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Lost Pokemon History of the Day: Deleted Tweets

In December I searched through Pokemon art director James Turner's entire Twitter history to extract development info. But as soon as I started sharing this info... James deleted ALL those tweets.

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(2/4) James' tweets, made between 2017 and 2019, revealed information about Pokemon design inspirations, development details, and more insider info. Clearly, Game Freak didn't want this info made public -- so they deleted it all off Twitter the day after I shared the first quote.
(3/4) All this development info was wiped off the internet, but I still have every deleted tweet saved on my hard drive. As a courtesy, I asked James if he'd prefer I keep them private. However, he didn't respond -- so I don't think it's unethical for me to continue quoting them.
(4/4) I've long covered Lost Pokemon History... but this is the only time Pokemon History got lost because of me 😓

Japanese developers occasionally tweet important info as well. So if you speak JP, I ask you to please record these tweets... just in case they also get deleted.
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Lost Pokemon of the Day: the Rinrin family

First revealed when Gold & Silver's 1997 demo leaked in 2018, Rinrin & Berurun were a bell-themed family of Dark type felines... but they didn't make the final cut.

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(2/4) Rinrin was female-only and evolved into Berurun at level 28. "Rinrin" is the Japanese onomatopoeia for a ringing bell, while "Berurun" is the Japanese onomatopoeia for cheerful humming.

An onomatopoeia is a word that represents a sound -- like "BOOM" for an bomb exploding.
(3/4) This two-stage family of adorable Dark-type cats definitely would've been fan-favorites... but unfortunately, they didn't make Gen 2's final cut.

However, it appears many of their characteristics were later recycled for future felines like the Skitty and Purrloin families.
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