Artbox

Artbox
Artbox logo
Founded	1995
Defunct	2011
Headquarters	San Clemente, California
Type	Subsidiary
Owner(s)	Ensky Japan (formerly Amada Printing)
Industry	Collectibles
Website Japan: artboxent.com

Artbox, a subsidiary of Ensky Japan, was a company licensed to produced stickers and lenticular Pokémon cards in Europe and North America from 1999 to 2006. Artbox was founded in 1995 under Amada Printing, a leading manufacturer, marketer and distributor of licensed products. The company had a large list of licensed properties, including Harry Potter, Dragon Ball, Marvel Comics, and The Lord of the Rings. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2011.

As the company is defunct, and most of their products released in 1999, its products are often seen in vintage Pokémon collections.

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• History
• Release overview
  • Release variants
    • Pokémon Artbox stickers
    • Pokémon Artbox Premier Flipz
    • Pokémon Artbox Series 1 Flipz
    • Pokémon Artbox Advanced Flipz
• See also

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History

In Japan, Amada Printing's Pokémon Amada stickers were a huge success, with 23 different sticker sets released between 1996 and 2005. The success prompted the company to use their subsidiary, Artbox, to produce stickers for the Western market. The success in the Japanese market was not echoed internationally, so only one set consisting solely of stickers was produced. Follow-up sets contained mainly lenticular cards with sticker chase cards.

In total, four different sets were made consisting of a mix of stickers and lenticular cards. All products were released in booster boxes with booster packs. Depending on the set, each booster pack contains between 3 and 10 cards. Each set also has a specific collectors album, although not every card can be contained in them.

Release overview

Artbox produced four different Pokémon sets between 1999 and 2006.

Set	Release year	Subsets	No. of cards	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3	Set 4	Set 5
Pokémon Artbox stickers	1999	3	150 + 45 + 18 cards
Pokémon Artbox Premier Flipz	1999	5	40 + 5 + 10 + 10 + 4 cards
Pokémon Artbox Series 1 Flipz	1999	5	80 + 10 + 18 + 18 + 18 cards
Pokémon Artbox Advanced Flipz	2003 & 2006	2	52 + 82 cards

Release variants

Each set released with several variants and subsets, detailed below.

Pokémon Artbox stickers

Set	Release year	Subset	No. of cards	Example 1	Example 2	Example 3
Pokémon Artbox stickers	1999	Regular	150 cards
Pokémon Artbox stickers	1999	Prism	45 cards
Pokémon Artbox stickers	1999	Gold	18 cards

Pokémon Artbox Premier Flipz

Set	Release year	Subset	No. of cards	Example 1	Example 2	Example 3
Pokémon Artbox Premier Flipz	1999	Lenticulars	40 cards
Pokémon Artbox Premier Flipz	1999	Promo Lenticulars	5 cards
Pokémon Artbox Premier Flipz	1999	Super Rare Stickers	10 cards
Pokémon Artbox Premier Flipz	1999	Super Purple Stickers	10 cards
Pokémon Artbox Premier Flipz	1999	Super Gold Stickers	4 cards

Pokémon Artbox Series 1 Flipz

Set	Release year	Subset	No. of cards	Example 1	Example 2	Example 3
Pokémon Artbox Series 1 Flipz	1999	Lenticulars	80 cards
Pokémon Artbox Series 1 Flipz	1999	Promo Lenticulars	10 cards
Pokémon Artbox Series 1 Flipz	1999	Reverse Gold Stickers	18 cards
Pokémon Artbox Series 1 Flipz	1999	Rainbow Gold Stickers	18 cards
Pokémon Artbox Series 1 Flipz	1999	Prism Gold Stickers	18 cards

Pokémon Artbox Advanced Flipz

Set	Release year	Subset	No. of cards	Example 1	Example 2	Example 3
Pokémon Artbox Advanced Flipz	2003	Lenticulars	52 cards
Pokémon Artbox Advanced Flipz	2006	Lenticulars	82 cards

See also

Companies The Pokémon Company The Pokémon Company International (The Pokémon Company International Ireland • The Pokémon Company International Mexico • Millennium Print Group) • Pokémon Korea • Pokémon Center Co., Ltd. • Pokémon Singapore • Pokémon Shanghai • Pokémon Taiwan • Genius Sonority • The Pokémon Works • Pokémon with You Foundation Animation & movies 4Kids Entertainment • Bang Zoom! Studios • Deluxe • DuArt Media Services • Framestore • Iyuno • Miramax • Moving Picture Company • OLM, Inc. • TAJ Productions • Toho • Universal Pictures Home Entertainment • The Walt Disney Company • Warner Bros. Books & strategy guides Golden Books • Media Factory • Prima Games • Scholastic • Simon & Schuster (Pikachu Press) • Studio BentStuff Collectible cards Artbox • ConceptLab • D.A.G Inc. • Edibas Collections • Excell Brands • Meiji • N-DESIGN Inc. • Studio Bora Inc. • Topps • Toyste Beach • whomor Inc. • Wizards of the Coast Manga Chuang Yi • Outland forlag • Panini Comics • Shogakukan (Shogakukan Asia) • VIZ Media Merchandise & retail Blokees • Funko • GameStop • Good Smile Company • Hasbro • Jakks Pacific • Jazwares • Jollibee • JR Kikaku • Keeppley • Kotobukiya • Play by Play • Re-Ment • Takara Tomy • The Hershey Company • Toy Factory • Uniqlo • Zanzoon Video games Bandai Namco • Creatures, Inc. (Ambrella) • DeNA • Denyusha • Game Freak • HAL Laboratory, Inc. • Hudson Soft • ILCA • Jupiter Corporation • Koei Tecmo • Niantic • Nintendo (Mario Club • Nintendo of America • Nintendo System Development) • ORBITALLINK Inc. • PLANETA • Scopely • Sega • SELECT BUTTON inc. • Spike Chunsoft

This article is part of both Project Merchandise and Project Mass Media, Bulbapedia projects that, together, aim to write comprehensive articles on the production of Pokémon merchandise.