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Pokemon Sapphire Diary 14
Sunday / 07.20.03 / 08:59PM / Joe / all entries in Pokemon Sapphire Diary
 Today we checked out the EON Ticket / Toys R Us summer tour. Two Poke-representatives (one in a red shirt and one in a blue shirt!) had a tent sent up in the TRU parking lot, right beside one of the famous Pikachu-styled Volkswagon Beetles. I snapped some tiny pictures, and Rhonda and I grabbed some cool freebies. I'm guessing the swag was mostly NYC Pokemon Center overflow stock. Check Nintendo's pokemon games website to see when the tour is hitting a town close to you.
 The first thing I did was link up with the tour official and receive the EON Ticket item in my Sapphire cart. When we noted that Rhon is still too early in her Ruby game to activate the Mystery Events feature, he commented that I could share my ticket with her when we mix records. And if I understand the tech here, only my copy can spawn like that; Rhon's would be a non-reproducible second generation ticket. We also each got to select a free plastic Pokemon figure... Rhon picked a Pichu and I got a Mewtwo, but they had a ton of different characters to choose from. We each got a Ruby/Sapphire promo bookmark kind of thing, and two sets of three pins from the Gold/Silver days (Lugia, Fighting Pikachu, Bellossom and Ho-Oh, Dancing Pikachu, Togepi). Throughout all this man #2 was demoing the EX card game to a kid beside me.
They had a stack of actual EON Ticket scan cards on the table, but the guy seemed reluctant to give them out... seeing as he had just gone to the trouble of downloading the virtual ticket into my game and explaining how I could share it with Rhonda. But I asked if I could have "that EON Ticket reading material there" and he gave me one anyway. I think the actual card is infinitely cooler than the viral version.
   
   
So now it's time to stock up on Ultra Balls and use the EON Ticket to travel to faraway Southern Island, in search of Latios. |
