PokéShiny Finds
Unreleased prototype (never sold)
| Year | 2012 |
| Maker | Jakks Pacific |
The story
RUMOR — UNAUTHENTICATED PROTOTYPE. According to a collector in the pkmncollectors community, Jakks Pacific sculpted this figure for the Black & White (Unova) line and NEVER RELEASED it to the public: along with Dwebble, Pansear, Excadrill and Emolga, it stayed at the mold/sample stage before Jakks handed the license back to Tomy US. The piece shown here was obtained by DIRECT TRADE with another collector (not an anonymous resale), in the same "Pokédex" pose Jakks used for Pidove, its pre-evolution already in the catalog. ⚠️ Why it's NOT confirmed: there's no factory documentation or third-party authentication — only the account of whoever holds it. A trade is a better provenance than an anonymous resale, but doesn't remove the doubt: we don't know where the collector before them in the chain got it. Unlike other grails in this catalog (see the Gold Leaf Pikachu), there's no external official source corroborating this one. Source: coleccionista12, «I caught Tranquill from the Jakks Pacific unreleased figures», pkmncollectors (LiveJournal), Sep 28, 2022: https://pkmncollectors.livejournal.com/24690060.html
Foto: coleccionista12 (pkmncollectors, LiveJournal) — «I caught Tranquill from the Jakks Pacific unreleased figures», 28-sep-2022 · https://pkmncollectors.livejournal.com/24690060.html
Documentation & evidence
No independent authentication
This piece is documented as a RUMOR: the collector community reports it physically exists, but no source outside the holder corroborates it — the typical case of a rare prototype with no reference specimen to compare against. A molded factory stamp is not proof against a recast: a mold reproduces the stamp just as well as the rest of the piece.
Source: https://pkmncollectors.livejournal.com/24690060.html