And dang, sure wish I could crack the code to the Halloween Banette. 🙁

If you look at events from past generations, Japan got a lot more. And if you look at this gen’s event, the Kanto starters for the Dream World have been out in Japan for over a year…

We get stuff later, and at a slower pace, so in the end, we do miss out a lot of stuff.

The problem is that there’s no reason why it should take so long. Seriously, Japan made all the work for the c-gear skins and Dream World area, all what is left is to translate a few sentences… Same goes for event pokémon, they are extremely easy to make available on the Global Link, there’s no reason Japan could get the Kanto/Johto/Hoenn/Sinnoh starters, as well as Croagunk/Mamoswine/Arceus/Porygon and not us, and that’s not counting the pokémon distributed via wi-fi 🙁

We generally always get the same stuff that Japan does, just wayyyyyyy later.

And if you’re from the US, believe me, people in Japan wish they got half the stuff we have. Take it from a person who has lived in Asia for years it SUCKS to not be in the US when it comes to almost everything else that’s not Japan related. We get the games *first* (depending on the game…), we get all the TV shows first, we get all the movies first. It just so happens that we never really get Pokemon things first. So errr be happy, because you don’t know how lucky you are where you can just turn on the TV/record the newest episode of 30Rock or Glee or something whereas people everywhere else have to wait several days and find a streaming or download link.

If you’re from Europe, then er….congrats, you get Doctoer Who and Coronation Street before the rest of the world. ><