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From: Carlos <skliar@lies.edu.ufrgs.br>
To: brokaw@thepojo.com <brokaw@thepojo.com>
Cc: Barbara@edu.ufrgs.br <Barbara@edu.ufrgs.br>
Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 12:27 PM
Subject: Japanese southern island promo set


Iv`e been searching all over the net for a site like your and I found it,
but I didn`t find what I was looking for. A couple of months ago a saw two
Japanese pokemon cards I really liked. One was of Mariru ( who appared in
the ``Pikachus summer vaction`` episode in Japan which I own on tape) and
the other was of Togepi. I went back two weeks later to the card shop and
opened the binder to claim the rare promo cards only to find two empty
spots were they had been. A store employee told me that that card was
brought from somebody in Japan and they didn`t know when they would get
more. I later found out that the two cards were part of a set of
promotional cards sold only in Japan. The set is supposedly called the
``Southern islands`` promo set. The set includes Mariru, Togepi, Lady-bu,
Slowking, and some kind of alternate evolution of Oddish, all from Pikachus
summer vacation and the upcoming pokemon Gold and Silver games.  The cards
I saw were sold for a whopping thirty dollars each and their was only one
of each. If you have any info on this set or any of its cards please e-mail
me back, I would really apriciate it. Thanks for your help and keep up the
good work.            Camilo                    ``The
Rai-master``

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Hi.

Most likely, those two cards you saw were from 2 issues
of CoroCoro Comics magazine (a comic book from Japan).
They had both a Togepi promo card and a Mariru promo
card.  I bought those issues (with the cards inside)
for $6.10 each.

(so, the tropical islands set are not the first prints
for these pokemon)

Brian Brokaw