This Mew was distributed at Nintendo Space World '99, which was held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. At this distribution, players connected their game cartridge to a Mew machine. On-screen, a visual of a Mew traveling through a cable to the player's game would appear. To be eligible to receive a Mew, players had to submit an application postcard; only 50,000 people were able to receive this Mew.
Two Pokémon, Fearow and Rapidash, with the special move Pay Day were available through the Pokémon Stamp campaign that ran in various magazines published by Shogakukan.
This Magikarp with the special move Dragon Rage was available for 20 players through the "Tamamushi University Hyper Test" campaign in magazines published by Shogakukan, along with the rare Magikarp card, which is based on this Pokémon.
This Surfing Pikachu promotion was revealed in the October issue of CoroCoro Comics, and the later Flying Pikachu promotion was revealed in the November issue. However, there were only 20 Pikachu available at each promotion.
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Nintendo Space World '97 Mew
Poster promoting the Mew
This Mew was distributed at Nintendo Space World '97, which was held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. At this distribution, players connected their game cartridge to a Mew machine. On-screen, a visual of a Mew traveling through a cable to the player's game would appear. To be eligible to receive a Mew, players had to submit an application postcard; only 100,000 people were able to receive this Mew. While originally going to be run until November 23, 1997, the distribution was later extended to the non-exhibition day November 24, 1997.
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4th Next Generation World Hobby Fair Mew
This Mew was distributed to 700 players at the 4th Next Generation World Hobby Fair, which was located at Tokyo Big Sight in Tokyo Bay, Japan on August 23, 1996.
The first Mew distribution was initially revealed in the May 1996 issue of CoroCoro Comics (which was released in April), and later the second distribution was revealed in the August 1996 issue (which was released in July). The first promotion received over 78,000 applicants, but only distributed 20 Mew. The second promotion received about 80,000 applicants, but this time only 100 Mew were distributed.