Pokemon Fan Creates Crystal Onix Figure

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The Pokemon Company and Nintendo first released Pokemon Red and Blue way back in 1996 and since then Pokemon fans have created mountains of fan art. One Pokemon fan has decided to make a unique physical item celebrating the early episodes of the Pokemon anime by crafting a crystal Onix.

Reddit user MyPokePrints recently posted a clip of them showing off a handcrafted Pokemon figure built to resemble crystal Onix from an episode of the Pokemon show called «The Crystal Onix.» The cleverly created Pokemon connects several smaller gems to a gem that notably resembles the head of Onix, complete with the fin atop its head. Contrary to the usual gray or silver look for Onix, this crystal Onix is fittingly light blue, and it sparkles in the light as the anime Pokemon equivalent did when Ash Ketchum and his friends encountered it.

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The head of MyPokePrints' crystal Onix is connected to 11 similarly sized crystals that tie the top of the serpent-like Pokemon to its narrow tail which is noticeably much smaller than the rest of its body. Its elongated structure allows MyPokePrints to twirl the crystal Pokemon between their fingers to highlight its flexibility as the gems are seemingly tied together with string on the inside. This malleable form allows MyPokePrints to put this crystal Onix in various places and positions as weight distribution will allow them to stand it up or hang it at an angle with the help of additional tools.

This crystal Onix was first portrayed in episode 87 of the Pokemon anime series when Ash journeys to the Orange Islands. While the Pokemon games eventually created regional variants that showed alternative looks of existing Pokemon, crystal Onix