If you are a kid like me, you regularly update the new releases on the official site Pokemon Download to see what crazy paraphernalia it’s selling today. With almost daily drops, these additives can be anything a statue of Ditto eating tin crunchiesTo a whole line of completely overpriced Pikachu cookware. To name just two from the last week. But today something different appears: the “Sweet Support Plush,” and they may be the sweetest things my eyes have ever seen.
Pokemon Plush toys can be divided into all sorts of categories, from adorable to cute Sitting sweetie to the enormous (and enormously expensive) “life size” Giants. But this latest range has been launched now in the UK and and the USAis called Sweet Support and consists of a Pokémon and its baby type tied together, with the larger one having its arms outstretched to cuddle the younger one. Plus, they seem to be made of the fluffiest fluff ever.
For anyone concerned that this is some sort of undeclared sponsored post, I would like to dispel such thoughts by noting that it is far too expensive. They’re the same size as a Sitting Cutie but somehow cost more than twice as much and immediately landed on my “beg when my birthday is coming up” list.
There are currently only four of them: Igglybuff and Jigglypuff, Azurill and Marill, Bonsley and Sudowoodo, and Pichu and Pikachu. I’m surprised that Pikachu is the most beautiful of them – a Pokémon I can usually take or leave – simply because of the absolute magnificence of their faces. Pikachu appears ready to offer endless unconditional love to a little Pichu who looks worried and on the verge of tears. It makes me think of Katy Perry’s unnecessarily brilliant video.
Oh God, are you telling me I’m not going to spend £25 of His Majesty’s best foreign money on this cuddly little pocket monster that I’m indifferent to? Someone, don’t let me.
The connection between the two is like an umbilical cord in a very special way, which raises a lot of questions about baby Pokémon that I don’t want to face on a Monday morning. These things are supposed to be born in eggs, but then the adult versions also seem to be just as capable of being born through eggs as the baby versions, and yet one can evolve into the other and… no, it has to be that way stop his.
Considering how many types of babies there are, there will probably be a lot more of them as time goes on. God forbid there will ever be a cursed Mime Jr. and Mr. Mime, but Happiny/Chansey and Munchlax/Snorlax seem inevitable. And then for some reason there will never be a Mantyke/Mantine model because Pokemon hates Mantine – the largest of all Pokémon – and tries hard to never include the perfect little creature in anything.
