The Mystery 'Nut Pokémon' Officially Revealed As 'Meltan', Will Appear In Let's Go Pikachu & Eevee

Glad to see they are still as creative as ever in 2018 when it comes to new Pokemon...

It's cute (in a way ), but it doesn't really go with the other Kanto Pokémon.

...unless this is the ditto of Ultra Beasts and this is how they are included after Alola?

Meh

(Shocked)

It will really melt your nuts

@bigcalsworld Well, at least the way they announced it was creative.

tbh it's no worse in creativity than voltob/electrode but it is still a stupid looking pokemon

It's an advanced Golurk prototype, the G-1000, made of a mimetic polyalloy. Liquid metal.

Meltan will get "ette" sooner or later.

I think it's kind of cute, but 'meh' at the same time.

"It was in an ancient text I once read"

@smithpa01 I don't get why people always thought Voltorb/Electrode were so uncreative. I thought the design was really clever. I imagine that, in the Pokemon universe, they were a species of Pokemon that gradually evolved Pokeball-like features because it helped them avoid capture and enslavement by trainers more often.

You want "uncreative," just look at Pokemon like Pidgey or Rattata... they're just birds and rats. Or the ice cream Pokemon, for that matter.

It's certainly not as overly designed as some recent Mythical Pokémon. Which I was under the assumption some were looking for

Based on the description it most likely has another form or can absorb other Pokemon in some way.

Pokemon Company needs to hire some new people I’d say xD

I like it for having a rather simple design. Also, it's cute.

@Ralizah See, that's where creative Pokedex entries and backstory come in handy in giving some Pokémon designs some context

Abysmal. I love it.

The un-creative complaints are already coming in.
Haters gonna hate

@UmbreonsPapa scale of fan reactions to new Pokemon designs:

[1111111111112333333333333]

1 = lol they ran out of of ideas.
2 = that's cool.
3 = What's this, a Digimon?!

Looks like something I saw on an album cover from the 1980’s

@UmbreonsPapa The Pokedex is filled with interesting lore on these creatures and the world they live in. I'd love it if they'd integrate some of that into the actual substance of the games.

The new Pokémon is quite cute...
You could say it is Meltan the hearts of people who like it. XD

Interesting. I have to admit that while the design is crude.. the giant "eye" does seem to allow it to express itself pretty well. Also, considering that this Pokémon is showing up in Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee, I'm not sure which Generation we could call it. Is it an early Gen 8 Pokémon or a late Gen 7? The leaked details would lean to Gen 7.

@RupeeClock Well I was skeptical about the "not a pokémon theory" of yours but to be honest, nobody knew. Your guesses were as good as mine.

@Ralizah to me it has always seemed lazy to just turn an existing design into something else and that's more or less what they did with voltorb

I've seen 2 meltans on nearby since the event but both times they ran away before I could get there

@Ralizah I completely agree. There's some Pokémon I, if I'm gonna be honest, have either been on the fence about or just wouldn't have given a second thought to. On the surface, they seemed to be kind of "meh". But with some great lore behind it, gives them a whole new light. Your right. There are some Pokémon with some fascinating and terrifying stories behind them that would be fun to explore in game either as part of the main story or as a sidequest.

@DanteSolablood as far as I know Let's go still falls under the gen 7 family.

I just want everyone to notice how it looks like a wire has been soldered to a nut. Its body is solder.

Based on design alone, I won’t use this Pokémon. Just not “cool” to me.

I still say that is a confused ditto...

@Yosheel 2

@DanteSolablood In the past, we had Togepi and then Marrill and Elekid introduced during the Gen 1. But all three are considered Gen 2 Pokémon. So my guess is that Meltan is in the same boat? Or maybe the game rules differ from the anime on how these things are determined?

Looks like we may have gotten our first sneak peek at the art style for POKEMON 2019... just a thought...

Pokemon has ended for me when a new one was revealed through a mobile spin-off game. I guess it feels good to be finally set free from the curse of caring about this franchise.

Well, Garbodor is officially not the worst design they came up with, I guess!

@UmbreonsPapa Don't forget that Ho-Oh appears in the first episode of the Pokémon animé... so I'm pretty sure the rules are different. In fact the reason so many gen 2 Pokémon appeared in the animé that early is because the final roster for the game hadn't been finished when the animé went into production.

@Yosheel That's me thinking as well, though how they decide to market this Pokémon is anyone's guess!

Not having played Pokemon since started and never finishing White, I look forward to seeing this little guy in the Let's Go games.

Good marketing, but I still want the Pokémon in my Pokédex on Pokémon Go. Haha

@DanteSolablood I believe the second generation was already in development by the time the anime started in Japan.

The drawing is cool, but the in game look is very meh

@Yosheel You're correct, having double checked Gold & Silver were in development ready for a 1997 release but was pushed back for the release of the Gameboy Color. That may also explain Ho-Oh's odd colouring in the animé as the design had likely not been finished .

Horrible start for the eighth generation that Pokémon looks bad honestly and on top of that it's a mythical Pokémon not just a regular one, worst Pokémon ever without a doubt

As someone that loves the ice cream, chandelier, and rubbish bag Pokémon...

This is an absolute POS.

Worst. Pokémon. Ever.

Well... That was... Something. They really seem to have lost their creative touch. A bit of a shame because this makes me worry for gen 8.

This just adds to the disappointment of these games, and this is coming from someone who likes a lot of unpopular Pokemon. The design is horrible. In my opinion, it's just another reason to skip on these sad excuses for Pokemon games. Hopefully the 2019 games aren't as disappointing.

If I'd invented 1000 new animals over the last 20 years, I think I'd probably coming up with random crap like that too.

In my head, it's body looked like liquid mercury (which is extremely poisonous), so I thought it would've been Poison/Steel type. That could've been interesting.

Alas, it is, in fact, a P.O.S.

It’s funny to see people say that this design is unoriginal and too weird to sit alongside the first generation of Pokémon. Need I remind you of Magnemite, Ditto and Muk? None of those are particularly clever designs, either. Every generation has some well-designed monsters and others that are lackluster. The first generation is not an exception.

2018
New Yokai are looking more like Pokemon and the Pokemon are looking more like Yokais.
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/412/772/b5b.gif

I think it looks cute, I want this one.

100s or 1000s of Pokemon designs are left on the drawing room floor, but this one managed to become a real Pokemon. I'm really hoping they knock it out of the park for next years game but this... man, I don't know... I think I'm done with new Pokemon games.

Stupid.

It looks so awful.

At least it's not related to ditto.. i hope

So stupid looking. I hope this isn’t where the 2019 game is headed.

@UmbreonsPapa missingo pokemon go anyone ....

@Mew it looks like ditto and missngo had a bad night.

...Perfection

Masuda needs to be fired right now.

@DanteSolablood At first I thought it was a ghost type due to the floating eye. It's a good thing that the electricity part was mentioned in the dex. It goes a long way for explaining how it's floating like that (magnetism).

@Ernest_The_Crab Correction... ELECTROMAGNETISM!! Though, if you look into the models & images closer you can see a little ring on the inside of the nut that could possibly be holding some sort or glass pane?? Or that just depicts the "orbit" of the eye.

The Meltan model is actually more detailed than many people think.

@DanteSolablood Yeah, it does look like a piece of glass. The eye itself is probably attached to it with the glass rotating to swivel the eye (or the entire glass piece plus the ball is the eye). If it's the latter is probably has a clear (and flat) sclera.

It’s just a ditto with a nut for a head and a tail. Lol, what a lazy design...

@DrJiggle I’m on my phone but I would’ve posted Arnold Schwarzenegger attempting to smile in T2 as a response to your post. Well done, Doc.

That's one of the lamest names I've ever heard.

I just take this as them trying to convince people on getting Let's Go Pikachu & Let's Go Eevee games. It is an interesting tactic but I suppose it could be said that you can get Meltan in the Pokemon 2019 games via an event or something.

Correction: Ohmori should be fired be fired. The series has gotten worse since he became director.

I do hope its not the event Pokemon for next year's Mewtwo Strikes Back remake/retelling/whatever....

I really like the design. It is cute. I like the idea that it's basically living metal. I like it a lot more than previous Pokemon based on objects, like Klingklang and Garbodor, as they were just living versions of their objects. This Pokemon is much better designed.

For any of those usual haters who think Pokemon was only creative in gen 1 or 2, I point you to masterpieces like Voltorb, a ball that evolved into electrode the same ball, only flipped over, and both Magnimite and Diglett that evolve into 3 Magnimite and Diglett respectively.

But I am bummed that it's a Mythical Pokemon. That means it will probably be another stupid mystery gift give away at level 100 and never be usable in single player, or any official multiplayer format...

Lol I didn't expect this. Now I want a Bolt and Screwdriver inspired pokemon. Let's have one for everything in a tool box. The Hammer and Nail Pokémon. I can see it.

File this one under "It's not a defect, it's a feature".

Should’ve saved it for Gen 8: Pokemon Nuts and Bolts versions.

My cousin is a Pokemon freak and the other day he showed me this and kept telling me "hahah everyone keeps thinking and saying its a new Pokemon but its not, theres no way. hahah".

Dude gets on my nerves with this Poke stuff too.

I am cool with Pokemon but geez cuz just give it a rest. Lol

Weird, my Ditto turned into Meltette.

Something about the design doesn't sit well with me.

Hopefully generation 8 has good monster designs.

This design is so lazy that I actually like it.

Its ugly and it doesn't look like it belong to kanto. Where is MissingNo?