Okay, okay, we're just speculating, but The Pokémon Company's latest Muk-up is a Magnemite oversight that might be worth something some day (h/t Kotaku).
See, it turns out that Magnemite should look like this (helpful red circle added by TPC themselves):
But the plushie looks like this:
You see?! Terrible.
(For those of you who do not see, the magnet is upside down.)
The Pokémon Company wrote an apology on its Japanese site, expressing its "sincere gratitude" to all their customers for their support despite the grave error.
Anyway, if you have one of these plushies, sold through Pokémon Centers, Pokémon Stores, and Amazon Japan, you can just bring it in to your local Pokémon Store for a replacement.
Or - and we're not necessarily encouraging this - you could just keep it. We know very little about toy prices, but aren't defective cuddly toys usually worth something some day? There may be a collector in thirty years who just can't wait to get their hands on a slightly wrong Magnemite plush.
[source voice.pokemon.co.jp, via kotaku.com]
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It's just a congenital deformity. Daddy still loves you, Maggie.
Yes, this will be the ultimate nerd collectible, next pandemic, say 2027 or so.
I wonder how many die-hard fans were able to point this out before the apology was issued? I definitely wouldn't have caught this.
If you actually cared enough to point this out, you should get a medal for being that dedicated of a Pokemon fan.
Can't the magnets rotate?
Yeah, errors like this end up being insanely valuable down the line. Keep it and sell it for a fortune.
@Kalteas
That's what I seem to remember too from the N64 pokemon games.
I have never played a Pokémon game, but I sense that this may be grist for the mill. You know, that "Game Freak is lazy and doesn't care about their heritage" mill...
@Kalteas I'm pretty sure that's correct, yeah.
Depends on how many were made with the error. If it was a very low batch number then ya I can see it been worth maybe something down the line.
The only thing that may cause the price to not go up is that a skilled person could easily replicate an "error" plush.
Considering how much pokemon they just love making, I'm suprised this hasn't happened so many times already
xD but that's easy to fix. just cut the sewed part from the magnet and the body and resew it having it facing the right way.
I feel like I've seen magnemites twirl those arm magnets around so that they can be upside down like that. I may be just remembering wrong, but I feel like I've seen that somewhere in the anime or maybe a game like Pokemon Snap.
Those heathens, nothing short of grovelling at my feet for a year shall stay my rage from this completely ignoble act of utter malice.
I'M FROTHING, FROTHING AT THE MOUTH! LET'S BURN DOWN POKEMON HQ!!
@SilentHunter382 To be fair a skilled person could also recreate a pokemon card
Hmmm, so if I scalp all the normal plushies, unstich the right magnet, and sew it back on upside down, in 20 years, I'll be rich?
mwahahahahaha!
Actually, thinking about it, I might as well do both sides...
BWAAAHAHAHAHA!
It can rotate the magnet to appear like that though.
But the magnets can move. How is this a problem?! Good God people it’s reasons like this I’m almost thankful I don’t have a constant internet connection.
Um....okay? People will complain about anything these days.
Or some 3rd party manufacturer made a simple mistake. Pretty sure that's a lot more likely.
I wonder if someone ever bought three of these things at once and stitched them together to create a makeshift Magneton.
Collectors are probably gonna be all over this messed up version now.
It probably says a lot that there are more people complaining about people complaining than there are... actual people complaining.
@Lone_Beagle 2025*
@CactusMan Not a Mandela effect at all. The definition of a Mandela effect is when a large MASS of people believes that an event occurred when it did not. Hardly anyone cares which way Magnemite's magnets are positioned. Certainly not a large mass of people AND them remembering it.
It's not much of a life when you're just a pretty face.
Just to be whoever you are is no disgrace.
Don't be scared if you don't fit in,
Look who's in the reject bin!
It's the Raggy Dolls, Raggy Dolls,
Dolls like you and me.
Raggy Dolls, Raggy Dolls,
Made imperfectly.
So if you got a bump on your nose,
Or a lump on your toes,
Do not despair.
Be like the Raggy Dolls,
And say I just don't care.
'Cause Raggy Dolls, Raggy Dolls,
Are happy just to be...
Raggy Dolls, Raggy Dolls,
Dolls like you and me!
It's not much of a life when you're just a pretty face.
Just to be whoever you are is no disgrace.
Look around and you will find,
People of every kind.
Like the Raggy Dolls, Raggy Dolls,
Dolls like you and me.
Raggy Dolls, Raggy Dolls,
Made imperfectly.
So if you're not at ease with your nobbly knees
And your fingers are all thumbs.
Stand on your two left feet,
And join our Raggy Doll chums.
'Cause Raggy Dolls, Raggy Dolls,
Are happy just to be...
Raggy Dolls, Raggy Dolls,
Dolls like you and me!
GUYS. Nintendo is not the only one with drift.
https://www.ign.com/articles/ps5-dualsense-controller-drift-class-action-lawsuit
Pretty sure the magnets rotate in Pokémon Stadium
I'm no Magnemite expert, but people have been pointing out it can rotate the magnets. I'm pretty sure that's the case, but also that it rotates both magnets as to always keep them in opposite sides.
What I'm saying has nothing to do with the plushie, just some random made-up pocket monster phisiology
Bah, so the magnets rotate...my plan is scuppered.
Most Pokemon can evolve in a few minutes, who says they can't have minor differences?
Bury these deformed magnemites in the desert along with whoever was responsible for this blunder.
i love how this is such a big deal even though the magnets can rotate and can do so independently of each other
I would absolutely not have noticed this unless I read this article!
Actually the wrong position of the magnet was a beautiful thing.
It makes every Magnemite are special, no cookie cutter each others.
It's not an error it's the latest regional variant
This is... just... who cares?
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