Real Life Pikachus Auctioned for $925 Million
If you are a fan of anything Japan, then you have to know about Pikachu, the main character from the internationally famous cartoon Pokemon.
Some lucky people received the chance of a lifetime last new years eve, when a man claiming to have discovered a Pikachu forest offered to catch live Pikachus for around $925 million each through a Yahoo! Japan Auction.
The auction limited the number of Pikachus that would be caught to 20 and with the purchase of 3 months of Pikachu food, the seller would provide a 60 minute training video to help teach new owners how to properly raise a young Pikachu.
We figure anyone who was willing to pay the $925 million probably ended up with something like this in the mail:
By Sun Tzu on 10-09-2008
Comment by ella
September 10th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
omg! that’s so cute! i watched picahu when i was small
tho that looks like rats, except they just painted it so it would look like picachu…the ears are real…(i hope)
Comment by killergabo(Allen)
September 10th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
THAT IS BULLSHIT~!
FRIGGIN IMPOSSIBLE!!!
i don’t believe it…..it’s photoshoped
Comment by killergabo(Allen)
September 10th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
that’s photoshopped
Comment by Luna Avalina
September 10th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Fake!
Comment by DARKWING DUCK
September 10th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
WTF
Comment by pyrodragon
September 10th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
lol, those ears and colors on the first mouse are totally photoshopped.
Comment by emfajar
September 10th, 2008 at 9:26 pm
its just like photoshoped..
Comment by TayOKay
September 10th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
actually…
http://yahooauctionwatch.livedoor.biz/archives/51126539.html
its not fake. Japanese people are just crazy
Comment by reyda
September 11th, 2008 at 1:44 am
usually, this site provides good news.
this is the worst stuff i’ve seen so far (-_-)
Comment by Randy Kasugano
September 11th, 2008 at 6:30 am
too bad this is fake.
Comment by Randy Kasugano
September 11th, 2008 at 6:34 am
same
Comment by sarcastic person
September 11th, 2008 at 9:24 am
how can ppl fall for this bullshit?!
sure its interesting, and frikkin weird…
but it’s just…WRONG~~~
who ever posted the auction should be condemned
Comment by CK
September 11th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Will it have pokeball too with that price ???
Comment by tyo
September 11th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
that is the foolest things i have ever seen
Comment by tyo
September 11th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
that is the biggest lie i ever seen
Comment by kyle
September 12th, 2008 at 7:39 am
The bottom one is just a rat, duh, whoever wrote the article was kidding saying he thinks it’s a hoax and that is what the people that buy them will receive, a rat made to look like a pikachu. As for the top picture, it’s legit, that’s what they actually look like, and I’m thinking about finding where this pikachu forest is and catching some for myself maybe, 925 million dollars a pikachu, big bucks, plus it would be killer to have one for myself.
Comment by Blob of Blue
September 12th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Well the first looks photoshopped and the second is spray-painted..perhaps could be some scam or what i dont know also ^^
Comment by Sun Tzu
September 12th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Sorry to hear that. The story is that some really stupid person created an auction selling fake Pikachus at Yahoo Auctions. I thought it was funny and the questions on the Auction where funny.
We focus on weird and crazy things that happen in Asia and this is weird and strange..
Sorry you feel this is the worst post.. most say the worst is when I published a picture of my cat and nothing more..
Comment by Ldee
September 12th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
make a video on youtube or prove something of action showing that living creater is actually a real life Pikachu. To prove it show the body of the thing with the rest he caught.
Comment by grace
September 13th, 2008 at 3:28 am
either those people bidding on it were A) deluding themselves for the tiny possibility it might be possible, B) bidding to prove that it was fake C)just dumb
Comment by syuni
September 13th, 2008 at 9:39 am
AT SOME POINT… I BELIEVE AND YET, ITSREALLY HARD TO BELIEVE THAT ITS TRUE TOO. BUT SHEIT, IF THERE WAS ACTUALLY ONE…. FCUK! I DONT CARE HOW MANY PEOPLE I HAVE TO RUN OVER TO GET TO THE PIAKCHU FOREST, IM GETTING MINE!
Comment by tere
September 13th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Well, it could be photoshopped, who knows, seeing how technologies grow these days, but it could be real too.
Let’s not be too narrow minded and just see how things are. When the video is out, we’ll see how.
If it is real, however, the seller of them has got to be careful.
Why?
Cos he’ll be facing robbery from Team Rocket, and he’d better be prepared incase he has heart attacks that he’ll be meeting with a talking cat. Meowth.
Comment by EMOMEYOU
September 14th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Wah hah hah! And they say white people were crazy? I think Asians, more specificly, Japanese…LOL! They have sooo much imagination, they could draw it out, and now they can create Pikachus out of hamsters and rats! LOL! HAH HAH! $925 million is too much when you can buy one from a petstore for $20 or less and fashion it out yourself for another $20 or less…LOL!
Comment by johnxmzzhang
September 14th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Even if it was real… Pikachu is just a giant yellow rat…. Its not like it will be able to thunderbolt or anything. -_- whats the point of having one?
Comment by :)
September 14th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Anyone who would fall for this and would seriously place a bid of even one dollar (or yen, or whatever) on this would deserve to lose everything, including their trachea. The gene pool must be cleaned sometimes.
Comment by SCB
September 14th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
oh come one,
I doubt that there are any running around in some forest,
but I will not question as to whether they could genetically engineer something like that.
Comment by Domo
September 15th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Can’t forget about those pesky Galacticas.
Comment by Wes
September 15th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
‘squirtle!
Comment by Gabie-Chan
September 15th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
they just looked dyed
Comment by micah
September 16th, 2008 at 5:03 am
selling pokemon? seems like the work of team rocket…
Comment by Meowmix
September 16th, 2008 at 6:46 am
HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO KNOW IT WAS A FAKE AUCTION IF IT DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT?!
Comment by straight
September 17th, 2008 at 12:40 am
get an animal that looks like pikachu and dye it yellow!!!!everyone saying oh its fake its fake … ur idiots!!! u act like its impossible 2 dye a hamster yellow!!!! oh its photoshoped its photoshoped! not everything is photoshoped fucking nerds!!! ps im not saying its real im saying its possible
Comment by Mike Deez
September 17th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
YOU must be joking!! its’ all fake. haven’t you ever heard of Photoshop?!? the one on the top is cute tho; the bottom one made me crack up!! ROFL
Comment by sam M.
September 18th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
yeah, they’d better watch out for Team Galactic and Mew Two too! Mew Two wants to clone Pikachu!!
Comment by anonymous
September 19th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
yeahh its probably fake but how would you dye an animal?
Comment by ayin
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:34 am
is it real or fake??
up 2 u, guyz..
some part of me said that it was a PHOTOSHOPED..
but the others, NOT!!
ffiuuhh..
uhm.. PIKACHU.. the manga 1..
has no mousetache, rite??
well, the question is..
is that price include the PIKACHU THUNDERCLAP??
hahaha..
Comment by Michelle
September 24th, 2008 at 6:18 pm
uhh i dunno about that its on a newspaper i have O_o
Comment by Photoshop
October 2nd, 2008 at 2:27 am
To all you flamers out there, stop stereotyping photoshop as a tool for false illustrations. If you think whatever can be done just by using photoshop, why don’t YOU go and use it yourself and try to make a pikachu out of a rat. If you can make it look this real then fine. Maybe its edited then fine, but you don’t have to find every flaw out of it right? Do you know what is appreciation? Can your standards of art even get near this? Get a photo of a rodent and PHOTOSHOP it, EVEN IF PHOTOSHOP IS A VERB. Talent and skills are needed to master PS, but most of all its the BRAIN. And losers like you lack it, so you go around flaming and blaming photoshop. Why don’t you go photoshop youself with an enormous dick, since you have loads of time to flame like douchebags online? Back off losers.
Comment by theo
October 8th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
HA! This is funny as those ‘poodles’ that made the news not long ago that the new owners had trouble raising. They did not notice the hooves!
Comment by Daisy.
January 31st, 2009 at 2:43 pm
This is ridiculously photoshopped. I mean, look at its eyes! Eliminate the chunks of white and you get little, itty-bitty eyes. Scary. Yeah, maybe some of it is real, but you never know.
1/2 photoshopped; 1/2 air-brushed. Poor thing, it must have died by now.
Comment by John
May 3rd, 2009 at 1:59 pm
The pikachue looks like a rat but it’s cute!!! LOLZ
Comment by John
May 3rd, 2009 at 2:01 pm
thats cute!!!
Comment by andres
June 8th, 2009 at 10:37 pm
i think they dipped a rat in yellow and put strippes on it lol
Comment by andres
June 8th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
lol
Comment by jboo
June 22nd, 2009 at 4:48 pm
no it not
Comment by Jake
July 5th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
my new neighbor bought it and when he invited me over to help wash "Pikachu" the spray paint washed off and the "Pokemon Food" was actually rat food.
Comment by Nana
July 12th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
This is adorable :3
Comment by HMMMM
August 10th, 2009 at 10:49 am
LOL
Comment by A-nun-a-mus
October 17th, 2009 at 1:09 am
it better be gold at that price…
Comment by Kimmy
October 17th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
The first one looks soo cute
the second one looks such a fake though
Comment by Gray
November 30th, 2009 at 12:18 am
Doesnt matter. Pikachu wouldn't use it anyway… -cough-
Comment by heyitsbrebabaaaay
December 9th, 2009 at 6:10 am
JUST BECAUSE THEY POST A VIDEO WON'T PROVE IT TO BE REAL OR NOT IF THEY DYED THEM AND DECORATED THEIR FUR. everyone knows they're fake. they look fake, and theirs no way. dumb people.
Comment by Lindsey Jo
January 7th, 2010 at 6:00 am
one of the cutest things i've ever seen…that is, if it was real. too bad it's not. they really should find a way to create pokemon for real. that would be so EPIC!!!
Comment by Om Nom Nom
January 7th, 2010 at 6:06 am
awww i saw the second picture and thought of them doing that to MY rat. anyone even ATTEMPTING to touch my little Victor to do this wouldn't just lose the left one, he'd lose both…
when you look at the ears in the second pic, you can totally see how obviously photoshopped they are.
Comment by blargh
January 16th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
I've dyed mice, its possible it was dyed but unlikely, mice are wriggly when you dye them so it wouldn't get the marking so straight.
Comment by juliana
February 15th, 2010 at 11:51 pm
shut up!
Comment by ash
February 16th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
team rocket its you your selling him for money give it back to me im ash now give it back or i will get balbasour and squtle to take it from you
Comment by fart12
May 7th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
its real
Comment by Calib Wells
May 24th, 2010 at 9:22 pm
What website can you auction to buy the Pikachu online in the mail.
Comment by Jan
June 15th, 2010 at 3:49 am
I'd paint my bunny too but he wouldn't hold still.
Comment by Kailyn
July 2nd, 2010 at 10:46 pm
It is photoshopped. and it's fake too! if it wasn't I would see a video..either they painted it too.
Comment by @martron3000
July 3rd, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Call me when they find a Meowth-THAT I might be willing to bid on! LOL
Comment by Lou
July 18th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
With genetic engineering it's just a matter of time.
Comment by Duh
September 4th, 2010 at 11:19 pm
It says "some thing *like* this" Does not mean it's an actual picture.