ATTENTION: Greetings to Chu, Comrades!

[Neo Emolga]

Hey, thank you, guys! Ah, this community is just awesome, I love making events for it. :D

It was great, really wish I had remembered to grab a ss of mine. How did y'all decide who to change originally? Not that I cared just surprised to find Pikachu and not Spike.

Hey, glad you liked it!

Originally, I started with the higher up mods and then worked my way down by doing the most active people on the forum, and then the people who had posted recently (so if you posted a few times in March, you were getting swapped!). I knew I couldn't get everyone (I tried though!), hence the reason for those "default" banners in the initial post, so if anyone didn't get a set but wanted to get in on the fun, they could easily do it.

Yeah, I'd like to know how you chose who to change to what? It's not very well known that Plusle is my favorite pikaclone so it was kind of cool if you got that randomly.

Some people, I picked intentionally. Like Gemma and Chakra absolutely had to be two Pikachus. I also went back and made Caite-Chan an Emolga because we got paired recently. Phantasm.Angel also made a comment about liking Pachirisu, so I did that for him also. Everyone else was kind of randomized, including yours! I didn't even know you liked Plusle, but it was a great coincidence!

You give Neo a little power...

A perfect example of how absolute power corrupts absolutely.


But seriously, good job man. That was awesome!

MUAH HA HA HA HA HA!

Oh, I mean... sure, you're welcome! Glad a lot of people had fun with it! XD

OHMYGOSH, @Neo Emolga you are amazing. <3 I have gladly saved my avi and sig for future use if I ever decide I wanna go all Nazi Chu again. C':

Out of curiosity, how long did it take you to make all those avis and banners? XD

*Gasp* Nazi Chu? :o

I started planning and the creation of the avatars and banners way back when the Valentine's Day event thing ended. I saw everyone was having quite a bit of fun with that event and it gave me the urge and inspiration to do something BIG for April Fools', something that I felt would surprise most people. Overall, it did take quite a few hours of work to make so many banners and avatars, but I was having a blast with it.

Okay, so everyone knows I'm a electric rodent enthusiast and a junkie for first person shooters, war games, and action movie fluff. I thought... ha, wouldn't it be funny to mash the two together and have a electric rodent army going? I also got some inspiration from what Newgrounds did one year with a China-themed reskin with a similar kind of thing going on (propaganda, censorship, and that kind of stuff). So, I played with the idea and started making a banner and avatar set that did just that and make it look like a Russian propaganda poster. It looked hilarious! It was fun to depict a cute, lil' electric rodent cheering on or fighting alongside big gigantic tanks or attack jets. So, after making another and another, I felt this idea would be both original, surprising, and fun to play along with. Oh, I was sure most people would immediately know who was behind it, but I'm sure they weren't expecting it to go this big.

A lot of the backgrounds used in the banners are from World of Tanks, Battlefield 4, World of Warships, Ace Combat, and a few others. The Soviet-style fonts can also be found on dafont.com, but the ones I used were mostly Agit Prop, Kremlin, Motherland, Back in the USSR, Ruskof, Ranyeski, Russian, Soviet, Minirus, Red October, Snowstorm, and KraftUnStil.

Working in the forum skin (which will stay by the way) was a little bit pesky in the beginning with long upload times, missing graphics, and a few other hiccups, but Sarah and I eventually got it to work (and cheered when we finally got it). She also helped with giving me the necessary details to change the banner on the main PXR website, and also implemented it when it was done. I couldn't have done a lot of the stuff without her, and though there were a few moments that we almost went crazy, everything came out well in the end.

Overall, I'm really glad everything went smoothly when it was showtime, a lot of people had fun and played along with it for many great laughs, and I'm thankful for all the support and help I had along the way. Stay awesome, you guys!

As for what to do next year to top all this off... I have no idea, but I'm sure we'll think of something great.

[Chibi Altaria]

@Neo Emolga I was going to say you'd need a LOT of time to do all those for everyone, plus to see who was active enough at the time to swap out.

Also I don't know if anything you do next year can top this. xD ALL HAIL THE ERR!

[Kentucky Fried Torchic]

History major that I am, I'm trying to picture the other WWII counterparts to the Electric Rodent Regime. I'm guessing that the Ground-types represent the more conservative elements of Tsarist Russia, the monarchists, the Kulaks, and capitalists in general. Then I would say that Germany would be the proud Dragon type country, recently humiliated (by Fairy-types) and desperate to reclaim its former glory. Italy would be flying because it's not a very impressive type in general, and is only remarkable when paired with others. Plus that gives us a Dragon/Flying alliance against the Soviet Chunion, resulting in a fairly neutral match-up, as it was in history, more or less. Then I would say Imperial Japan is a Water-type empire, explaining its decision to pursue a Southern strategy against Dutch, British, French, and American possessions rather than risk conflict with an Electric USSR.

[EmeraldSky]

Well, that was a very confusing joke--were we supposed to be the chus or the ones fighting against them?

[Chakramaster]

@Neo Emolga I was going to say you'd need a LOT of time to do all those for everyone, plus to see who was active enough at the time to swap out.

Also I don't know if anything you do next year can top this. xD ALL HAIL THE ERR!

Yes! ALL HAIL THE ERR! For IT IS SUPREME! We never know with Neo. Never know what to expect next.

Well, that was a very confusing joke--were we supposed to be the chus or the ones fighting against them?

We all had an electrical rodent avy and banners (most of us) so we were the Chu trying to take over.

[EmeraldSky]

It would a lot more fun if it were expanded into an all out war between factions--the war-chus, the peaceful chus, some other Pokemon factions, and so on.

[Neo Emolga]

@Neo Emolga I was going to say you'd need a LOT of time to do all those for everyone, plus to see who was active enough at the time to swap out.

Also I don't know if anything you do next year can top this. xD ALL HAIL THE ERR!

I'm going to try though!

The only thing I that I would have liked to add is some interactive component, like how the Easter event had the egg hunt, the crossword puzzle, and the find the differences game. People really enjoyed those and something like that could have been added to this, but by the time I thought of it, it was already too close to showtime to quickly make something up.

History major that I am, I'm trying to picture the other WWII counterparts to the Electric Rodent Regime. I'm guessing that the Ground-types represent the more conservative elements of Tsarist Russia, the monarchists, the Kulaks, and capitalists in general. Then I would say that Germany would be the proud Dragon type country, recently humiliated (by Fairy-types) and desperate to reclaim its former glory. Italy would be flying because it's not a very impressive type in general, and is only remarkable when paired with others. Plus that gives us a Dragon/Flying alliance against the Soviet Chunion, resulting in a fairly neutral match-up, as it was in history, more or less. Then I would say Imperial Japan is a Water-type empire, explaining its decision to pursue a Southern strategy against Dutch, British, French, and American possessions rather than risk conflict with an Electric USSR.

The Soviet Chunion! Ah, why didn't I think of that!?

Very interesting comparison, you definitely know your history stuff!

It would a lot more fun if it were expanded into an all out war between factions--the war-chus, the peaceful chus, some other Pokemon factions, and so on.

Hey, we could always do something like this as a summer event!

[EmeraldSky]

I would've been one of the peaceful chus, if given the choice. ;-)

[Noblejanobii]

Well and we can't forget the rumored Hoenn Alliance. ;)

[Chakramaster]

It would a lot more fun if it were expanded into an all out war between factions--the war-chus, the peaceful chus, some other Pokemon factions, and so on.

I did mention something like that to Gemma earlier saying we should start a Pikachu colony (since Gemma and I are a Pika pair right now. Gem and I could totally co-lead our own Pika colony into War if it so came to it xD). I could totally see something like that happen at some point though. Maybe like Neo said and have something like it as a Summer event.