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seeker July 12th, 2009 8:16 PM

Seriously, where do they get all this money from!?
 
I was just watching some of the anime lately and team rocket, week after week have robots that would take milions of dollors to make! Same with the villians in the movies! They're spending crazy amounts of money on these things!
I know cartoons don't have to make sense but sometimes i feel they're just insulting our intelligence xD

Okay i will re-phrase the question.
Where do you think they do get all the money hypothetically speaking?

Mitchman July 12th, 2009 8:18 PM

The show is aimed 100% at 6 year olds so no way in hell will it ever make sense.

derozio July 12th, 2009 8:22 PM

^ Maybe you are correct ;).

Eon-Rider July 12th, 2009 8:30 PM

Team Rocket gets all their money from Giovanni who is gullible enough to think that they can actually succeed. Also, James is quite rich if I recall correctly.

pong08 July 12th, 2009 8:46 PM

Yeah, but this is like 400+episodes of spending money on robots and stuff like that. AND THEY FAIL EVERY TIME. But they STILL SPEND MONEY after that. It's just ridiculous amount of money being WASTED

Fallujah July 12th, 2009 9:27 PM

I always think about this, why instead of reciting their motto (which I personally liked the original one better), they just run? They're always in some sort of flying machine, so they could get away pretty fast. Then you can ask,
WHY DON'T THEY JUST GO AND CATCH A PIKACHU?!?!?!

derozio July 12th, 2009 9:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Eon-Rider (Post 4851413)
Team Rocket gets all their money from Giovanni who is gullible enough to think that they can actually succeed. Also, James is quite rich if I recall correctly.

They get all the money from Team Rocket fund :P! XD!
Yeah, james is quite rich but I don't think that he uses his personal wealth for failing everytime! XD

Eon-Rider July 12th, 2009 9:45 PM

There's also the consideration that the technology used in the Pokemon world is slightly ahead of the real world. This can be seen from catching Pokemon, the ability to deposit live organisms into machines and moving pathways as you can see in the movie where Deoxys is featured. It might be less costly to manufacture these machines because of the technological advancements.

But then again, it is a cartoon/anime.

>Feelings< July 12th, 2009 9:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GavZ (Post 4851361)
I was just watching some of the anime lately and team rocket, week after week have robots that would take milions of dollors to make! Same with the villians in the movies! They're spending crazy amounts of money on these things!
I know cartoons don't have to make sense but sometimes i feel they're just insulting our intelligence xD

Okay i will re-phrase the question.
Where do you think they do get all the money hypothetically speaking?

First of all, animes are not supposed to support logic.
Second of all, the money comes from the money they would otherwise use for food, which is why they are hungry all the time. Added with selling some of their possesions, like James' bottle caps.
The machines don't necessarily cost that much. They just buy some scrap parts and join them together most of the time.
So yeah, fot the conclusion, they thought people like us would never never think where it came from, and bend logic on the way.


Quote:

Originally Posted by Yaliw (Post 4851482)
how does Staryu use water gun? It doesn't have a mouth or cannon so....

Actually, this one totally makes sense. In the anime, staryu has a hole at the end of each of it's five... things... It sprays water out of them. That's what I remember.

ReyRey-Pyon July 12th, 2009 9:49 PM

They've stolen parts though, no?
and they get money from scamming kids (fake seals, fake badges, etc) and the food money

derozio July 12th, 2009 10:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by >Feelings< (Post 4851641)
First of all, animes are not supposed to support logic.
Second of all, the money comes from the money they would otherwise use for food, which is why they are hungry all the time. Added with selling some of their possesions, like James' bottle caps.
The machines don't necessarily cost that much. They just buy some scrap parts and join them together most of the time.
So yeah, fot the conclusion, they thought people like us would never never think where it came from, and bend logic on the way.




Actually, this one totally makes sense. In the anime, staryu has a hole at the end of each of it's five... things... It sprays water out of them. That's what I remember.

Nice Explanation there! But I don't think that james' bottle caps cost very much! XD.
That food logic makes some sense though......

Timbjerr July 13th, 2009 5:25 AM

They get money the same way you get money in the games, beating poor little kids in pokemon battles. Remember, despite being pathetic in comparison to Ash and Co., they are fairly decent battlers...and they have a Meowth that can potentially use Pay Day (but I think there was an episode a while back that centered on how Meowth wasn't able to use Pay Day...)

derozio July 13th, 2009 5:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Timbjerr (Post 4852440)
They get money the same way you get money in the games, beating poor little kids in pokemon battles. Remember, despite being pathetic in comparison to Ash and Co., they are fairly decent battlers...and they have a Meowth that can potentially use Pay Day (but I think there was an episode a while back that centered on how Meowth wasn't able to use Pay Day...)

I really don't think that they get money that way. Coz they are always after Pikachu and IF there is anybody they want to attack besides Pikachu then Ash and Co are always there to help those people in need.

~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~ July 15th, 2009 8:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crusher 1 (Post 4851631)
They get all the money from Team Rocket fund :P! XD!
Yeah, james is quite rich but I don't think that he uses his personal wealth for failing everytime! XD

Maybe he does use his wealth on his failure, many people in real life do. Also James can be considered the dumb one of the group


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Ayselipera July 15th, 2009 9:53 AM

They get it from the Team Rocket Fund. Theres some episode where they find out their in alot of debt and they have to resign up to be on the team.

XxDawnfanxX July 15th, 2009 11:17 AM

Giovanni always sends Team Rocket out a loan, but they were never able to pay him back. That is why when they call him for money, he usually says no. They owe the corporation so much already, thats why at one point they had that Delibird come around to get their dues xD.

Asgard July 15th, 2009 11:27 AM

What if they sell the junk on, say, pokE-bay? There's probably someone out there who buys/collects broken machinery. Lawrence III

Anxiety. July 15th, 2009 1:42 PM

A better question would be:
'If they have all the money to make robots, why don't they have enough to buy food, or Pokeballs to catch their own Pokemon with?'

Roundabout July 15th, 2009 1:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GavZ (Post 4851361)
Okay i will re-phrase the question. Where do you think they do get all the money hypothetically speaking?

They have a money printing machine, obviously.

Wings Don't Cry July 15th, 2009 3:25 PM

James' family is filthy rich so he can get money from them and then they recycle the parts each time they fail

Pokedude45 July 15th, 2009 4:04 PM

Hello

They're VILLIANS

They STEAL ALL THE ROBOTS AND STUFF

James family is rich:)

Mormo July 15th, 2009 5:39 PM

I actually think they get all their money from.... an alien from outer space!

......

But, Meowth knows Pay Day. He just takes bottle caps and spams the move, therefore getting them lots of money. Still, I think the amount of money they're spending is simply ridiculous.

Citrinin July 15th, 2009 6:11 PM

They have Team Rocket's vast resources at their disposal, coupled with the fact that in this show, realism is superfluous. XD;

The result: lots of expensive machines.

Sweet Smoochum July 15th, 2009 6:24 PM

I think Giovanni is a billionaire who uses the Rocket Grunts to do his dirty work. They steal Pokemon and sell them for profit. Giovanni gives everyone a small paycheck. (James is already rich, so I'm thinking Giovanni is, too.) The way he dresses in his orange suit, and how Meowth shows the boss, it makes it appear that he's a rich man. That's where I think they get all this money from. Also, he secretly uses his own Pokemon to control the Power Plant. He provides energy for all Kanto and Johto and gaining profit. However, in GSC, they had no control over the Power Plant, so the Rocket grunt went there to take the machine part in order to gain control again, but his plan failed deeply. That's why the grunts keep finding ways to try taking over Johto, but they can't succeed because Lance and Gold kept thwarting their plans.

(I'm combining anime w/ the games now, so I apologize.)

Wh1teW01f July 15th, 2009 7:16 PM

If I remember correctly, the anime actually showed one time where they get the money from. They take out loans from Team Rocket's bank created specifically for Team Rocket members to use. But since they always fail they owe a lot of debt. Also, if I remember correctly, there is a Team Rocket Store that they buy all of their robots and machines from (except for the Magikarp Submarine thing because it is made of like reinforced steel and never gets destroyed for some reason. It's the only machine they ever use that never gets destroyed and is always the same). But they always have to take out a loan because they have no money (expect for James who is filthy rich with a Growlithe as his life long friend) (Wait a minute! Why doesn't James just pay Team Rocket back with his family's money? Wouldn't that be the simplest way to get rid of their debt?).

ShinjisLover July 15th, 2009 7:17 PM

Roketto-Dan takes up many, many jobs, including construction working. And Kojiro's parents are rich.


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