Ideas for Pokémon Vehicles

Apart from a certain hot air balloon with Meowth and two other vehicles that I cannot discuss at the moment due to certain circumstances, Pokémon has a way of complementing vehicles in different ways. In real life, this may be in the form of itasha for common land vehicles, which I've discussed along with my personal hopes so long ago. Yet it may be that other real vehicles can get the Pokémon treatment in the same way as the conceived vehicles above, and that at least deserves to be fleshed out in some capacity.

Some of my friends have noted their appreciation and attraction for certain Pokémon of both Rock and Steel types - for example, Aggron and Bastiodon - and I've come to think that they may be embodied in truck form, given their aggressiveness and strength. Even the latter of the two mentioned Pokémon above have the perfect form for the vehicle. Speaking of perfect forms, a Seviper train might look odd, but it's totally conceivable given that Seviper is (or can be) long and some trains are long as well.

On water, most people would likely get around on its surface with the aid of a boat, which has a bowl shape, and so too is the upper part of a Lotad's body. A totally green boat could be considered a "Lotad boat", especially if decorated properly. On a bigger scale, a cruise ship could totally exploit a Wailord theme given how both are relatively large specimens of either group of things, and smaller vessels that accompany the ship could then exploit a Wailmer theme. Other water vessels with Pokémon fantasies are possible as well.

On the air, there are of course Pokémon planes, though some of these only show a general Pokémon decoration, much like some itasha. A plane decorated to look like a Lugia would be something that shows off its species characteristics in a spectacular way. Back to hot air balloons, a Castform balloon would also be appropriate for weather balloons in general, and a twin-rotor helicopter might be well-suited to be decorated to look like a Yanmega. Pokémon that fly are especially appropriate in this regard.

Pokémon on the whole can be considered as incredible creatures with what they do. Perhaps just as incredible as that is the vehicles that are present in various environments that show off how people have developed the means to get around. Combining the two - as the ingenuity of a vehicle together with the appearance of Pokémon - may be considered as a testament for the conception of both. With luck, those vehicles may just find a home in real life as they would in the Pokémon world.

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