America's DP3: Secret Wonders - The next American Diamond and Pearl TCG set will be named Secret Wonders. It appears that the English set will actually be a compilation of both Japan's DP3 set, Shining Darkness, and Japan's unreleased DP4 set, Moon Hunting / Night Dashing (for more information on the Japanese DP4 set, due to come out in October in Japan, check out our July news story on it).
The images we received today are of cards from the original Shining Darkness Japanese set, but there are new cards included as well, such as Weavile. This leads us to believe that such cards come from Japan's Moon Hunting / Night Dashing (DP4) set, featuring Cresselia, and that our Secret Wonders set will comprise of cards from both sets.
In previous years, sets themed after movies have been released at a later time and out of order to coincide with their movie release. This occurred with EX Legend Maker, which was themed after the 8th Pokemon movie, Lucario and the Mystery of Mew. Its release was pushed back and switched with the release of EX Delta Species in America, when originally, it was supposed to come out before EX Delta Species (this is why EX Legend Maker interrupts the Delta Species Pokemon sets - it came out after it was supposed to).
Unlike the above method of pushing movie-themed sets back to a later release, as the case would have been with Shining Darkness (since it is themed after the 10th Pokemon movie, Dialga vs. Palkia vs. Darkrai), it appears (note: appears) that PUSA has taken a different approach this time. For the most part, the Secret Wonders set we have seems like it will largely comprise of cards from Shining Darkness (DP3), but theoretically, cards like Darkrai, which appear in the 10th movie, will be removed from this set and placed into our next set (which will be released around the same time as when the 10th movie comes out in America). The cards that are removed will probably be replaced with cards from Japan's DP4 set (the Cresselia set), which already seems to be the case with Weavile.
For spoilers of Japan's Shining Darkness set, click here.
