Can we talk about how when Opal was younger she looked eerily similar to Diantha. Also Opal was an actress back in the day. Isn't Diantha also an actress? Diantha's signature Pokémon is Gardevoir... A Fairy type. Opal specializes in Fairy types... Could they be related somehow?
Another Easter Egg i noticed: In the player's house in their room theres a Nintendo Switch console. Depending on which Joycons you have attached to your own switch, the color of the Joycons in your room matches your actual Switch. I have green / orange ones on mine and it changes when I changed to other Joycons. I don't know, what it does if your using a Pro-Controller or playing on a Switch Mini.
im disappointed you didnt realise that the detective in the scene in called howwses which sounds like houses which is a reference to holmes which sounds like homes
Just something i found on google, I think Opal is based on the queen. She took over the gym from her mother 70 years ago, the queen is coming up to being the queen for 70 years. Just a bit of loose speculation... Queen Elizabeth II is the longest reigning British monarch of all time As of 2018, Queen Elizabeth II has been ruling England for 66 years. The country is looking forward to celebrating their queen's Platinum Jubilee in 2022 - that's when she'll be on the throne for an incredible 70 years.14 Nov 2018
I've mentioned it a couple of times in other channels but Oleana uses all beautiful pokemon to represent her outer beauty but her last pokemon is a gabador, representing her ugliness inside.
She lived in slum and her first mon was trubbish. After that rose rescued her and changed her life (thats why she is so loyal hor him). She just didnt want to get rid of her original mon. Ur theory can be true too
I commented this on the other video but it hasn't been noticed yet. There is a hiker on route 6 near Stow-on-side who speaks Spanish and says she's from another region. This could be our first Gen 9 hint.
"Either the Galar League is the oldest or sw/sh is set in the future." Or gyms predate the league. It's entirely possible that each town had it's own haven for serious trainers and those havens later organized into a League. In Kanto, at least, there are non-league gyms, so...
@@nerosoul2506 actually, gamefreak admits that there is a canon between the games. Also Red and Blue (the people) show up at the battle tree in Alola (gen 7).
@@nerosoul2506 Each Pokémon Game is set in ALTERNATE WORLD. ORAS isn’t just a Remake of Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire, but it is set in An ALTERNATE WORLD Where Megas Exists.
Isn't it a reference to the Flying Taxi? I remember when playing the game, a NPC next to a Flying Taxi said something like "Corviknight dropped some feathers!" Or maybe I'm wrong.
What would be cool with the 'hidden rooms' is if in the near future they added DLC which unlocked them. Regarding the comment about you not knowing why Oleana was in the mines; her dialogue specifically states that she's there doing Rose's community service. ;) The detective scene isn't 'probably' a Holmes reference, it definitely is; check out the detective's name - Howses. ;) Thanks for revealing how to solve the hidden message puzzle, that had me stumped. I think where the games are concerned, manga lore is inadmissible; after all this is the same manga where half the Kanto gym leaders are members of Team Rocket and the Elite 4 are eco-terrorists; just because manga!Oak was the first Indego Champion doesn't mean game!Oak was too. Also, keep in mind that irl it's been twenty years since Gen1; if it's also been twenty years in game and Oak was seventy in RBY, then by Sw/Sh he'd be ninety and thus seventy years before would make him twenty (and given Red and Blue beat the League at ten/eleven, he could easily be a champ at twenty).
To be honest I think *not* having every mon would be nicer in some ways; in real life you can’t just import/export animals Willy nilly so it’d be nice if the same applies to the Pokemon world with ‘import/export bans’ on various mons. When they do more remakes of previous gens they could then do the same for those with limitations on different mons. At any rate, the Bulbapedia page on the Galar dex has a list on a bunch of mons not in the game currently, so presumably they exist in the code already and it wouldn’t be unreasonable to assume they’ll be dlc, so it’s still possible for all mons to return via dlc at some point.
Lord of Uzkulak I completely agree. However, competitive battlers have to work with either sun and moon or not have all the good Pokémon. I do think they might have Gen 4 remakes, add the rest of the Pokémon, and then have all the Pokémon in the sequels to Sw/Sh.
@@nicomesina just work with the new good pokemon they may not be as good as the missing good pokemon but they will also not be wreaked by sir not appearing in this game either.
Uhh wasn't number 1 literally confirmed by Sordward and Shielbert? Saying they hid this stuff away to make the 2 humans the real heroes, covering up the Pokemon's existence?
Didn’t their dialogue also imply they covered up the existence of the two human heroes too? That’s why iirc they only talk about a single ancestor and iirc Sonja’s dialogue when looking at the tapestries in the vault implies that the idea of two heroes rather than one is a startling/groundbreaking idea.
@@arlen7726 Why do we have to blame a Pokémon for Game Freak's inconsistent story management? They should take the time to figure out how this all works, on a Zelda level, and then tell us rather than tip-toe around it to avoid backlash from people who have already made their perspective.
@@samhayes-astrion ask any Zelda fan and they'll tell you the timeline messed up and full of inconsistencies. They don't want to make games based on timelines, hence why they said Botw was very far in the future to not have to deal with fans trying to connect everything
Hey Bird Keeper Toby, I got a theory for you. It's a bit of a long one, but I hope you find it interesting. Something that caught my attention was in Turffield, Sonia says the darkest day happened 3000 years ago. The Kalos war and the events of the great weapon also happened 3000 years ago. I think the same energy that created mega evolution, reacted differently in Galar in the form of power spots. It's still unclear what dynamaxing really is, but I found a bit more for that too: Route 10 trainer tip "caused by a special power that originates from within pokemon, warping the space around them and making them appear far larger then they truly are." There's a lot to be said and asked with this info. One thing I asked was what happened in the alternate reality? Amusing the theory about Kalos was right, in the non-mega reality, there would be no darkest day and no heroic legend we know. I wondered why gym challenges seemed so much of a bigger deal in Galar then any other. They give a ceremony for beginning challengers, you need to be approved first, they put so much organization in it then any other I've seen. And I think all this hype came from the legend. So relating to your question before, I think it's more likely the Galar gym challenges are just much older then any other because of the cultural impact this legend had. That's my basics, this comment is already long. If you're interested in more detail, let me know.
In the fairy type gym during the quiz the mural on the wall has the outlines of a bunch of fairy type Pokémon including ones that aren’t in the game like flabébé, wigglytuff, and snubull.
Wow, I was under the impression through the game that Rose had really set up the league? Because I remember something about the game saying he tried to put Piers' gym by a power spot or something, and that he's responsible for the building of Wyndon (which holds the last stadium), so maybe when Opal took over from her mother (at the age of 18, wow) it was probably just a few stadiums, if they were even really stadiums at that point. Power spots weren't even a thing yet, right? Because Magnolia does the research _for_ Rose that makes dynamaxing a thing.
Another Easter Egg: In Wyndon's Pokemon Center, there is a guy in a tuxedo and hat. You can't see his face, but he says this... ''I'd like to invite some of the fine Trainers flourishing in Galar back to my own region.'' This might be a hint to Gen 9 where it might be Spain since GF were researching there 2 years ago. And it's theme maybe to do with 'Finest', maybe... the 'Finest' Pokemon game ever made? Fat chance after what they did with Sword and Shield if they keep doing this.
As a Spaniard..... I'd LOVE to see Spain being made in a Pokémon region. So many possibilities: Basing the legendaries on Canarian/Vasque folkrore, Al-Andalus inspired locations, trainers inspired in calé/gitano/Spanish Roma people...
When I saw that whole runestone thing I saw several ones that were Eeveelution types. So I assumed that it was an Eevee thing until I found the Fighting runestone.
in Hop's room there is a croagunk gold statue that means in Diamond and Pearl there is a shop that there is a croagunk gold statue ... (Sinnoh Remakes comfiirn)
i think the Anime/Manga/Games are from 3 different universes like in the manga he may have set up the first league or they meant in that area not really know about Galar due to lack of social media or phones at the time?
This is something I've noticed about Toby over the last few years I've been watching his content: he seems to have difficulty comprehending the notion of different continuities among the games, anime, and manga, and he's always treating their lore as some kind of weird amalgamation, especially in his theory videos. As much as I love his content, this has made Toby's theory videos in particular utterly frustrating due to his lack of consistency in keeping the different continuities separate.
The whole detective cutscene in the hotel is definitely a reference to Sherlock Holmes, because of the detective's name! The detective is called *Howses* -- a pun on *houses* , which is a synonym for *homes* ! XD
Gosh I hated not being able to get to that factory on route 3! Like why make a path there if you're just going to block it off? And dang that fish shirt looks fire, wish it had got in the game
Because that's how it works in the real life? Power plants blocked off from regular civilian access, but still need to be accessable by workers? What even would you be doing in there anyways? Causing an explosion and shut down of power in Motostoke?
@@JayceCH. To be fair you were able to get into the power plant in Let's Go, and I'm sure in a few other games as well. You definitely have a good point though! All I really meant for it was that it's kinda lame to block off a path with a little pole you could easily step over in real life and move forward. If the path hadn't been there and you just see the plant in the distance it wouldn't have been as much of an issue. It just would've been cool to see it if they already got a path laid out to it and all.
Based on that fact that Professor Oak in the Manga set-up the first Pokémon League is well... only in the Manga. I find that hard to believe that to be canon in the main series. Don't forget that even the Anime has it fair share of difference too such as Charles Goodshow being the Chairman of the Pokémon League of the first four regions and he looks older than Professor Oak.
Two things you can get back to the waiting room through the lift at the league still can't pass the guy Two opal might be a reference to the queen's reign
I think that it is set a little in the future. If you recall kabu, he once took on the gym challenge in horn, and almost became champion himself before coming to galar to be a gym leader. His rare league card also shows a younger him, maybe 5-10 years. And the current champion was Steven stone, meaning it was before Ruby sapphire. So, it is probably around 10 or so years after the gen 3 games.
I totally expected you to make note that Opal succeeding her mother 70 years ago was a clear reference to Queen Elizabeth II taking over as queen almost 70 years ago.
Adding on to the last fact, that means that opal took over the gym when she was 18 (assuming I payed my math budget this week), which, while not mind-blowing is kind of neat because with a few exceptions most gym leaders are adults.
Maybe opals mother ran the gym as a battle theatre thing, but it was then converted into a league gym later on? I would expect there to be battle houses and stuff before the league, just that the league took it to the next level.
I think the fact that the only place you can find a snorlax in the wild area, just after the bridge conecting Motostoke riverbank and bridge field, is a refference to the old games where the only place you could find snorlax was asleep in front of a bridge blocking it. Even here he appears right after the bridge.
And the "Sherlock Holmes" character is surnamed "Howes." It's pronounced like "House" just like "Holmes" is pronounced like "Homes." Both surnames sound like domiciles.
Maybe to make the world feel bigger? Due to system limitations, towns in games are almost always vastly undersized (and this goes for all games, not just Pokemon); even cities in games would be village's at best in real life. Don't think it'd actually happen, but what would be a cool idea is if those areas will get opened up in future via DLC and they've been deliberately designed like that to have room to insert the new areas without it just inexplicably turning up from nowhere.
@@lordofuzkulak8308 i agree that it is for "the feeling" but turffield and spikemuth literally have no enterable houses. That is a big flaw in my opinion. It could have been limitations during production but the switch is more than capable of handling such things. I think it was a time issue, but one that could have easily be fixed.
Ok: - Hoenn, Kalos, and Galar has a connection (geological-wise) - Cufant (being a foreign Pokémon) and Chairman Rose having a relation with this Pokémon could possibly mean that his ancestors ARE from that same region that Cufant is from -Double D
Also, another Easter egg I found. There's a guy who trades you a Duraladon for a Frosmoth. The character uses the Artist trainer model and according to the OT of the Duraladon you get, his name is Kapoor. A reference to the Indian-Britsh artist Anish Kapoor (the one famous, or infamous, for the whole Vanta black thing) perhaps?
The detective is also a homage to Alolan Detective Laki from the Pokemon Sun and Moon anime. In one episode called ''Bright Lights, Big Changes!'', near the end, he was with Chatot and Smeargle in Wyndon in Galar (before Sword and Shield was revealed).
When you have used Pokémon Let's go Eevee, you'll get a special background for your league card (probably same for LGP, can't confirm.) This is the same with Pokémon Quest, you'll get a special background with loads of the blocky faces.
I think it is funny how Mr. Mimes are found in Spikemuth where Team Yell is found. I think it pokes fun at how Team Yell, and that there is no voice acting to show how loud Team Yell is. Instead they have to "MIME" like they are obnoxious and yelling in all their cutscenes.
I recently found another spot you can see but not reach, in the water by professor magnolias house on route 2 there is a barn/house/shed that there is no path to.
There's one thing i noticed no youtuber has talked about, though it is unnoticeable, if you go to your room in game and look at the switch connected to your tv, the joy-cons on that switch reflect the joy-cons you have on your system IRL. i.e. If you have gray joy-cons, then your switch in game will too, but if you switch them for the red/blue pair, then your switch in game will also have a red/blue pair. I found this out literally 3 days ago by accident and thought it was such a minor detail but was so cool.
I remember that T-shirt contest! It was a collaboration with Uniqlo. The person who did the Gyarados/Magikarp design was a Chinese artist named Li Wen Pei, and was disqualified because he had previously sold merchandise featuring that very design.
I don't know if it was me subconsciously remembering the previous gens or the way the power plant was rendered, but when I saw it my brain went "yep never gonna be able to go there. Or if I do, it won't actually be connected to that model." Also gen 8 absolutely feels several years in the future from Ahola (where we got a benchmark of 20 years since gen 1). Rotom in devices was a new tech limited to Pokedex holders, now the PCs and phones have been replaced with lobotimized Roton devices
There's actually a lot of places you can't go into that annoy the crud out of me. The lighthouse in hulberry, any of the houses in Spikemuth, watchtower ruins, the farm (gated) fields in postwick, the canals in motostoke, the diglett sculptures, and the Ferris wheel in wyndon. (There's probally more locations i'm forgetting atm...)I know most of those places are for decoration, but I like to explore maps. Lol
I wont lie, I thought the detective was a reference/Easter egg to the detective that rotom used to watch in the sun and moon series, just me who thought that ???
This also means that fairy type Pokémon has existed for a long long long time.....because opal took over her moms fairy gym when she was 18 years old...
funny enough the iconic Sherlock Holmes hat (deer stalker hat) was only described once in all the stories. and that story was Silver Blaze. Also Mr Rime seems to have a somewhat resemblance to Charlie Chaplin. The bowler hat, big shoes, and the can
Perhaps back in Opal's mother's time, since it was before pokeballs (Assuming the future theory is wrong), they had to manually train them rather than using balls?
For Number One, the movie Pokemon 4Ever shows that the earliest pokeballs existed 40 years ago or something like that and that probably means that the Galar league has been around since Pokemon battling was a thing.
I’m sure people have said this, but the Sherlock Holmes bit- he calls himself something like detective house or something, making a direct reference to Sherlock HOLMES lol
I think that the theory with Opal and the Galar gym challenge being older is the right way to go. They didn't necessarily have to have stadiums, pokeballs, dynamax, or anything. the gym challenge could have been a young boy/girl get a partner pokemon, then they travel around and face the "gyms/basters" in battle. They likely adopted the Gym style league format, leaving out the elite four, to make it more entertaining/marketable, as the stadiums likely weren't built until Chairman Rose started making dynamax bands
About Opal taking over the gym - it's also possible that the gym pre-dates the league. Perhaps it served a different purpose, or perhaps gyms for Pokemon trainers were already common before they were part of a league challenge.
With Opal, bare in mind that game freak always throw around large numbers. 70 years could be nothing when you think that Macargo’s temperature is twice that of the sun XD
There are chairman rose posters in spikemuth that also have a vandalized version where rose is puking and has the usual vandalized face, you could also see that someone tried to tear off the poster but failed and now there’s just this white spot on the poster.
I do think that the game take place in the future thanks to the Rotom Phone. Maybe the Rotom-Dex could be the start of a new manufacture that requires the use of Rotom.
It's my birthday today and when I walked in a poke mart the music changed and there's a cake on the background now where you heal your pokemon. The characters also say happy birthday to you. It's probably not new, but had never seen that before. Also, when you're in your room in your house, the plushie is either Eevee or Pikachu depending on which game of Pokemon let's go you have. We figured that out since I have Let's go Eevee and my boyfriend has Let's go Pikachu, and my pluchie is Eevee and his is Pikachu.
...wait, where was it said that Kurt created those apricorn balls 50 years ago? I mean, yeah he makes them, but I never realized we were given a timeline. (I don't consider anything PokeSpecial canon except for "Blue" who was added to LGPE)
While in Pokemon Adventures/Special, Oak became champion of the first Pokemon League, that's only the Indigo League and only in Pokemon Adventures/Special. In the games, the Galar League is at least 50 years old by the time of Sword and Shield, because Mustard (from the DLC) became the Champion of the region after defeating Opal 50 years before Sword and Shield.
I think it’s possible Galar kept its borders closed for the longest time, so like when Opal was a kid, she couldn’t see other regions, and even way before then, the Pokémon we find in other regions made their way in, Galar’s borders closed, they start a gym challenge where you just beat 8 gyms and yay. Then when Opal would be around her teen years (assuming that’s the time or a little before she takes over the gym) an outsider enters, falls in love with the gym challenge, then creates it back in Kanto, which spreads to other regions except Alola. Then Oak creates the first league and it does so well that other regions follow suit. Galar sees this and creates these huge tournament leagues, and then Rose comes in and publicly broadcasts what Galar can do, thus opening the borders and kicking it off 15-20 years prior. Much later, Professor Kukui establishes the first league in Alola.
That shirt design was not for the Sword and Shield it was a contest held by Japanese clothing company Uniqlo as a part of their limited Pokemon UT Collection. Artists submitted designs and winners got their designs printed into actual shirts that could be bought at Uniqlo and online.
The inaccessible room behind the macro cosmos guy is the room your character uses to change into the challenge outfit, at least that was my grasp of things.
In reality for what Bulbapedia says for the games story the first Pokemon League match was held 150 years prior gen 1, probably in a more rudimental way, in fact Drayden said that Pokeball are a "recent" invention and that in the past Pokemon could simply leave trainer that mistreated them, making things more in line with a possibility of a league that didn't had pokeballs. Also in Pokemon Masters, Iris said that the Galar champion Leon is her cousin.
I know I came in late but in every gym you visit there will be one girl on the left corner of the hall with at first a blipbug and eventually an orbeetle in the battle stadium (as if she's traveling alongside your timeline and evolved her blipbug). She'll encourage you in those gyms and eventually when you become the champ she'll say she knew you will be the champ and she had trained a lot of great trainers. I am super curious if that's a reference to any character in the series.
Regarding the opal thing: Just because there are gyms doesn't mean there is already a league. Maybe the gyms operated like independent dojos for centuries before someone organized the first league. Maybe the league was created to pacify them, to stop them from fighting each other, or to stop the traditional gyms from dying out.
I dunno if this has been mentioned somewhere, but there’s this Reporter and Cameraman who you get to battle a few times in the game. She uses a Heliolisk and Noivern. I guess this is in reference to another reporter in Kalos, who was the sister of the first gym leader there. I think her name was Alexa or Alexis, I can’t remember, but in the anime, she had a Helioptile and a Noivern and I think that’s a cool Easter egg.
Can we talk about how when Opal was younger she looked eerily similar to Diantha. Also Opal was an actress back in the day. Isn't Diantha also an actress? Diantha's signature Pokémon is Gardevoir... A Fairy type. Opal specializes in Fairy types... Could they be related somehow?
Interesting idea actually haah
Diantha sounds sounds similar to Diamond, a gem like Opal.
Gamefreak definitely hadn't put that much thought into it. Sorry
I think that diantha is opals Granddaughter
Her younger self looks more like a female version of Professor Sycamore than Diantha, when you look into her reference sheet.
Another Easter Egg i noticed:
In the player's house in their room theres a Nintendo Switch console. Depending on which Joycons you have attached to your own switch, the color of the Joycons in your room matches your actual Switch. I have green / orange ones on mine and it changes when I changed to other Joycons.
I don't know, what it does if your using a Pro-Controller or playing on a Switch Mini.
Wow, that's honestly a nice detail.
Nice!
If you're using a pro controller, the joy cons default to grey.
If you're using GameCube controller it also goes to grey
Mine are brown and yellow and it has a pikatchu on yhe side
Toby : *does any theory video*
Also Toby :
*S I N N O H?!*
yes
im disappointed you didnt realise that the detective in the scene in called howwses which sounds like houses which is a reference to holmes which sounds like homes
Same! Took me a fair few minutes in game to actually realize the joke but a lot of people seem to have missed it.
my god you're right
Maybe it's punishment
See, I expected it to be a reference to Booker
Just something i found on google, I think Opal is based on the queen. She took over the gym from her mother 70 years ago, the queen is coming up to being the queen for 70 years. Just a bit of loose speculation...
Queen Elizabeth II is the longest reigning British monarch of all time
As of 2018, Queen Elizabeth II has been ruling England for 66 years. The country is looking forward to celebrating their queen's Platinum Jubilee in 2022 - that's when she'll be on the throne for an incredible 70 years.14 Nov 2018
I've mentioned it a couple of times in other channels but Oleana uses all beautiful pokemon to represent her outer beauty but her last pokemon is a gabador, representing her ugliness inside.
She lived in slum and her first mon was trubbish. After that rose rescued her and changed her life (thats why she is so loyal hor him). She just didnt want to get rid of her original mon. Ur theory can be true too
You can take the elevator back down in the final stadium, but the macro-cosmos member still blocks the door.
I commented this on the other video but it hasn't been noticed yet. There is a hiker on route 6 near Stow-on-side who speaks Spanish and says she's from another region. This could be our first Gen 9 hint.
Ooooh cool! I hope so.
@Failing Feathers I'd like Mexico, a Quetzalcoatl pokémon would be awesome!
There are a few spanish girls, they are sister tourists. Copperajah's dex entry also hints at an Indian region.
Hoops and hiphop I think mentions this
@@xopha Where are the others? This is the only one I remember.
That guy Blocking that room in the pokemon league annoys me A LOT
LET ME IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN IM THE CHAMPION >:(
I just wanna buy some Doritos
Even when you go down the elevator he still blocks you
Yeah, I just want to get the staff outfit
"Either the Galar League is the oldest or sw/sh is set in the future."
Or gyms predate the league.
It's entirely possible that each town had it's own haven for serious trainers and those havens later organized into a League.
In Kanto, at least, there are non-league gyms, so...
Or sw/sh aren't cannon
Pokemon doesn’t have canon... except with b2/w2 as well as the first 2 gen
@@nerosoul2506 actually, gamefreak admits that there is a canon between the games. Also Red and Blue (the people) show up at the battle tree in Alola (gen 7).
@@nerosoul2506 What about PLA ? it’s a PREQUEL To The Generation 4 Games. So it’s considered canon right ?
@@nerosoul2506 Each Pokémon Game is set in ALTERNATE WORLD. ORAS isn’t just a Remake of Pokémon Ruby & Sapphire, but it is set in An ALTERNATE WORLD Where Megas Exists.
bridges in the galar region that drop feathers in certain spots is a reference to unova
Isn't it a reference to the Flying Taxi? I remember when playing the game, a NPC next to a Flying Taxi said something like "Corviknight dropped some feathers!"
Or maybe I'm wrong.
No it's not, it's just a game mechanic. That's like saying berry trees are a reference to Johto.
Havent they all been doing it since then
Already knew that it stole my heart
@@machina5 what if they are?
"What region has a Zubat in there?"
Every single one of them!! (Black & White 2 is the truly Unova Region)
Correction, every region except galar
@@nechocat1234 correction: every region including Galar
I thought that spikemuth was an Easter egg to Ryme City from detective pikachu movie with its neon lights and mr.mime plus Mr.Ryme as well :D
Tsuria Dragon You also do get a Kanto Mr Mime from a Team Yell member for trading an Obstagoon which could tie into that
It's not Mr. Ryme, it's Mr. Rime. Rime is another word for frost, referring to their new Ice/Psychic typing.
@@MidnyteSketch
Multiple meanings.
Nah he’s right it’s rime not rhyme as mimes don’t speak
Shelock HOLMES - This guy is named HOWSES
HOLMES - HOWSES
Homes - Houses
Yes , it's a reference
I feel like that Power plant one is intentional by this point.
Yeah, I agree
isn't that more a factory here? lemme check
Israel Lai I think it’s technically a little of both. Sonia talks about powering the country while looking at the building.
I call it! Next region will have a power plant as a major role in the story! 😂😂😂
Maybe they don't want kids to imitate exploring electric plants anymore. Looking for their own Pikachu perhaps?
What would be cool with the 'hidden rooms' is if in the near future they added DLC which unlocked them.
Regarding the comment about you not knowing why Oleana was in the mines; her dialogue specifically states that she's there doing Rose's community service. ;)
The detective scene isn't 'probably' a Holmes reference, it definitely is; check out the detective's name - Howses. ;)
Thanks for revealing how to solve the hidden message puzzle, that had me stumped.
I think where the games are concerned, manga lore is inadmissible; after all this is the same manga where half the Kanto gym leaders are members of Team Rocket and the Elite 4 are eco-terrorists; just because manga!Oak was the first Indego Champion doesn't mean game!Oak was too. Also, keep in mind that irl it's been twenty years since Gen1; if it's also been twenty years in game and Oak was seventy in RBY, then by Sw/Sh he'd be ninety and thus seventy years before would make him twenty (and given Red and Blue beat the League at ten/eleven, he could easily be a champ at twenty).
That dlc can also bring all the other Pokémon into Sw/Sh
To be honest I think *not* having every mon would be nicer in some ways; in real life you can’t just import/export animals Willy nilly so it’d be nice if the same applies to the Pokemon world with ‘import/export bans’ on various mons. When they do more remakes of previous gens they could then do the same for those with limitations on different mons.
At any rate, the Bulbapedia page on the Galar dex has a list on a bunch of mons not in the game currently, so presumably they exist in the code already and it wouldn’t be unreasonable to assume they’ll be dlc, so it’s still possible for all mons to return via dlc at some point.
Lord of Uzkulak I completely agree. However, competitive battlers have to work with either sun and moon or not have all the good Pokémon.
I do think they might have Gen 4 remakes, add the rest of the Pokémon, and then have all the Pokémon in the sequels to Sw/Sh.
@@nicomesina just work with the new good pokemon they may not be as good as the missing good pokemon but they will also not be wreaked by sir not appearing in this game either.
Rice Factory guess what
Conspiracy theory: Professor Oak started the first Pokemon League...but in Galar, and then brought it to Kanto.
Uhh wasn't number 1 literally confirmed by Sordward and Shielbert? Saying they hid this stuff away to make the 2 humans the real heroes, covering up the Pokemon's existence?
Didn’t their dialogue also imply they covered up the existence of the two human heroes too? That’s why iirc they only talk about a single ancestor and iirc Sonja’s dialogue when looking at the tapestries in the vault implies that the idea of two heroes rather than one is a startling/groundbreaking idea.
Game Freak's timeline is a mess. 70 years? Come on, Game Freak, are we doing time skips now?
Sam Hayes blame Celebi, I mean there’s multiple examples of people being flung through time in the anime and the one in hg/ss
@@arlen7726 Why do we have to blame a Pokémon for Game Freak's inconsistent story management? They should take the time to figure out how this all works, on a Zelda level, and then tell us rather than tip-toe around it to avoid backlash from people who have already made their perspective.
Sam Hayes point taken, I just really like Celebi.
Bet Ash would still be 10.
@@samhayes-astrion ask any Zelda fan and they'll tell you the timeline messed up and full of inconsistencies. They don't want to make games based on timelines, hence why they said Botw was very far in the future to not have to deal with fans trying to connect everything
Hey Bird Keeper Toby,
I got a theory for you. It's a bit of a long one, but I hope you find it interesting. Something that caught my attention was in Turffield, Sonia says the darkest day happened 3000 years ago. The Kalos war and the events of the great weapon also happened 3000 years ago. I think the same energy that created mega evolution, reacted differently in Galar in the form of power spots. It's still unclear what dynamaxing really is, but I found a bit more for that too: Route 10 trainer tip "caused by a special power that originates from within pokemon, warping the space around them and making them appear far larger then they truly are." There's a lot to be said and asked with this info. One thing I asked was what happened in the alternate reality? Amusing the theory about Kalos was right, in the non-mega reality, there would be no darkest day and no heroic legend we know. I wondered why gym challenges seemed so much of a bigger deal in Galar then any other. They give a ceremony for beginning challengers, you need to be approved first, they put so much organization in it then any other I've seen. And I think all this hype came from the legend. So relating to your question before, I think it's more likely the Galar gym challenges are just much older then any other because of the cultural impact this legend had. That's my basics, this comment is already long. If you're interested in more detail, let me know.
In the fairy type gym during the quiz the mural on the wall has the outlines of a bunch of fairy type Pokémon including ones that aren’t in the game like flabébé, wigglytuff, and snubull.
Wow, I was under the impression through the game that Rose had really set up the league?
Because I remember something about the game saying he tried to put Piers' gym by a power spot or something, and that he's responsible for the building of Wyndon (which holds the last stadium), so maybe when Opal took over from her mother (at the age of 18, wow) it was probably just a few stadiums, if they were even really stadiums at that point. Power spots weren't even a thing yet, right? Because Magnolia does the research _for_ Rose that makes dynamaxing a thing.
Another Easter Egg: In Wyndon's Pokemon Center, there is a guy in a tuxedo and hat. You can't see his face, but he says this...
''I'd like to invite some of the fine Trainers flourishing in Galar back to my own region.''
This might be a hint to Gen 9 where it might be Spain since GF were researching there 2 years ago. And it's theme maybe to do with 'Finest', maybe... the 'Finest' Pokemon game ever made? Fat chance after what they did with Sword and Shield if they keep doing this.
Pokemon Champion Cynthia there’s also a hiker that says she’s from another region and she speaks spanish
@@georgeedwards5451 Gen 9 Spanish Region Confirmed!!! Where abouts was the hiker?
Where is that hiker
As a Spaniard..... I'd LOVE to see Spain being made in a Pokémon region. So many possibilities: Basing the legendaries on Canarian/Vasque folkrore, Al-Andalus inspired locations, trainers inspired in calé/gitano/Spanish Roma people...
when the sponsor isnt raid shadow legends: *impossible*
When I saw that whole runestone thing I saw several ones that were Eeveelution types. So I assumed that it was an Eevee thing until I found the Fighting runestone.
in Hop's room there is a croagunk gold statue that means in Diamond and Pearl there is a shop that there is a croagunk gold statue ... (Sinnoh Remakes comfiirn)
Pastoria City? It's actually a wood carving but I like how you remember that! I didn't even notice.
Sherlock dude was named Howses like homes 100% a Sherlock reference dude
Oh hey Gundham
If the Galar region is in the future that would explain the absence of Red ;( i'm sad he wasn't in, he's my favorite part of every game he's in
i think the Anime/Manga/Games are from 3 different universes like in the manga he may have set up the first league or they meant in that area not really know about Galar due to lack of social media or phones at the time?
This is something I've noticed about Toby over the last few years I've been watching his content: he seems to have difficulty comprehending the notion of different continuities among the games, anime, and manga, and he's always treating their lore as some kind of weird amalgamation, especially in his theory videos. As much as I love his content, this has made Toby's theory videos in particular utterly frustrating due to his lack of consistency in keeping the different continuities separate.
The whole detective cutscene in the hotel is definitely a reference to Sherlock Holmes, because of the detective's name! The detective is called *Howses* -- a pun on *houses* , which is a synonym for *homes* ! XD
It is in circhester
Toby's editor is a JoJo fan confirmed?
Why?
@@backyardgrow5499 Because of the "Menacing" effect fairly early in the video
Funny that most recently Toby found out what JoJo was lol
Backyard grow the JoJo reference starts at 0:52
I got a beast ball from the street market in Stow-on-side. The man on the left in the market gave it to me as a reward for becoming champion.
Gosh I hated not being able to get to that factory on route 3! Like why make a path there if you're just going to block it off?
And dang that fish shirt looks fire, wish it had got in the game
Because that's how it works in the real life? Power plants blocked off from regular civilian access, but still need to be accessable by workers? What even would you be doing in there anyways? Causing an explosion and shut down of power in Motostoke?
@@JayceCH. To be fair you were able to get into the power plant in Let's Go, and I'm sure in a few other games as well. You definitely have a good point though!
All I really meant for it was that it's kinda lame to block off a path with a little pole you could easily step over in real life and move forward. If the path hadn't been there and you just see the plant in the distance it wouldn't have been as much of an issue. It just would've been cool to see it if they already got a path laid out to it and all.
Thinking maybe they wanted to discourage kids from exploring power plants for their own Pikachu or something.
What about the trainer in the battle tower saying "I WISH TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE HUMAN SOUL"
Based on that fact that Professor Oak in the Manga set-up the first Pokémon League is well... only in the Manga. I find that hard to believe that to be canon in the main series. Don't forget that even the Anime has it fair share of difference too such as Charles Goodshow being the Chairman of the Pokémon League of the first four regions and he looks older than Professor Oak.
Two things you can get back to the waiting room through the lift at the league still can't pass the guy
Two opal might be a reference to the queen's reign
wait, so that level 100 shiny starly i got from gts all those years ago can evolve now? :D
Grounded Hippo is starly in the game?
I wanted to scream when I saw that new power plant.
The glyph challenge rewards you for understanding type match-ups by giving you an item that boosts super effective moves. Makes a bit of sense.
I think that it is set a little in the future. If you recall kabu, he once took on the gym challenge in horn, and almost became champion himself before coming to galar to be a gym leader. His rare league card also shows a younger him, maybe 5-10 years. And the current champion was Steven stone, meaning it was before Ruby sapphire. So, it is probably around 10 or so years after the gen 3 games.
That doorway isn't the only part of the game you can't access... It honestly feels like half the game is missing.
I totally expected you to make note that Opal succeeding her mother 70 years ago was a clear reference to Queen Elizabeth II taking over as queen almost 70 years ago.
Adding on to the last fact, that means that opal took over the gym when she was 18 (assuming I payed my math budget this week), which, while not mind-blowing is kind of neat because with a few exceptions most gym leaders are adults.
Maybe opals mother ran the gym as a battle theatre thing, but it was then converted into a league gym later on? I would expect there to be battle houses and stuff before the league, just that the league took it to the next level.
I think the fact that the only place you can find a snorlax in the wild area, just after the bridge conecting Motostoke riverbank and bridge field, is a refference to the old games where the only place you could find snorlax was asleep in front of a bridge blocking it. Even here he appears right after the bridge.
And the "Sherlock Holmes" character is surnamed "Howes." It's pronounced like "House" just like "Holmes" is pronounced like "Homes." Both surnames sound like domiciles.
This game has so many closed off buildings. Turffield, Spikemuth, Ballonlea. Why, GF, whyyyyy.
Maybe to make the world feel bigger? Due to system limitations, towns in games are almost always vastly undersized (and this goes for all games, not just Pokemon); even cities in games would be village's at best in real life.
Don't think it'd actually happen, but what would be a cool idea is if those areas will get opened up in future via DLC and they've been deliberately designed like that to have room to insert the new areas without it just inexplicably turning up from nowhere.
@@lordofuzkulak8308 i agree that it is for "the feeling" but turffield and spikemuth literally have no enterable houses. That is a big flaw in my opinion. It could have been limitations during production but the switch is more than capable of handling such things. I think it was a time issue, but one that could have easily be fixed.
They had to cut them to work on animations..... that's their go to lie now right?
Ok:
- Hoenn, Kalos, and Galar has a connection (geological-wise)
- Cufant (being a foreign Pokémon) and Chairman Rose having a relation with this Pokémon could possibly mean that his ancestors ARE from that same region that Cufant is from
-Double D
"May be a reference to Sherlock Holmes" the detective's name is "Howses", it is DEFINITELY a reference.
Holmes = Homes
Howses = Houses
Macro Cosmos is literally a Mother 3 New Pork City reference:
there are 100 floors
MCs go on elevator to top
Villian stops them on random floors
or any elevator level.
Wow, I can’t believe it took me so long to realize Tracey is named Tracey because he constantly draws things
It makes sense for Galar’s Gym challenge to be much older than other ones because European history itself is very ancient to say the least.
They should sell props in the shops because I want my league card to have me and Toxtricity going ham on 2 guitars
That would be so good
Can't wait for the new tree of Life episode explain all of the Galar Pokemon.. only seeing them in the ad makes me just crave for the video
Also, another Easter egg I found. There's a guy who trades you a Duraladon for a Frosmoth. The character uses the Artist trainer model and according to the OT of the Duraladon you get, his name is Kapoor. A reference to the Indian-Britsh artist Anish Kapoor (the one famous, or infamous, for the whole Vanta black thing) perhaps?
Thank you, that grass puzzle was driving me nuts
I feel like the detective scene was also heavily based on Detective Laki and his Smeargle from the Sun and Moon series
Easter Egg: In Wyndon there's a Galarian Mr. Mime named Marcel, which is the same nickname of the Mr. Mime traded to you in Red/Blue
The detective is also a homage to Alolan Detective Laki from the Pokemon Sun and Moon anime. In one episode called ''Bright Lights, Big Changes!'', near the end, he was with Chatot and Smeargle in Wyndon in Galar (before Sword and Shield was revealed).
When you have used Pokémon Let's go Eevee, you'll get a special background for your league card (probably same for LGP, can't confirm.) This is the same with Pokémon Quest, you'll get a special background with loads of the blocky faces.
I really like the idea that Galar has the oldest Pokemon league. It makes sense given how integral the league is to Galarian culture.
I think it is funny how Mr. Mimes are found in Spikemuth where Team Yell is found. I think it pokes fun at how Team Yell, and that there is no voice acting to show how loud Team Yell is. Instead they have to "MIME" like they are obnoxious and yelling in all their cutscenes.
I recently found another spot you can see but not reach, in the water by professor magnolias house on route 2 there is a barn/house/shed that there is no path to.
There's one thing i noticed no youtuber has talked about, though it is unnoticeable, if you go to your room in game and look at the switch connected to your tv, the joy-cons on that switch reflect the joy-cons you have on your system IRL. i.e. If you have gray joy-cons, then your switch in game will too, but if you switch them for the red/blue pair, then your switch in game will also have a red/blue pair. I found this out literally 3 days ago by accident and thought it was such a minor detail but was so cool.
The two Kings were in a relationship
I remember that T-shirt contest! It was a collaboration with Uniqlo. The person who did the Gyarados/Magikarp design was a Chinese artist named Li Wen Pei, and was disqualified because he had previously sold merchandise featuring that very design.
www.uniqlo.com/utgp/2019/ph/
I always thought chairman rose looked like Lewis Hamilton
I don't know if it was me subconsciously remembering the previous gens or the way the power plant was rendered, but when I saw it my brain went "yep never gonna be able to go there. Or if I do, it won't actually be connected to that model."
Also gen 8 absolutely feels several years in the future from Ahola (where we got a benchmark of 20 years since gen 1). Rotom in devices was a new tech limited to Pokedex holders, now the PCs and phones have been replaced with lobotimized Roton devices
The room that you're not authorized to enter is probably the staffroom.
There's actually a lot of places you can't go into that annoy the crud out of me. The lighthouse in hulberry, any of the houses in Spikemuth, watchtower ruins, the farm (gated) fields in postwick, the canals in motostoke, the diglett sculptures, and the Ferris wheel in wyndon. (There's probally more locations i'm forgetting atm...)I know most of those places are for decoration, but I like to explore maps. Lol
Galar being in the far future makes a lot of sense as to why Rotom phones are rather common compared to Alola where they just inhabit a pokédex
No timeline MY FOOT!
I wont lie, I thought the detective was a reference/Easter egg to the detective that rotom used to watch in the sun and moon series, just me who thought that ???
This also means that fairy type Pokémon has existed for a long long long time.....because opal took over her moms fairy gym when she was 18 years old...
There’s another reference to Sherlock Holmes; there’s a fighter NPC that mentions a great detective who lived in Galar long ago and practiced baritsu.
Im pretty sure someone in postwick said leon was 10 when he entered the gym challenge.
funny enough the iconic Sherlock Holmes hat (deer stalker hat) was only described once in all the stories. and that story was Silver Blaze.
Also Mr Rime seems to have a somewhat resemblance to Charlie Chaplin. The bowler hat, big shoes, and the can
Perhaps back in Opal's mother's time, since it was before pokeballs (Assuming the future theory is wrong), they had to manually train them rather than using balls?
Or they used the old Apricoco balls that looked like bottles, like the one a younger, past Oak used in the 4th Pokémon movie.
Cufant and Copperajah's Pokédex entries even state that they help people out with jobs that require digging and heavy lifting.
For Number One, the movie Pokemon 4Ever shows that the earliest pokeballs existed 40 years ago or something like that and that probably means that the Galar league has been around since Pokemon battling was a thing.
I’m sure people have said this, but the Sherlock Holmes bit- he calls himself something like detective house or something, making a direct reference to Sherlock HOLMES lol
I think that the theory with Opal and the Galar gym challenge being older is the right way to go. They didn't necessarily have to have stadiums, pokeballs, dynamax, or anything. the gym challenge could have been a young boy/girl get a partner pokemon, then they travel around and face the "gyms/basters" in battle. They likely adopted the Gym style league format, leaving out the elite four, to make it more entertaining/marketable, as the stadiums likely weren't built until Chairman Rose started making dynamax bands
About Opal taking over the gym - it's also possible that the gym pre-dates the league. Perhaps it served a different purpose, or perhaps gyms for Pokemon trainers were already common before they were part of a league challenge.
The detective mystery Easter egg sounds more Agatha Christie than Sherlock Holmes to me, but certainly a nod to old British detective novels.
With Opal, bare in mind that game freak always throw around large numbers. 70 years could be nothing when you think that Macargo’s temperature is twice that of the sun XD
There are chairman rose posters in spikemuth that also have a vandalized version where rose is puking and has the usual vandalized face, you could also see that someone tried to tear off the poster but failed and now there’s just this white spot on the poster.
Is no one going to talk about how toxtricity is a reference to system of a downs song toxicity
I do think that the game take place in the future thanks to the Rotom Phone. Maybe the Rotom-Dex could be the start of a new manufacture that requires the use of Rotom.
It's my birthday today and when I walked in a poke mart the music changed and there's a cake on the background now where you heal your pokemon. The characters also say happy birthday to you. It's probably not new, but had never seen that before. Also, when you're in your room in your house, the plushie is either Eevee or Pikachu depending on which game of Pokemon let's go you have. We figured that out since I have Let's go Eevee and my boyfriend has Let's go Pikachu, and my pluchie is Eevee and his is Pikachu.
9:09
You can enter the waiting room again using the elevator, however you’re still not allowed in that blocked room
...wait, where was it said that Kurt created those apricorn balls 50 years ago? I mean, yeah he makes them, but I never realized we were given a timeline. (I don't consider anything PokeSpecial canon except for "Blue" who was added to LGPE)
While in Pokemon Adventures/Special, Oak became champion of the first Pokemon League, that's only the Indigo League and only in Pokemon Adventures/Special. In the games, the Galar League is at least 50 years old by the time of Sword and Shield, because Mustard (from the DLC) became the Champion of the region after defeating Opal 50 years before Sword and Shield.
...... the detective was a reference to the tv show rotom liked in sun and moon anime
I think it’s possible Galar kept its borders closed for the longest time, so like when Opal was a kid, she couldn’t see other regions, and even way before then, the Pokémon we find in other regions made their way in, Galar’s borders closed, they start a gym challenge where you just beat 8 gyms and yay. Then when Opal would be around her teen years (assuming that’s the time or a little before she takes over the gym) an outsider enters, falls in love with the gym challenge, then creates it back in Kanto, which spreads to other regions except Alola. Then Oak creates the first league and it does so well that other regions follow suit. Galar sees this and creates these huge tournament leagues, and then Rose comes in and publicly broadcasts what Galar can do, thus opening the borders and kicking it off 15-20 years prior. Much later, Professor Kukui establishes the first league in Alola.
That shirt design was not for the Sword and Shield it was a contest held by Japanese clothing company Uniqlo as a part of their limited Pokemon UT Collection. Artists submitted designs and winners got their designs printed into actual shirts that could be bought at Uniqlo and online.
That last part blows my mind
The inaccessible room behind the macro cosmos guy is the room your character uses to change into the challenge outfit, at least that was my grasp of things.
In reality for what Bulbapedia says for the games story the first Pokemon League match was held 150 years prior gen 1, probably in a more rudimental way, in fact Drayden said that Pokeball are a "recent" invention and that in the past Pokemon could simply leave trainer that mistreated them, making things more in line with a possibility of a league that didn't had pokeballs. Also in Pokemon Masters, Iris said that the Galar champion Leon is her cousin.
I know I came in late but in every gym you visit there will be one girl on the left corner of the hall with at first a blipbug and eventually an orbeetle in the battle stadium (as if she's traveling alongside your timeline and evolved her blipbug). She'll encourage you in those gyms and eventually when you become the champ she'll say she knew you will be the champ and she had trained a lot of great trainers. I am super curious if that's a reference to any character in the series.
Regarding the opal thing:
Just because there are gyms doesn't mean there is already a league. Maybe the gyms operated like independent dojos for centuries before someone organized the first league. Maybe the league was created to pacify them, to stop them from fighting each other, or to stop the traditional gyms from dying out.
I dunno if this has been mentioned somewhere, but there’s this Reporter and Cameraman who you get to battle a few times in the game. She uses a Heliolisk and Noivern. I guess this is in reference to another reporter in Kalos, who was the sister of the first gym leader there. I think her name was Alexa or Alexis, I can’t remember, but in the anime, she had a Helioptile and a Noivern and I think that’s a cool Easter egg.