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Fun Facts (Pokemon TF Drive page 1)
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If you follow me on Twitter, Bluesky, or Mastodon, you'll doubtless have seen that I've been posting fun facts about the first page of the TF drive. I've decided to compile them here so they're easier to find!
• The rock pile surrounding Diglett's Cave is lifted almost exactly from the anime's depiction of the wall of Granite Cave in Hoenn.
• Wearing your highest-ranking badge on your hat comes straight from the concept art of Pokémon Red and Green. (Also, no Indigo Plateau swoosh because 1. I haven't been there yet, and 2. ain't no way I'm sending in a million postcards just to get one early!)
• What's on my wrist is not a pokégear, it's a Casio illuminator I received for my birthday earlier that year: the first watch I ever owned. (Link goes to the closest picture on the internet to the model I had!)
• The bruises are because, as Professor Oak states, "you need pokémon for your protection" …my pokémon were NOT able to protect me down there! (Even if I'd kept Pikachu out of battle, the wild Dugtrio were 7 or 8 levels higher than my highest-level pokémon, and they seemed to appear every time I took a step after the first bend! I couldn't go back, I couldn't go forward, I had no escape ropes, no repels and no potions!)
• The rock pile surrounding Diglett's Cave is lifted almost exactly from the anime's depiction of the wall of Granite Cave in Hoenn.
• Wearing your highest-ranking badge on your hat comes straight from the concept art of Pokémon Red and Green. (Also, no Indigo Plateau swoosh because 1. I haven't been there yet, and 2. ain't no way I'm sending in a million postcards just to get one early!)
• What's on my wrist is not a pokégear, it's a Casio illuminator I received for my birthday earlier that year: the first watch I ever owned. (Link goes to the closest picture on the internet to the model I had!)
• The bruises are because, as Professor Oak states, "you need pokémon for your protection" …my pokémon were NOT able to protect me down there! (Even if I'd kept Pikachu out of battle, the wild Dugtrio were 7 or 8 levels higher than my highest-level pokémon, and they seemed to appear every time I took a step after the first bend! I couldn't go back, I couldn't go forward, I had no escape ropes, no repels and no potions!)
