Too Much Awesome

Well well, Pokemon has officially reached its fifth generation. After so much reminiscing about Ninja Turtles and Power Rangers, as if I needed something else to remind me of how old I’m getting. Anyway, in the spirit of the event, I wanted to take a look back and revisit the animated series that was based [...]

I’ve been thinking about Pokemon a lot lately. Part of this is because of the nice commenters on the Best Of and Worst Of Pokemon lists I posted a while ago. People were mad about which ten I liked best, and equally mad about the ten I liked least. So I figured I’d finally come [...]

The whole point of a Pokemon game is to catch, train, battle, and evolve Pokemon, right? Naturally. Most of the time you learn your Pokemon is evolving and think, “Right on! This will be SWEET!” But every so often you have to sit down and make the tough choice: “Do I REALLY want to evolve [...]

The idea of all my favorite Nintendo stars fighting each other in one big game was a concept I never imagined would become a reality. Even now I’m a little skeptical that it really exists, and furthermore, that it’s straight-up awesome. But somehow Super Smash Bros is a real thing and for that I couldn’t [...]

Today marks my 150th article here at Toy-TMA! That number there has some special meaning to me since it reminds me of a simpler time when there were only 150 Pokemon in the world and a very demanding opportunity to catch ‘em all. It only seemed appropriate that for my big 150th Article Extravaganza I [...]

What better way to wrap up my Pokeweek than with a little trip down memory lane to remember all the Pokemon toys I had when I was a kid? While the games were what introduced us to the concept of Pokemon, it was the phenomenon that exploded shortly afterward with the toys, cards, clothes, and [...]

Pokemon has rocked my world for well over a decade. I was introduced to the phenomenon just after it became required for me to know the difference between a Pikachu, a Jolteon, and an Electrode. If you know the difference, congrats. Either you’re also a Pokemon Master, or your kids are. Nintendo releases a new [...]