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Pjs2
I just saw this card for the first time today. It’s kinda random, but do any other cards have telephone poles on them? They really stick out to me here for some reason. I don’t think I’ve seen them on any other card despite how common they are in real life.
PandAce
No, they’re not as common as they are in real life. For example, I found only 2 other cards that have telephone poles in them (rotom from silver tempest and Zapdos from pokemon go) but idk if there are others of them.
Charmaster
There might be more gen 3 cards with railroad tracks in them than power lines. The Aron from Legend Maker and Power Keepers have them.
This would make railroads more common in the TCG than in Hoenn. As far as I know, Unova and Galar basically carry the Pokémon world’s railroad count in the video games, and those railroads are limited in scope and connect fairly few locations, hardly the nation-wide networks you’d expect of any of the real-locations featured in the franchise (except Hawaii). There’s not even any indication that the railroad’s are freight-carriers, because they seem to exist solely for the characters to ride for story purposes. The anime does little to rectify this.
Charmaster
Also, I know somebody is going to ask whether people just get around and carry goods on Pokémon, but I have a much easier time believing that the video games simply don’t depict real world transportation to a realistic amount. Sure, garages are practically mythological, but then again bedrooms are as fleeting as diamonds. I know the concept artwork from back when Pokémon was barely conceived leaned heavily into the idea of Pokémon playing different roles in the family, but to this day we have yet to see the video games portray this idea to the extent you’d expect… the average household training an Arcanine to use like a car, for example (Speaking of cars, they seem fairly common in the anime).
That being said, even if cars (And presumably trains) are still relevant in The Pokémon world, Steelix seems to make construction site elevators obsolete. Keep on being a legend Steelix Paradox Rift Illustration Rare.