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As revealed by Shudo, Lugia was commissioned for the movie, and he was quite surprised to find out that it was later included in the games. Lugia was solely designed by Takeshi Shudo, who at the time was the head writer for the Pokémon anime, as well as the scriptwriter for The Power of One, the second Pokémon movie, which was released in July of 1999.
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The anime's model sheet using the design with green skin was shown in a mid-April 1999 release of CoroCoro Comic, and a few issues later merchandise depicting Bellossom's final green-skinned design is shown, implying that the color change probably happened soon after the artwork was finalized.
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Regarding in-game sprites, the color change seems to have happened somewhere after mid-June of 1999, as by the time the Space World '99 demo was compiled the sprite with blue skin and red flowers/petals had already been repurposed as Bellossom's shiny sprite. While preceding the controversy regarding Jynx's skin color, the design team possibly decided to change Bellossom's in fear it'd be seen as questionable given its Polynesian influences, though this color change could have also been made because the design team wasn't satisfied with how it looked. Given how the earlier version of Bellossom found in the Space World '97 proto even shares this trait, this seems to prove that this was the original intent before it was ultimately changed.
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April 24 - Earliest known prototype for the English version of Pokémon Gold and Silver.November 21 - Pokémon Gold and Silver are released in Japan.October 17 - Final build dates for the Japanese version of Pokémon Gold and Silver.August 27-29 - The games, reported to be 90% complete, are showcased at Space World '99.August 17 - The demos for Pokémon Gold and Silver at Space World '99 are compiled.April 14 - Pokémon Pinball is released in Japan, where music from Gold and Silver is featured.April - The May 1999 issue of CoroCoro is released, reintroducing Gold and Silver to the public.The original map is scrapped and work by now has begun on the earliest version of the Johto map. May 6 - The original Japan game map featured in Space World 97, alongside all internal Pokémon designs are backed up internally.The official Nintendo webpage for Gold and Silver announces that the games will be postponed with no definitive end date.Nintendo's official Space World '97 page advertises a revised release date of the last third of March.January-March - The demos of Gold and Silver from Space World '97 are showcased at the World Hobby Fair in various locations around Japan.December 16 - The " Pokémon Shock" event occurs, causing the anime to be halted and delayed for a significant amount of time, and potentially impacting development of games and merchandise.Around that time, the release date was adjusted to March 1998. November 21-23 - Playable demos of Pokémon Gold and Silver debut at Space World '97.November 15 - The demos for Pokémon Gold and Silver at Space World '97 are compiled.September 5 - The week's issue of Famitsu reports that Pokémon 2 will be released in Fall 1997.June - Nintendo's official Pokémon 2 page, archived in June 1997, advertises an initial release date of the end of 1997.April 1 - The Pokémon anime debuts, with Ho-Oh making an appearance near the end of the first episode.
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July - Pokémon 2 is first publicly announced.February - Development of the games begins almost immediately after the release of Red and Green.Indeed, much of the staff was allocated to working on localizing the first two games, and the development team of Gold and Silver only had about four programmers, which was similar in size to the development team for Red and Green but with the added challenge of creating several new features for the games. Development of Gold and Silver took significantly longer than Game Freak originally prepared for, which as it turns out was due to several reasons.