan looks like he wants some blood, and with the solid Aggression attack, he's liable to get it!

Royality no less



Well... thats about it for now, but check back later on... one never knows what the afternoon bringeth.

UPDATES
Nidoking



Thursday, May 3rd
(last update 4:00 am est)


We spent the evening working on two very neglected sections of Zeo... and we've gotten then up to par with the rest of the site!

First up, pure spent the past few days sorting and making Clip Backs for you to all use on your cards. She weeded through the broken links and added a whole bunch more.... in fact there are now 75 of them to use!

also... there are a few of them that are Holo! No more messing with the Holosheets, these ones have the holosheet already translucent so all you have to do is slap on a pokemon and be done!

We're backing you up!

Hmmm...... this gives us an idea.....



Listen here!

The second oft neglected section we revamped was the MP3 section. We now have all the Japanese and American Opening Themes up for your vie....er... listening pleasure., including the Movie remixes.

Over the next few days we'll add more songs tot he collection, so keep an ear out for them.

Do do do do do DO!



Just two more....

..the nidos just keep coming!!!!!! Well tonight's inductee into the Zeo Eidtion is the masculine counterpart of the Nidorina from a few days ago. Man... he looks pissed... of course i think ALL nidorinos look that way. Very vicious looking art... probably one of the few truly mean looking ones we haven't made dark.

growl and snarl i say...

UPDATES
Nidorino • 75 Clipbacks! • MP3s Galore!



Wednesday, May 2nd
(last update 8:00 pm est)


Did a little bit more tooling with the
Neo4 Section last night. Fixed some of the links and changed the rarities... poor ledian went from a Common to a Rare. @_@

most of the night however was spent on other projects. We told you that May was STS month, and we stand by it in order to bring you the best sts info around.

we also have a new set of blanks, and thre will be a large number of Neo clipbacks and mp3s up later today or tomorrow.

sweeeeet!

Update: (8:00PM) Added a dozen more Neo4 pics... we now have all but like 5. ^_^




STS is the place to be, and zeo is the place for info

for the past couple months we've slowly been gathering STS info and dispursing it here and there.... well today marks the official opening of our STS Section. Pure spent a while going through all the information we had and presenting it in a nine 'non-jumbled' format. ^_^

Here you can find out information about Qualifying tours, Deck Formats, Reviews of Past STS and QTs, as well as general rules, faqs, and so forth.

.....oh yes. And the STS clock is back too. ^_^

We're Jersey Bound!



Oooooh..... Shiny

wow..... nearly a year ago now, pure and i made the first refractor foil cards. (
Purity's and Echidna's Mewtwos) and everyone seemed to love the refractor effect on them. Recently we made a Shining Pidgeot on a refractor, and once again people asked us if we'd ever release them.

well.... here they are. 36 Shining new blanks for you to use. ...and this time it's a Genesis First release, marking our first new blank released as Genesis First.

Oooh... refractory




You mean there's MORE??!

[ech] okay... we finished the Nidos, now what?
[pure] nidoran male
[ech] no... we did nidoran three days ago
[pure] that was the female one
[ech] female...
[pure] yeah... the nidos have seperate male and female versions
[ech] i knew that! ^_^'''

Nidoran: Take 2




so whats up for later?

well, we've been working hard on the 'other' sections of zeo... so you can expect to see some new action out of them.

we have some big things lined up for the STS section, as well as new MP3s, Clipbacks, and other things.... ^_^

UPDATES
Nidoran, Take 2 • Refractor backs • STS Section Debuts!



Tuesday, May 1st
(last update 3:30 pm est)


ok! a little bit of news about neo4....

well! there certainly are a lot of shining cards, aren't there? the scans look sort of odd, leading to a lot of speculation as to what the cards really look like. now, i was talking to pokesensei last night, and he mentioned that the shop he goes to had been opening boxes. well, what do you think...they opened two (or three...now i forget which) and managed to find three shining cards...two celebi and one charizard. i asked what the cards looked like, and 'sensei said they looked really cool.....i asked if the pokemon in the illustration were iridescent, or foiled or something and he said that the pokemon are sort of raised/embossed and foiled.....however the whole card is not holo, a lá shining gyrados/magikarp/mew. anyways, there you go...the shining cards per se might not be as rare as previously speculated. or, certain ones may be rarer than others.

one more thing, we forgot to mention....the pack distribution. japanese neo4 packs each contain one foil and one rare...yeah!!! at least the three i bought did, so i imagine its the same for all of them. that's what we all like to hear!

anyways, that's a little midday bonus for you. see you all later!




Ahhh.... nice clean news.

all the old April stuff has been logged back to the
Archives. If you missed anything, check out the April Archive

May starts off the wind down to the STS, and we're going to be having some STS action for you coming real soo, so watch for that. In fact, hack should have his article about the STS QT in San Jose done in the next few da...

[hack] done.

[ech] done? O_o

[hack] uh huh... i typed really fast.

well, um... hack seems to be done his STSQT Article, so why not have a look? I mean afterall he DID type if for all you guys to read. :D

Hackman vs. San Jose



hmmmm.... what can i say about Nidoqueen in general? Not really all that much. Now... what about the zeo edition Nidoqueen...different story!

Finally a Nidoqueen that has a pose that it's just 'standing there' like every other Nidoqueen. ^_^ The attacks has a good gaurenteed status effect, not like those other 'gaurenteed' ones that are like sleep and confusion (the two overrated effects) Then it's power is nothing to take lightly... I mean this will be great in Misty and Sabrina Decks, but just DEADLY in Erika decks. ^_^

Your Majesty...

UPDATES
Nidoqueen • Main Archives • hack @ the QT





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