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Never-Before-Seen Pokémon Starters Found in Lost Diamond and Pearl Documentary

Never-before-seen Pokémon starters and over 100 unused designs have surfaced from a lost 2006 Game Freak documentary.

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Several never-before-seen Pokémon starters have surfaced online after a lost making-of documentary for Pokémon Diamond and Pearl was recently recovered. The rare footage has revealed over 120 unused Pokémon designs for the first time in 20 years, including a Lapras pre-evolution and a Santa Claus-inspired Delibird evolution.

New Pokémon Starters Are Revealed for the First Time

Following the launch of Pokémon Diamond and Pearl in 2006, Game Freak released a documentary covering the entire development process behind the Gen 4 RPGs. Up until this point, though, only a few copies of the video were known to exist, and they remained in private hands. However, a collector recently managed to buy the lost documentary from a Japanese auction site and upload its contents........

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