Pokemon Learning League

I was the one who uploaded the video to Youtube. At that pont, I'd been searching for actual footage for years. I found it on Newgrounds after someone on the old LMW wikia directed me there. It's not much (the interactive segments are still lost), but it was nice to finally have something that wasn't another screenshot or slideshow.

Anyway, some other interesting things I found while researching Pokemon Learning League (PLL) include:

1) Bulbapedia's article on PLL has a full list and summary of each lesson, as well as several screenshots.

2) The site can technically be accessed via the Wayback Machine. However, most of the site's flash content wasn't archived. This does give us an idea of the site's layout, but unfortunately, since PLL was created in flash, none of the actual lessons are accessible.

3) The series was written and animated by a company named 360KID. They still have PLL listed on their portfolio page, and even show a small snippet of Ash throwing a Pokeball in their animation reel (which is odd, since PLL was shutdown sometime between 2009-2010, while this reel seems to be from 2012). They also seem to be pretty active on social media, having accounts on Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube, so contacting them through one of these methods might help us get more info.

Hope this helps and that it won't be long before new info/clips surface!

An update on the emails

While I haven't gotten a reply from anyone at 2A!, I did get a response from Scott Traylor, head of 360KID. He told me that while he still does have the front-end content for PLL, he's unable to share it for legal reasons. Can't really say I'm surprised there.
He did, however, mention that he has plans to give a lecture on PLL at a school in New York, talking about the creative process and even showing a few episodes as examples.
As for now, that presentation sounds like our best bet for more clips/info regarding PLL. 2A! could very well respond soon, and Entropy Multimedia (who created all of PLL's back-end data) might be a good lead, but I'm also a bit afraid that legal issues might get in the way of us getting clips from either comapnies. Maybe we could try contacting The Pokemon Company or showing them that there's interest?

Oh, and actually, there is another video! It's from the How To Make Friends section of Life Skills, and features Brock and Quinn!:

www.comdotgame.com/play/how-to-make-friends


Additionally, if you go to the archived version of the website, it's possible to download some worksheets from the trial courses!

Congrats on the find!! Glad to see more people are joining the search 

This also got me thinking......since the Water Cycle video was found on Newgrounds, and now this one on Comdotgame, maybe other Flash game/animation sites would be a good place to look.

Btw, have you heard anything back from 360KID yet?

A few updates:

1) I decided that it was time to give PLL a proper LMW article. I had one on the old LMW Wikia site, but it's extremely outdated and didn't go into nearly as much detail. Check out the new article here!!

2) A small update, but I think I found a new lead. Dave McMahon is an artist and creative director who, according to his portfolio, worked on PLL in 2007. I tried emailing him, though he has yet to respond.

3) Finally, More PLL footage was found!! It's the Watch segment from the "Online Safety" episode, and was uploaded to Newgrounds in  early 2009.<NSFW Link>

There was a problem with this version, however. Unlike the "Water Cycle" footage uploaded by the same user, this version contained many edits (Quinn was a pothead, NSFW images in the search results, etc). Thankfully, after getting the swf (and after many, many, MANY headaches with SoThink's Decompiler and Flash), I was able to undo most of these changes and get a version that more closely resembled the original episode.

I appreciate this as lost media, but they're just...so bad.

Thanks to everyone for all the hard work they’ve done to research and document the Pokemon Learning League website. I used to go on the site regularly, so it was enlightening to learn the history and the companies behind it.

I remember enjoying the lessons on PLL, even though I was a bit old for the target demographic, haha. I thought it was a neat concept, and although the quality wasn’t the best, it was pretty decent. I was into the Pokemon anime at the time, so I appreciated the additional content with Ash and the gang.

At the time I was using the site, PLL was in its free period, with an announcement that they would transition to a paid subscription sometime in 2007. I didn’t want to lose access to the episodes, so I had the idea to download the SWF files as backup on my hard drive. I saved the Watch, Try, and Apply flash files for all the topics available at the time, plus the associated Assessment PDFs. I even downloaded some miscellaneous stuff like the intro video and the player container file.

Luckily, the topics were located at simple URL addresses, so it wasn't too difficult to guess where each file was. This meant that even after the free trial period was over, I was still able to view and download new topics as they came out. (I felt like a rebel...) In the end, I downloaded all the episodes and files I could find before the site shutdown. (I might be misremembering, but there were some topics that had a “Coming Soon” tag, however they were never released before the site shutdown)

Since then, I honestly haven't thought about PLL much. I didn't think of sharing the files in the meantime, since I thought no one else would remember or care. It was about a week ago that someone I follow on Twitter retweeted a post for #DawnAppreciationDay. The original poster talked about Dawn's outfit change in PLL, mentioning that the web series had only a few surviving episodes and was now considered lost media.

I was quite taken aback after reading that. "What? Lost media? But I got the files..." This revelation prompted me to look around for more info on the current status of PLL. It surprised me that through the years there were people who remembered the web series and are even looking for the episodes. My searching has eventually led me here, and I am pretty excited to share what I have of PLL!

There were 139 topics released, and the total size of all the files is about 830 MB. I have uploaded them to Archive.org, which can be accessed here:

archive.org/details/pokemon-learning-league

Thanks for reading through my (long) rambles. I hope everyone can experience a piece of obscure Pokemon history and enjoy their journey through the Pokemon Learning League!