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This is the last update on the Pikachu x Furby Ice burg. A few days after posting this I started to think the Pikachu furby images were fake, After spending a few hours this morning looking into it and finding the original image of them both together in much higher quality (check my community post to see the image) it definitely gives this story and the images more credit. (thanks to Rhymesmcfist on twitter for finding the link to this pic!) I'm going to leave it up to you guys to decide/continue any research into this at least for now. Maybe someone reading this is an expert and can tell if the catalog images are tampered with or not! The original image looks real, the articles are definitely real, But something about this entire story just seems strange to me.
If I or someone can get there hands on an original catalog of the Toy fair presentations from tiger electronics during the year 2000 we will finally know the truth! But I have an incredible headache from this stuff and I have the Heart Gold Oddity Quest video project to work on, so for now I'll leave it here!
Thanks for watching the new video and going on this wild ride with me! Hopefully we can get to the bottom of this eventually.
Phin
@@dennistrinh4794 whoaaaah you own a piece of history that's so cool!!!
@@dennistrinh4794 You sure it's not the Hasbro Talking Pikachu which is VERY similar? I am doubting this claim of yours.
@@dennistrinh4794 I bet my left buttcheek it's an I Choose You, Pikachu! If it can't blink, lacks a tummy, back, and feeding sensor, and doesn't have voice recognition, it's not it. Also you would have to be able to place it in front of a second Pikachu and watch them "battle". If all you do is press it's hand and it moves, it's not a Tiger Electronics Interactive Pikachu.
Definitely a Hoax
Every 90s kid remembers how toy commercials greatly impacted society and as a 90s kid I garuntee you this is a myth and Pokemon never had toys with animatronic eyelids. My sister had that other Pikachu you used as an example though. Nostalgia✨
"In a way we are all a robot Pikachu from the year 2000" is one of the wildest, most unhinged things I've ever heard
I was confused at first because I had the Pikachu you showed footage of, where you pressed his hand and he lit up and made noise. Wish I hadn't lost it, it was super cute.
I had this Pikachu too. Didn't move his ears or blink though lol.
I think the toy could have worked except for the blinking
Same, my mom bought it a year of it came out and kept it since she thought it looked cute (she didn’t get the Meowth since she couldn’t afford it at the time) and I have it now
I had that one too
@@moonbased7796 oh, would it be much trouble for you to record a video showcasing this relic? Or at least a picture, I'm sure it would make a huge deal for people looking for lost media like this!
I didn't own one myself... but my younger sister did! Which is interesting, because she never played a single Pokémon game in her life. She only got (very casually) into Pokémon because I adored it and she ended seeing a few of them she liked the design of, including Pikachu, of course. That universal appeal is the reason why Pokémon is the most lucrative brand in the whole world, after all.
To get back on topic, though... I don't remember what happened to it. I think our mom threw it away once its "fur" got moldy or something, unfortunately.
I have both a collection of Pokemon stuff and Furbys and I've never heard of this! OMG I love them!!
How do you sleep with a whole collection of furbys
@@Lord_of_commencement how do you sleep without a collection of furbies?
@@Lord_of_commencement Sleeping with a furby is easy. The hard part is ever waking up again.
Can you make a video on the Furbys? It would be really fun to watch
same!!! I am shocked I wish they came out
A lot of "children's toys" that children remember fondly and loved are considered "creepy" to adults. Look at Cabbage Patch Kids, for example. I don't think its appearance or janky movements were the problem, especially since they weren't for Furbies.
Furby caught on before the alleged controversy, so it is entirely possible there was concern parents might not want to buy them for their kids, maybe even the creators were starting to see them that way too. Its more likely though that the market was just becoming too saturated by animatronic toys for their liking.
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I share a similar opinion. Even today, kids like toys from horror games like Five Nights at Freddy's or more infamously Poppy Playtime. I don't think the creepy factor plays much of a role, specially when porcelain dolls were a thing even before furbies.
I don't remember having a Furby but I don't think it was creepy. Not compared to a china doll my sister had that me and her were afraid of. Furby and that Pikachu looks tamer
As fascinating and completely on brand for the 90's as the Furby Pikachu is, that heart wrenching quote from Banksy and your philosophizing made this video a triumph. It begs the question; when a person is posthumously rediscovered, and their name spoken once more, do they then live again?
I believe they do (:
@@BlueBoyPhin Ok but that Banksy quote is a reference to a very old piece of literature which , yeah I can see Banksy as the kind of person to read books that are hundreds of years old.
the original quote said a man dies twice and only mentioned it as a literal man , even using he/him/his pronouns- as in this logic was not applied to women/children/etc so the changes Banksy made to the quote were likely to erase the connotations of prejudice within it's original word choices.
You really do deliver on stuff I never knew before. You're one of the best channels on TH-cam for that alone.
I really appreciate you continuing to watch!
@@BlueBoyPhin news! Someone (user by the name Hyper_Tex) found footage showcasing these toys! Here's the part of the link because otherwise youtube will hide my comment gZ46SLR5hY4
@@demian_demand Sadly that one is the "i choose you" pikachu, that released a year before in 1999, they look strikingly similar. but the pikachu furby would have had hundreds more audio features and closeable eyelids as well, but I still believe there might be footage out there of it! most likely captured at the NY international toy fair in the year 2000, the only place the 2 interactive toys were ever seen, keep on the hunt!!
@@BlueBoyPhin oh, sorry! I'm sure you'll be able to get some footage of it eventually . Maybe there was someone at that fair who has personal footage of it? Or maybe someone at least took a pic
You might wanna ask around other social media for it! :)
there’s actually a whole bunch of unreleased furbys. a few prototypes that were shown at the NY toy fair have also been documented online.
also, furbys were released in japan by a different company, Tomy. Tomy produced licensed pokémon toys starting in ‘97.
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I noticed something off about the catalog image of the Pikachu furby and ran it through some photo forensic websites and to me it seems fake. The articles mentioning the Pikachu furby really are from the year 2000 and are real. I'm currently trying to look deeper into this whole thing and find out what's going on. No one has covered any of this stuff on youtube as far as I could find so I guess something like this is bound to happen. so for now I guess disregard the Image and think of it more as concept art lmao. If anybody has any info about this feel free to let me know! Lets crack this mystery open!
Makes sense that those pics are fake. I was just saying how I remember having this toy when I was a kid and I didn't think it was that obscure. Those pics were probably from the plushy I had as a kid that was definitely NOT an animaTronic
If it's an existing plush, it might have been used as a placeholder, especially for a Toyfair catalogue. I would try and get a copy of Hasbro's 1999 Toyfair catalogue to see if the image is there.
There was something close to that. I'm 100% certain there was this pikachu plush that light its cheeks and have some lines, but it was no where near like a Furby. There was also a Mew plush of that same line that wags its tail. But that's it. People probably are confusing those plushes with furbys or something.
I was pretty sure that picture of the pikachu looked like the electronic i choose you pikachu toy that came out as well.
@@junkie6387 Dunno, i don't recall a meowth from that line. Only Pikachu and Mew
Fun fact: last year or so 4 (2 working, 2 conceptual sculps) unreleased “Interactive Furby” Mike and Sulley were sold on eBay for 2k which come from the same time period.
Also the only images of the Pikachu and Meowth come from a 2000 Hasbro Catalogue that was lost for 20 years. I believe that there are at the very least prototypes of these. Who knows…
It may have also been because Pikachu canonically doesn't speak human language, so Nintendo may have had push-back on the licensee Tiger Electronics, which in addition to the delay on Yoda/ET, may have caused Tiger to not go forward with the Pikachu. This may also mean that prototypes are out there, in China likely, or maybe some in Japan, the plush-skins of them, and possibly even the robot frame (if it wasn't just a furby frame with different software).
Was nintendo so strict about pokemon lore 20 years ago though? I don't think a pikachu toy speaking gibberish english would've been a problem back then
Pikachu canonically does indeed speak human language. They might not have known it at the time but he do. At least Ash's one does, just like TR Meowth is the only one that can speak.
Meowth however XD
That's so odd. I have a Pikachu plush that's exactly like that. Granted it's old and busted now and hasn't moved in years. But, it's literally a little animatronic Pikachu plush of the exact build and it used to make noises depending on little buttons you press in its hands and where you pet it.
I checked its tag, and it apparently was made in 1998 and was distributed by Hasbro.
That's the "Electronic I Choose You Pikachu". I have two of those. Weird and kind of rare, but not this.
It’s an owl gremlin for future reference, not a hamster rat.
I had a graduation furby for completing kindergarten. My dad heard about the spying rumor, got drunk one night & smashed it. Rip graduation furby.
Also, I found you use of the piece of music "Winter" rather interesting. Considering that it's most well-known as the soundtrack for "The Maker", a short film about a plush-toy-like golem trying to create an offspring and carry on their legacy. It seems oddly fitting.
I love documentaries of obscure stuff like this. If wasn’t too frustrating or inconvenient to find this info would you be interested in making a series out of this?
not obscure.
@@ejokurirulezz Absolutely obscure to the general public and clearly the viewer base of this channel
I never liked the original toys; but I think the Pikachu and Meowth are cool and would have for sure picked up both of these for myself if I had ever had the opportunity.
i have a robotic pikachu plush that looks a LOT like the one in the catalog, but all u could really do with it was press its paw to make its mouth move, ears wiggle, and cheeks light up. it was also missing the angry eyelids in the catalog photo.
i think Hasbro might have scrapped the whole furby-like interaction and just made the whole thing a much more simpler animatronic toy
this is the toy that i (and i assume a lot of other people saying they have the toy in the video) have m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51z9TSN5i-L._AC_SY450_.jpg
I'd suggest making and pinning a comment that clears up for people that the Pikachu toy they have/had is probably the one you show in the video (i.e. not actually the Pikachu Furby) because it seems a lot of people are confused
OH I thought that was a magazine showing the actual Pokemon furby. I was thinking something was familiar about it. So there's not even a real photo of it?
yeahhh I freaked out for a moment cuz I had TWO of them (since my sibling didn't like theirs)! But nah, we had the much more common Hasbro one, hahah.
The more sad thing to think is that in some warehouse in China is just a pile of boxes of these, still waiting for someone to love them. They're probably all flat and needing the electronics
I would have loved to have these when I was a kid,I remember the talking pikachu plush toy that I had,but I like how different it is though,it's a shame that they didn't release these pokemon like furby's I would've loved getting pikachu and meowth
Man, I have a toy eerily similar to the Pikachu... Like, nearly identical other than the eyes... It even has glow-up cheeks and wiggles its ears
does it have one hand that makes it talk and one that makes it shock? Because if so my fiance and I had the same one when we were kids! (I brought mine to school to show him and he loved it so he asked his mom to get him one!)
This is incredible! I hope the lost media wiki will pick up this case more eyes searching for these pokemon Furbys will only be good
"There's only one in existence!"
"You can put your interactive Pikachu next to another interactive Pikachu!"
Oh man, these toys were a real blast from the past. I found my furbys a couple of weeks ago in the attic- and they still talk! 😱
They yet breathe...
I have a Pikachu about Furby-size with light up cheeks, but it looks slightly different and is from 2004. It makes various Pikachu sounds when you press a button in it's left paw.
I suppose the one you had was a "I choose you electronic Pikachu"?
Here's a video to compare:
th-cam.com/video/gZ46SLR5hY4/w-d-xo.html
I had something like this, a cute pikachu electronic stuffed toy that talked when you pressed the buttons on it. Too bad I gave it away to a friend that I don't even talk to anymore 😭
I remember having the interactive Yoda and an electronic Mew plush. The Yoda toy eventually lost its skin and its voice got all fucked up, and the Mew one is probably somewhere in a cardboard box in my basement.
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These Pikachu and Meowth may still be out there, and who knows how many there are left or how many there was to begin with. But I'm sure someday they'll be found just like the Pokémon musical props.
I don't know why the creators just don't talk about them. Has anyone asked or tweeted to them? Surely they could talk about it. It's been 20 years already
@@Xaveston My guess is they are not allowed to due to NDA.
Had an animatronic Pikachu that you clicked the hand of and it moved it's ears/tail and made noise (maybe it's cheeks lit up I can't remember). My sister had a Mew toy which looked like the one showcased in the clip from the expo too. I remember that Pikachu used to get upset (angry), we even made up stories as to why it might be angry (if you stroked it's fur the wrong way) don't know whether this is the "furby Pikachu" but it was cool
Saaaaaaame I had that same pika and it was amazing to get for Christmas 🙌✨
And I was thinking the same thing that this thing we had is essentially the same thing just not opening and closing furby eyes which... The catalog pic did have but watch those pics bee prototype pics and it got finalized into the toy we know and love
your pokemon videos almost single-handedly got me SUPER back into pokemon content again... thank you for helping me reconnect to such an important part of my childhood!!
It wouldn't be a BlueBoyPhin video without the inspirational speech at the end!
My grandma said pokemon were satanic, she also said Furbys were satanic. I can only imagine what she would say about a Pikachu Furby hybrid
Haha! I actually knew about this one! I love furbies so I was looking on their fandom page and saw this lol
I wouldn't have cared that it moved and looked weird. I love creepy things anyway.
I would've BEGGED for this Pikachu toy!
Not a Pokémon collector, but really great video regardless! From what I remember the catalog picture was originally found on some type of eBay auction last year. A bit unrelated but there were plans for toys of Mike and Sully from Monsters Inc which would’ve used “Furby technology” which were also cancelled. There’s even pictures of some of the prototypes that have been in circulation for (what I assume) probably a few years or so
I love your videos!! Please continue to document Pokemon history and media
But no seriously, if you find a box with that animatronic mouse in it, congratulations your kids are going to college
The amount of work put in these videos is insane, props to you man. One of my favourite channels on TH-cam. Love the content & can't wait for the next! (If there is anything left to find 😅)
I actually had that EXACT Pikachu doll when I was a kid. It was sort of a hand-me-down from an older cousin. Never found out what happened to it when I got older and I never knew what company made it or anything
DUDE SAME HERE
LIKE ACTUALLY
I bought it at a resale shop with a togepi plushy as well. Altough that was years ago so lord knows where it is now.
I always think Furbys are cute. Even today. I would have went nuts over a Pikachu furby
This is so cool, thanks so much for the info my friend. I had heard of this long ago, but I’m glad to see you covered this. Glad to know.
I think it might be worth looking into the creepy animatronic Pikachu that keeps popping up in Pokémon Presents to see if maybe the Furby was the inspiration
If you hadn't already earned my sub months ago, this would've gotten it for sure! The effort and depth in your investigation is unreal, and I appreciate every ounce of it
I'm so amazed how often you dig up obscure info when I think I've seen all there is. As a fan of Furbys and Pokemon, heck yes and thanks.
You're welcome! I knew absolutely nothing about furbys going into this video, but now after researching them for like 2 weeks i kinda want one haha!
"The most recognisable mouse in history."
*Mickey: "Am I a joke to you? -h-ha."*
Love your content Phin, this kind of thing is so interesting! 🧡
I love the hard work and research into this video, keep it up!
wasn't expecting this to become existentially distressing in the last two minutes
Lost Media X Pokemon? Yes please. Another fantastic video sir!
If anyone finds one of these, put it in a museum. It is a part of history and I know you don't want to keep it.
The detail in this video along with the obvious hard work you put into research is so satisfying, it’s amazing.
I am not sure this is something lost? I remember a friend of mine years ago had an interactive Pikachu, but it was not like a Furby... am I missing something here? There was plenty of those Electronic Pikachus out and it was just a button on its hand you press.
The Berserk music was a beautiful touch
Furbies have so many odd features that they have no reason to possess. Such as intercepting radio signals.
Love your vids man. After your vid about the shiny wishmaker Jirachi I got on trying to get the set up to do it, after a few months I finally got a disc cheapish and finally starting doing attempts! Definately glad the corruption method was found to make attempts around 1 min opposed to 8. Dont have the setup to stream but I will def record a vid when I get the shiny!
That's rad! good luck!
I love Pokemon and Furbys, and had come across these earlier this year, I forgot how I did, but I would of loved to of had these, and it's a shame that they never released. The closest thing we have to these ARE the Hasbro electronic interactive plushes that you showed a video of here (I have the Mew one, used to have Pikachu but he broke), but these would of probably been way cooler, though, yeah, Meowth looks a bit...Odd, but it's not like the Hasbro electronic Mew isn't weird looking itself as well. These may never release, but I do hope we get more footage, one day.
Thank you for making this video, it's cool to hear insight on lost media like this, especially of two large interests of mine.
When you showed the Pokémon runway I saw a toy I happen to have from my childhood, gotten about nine or ten years after the toy fair. I have that Poké ball, and a Pachirisu that goes inside it, so it was definitely a newer version released for Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, but still the same toy. My brother got a Wobuffet the same day, that went in the same Pokéball.
My neighbor had the pikachu! Holy crap I had no idea this thing was so hard to find
I literally just found a video on TH-cam where a girl had 3 of these interactive Pikachus. And most of the comments mentioned that they had one as well.
That's an I Choose You, Pikachu! Which is the Pikachu toy footage in this vid since there's no known footage of the The Tiger Electronics Pikachu/Meowth since they never came out.
Incredible video man, wish you the best for your growth
Its trippy because i loved pokemon all my life and 13 years ago my girlfriend woke me up shouting "come outside! There's a pikachu on the tree!" And after a few minutes of confusion i came outside to see this exact toy stuck on a tree. Years later I adopted a dog named eevee and now this pikachu is in pieces 😂
“A one of a kind robot of the most recognizable mouse in human history”
Mickey mouse:
So happy to see this video~! I'm hoping this will bring some light to these dudes. Around the same time these were found out about, someone also found out about an Interactive Mike and Sully that Tiger was planning, and they ended up finding the prototypes for them. So there's still hope we can find the prototypes for these guys! :D
I really enjoy your content these are things i never knew and im a diehard pokemon fan
One of the pikachus is being sold on eBay for $75 right now
i love all the interactive/spinoff furby toys, there was also a monsters inc mike and sully and all the interactive toys could talk to each other and to furbys i belive, and there were also shelbys which i think are way creepier than furbys and i want one (love furbys)
I have a Shelby! I love her so much - I love how the personalities of Shelby's aren't as soft as a Furby is. It's abit more gruff and can be irritated~
I'm so stunned that I still have that pikachu furby toy but never knew it was inspired by furby!
what a great video!! thanks for doing such a deep dive phin 👀😊
I actually have one of the Interactive Pikachus, Although it ran out of batteries it just feels like a heavy plush. it's actually really soft and can be used as a regular plushy to hug, it's quite nice to have.
Thats actually amazing! would u mind giving us some footage on yt? i really want to see how it moves/behaves!¡
@@Sofiyay I have little to no idea what type of batteries it needs , I can look and get footage though!
It also probably didn't help that Furby's around this time got really torn a new one by the FBI freaking out about them and thinking they could record government secrets and stuff. Didn't know about the earthquake, but that would also be a problem. D:
Man the Berserk music at 5:30 got me having Griffith PTSD
wow this video is a masterpiece. The editing, the music and the background footage all combine to create the aesthetic of the early 2000s internet. The story telling was on point and left me at the edge of my seat, despite it being about something I wouldn't have dreamt to care about.
I have no doubt you could make videos like this about anything and be super entertaining.
Thanks for the hard work.
I remember my brother had one of those talking yoda's as small child. I remember seeing under the skin of it by looking under its eye skin and being freaked out seeing a robot under it. I never had a furby as my parents really were not amused by noise making toys. I don't remember ever having any. My parents only let my brother have his creepy yoda and his singing spiderman toy because they thought he was so adorable with then. But those were the exceptions. Don't mind, noise making toys are indeed annoying normally. Except the spiderman toy, that was just adorable.
I had the pikachu shown, it was cute and used to go chuuuuuuuu when it was crying.
"The most recognizable mouse in human story"
Mickey Mouse: Hello bitch
I actually remember hearing about this as a kid. I'm gonna go back to forgetting it existed, but thanks for reminding me about it.
TH-cam suggested this to me and as soon as I saw meowth it brought back memories. I wish I knew where I saw or read about these! I feel like maybe it was a magazine, either Toy Fair or like one of the Pokemon magazines from back in the day? I used to stare at that meowth really wanting it.. so I had to have seen it somewhere? I wish I could offer more than that
i love this series phin ^^
Oh. My. God. I just realized I have one of these in my closet!! I got him from a flea market for cheap too! I had no idea this little dude was considered lost media. He looks like this btw: 1:32
so informative about the lost pikachu which is still interesting at the same time
This is some of your best content. I absolutely love the way you connected the human condition to this obscure non-product, and the unrealistic lengths you went to in order to share this with us. Another 10/10 video.
Great video Phin, love your content and miss the streams. Sending love and support
Someone HAS to make these now, they would totally sell like hotcakes!
I swear I had a Pikachu toy that looked exactly like that so I'm wondering if mine is a different kind but it made noise too. I can't remember for sure if it moved it all though.
This made me think of the year like over a couple decades back i got my brother in-law a "Fortune Telling" Yoda. Basically a talking magic 8 ball in the style of Yoda. He proceeded to ask it if his son deserved any presents... it gave a rather negative answer and made the kid cry. He loved it.
I had the pikachu one! I remember his cheeks being a different material and that always bothered me since I expected it to be soft. I think I had broken mine fairly early on(throwing it into action was common) so it still would say it’s standard pikachu sounds but it sounded muffled and pretty robotic.
That ending got me. Comedy genius
Good video, man. Thanks for bringing some light into this topic.
I had one of these as a kid, they still have some for sale on ebay and i think about getting one for the nostalgia. It was awesome it would talk randomly on its own and want to be taken care of. The eyes on the final model don't move but it reacted to clicking its hand and moved its mouth and ears
I wonder if those were the prototypes for the animatronic Pikachu toys we all clearly had.
If like you said, they were displayed and not well received, they ditched the Meowth and went for a "cuter" Pikachu (mine was still pretty horrifying)
Though I don't think I got mine until at least 2002.
Love your stuff dude
oh my god hearing the song from the animated short: "the maker" . Gave me goosebumps again
Great video! Love the use of Bomberman 64 music at the end, good choice. :3
God I want these toys.
You never fail to amaze Phin. This is the best Pokemon Facts series i have ever seen
I have the original Hasbro toy. I'm sad to see this furby never saw the light of day!
It feels weird hearing an essay about it being obscure when I know I have one from my childhood still
I had that Yoda toy as a kid. Might still be in storage somewhere. It was supposed to give you "Lightsaber and Force training" and came with a manual of saber moves it would recognize.
Wait, THIS is a piece of lost Pokemon media??? I have one of those Pikachus! It absolutely existed, and I absolutely still have one somewhere in my house! Last I checked, it still works, too. Haven't kept it on for a while though, might need. to switch out the battery. It used to be called "Ash's Talking Pikachu"! That's what I distinctly remember it being marketed as when I bought one as a kid!!! I always wanted to get the Meowth version too, but I never got around to it :( But these absolutely existed!