Pokémon started out with 151 Pokémon in generation 1. The amount grew in every generation and in generation 9 in 2025, there are already 1,025 of them (1,000 being Gholdengo, being made out of 1,000 coins)!
That's so many that actually catching them all like the theme song encourages you to do will already take you a *very long* time! Some of them can be *very rare* too, but Pokémon fans that liked papercraft too did set up the PaperPokés website where everybody could download and build papercraft versions of them, regardless of how rare they are!
PaperPokés was a fun site that added *a lot* of new free papercraft Pokémon to the list, but at some point, people just started wanting to spend more time with work and friends and family and other things of course. So understandably they agreed to end their Paperpokes Project, but I think you can still download most (if not all?) papercraft Pokémon that they made from their PaperPokés site!
Now you can even download some official ones like Dialga an Palkia from the official English Pokémon site like I showed you in 2021, and this simple Pikachu one (I have that bookmarked since 2008, but I can't seem to find if I ever showed it to you - but I hope I did of course! 😉) from the official Japanese Pokémon site!
But of course lots of other papercrafters are also still making unofficial papercraft Pokémon to this day for their own enjoyment and sharing them for your enjoyment too!
Most people like Paperman Returns for example just make one like Pikachu (I also only ever made one papercraft Pokémon so far, Sharpedo) or they make just a few like Tanaka Masahiko or Rodrigo Rivas Costa to show off his new Papercraft tool. Tenpepakura make them much more regularly though and just this October he shared a papercraft Chikorita!
And then of course there's Javierini's blog, which existed since Paperpokés too already, who's still regularly sharing lots of new papercraft Pokémon that have been built by his test building friends and just today he made a free papercraft Pokémon Spinda! 😊
Download + build your own free papercraft Pokémon Spinda (+lots more, by Javierini):
(you'll need to use the free Pepakura Viewer or PaperMaker website to open *.pdo files!)
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