The Lost Art of Pokémon Museums...

[@thesludgeking]

NOTE: I originally included the leaked concept art in this video before deciding against it and deleting it. In doing so, I accidentally removed some official artwork that was not part of the leak, such as the Battle Subway painting. Unfortunately, I didn't notice until comments started coming in about their absence. Most of these paintings can be found online with some simple sleuthing!

[@plaguekidd6902]

Now that it is mentioned, I do find it odd how S/V doesn’t have a museum proper considering how much emphasis the games put on the history and lore of the region.

[@thesludgeking]

Johto was another region like that but with no museums as well!

[@Ashclayton1994]

Meanwhile hoenn has 2

[@cactusalucano4013]

Well, the thing with Paldea is that there's nothing in general so.

[@peter7596]

@@plaguekidd6902 scarlet and violet doesn’t have much of anything other than big open fields. Not many locations of interest in general

[@jacobwhite4623]

The reason there's no museum (or many other insides of buildings) is because they wanted to avoid long load times from walking in and out of buildings

[@monopolyrubix1875]

I always thought it'd be cool to have a "trainer museum", like a sports museum chronicling historically important players, except with past trainers. Have a collection of at least one gym badge from every region, with plaques sharing factoids about each one. For example, stuff like "this badge was given out by Juan, before he was replaced by his apprentice Wallace. Juan returned to the position when Wallace became Champion". Or "this badge is given out by Pryce, who has had the longest tenure of any gym leader at 65 years". Cute references like that. Also have a few references to past champions/protagonists, like an unoccupied Rotom Pokedex or a Mega Ring. Maybe even a gift shop that sells clothing like a replica of Lance's cloak or Red's hat. They could even include stuff from side games, like the Snag Machine from Colosseum or a Capture Stylus from Ranger. Unfortunately, I think Galar would have been the best opportunity to do something like this, with the whole sports theme... They could have sold collectable league cards of old characters, like a pack of baseball cards. That would've been sick.

[@thesludgeking]

That would have been awesome! Wow, I hope they do something like this if a game takes place in the far future. Maybe recency is what would keep them from doing something like this.

[@TheDanishGuyReviews]

8:48 As a child, I saw the colours, read "Legendary", and concluded that the painting was the three Legendary Birds from Kanto.

[@mimminly]

"the man at the counter keeps playing god" got me real good. please never stop making videos

[@MewsAdventure]

I’m not usually a “BUHHHH POKÉMON IS TERRIBLE NOW” kind of person, I generally don’t say stuff like this, but I do think small details like this missing from new games is evidence that there is just not the same level of care put into the recent games as there once was. Pokémon worlds feel less and less like WORLDS, and it’s a bummer.

[@thesludgeking]

The concept art reflects that they are coming up with details like this still, they just aren't making it into the final product for one reason or another.

[@meganhammer7857]

The descriptions of multiple power plants in Kalos in a row makes me realize I really want a Pokemon technology museum. And/or a video about all the different types of power used throughout the games. There's an interesting blend of realism and 'it just works' in there.

[@paradis0744]

Pokemon technology will never be explained. They have flexible and growing metal and all kinds of things that just cannot work. You have to remember the movies or rewatch them, like how they set up the circus in jirachis movie, or the contraptions in manaphy and giratina movies. Even just how the movie 2000 caught the birds, it's all insanely bizarre

[@robunnygirl]

Museums are so cool in pokemon, as well as the libraries. Learning more about the world, legends, ecosystems, and the like really help flesh out the worldbuilding in any piece of media, but especially for a world as immersive as pokemon. I know I am incredibly biased because I work at a wildlife museum (CAS) but I really think they should be a mainstay of the series.

[@thesludgeking]

RIght there with you, eagerly awaiting their return!

[@YoshiMario69]

As an Art lover and a bit of an Artist myself, I decided to make a painting of Arceus as one of my first serious endeavours. Pokemon has always been a lover of Art and an inspiration for phenomenal Art works.

[@thesludgeking]

Did you paint regular Arceus or blue tube gen 3 Arceus lol

[@CorvodaPop]

Oreburgh city is my favorite location in the Pokémon franchise. The museum is very empty and it is unfortunate, but I like to think it's because so much of the stuff you'd find in that museum can easily be seen by the average sinnoh local without needing to go there. The town itself is a museum for the mines, you can go there, see tee machines in action every day. Fossils arnt on display because the underground is accessible by nearly anyone. If you want to see a fossil, ask little Timmy next door he has a collection. The museum having a massive slab of coal makes sense. You can only see that one single slab in Oreburgh, and they're not keeping that in the mines. I do kinda wish there were a separate museum for ancient sinnoh tho. With the knowledge we have on Hisui, there would be a fantastic reason to have a museum with cultural history. Would have been really nice if bdsp were like any other remake.

[@sierranicholes6712]

@@CorvodaPop what i like about the oreburgh museum is that it feels like the sort of mini-museums that you'd find in a small town that has a very minor tourist "thing". for example, in west virginia, there's a little museum for a radio telescope, a little museum for a bridge, a little museum for some specific immigrants in some specific little town... that's sort of the vibe i'm getting there.

[@thesludgeking]

that is a very interesting way to think about it, and it makes me appreciate the oreburgh museum a bit more!

[@brycevo]

I miss the old fossil museums. They were so cool.

[@hikerdaniel3680]

These videos exploring the world the games exist in are so good! Can't wait to see the next one!

[@thesludgeking]

Can't wait to make it!

[@cloudbankcity]

oh i vaguely remember the lumiose art museum and thinking it was so cool to have a place like that in pokemon! i love these lil explorations of the pokemon world! rly makes them feel alive & adds some charm and i love the lore tidbits it adds :> obsessed with your videos, they're very well researched and fun to watch! great stuff

[@Christopher-jl8qf]

Never realized how cool it was that there were TWO museums in Hoenn, the people of Hoenn are so cultured

[@paradis0744]

Hoenn is amazing. Gets looked over too much being after gen 1 but before 4 and 5 lol. They even have the weather institute and space station

[@sock7896]

The last three featured pieces in the lumiose museum I recognize. i think the unova one is the introductory splash for castelia city, and the other two are some manner of concept art that was definitely provided to the guidebooks for their respective games (idk how official those books get, no matter what yheir binding says)

[@thesludgeking]

You're absolutely right. I did originally include them, along with the leaked concept art. Unfortunately, when I was removing the leaked concept art, I accidentally deleted things like the battle subway and battle frontier images.

[@criixt]

Knowing the water content from each region is quite the flex.

[@TakoyakiDonuts]

Additional note for the battle subway art: It's one of the official promotional images used in black and white. This and the card ones I always found cool. I loved seeing the old artworks reused like this and I thought it was so cool when I saw the fossil one and was like "WAIT! I have that card!" when I was younger.

[@RedKoopaPlumber]

Underrated Channel Alert 🔥🔥🔥 As someone who volunteers at my local paleontological museum I really appreciate this video and made me further appreciate the museums in Pokemon games that i havent thought of from a while or thoughy were meh from last time i played thru half the games as a lad. You earned yourself a sub!

[@kurenian]

The idea of a rich guy inserting Mew into a painting to make himself seem important is both awesome worldbuilding and very relatable.

[@thesludgeking]

its my favorite in the whole gallery for sure

[@DreballinArts]

Still haven't finished the abandoned areas video (always start it before a shower and then have somewhere to be), but I'm subscribing, this is good content.

[@tealblackwhiteteal]

absolutely loving these location-specific deep dives. can't wait for the next one!

[@AjentVee]

This video is so dope! Thanks for noting that the Kalos Museum has a lot of talk on the history of the region in general! I've never stepped foot there ever. Maybe we can learn more about the aristocrats who made the castles in Legends ZA possibly🤔

[@thesludgeking]

The highlight of the recent leak for me has been the high res versions of all those paintings for sure! Love me some Kalos, such a dense region!

[@Maricodone]

Love this kind of video! The graveyard one was also such a nice watch. Keep up the good work!!

[@thesludgeking]

Thank you! Will do!

[@kingspheal363]

I think the slab of rock with the vaguely Lucario looking picture is referencing Lucario being the first Pokemon to evolve with a humans help (excluding Rayquaza's whole prayer method)

[@paradis0744]

Do you mean mega evolution because this can also be taken as friendship evolution

[@liamdell6319]

Considering that Galar is England, it would have been great to have the British Museum, and just see hundreds of artifacts from around the Pokemon world.

[@GrimDrago]

I don't I remember ever going to the Lumiose museum or it even existing, but I do remember the Lilycove one. I really liked getting my contest team in there and you get ribbons for them too.

[@rjd1922]

Interesting video! The art of the Battle Subway, Shaymin, the Sinnoh Battle Frontier, Unova, and Johto have hi-res versions that aren't from leaks.

[@Brunetteaccus]

Great video thanks guy

[@yokaipinata1416]

9:16 - Is it possible that this giant stone Poké Ball is a subtle nod to the anime? The episode "Claydol Big and Tall" is centered around a giant Claydol who has to be caught in a giant Poké Ball made of stone. ❤ Or if the stone ball was also there in the original RSE, maybe the anime is the one that was referencing the game.

[@Franciscomeirajr]

Awesome video!

[@GrimDrago]

Really refreshing hearing someone pronounce Unova the same way as official Pokémon media does

[@GrandPaladinTyrux]

holy shit discovery world milwaukee mentioned??? I loved that place so much when I was a kid 😭

[@thesludgeking]

Lucky you! I only went there last year, very special place!

[@MeanderingSlacker]

So, with smaller channels KZbin tends to recommend you creators in your geographic closeness to the creator.

[@lukeshef1713]

Did not expect that reference to the proud lucario guy, got a laugh out of me

[@weeners64]

BANGER video sludge. As always

[@thesludgeking]

Always

[@Alex-mq6qi]

So much soul and detail goes into stuff like this... or used to, rather

[@thegreatmajora5089]

9:20 You have to do some stretching around, but it doesn’t have to be too complicated. Legends Arceus takes place around the 1850s-early 1900s, with how much it takes from the Meiji restoration. The Pokéball in that game aren’t the modern model that gets invented later on, and it’s stated that people in Kanto can already tame pokémon by the time of PLA, so some older form of Apricorn Pokeball likely existed. Then, the modern Pokéball was invented in 1925, which isn’t that far from PLA, and weren’t exported outside of Japan to Unova until after Drayden’s childhood. I doubt he’d know about a Japanese tech invention as a kid. The Pokéball shape has definitely been used over and over in the world before they were properly invented, so it’s a bit of an egg and chicken situation, since things as old as the Ruinous Beasts’ seals look like them, but their modern-ish timeline is kind of consistent.

[@damnrapunzel8130]

When I was young and first got BW I thought the museum in those games with the Dragonite and the Cubone clubs etc, and the lack of any older Pokémon in the wild before a couple in the post game meant that those games were set far in the future compared to the previous games

[@claymathewselevator8121]

Love visiting museums in game

[@ColtMagyar]

Why didn't you include the Ambrette Aquarium from X and Y?

[@thesludgeking]

straight up did not come to mind

[@daffatheapple4677]

Legendary fyp pull

[@marijn489]

Banger of a vid again

[@Jasonwolf1495]

I know its not likely, and some people probably would say its too far, but if I were to remake Unova I'd redo nacrene to be reminiscent of the Fairbanks museum in St. Johnsburry VT. It started out as a private collection then became a museum. It'd be a nice vibe how it maybe was just Lenora's then became its own thing.

[@Fingerhaver]

Now this is epic!

[@outergamerknight665_9]

18:54 If you look at the top of the right side, you can see the eternal flower floette there, an unused Pokémon dataminers found in the code of X and Y.

[@BestTimes8812]

It wasn't unused, it had story relevance and was shown in game so it wasn't unknown. It just never got released as an event obtainable pokémon

[@iangarison3099]

15:54 16:05 16:14 16:29 “This work is part of a series depicting sceneries that inspired overseas artists while they were traveling in kalos” I was laying down and thought my KZbin was glitched 😂

[@claymathewselevator8121]

I think they should’ve had Pewter City gain fossils of Gen 3 Pokémon after beating Elite 4 in FireRed and LeafGreen

[@williamrivera9989]

Doesn’t the “how to guide” in Lilycove depict AZ’s Floette?

[@volvagia2131]

I didn't expect to hear a proud of its power Lucario joke here but now that you can use Bottle Caps to max out Pokémon IVs without changing their characteristics, I just want to say that anon won in the end

[@MindGameArcade]

instant sub

[@lukeisawsum1]

great video

[@fembuss9528]

Also department stores/malls. I MISS those

[@thesludgeking]

yes! love going up and down the elevators!

[@nestasiamuh9810]

I know some more of the artwork in Lumiose has high quality versions that are officially available, like the Battle Subway piece coming from one of the official Black and White guidebooks

[@thesludgeking]

unfortunately, i accidentally deleted those in the edit when i was getting rid of the leaked art, which i was originally going to show. didn't notice until this video was out for some time.

[@pickles3128]

20:23 that's art reused from promotional material for HG/SS. I think I got it as a poster from Gamestop at its "10 a.m. opening" drop? ("we don't do midnight releases for games for young children")

[@Circadian_Th]

I wonder why Kanto's restoration facility is on Cinnabar. Was it always on the island or did the volcano ruptures make it the perfect environment for fossil research?

[@thesludgeking]

Cinnabar was historically a place for genetic scientists, with the Mewtwo experiments happening in the mansion. I imagine it was just the place to go for cloning, gene editing, that kind of thing.

[@EbikingViking992]

10:59 you could say the mining museum is a little..dry

[@thesludgeking]

COAL

[@Nickyy64]

Milwaukee reference lets fucking go

[@claymathewselevator8121]

I was bummed you can’t go to Pewter City Museum in Gen 2

[@alejandrolopez2041]

what does the second floor of the art museum in Hoenn has to do with RNG?

[@karljohan2300]

i would love a wild area that the only pokemons that exist there are dinosaur like ones like archeotops and lizard pokemons and fossil ones

[@Maricodone]

15:07 please, please do the video on ruins in PKMN 🙌🏻

[@Logylia]

I'm fairly certain S/V are also fhe first Pokémon games to just NOT feature Fossil Pokémon at all

[@PhilRiphagen]

Wait a minute! You just did Sinnoh and while yeah I suppose it isn’t a “museum” you completely ignored the Canalave library which may as well be a museum of pokemon lore

[@claymathewselevator8121]

That wasn’t relevant but I just think it’s just cool 😂

[@jaygamings6888]

I want that fossil video

[@mrmeteor64]

I don’t think there will be a museum In AZ sadly the last legends game they had just invented the first pokeball.

[@pokefanwilliam]

The pewter museum could um... Revive an aerodactyl and y'know... Remove it's skeleton... Wouldn't be fossilized but....

[@toxicink72]

Hello yes I am very interested in a video about fossil restoration.

[@tylerferguson3193]

Hope you'll have a good day

[@thesludgeking]

thank you! likewise

[@DemomanGamingPepsi]

lenora's mueseum reminds me of my where i have 200 empty pepsi cans

[@thesludgeking]

do you really?

[@DemomanGamingPepsi]

@@thesludgeking yes

[@juandiegotorres9632]

If Kabutops never went extinct, how come the fossilized form is the only one you can obtain?

[@thesludgeking]

So, apart from the dex entries mentioning how isolated and rare the populations are, they appear in the wild in the Crown Tundra.

[@juandiegotorres9632]

@thesludgeking oh ok

[@ajflink]

"I happy when Pokémon games have actual science lessons in them." Meanwhile, many PokéDex entries have nonsensical logic and things that contradict commonly known scientific facts or societal behavior like not understanding how black holes actually work, how lught in the ocean works, not tabooing certain Pokémon due to how much a threat they are to humanity with Ultra Beasts being the only ones treated this way, etc. My headcanon, because I refuse to accept that everyone in Pokémon is this stupid, for the PokéDex that kids get the exaggerated and the brief text on Pokémon that is both factual and fictional with its information. Take the entry about Gardevoir using its immense Psychic powers as a last result to protect its trainer by creating a black hole. Now, even a tiny black hole with a central mass the size of a penny is enough to due unimaginable destruction. I think many PokéDex entries are hyperboles to warn kids against due certain things like don't stick your hand inside living sand castles, never put yourself in a situation that makes your Gardevoir try desperately to save you, and don't attempt touching certain Pokémon or you'll get hurt. I say this my headcanon because you can never convince me that someone at Game Freak actually fact-checks what they write in the PokéDex.

[@monopolyrubix1875]

Algorithm comment

[@wtfox8206]

@@monopolyrubix1875 Algorithm reply

[@Ben-wu3or]

Sigh... just another example of Pokémon removing content that adds so much to worldbuilding but that they don't necessarily "need". There are things I love about Gen 9 but the lack of worldbuilding is not one of them. I don't remember a single town name, NPC, line of dialogue, or *anything*.

[@christianbell8347]

I'm gay but even I liked this video.

[@logolept]

Pokémon relegate Trainers. Know wonder.

[@bryce7344]

Really not sure why you wouldn't just dhow the concept art, it would add to the video and since the concept art has been shown in other videos, you're seemingly being embarrassingly overcautious.

[@christianbell8347]

I'm gay but even I liked this video.