As the Pokemon franchise seems to only grow in popularity year after year, the series has had many wonderful opportunities come its way. The series has hosted huge polls worldwide to see which Pokemon is the most popular, been part of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade for numerous years, and has also been seen in Happy Meals across the globe several times in the last 26 years. The latest endeavor for the series is a touring prehistoric exhibit in Japan that compares real-life dinosaurs to their Pokemon equivalents, complete with Pokemon fossil statues.
The Pokemon Fossil Museum is a touring exhibition currently sweeping through five cities in Japan over the next year. The exhibit's mission is to display the Pocket Monsters in the franchise that are inspired by actual dinosaurs. It seeks to place real-world fossils next to the fictional creatures fans know and love, and help to use the similarities between the two to teach the exhibition's visitors a little bit of paleontology.
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As the event has just made its way to its third stop in Tokyo, Japan, a Japanese website has written about the event in detail after attending its opening day. Among them are detailed pictures of the exhibit, which showcase that the exhibition went the extra mile and made huge fossil replica statues of the dinosaur Pokemon to help visitors see the similarities between the creatures better. There are also smaller statues of the iconic fossils seen in Pokemon, such as the Helix Fossil for Omanyte.
The exhibit displays gigantic fossil statues of a few iconic Pokemon like Tyrantrum and Bastiodon. The entire tour uses many different fictional creatures such as Kabuto and Archeops to teach kids
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