Summary
- Pokemon fans often create physical art pieces based on their favorite characters and creatures, such as illustrations and sculptures.
- One fan has taken on the challenge of making a felt replica of the Bug/Fighting type Pokemon Slither Wing.
- This is not the first time fans have recreated Pokemon in felt form, with other examples including a felt doll of the Ghost/Dark type Pokemon Spiritomb.
A devoted Pokemon fan has embarked on a journey to create a large felt replica of the pocket monster Slither Wing. The piece is still a work in progress, but its creator claims that there are only a few areas that need to be finished before their Slither Wing can truly come to life.
Pokemon fans have been producing physical art pieces based on the series' iconic characters and creatures for the longest time as a display of love and admiration. Some create illustrations and sculptures that would not look out of place in a museum. Others, meanwhile, build pieces using more niche mediums like needle felting. One Pokemon fan skilled in this craft has started an incredibly daunting task: to make a felt version of Slither Wing.
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In a December 13 post on the r/Pokemon subreddit, user Umhihowareya shared a video of their felt project. The large, fuzzy piece closely resembles the creature it is based on, the Bug/Fighting type Paradox Pokemon Slither Wing that was introduced in the series' ninth-generation games, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet. Umhihowareya was able to perfectly recreate the moth-like Pokemon's features, from the red horns that flank Slither Wing's face to its large wings with their distinctive gradient pattern. Community members praised the work, using words like awesome, beautiful, and glorious to describe it. Umhihowareya revealed that they only need to work on the felt Slither Wing's tail spikes and fluff for it to be finally finished.
This is not the first time a Pokemon fan has tried to recreate one of the series' iconic monsters in felt form. Another Reddit user, bbobblob, made a felt doll of the Ghost/Dark type Pokemon Spiritomb. While Spiritomb is supposed to be a mischievous being that looks like a mass of ghostly energy with creepy eyes, bbobblob's recreation makes it appear like a fluffy, adorable mushroom that's ready to be hugged by its trainer.
Aside from a felt figure, Slither Wing has been recreated in other forms as well. One Redditor named Macksi_ drew a fusion between Slither Wing and the Ground/Dragon type Pokemon Flygon to create a new monster they called Spliced Gene. Despite not being official, Macksi_'s illustration could actually fool someone into thinking that Spliced Gene was real.
These kinds of creations are really common in the Pokemon community and show the creativity that fans possess. One recent piece, which was created by Reddit user PhatmonMonstraros, gained attention as it tried to imagine what a Paradox form of the legendary Pokemon Entei would look like. As Entei is currently the only one among the three legendary beasts of Pokemon's Johto region with no Paradox version, artists like PhatmonMonstraros are providing their fellow fans a good guess of what that special form might look like should it ever be released.
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OpenCritic Reviews
- Top Critic Avg: 71 /100 Critics Rec: 48%
- Released
- November 18, 2022
- ESRB
- E For Everyone Due To Mild Fantasy Violence
- Developer(s)
- Game Freak
- Publisher(s)
- Nintendo, The Pokemon Company
- Engine
- Proprietary Engine
- Multiplayer
- Local Multiplayer
- Cross-Platform Play
- no
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