Press Release:

More than 47 million counterfeit products seized worldwide in past 16 months

BELLEVUE, Wash.—April 7, 2008 – Pokemon USA, Inc., a worldwide leader in trading card games, today announced the results of recent anti-piracy actions taken in cooperation with Nintendo of America Inc. to combat the production and distribution of counterfeit Pokemon® Trading Card Game products.

On March 26, law enforcement officials in New York raided seven stores known to be selling fraudulent Pokemon Trading Card Game merchandise. Thousands of products were seized and several arrests were made. In early April, one action at a production facility in China secured nearly 1.2 million counterfeit cards and investigations continue.

During the past 16 months, more than 47 million counterfeit products have been seized at production facilities in Thailand, Singapore, Poland, Italy, the Czech Republic, Australia, and China. One seizure in China in 2007 netted more than 26 million illegally produced cards. Nintendo and Pokemon will continue to target the retailers and manufacturers trafficking in counterfeit Pokemon product.

“Pokemon wants to send a message to importers and producers that we will not stand for the distribution of fraudulent Pokemon product,” says Pokemon spokesperson, J.C. Smith. “Pokemon is committed to ensuring our fans receive the quality product they've come to expect.”

Pokemon Dream's Drawing Boards have recently been hacked. The hacker has set up the ban list so that anyone visiting would be denied access. I apologize for this annoyance and hope to get this fixed soon. For the meantime, I have set up a temporary Drawing Board -- although there's only one temporary board that only allows five people, it is better than nothing. Again, I apologize for any inconvenience.

UPDATE: The Drawing Boards are back up! I've set up a sixth Drawing Board as a bonus. Enjoy!

Happy New Year everyone (although this is a bit late)! I hope everyone has had a wonderful 2007. Pokemon Dream sure has -- it has grown tremendously during this amazing year.

In 2007, Pokemon Dream got a new layout; the underlying code was completely rebuilt from scratch and it gave the website a whole new face. In an attempt to archive all the past designs we've had, I added a Banner Collection album to the Pokemon Museum. It's certainly not a complete collection, but I'll keep searching for these long forgotten banners.

Also in 2007, Pokemon Dream got a Pokemon Diamond/Pearl Walkthrough, a fine addition to the many fine walkthroughs we have. It is STILL the best on the net, filled with detailed directions, screenshots, and even music directly from the game!

And, finally, Pokemon Dream got a wonderful new PokeDex, which we all know and love as the PokeRep! After only a few months, it has become the most popular section on the site, with nearly 20 visitors browsing through the PokeRep entries on average at any given moment.

Wow. 2007 was awesome. I had a lot of fun incorporating all these new sections into Pokemon Dream, and I believe all you visitors out there enjoyed those sections as much as I did making them. 2008 is barely one day old, but I can already see great things that are soon to happen. I wish everyone a fantastic 2008, and all the best to Pokemon Dream!

I've added third generation (meaning Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, FireRed, and LeafGreen) move lists to the PokeRep entries. To view them, simply click on the "3rd Gen" label at the top of the Moves table -- the default is always fourth generation moves. If you spot any mistakes, please let me know as soon as possible.

Besides that, I've invested quite a few hours into populating the Museum with nice pictures. The Fan Art and Pokemon Picture Archive sections have officially been moved into the Museum. Although it currently has nearly 8,000 images, it's still quite empty and needs more members to contribute. Please don't hesitate to join and put up your own artwork!

Pokemon Dream finally has an image gallery that allows users to submit their artwork without much delay. This is good news, since that means it's no longer necessary for your slow and lazy webmaster (me) to put up your Fan Art -- instead, do it yourself! Also, other users can rate it instead of just me rating all the artwork. I present to you the PokeDream Museum!

It's pretty empty at the moment but, hopefully, soon, we'll have lots of members posting their artwork. I plan to eventually migrate our current Pokemon Picture Archive and Fan Art sections to the Museum. Please join now if you want to post your artwork for everyone to see! Have fun!

This is your webmaster, Mewtwo, speaking. I apologize for being absent for so long and leaving the site without updates. But now, I'm back (at least until the Spring semester starts). What will I be working on? Well, here are some details...

Today, I just fixed the news commenting system. Since I set this up many months ago, none of the news stories have received any comments. I've wondered why this was the case for a long time, but only discovered today that regular PokeDream Forums users have no permission to post anything. This was a stupid mistake on my part and is now fixed. So, if you'd like to post a comment, just click on the View/Post Comments link above.

I still have Fan Art from last YEAR. That's right, last year. I will post a few up every day over break. Again, I suck for not doing anything about all the great pieces of art I've received.

Finally, I plan on spending the rest of my time working on what I hope will be a major section of Pokemon Dream. It's basically a web application that will make it easier to find trades and battles for Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl over Nintendo WiFi. I eventually hope to expand the application to be a general purpose trainer registration system, a sort of "MySpace of the Pokemon world". I thought of the idea for this and started building it this summer, but it's been delayed since school started. However, it's currently about 30% completed and I will try to finish it before school starts again, which is about mid-January. I'm very excited about this project and I'm sure it'll be a great addition to Pokemon Dream. More details to come...

http://pokedream.com/wiki

The newly established Wiki aims to allow you to a resource about members and historical PokeDream Forums events. It also should be useful in allowing you the gateway to the PD world.

I hope you enjoy the Wiki. It's a very attractive multi-purpose feature.

The sites massive interactive roleplay, Legacies of a Pokemon Dream, was officially declared open today!

Legacies of a Pokemon Dream is a massive interactive writing and fanfiction integral roleplay which has been worked on and crafted for many months. The team now feels that, with the concrete laid for this project, it can rocket it into success and not wallow in an abyss.

The RP is open to everyone, and battling, contests, fun stuff, and whatever you want to do in the Pokemon world can be explored at ones own will. Like the site, this RP is an aesthetic feature and costs nothing, and is a part of the forum.


Hicky, a spokesman, said, "I've always wanted something like this on our forum. It really makes it seem more special; it really adds another branch to the PD file cabinet. The project is racing in development and I hope that one day my ambition of having the biggest role-play on the internet can become true! We have the right equipment; the project is set out in full, and I really hope it goes well."

We hope you enjoy the experience!

You can view the Legacies of a Pokémon Dream at the following link - Legacies of a Pokemon Dream. Note you must register first, but registration is quick, easy, and free, and shouldn't take long!

Press Release:

BELLEVUE, Wash. — September 10, 2007 — Pokemon USA Inc., a worldwide leader in the trading card game industry, today announced the latest Pokemon Trading Card Game expansion, Diamond & Pearl—Secret Wonders, will be released on November 7. The expansion features more than 130 cards, including even more brand-new Pokemon for players to collect for the very first time.

In Secret Wonders, players travel deeper into the Sinnoh region, where they will discover more exciting Pokemon. Pokemon with different versions, each with distinct characteristics; Pokemon with Items that continue to give awesome advantages; more of the useful Unown that work so well as a group; and additional Pokemon LV.X all come together to make Secret Wonders a secret worth uncovering!

The Pokemon TCG: Diamond & Pearl—Secret Wonders expansion will be available in two 60-card theme decks—Powerhouse and Lavaflow—as well as in booster packs. Theme decks and booster packs go on sale in stores on November 7, priced at $11.99 for the theme decks and $3.79 for the booster packs. Each booster pack features 10 randomly inserted game cards. Theme decks include a unique coin, an updated rulebook, card list, a one-player playmat and damage counters.

For more information, visit www.go-pokemon.com.

Today's major update to the PokeRep is the Advanced Search feature. This tool allows you to find Pokemon based on many different criteria. With the Advanced Search, you can look up, say, all Dragon or Water type Sinnoh Pokemon who can learn Hyper Beam as a level up attack or a TM. There are other searching options to choose from as well -- I will be adding more and more options later on.

In addition, I have added the old name etymologies. Now you can find out how Pikachu got its name! Unfortunately, the PokeRep currently does not have etymologies for fourth generation Pokemon (#387-#493). If you think you can provide any of these, please drop me at e-mail at weicool@gmail.com.

Also, if you discover any errors while browsing through the PokeRep, please tell me! Information is only good if it's error-free, so I need everyone's help in keeping it that way. Happy browsing!