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The Cinnabar Lab (Japanese: グレンラボラトリーGuren Laboratory), also called Pokémon Lab (Japanese: ポケモンけんきゅうじょPokémon Laboratory), is a research facility located on Cinnabar Island.
In the games
It was founded by Dr. Fuji (Japanese: フジ博士Dr. Fuji), the title held by Mr. Fuji in his youth.
A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.
A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.
A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.
When Ash and his friends arrived on Cinnabar Island in Riddle Me This, they had planned to visit the Pokémon Lab, although they were dismayed to discover that it, like the rest of Cinnabar Island, had turned into yet another tourist trap.
Its second floor appears to be a Pokémon exercise and training center with a pool and fitness equipment. Team Rocket attempted to go there and steal the Lab's Fighting-type Pokémon, bombing the building's roof in the process. After Blaine had received a phone call about the bombing, Ash and his friends intervened and sent Team Rocket blasting off.
According to the 1999 version of Mewtwo's Pokédex entry from Pokémon.com, Mewtwo was created at the Cinnabar Lab.[1] This is also implied in an early guidebook, referring to a genetically engineered Pokémon that was created in a laboratory on Cinnabar Island with a cloning facility. It later broke free and escaped, partially destroying the place (possibly a reference to Mewtwo from Mewtwo Strikes Back).[2]
However, neither the core series games nor Pokémon the Series explicitly state where Mewtwo was created. The claim that Mewtwo was created at the Cinnabar Lab may be related to the fact that the Pokémon Mansion with its journals about the origin of Mewtwo is located nearby on Cinnabar Island. Alternatively, in Pokémon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!, Mewtwo may have been created in the Mansion due to the presence of glass tanks in the basement, the largest of which Mewtwo and Mew react to if brought close to it as walking Pokémon and shows signs of having been beaten on over and over from the inside. By contrast, in the Pokémon Adventures manga, Mewtwo was explicitly created in the Team Rocket Hideout instead.[3]
↑"Mewtwo was created in the Pokémon Lab on Cinnabar Island. Scientists tried to create the perfect fighting machine, and they succeeded - perhaps too well." - Pokémon World - Mewtwo (archived), Pokémon.com
↑"One of the Pokémon research centers has been destroyed. A genetically engineered Pokémon broke free of its cage and escaped, demolishing the lab in the process. Luckily for you, the cloning facility is safe and sound." - Cinnabar Island section in the game walkthrough, Pokémon: Official Nintendo Player's Guide, page 58
