As thePokemonfranchise seems to only grow in popularity year after year, the series has had many wonderful opportunities come its way. The series has hosted huge polls worldwide to see which Pokemon is the most popular, been part of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade for numerous years, and has also been seen in Happy Meals across the globe several times in the last 26 years. The latest endeavor for the series is a touring prehistoric exhibit in Japan that compares real-life dinosaurs to their Pokemon equivalents, complete withPokemonfossil statues.The Pokemon Fossil Museum is a touring exhibition currently sweeping through five cities in Japan over the next year. The exhibit’s mission is to display the Pocket Monsters in the franchise that are inspired by actual dinosaurs. It seeks to place real-world fossils next to the fictional creatures fans know and love, and help to use the similarities between the two to teach the exhibition’s visitors a little bit of paleontology.RELATED:Pokemon Brilliant Diamond Player Beats Game with Just CherrimAs the event has just made its way to its third stop in Tokyo, Japan, a Japanese website has written about the event in detail after attending its opening day. Among them are detailed pictures of the exhibit, which showcase that the exhibition went the extra mile and made huge fossil replica statues of the dinosaur Pokemon to help visitors see the similarities between the creatures better. There are also smaller statues of the iconicfossils seen inPokemon, such as the Helix Fossil for Omanyte.
The exhibit displays gigantic fossil statues of a few iconicPokemon like Tyrantrumand Bastiodon. The entire tour uses many different fictional creatures such as Kabuto and Archeops to teach kids about how the excavation process works, as well as how evolution works in real-life compared to how it’s seen inPokemon. The exhibit features more than just fossil recreations as well, as those who attend the exhibit will be greeted with a special Excavator Pikachu riding on the back of Aerodacyl at the entrance to the exhibit.
The statues truly are a sight to behold, and give insights into the anatomy of the beloved creatures that fans have never seen before. Other Pokemon have their skeletons shown off in illustrations found around the exhibit, which add even more detail. The pictures make the exhibit look fun for fans of all ages, and the tour itself most definitely fulfills its promise of teaching children or evenadultPokemonfansabout paleontology.
The exhibit had already made a huge wave with the sunning artwork that accompanies it, featuring theprehistoric Pokemonwith their real-life counterparts, but now the statues add a level of detail many fans are sure to appreciate. Even though the event is currently only touring through Japan, one of the previous exhibits in Hokkaido is hosting an online viewing tool of the event on the official website that everyPokemonfan can access, but it seems to only showcase a fraction of the exhibit.
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