Plushies Galore - WPM reports that PUSA gave out a ton of goodie bags. He estimated around $30 per person seems like how much it would be to purchase, full of plushies and other random merchandise. I sure am glad I missed the chance to go. Yay!
Lucario Movie Dub Notes/Changes - Expect semi-spoilers, I'll keep the non-spoilery at the begining. Remember that this list is compiled completely from WPM's memory, so not everything could be right/somethings are bound to be missing. WPM also insited I put in random notes he had about the movie, they don't really mean anything other than his opinions. Feel free to enjoy...those.
Nothing cut or edited as far as visuals go.
Non-vocal Background music stayed intact.
Quiet scenes in the Japanese version had more talking in them, rather than just putting in extra BG music..
Whenever a person was talking over a Pokemon voice in the Japanese version, the dub had the Pokemon's voice redone.
Most script edits were humor edits involving Team Rocket. Only a very few were otherwise.
Toned down a lot of the screaming, less realistic/serious. Pory Note: I think this is typical of Anime and the Dub of Pokemon personally.
Some scenes may be sped up from the orignal version, WPM is unsure.
Begging does not work. It was in full-screen, with panning. WPM says this helped to reduce important things cut out much better than previous Pokemon movies.
Grammar was a little off in a few scenes according to WPM.
Less emotional than the orignal in general, specifically with the Queen and the kid.
WPM thinks the Queen had a british accent. (??)
Opening sequence stayed the same as in the japanese version.
Opening battle scene changed to the current Pokemon theme song, extended version. The Puffy-Ami-Yumi song was taken out from this.
"Almost all the pokemon in the movie were voiced by Eric Stuart", Weavile being one that WPM brings up.
Ending song was changed.
Ho-Oh's voice was randomly taken out during a scene and replaced with Pidgeot's voice.
The Regi's voice were remixed, not redone says WPM. He also said they were less dramatic and "scary" as a result. This was one of his biggest problems with the dub.
Regice's scene had the same voice, it's beeping removed.
Direct mentions to the words like "death" and "dying".
Aaron's voice was too soft; Lucarios voice was too grumpy. WPM thought Aaron Lucario needed to switch.
Lucario's grunting sounds were removed from most of the scenes.
Lucario may have been voiced by Eric Stuart; Aaron might have been someone from Yu-Gi-Oh or Goku's VA. WPM seemed very uncertain.
Mime Jr. never really said "Jr", it just repeated "Mime".
Mew's talking in the dub was less than in the original version.
There was a weird echo in the end that hurt people's ears that was not in the original Japanese version.
First half of the movie had more humor than in the orignal.
WPM also mentions that the Sarah Natochenny (Ash) and Bill Rodgers (Brock) were in the theatre watching the movie with everyone else. WPM was also surprised at the amount of people who apparently hadn't seen the movie beforehand, since any true dedicated fan would have it memorized just as well if not better than he! Expect sound clips (not the entire movie, we wouldn't want to get in any sort of trouble now) of the movie in a future update!
. Even if its overacting, overacting beats mediocre acting. I'm no anime purist but I felt I had to comment
