"Someone finally built a life-sized Pokéball you can actually climb inside, and honestly, it's about damn time. For nearly three decades, we've been throwing these things at Pidgeys and Rattatas without ever really knowing what happens when that button clicks and the whole thing seals shut. The anime gave us vague red-light-energy-conversion-something explanations, the games treated it like a loading screen, and the trading cards just showed them closed. The mystery has persisted through 1,000+ Pokémon species, countless regional variants,"
"The project started with a simple question that's plagued Pokémon fans since 1996: what's inside a Pokéball? Instead of accepting Nintendo's hand-wavy "they're converted to energy" explanation, this builder decided to answer it the only way that makes sense for a '90s kid: put a Nintendo 64 running Pokémon Stadium inside one. The irony is perfect. You're sitting inside the device that's supposed to contain Pokémon while playing a game about battling those same Pokémon on a console from the franchise's golden era. It's meta"
A maker constructed a 2-meter-diameter functional Pokéball that contains a gaming room. The interior holds a Nintendo 64 running Pokémon Stadium to simulate what might be inside a Pokéball. The project credits designer Carlos 3D World. The spherical shell uses CNC-cut plywood ribs as the skeleton, over 400 individual 3D-printed panels, and then fiberglass and resin for structural strength. The build process involved multiple failures, including flexible MDF sheets that repeatedly broke and failed polystyrene attempts. The finished piece creates a nostalgic, meta experience by placing a classic console inside a life-sized capture device.
Read at Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
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