A Boston tattoo artist is creating a real life ‘Pallet Town’ thanks to her quest to tattoo all 151 original Pokemon.

Alicia Thomas, 25, wants to ‘catch them all’ and she isn’t too far off it.

“I’ve tattooed about 130 of them so far… I started the project out of my own love and appreciation for Pokemon,” Miss Thomas told Yahoo7.

“It was a big part of my childhood, not much from my childhood has stayed with me but Pokemon has definitely been a constant variable in my life.”

Miss Thomas has spent hundreds of hours on the passion project ‘Help Me Catch Them All’ tattooing at Boston Tattoo Co. in Somerville, Massachusetts.

“Each Pokemon takes me between 1-3 hours depending on size, detail and where on the body it goes,” she said.

“Doing the math of each Pokemon taking on average about 1.5 hours x 130 Pokemon, I've put in a little under 200 hours so far”.

When it came to her clients making the tough decision on which Pokemon to get, Miss Thomas felt people would usually go with their ‘Spirit Pokemon’ – The one that most suited their personality.

And she didn’t find it hard for people to claim the less popular Pokemon such as Magikarp and Metapod either.

View photos Alicia Thomas is on a mission to tattoo all 151 original Pokemon. Photo: Supplied More

“There are definitely some people that can relate to characters such as Metapod, Magikarp and Ditto.

“To be quite honest, Magikarp and Ditto were "caught" very early on in my quest to tattoo them all”.

And while most of her clients had only signed up for one Pokemon she said some had gotten full evolution sets.

“I’ve had several of my ‘Pokemon clients’ get more than one tattoo,” she said.

“I’ve been asked several times to do entire evolution sets… The only one I’ve done on the same person was Squirtle – Wartortle – Blastoise... He was so excited to get it that we actually added a border made up of the original gym badges!”

Others took the chance to make it a ‘family affair’.

View photos Some of her 'Poke' clients got full evolution sets. Photo: Alicia Thomas More

“I’ve had two brothers get a Charmeleon and Charizard and their mum got a Charmander,” she said.

“She wasn’t getting it for herself, but for her two boys. She told me about watching her sons grow up playing the games and trading the cards and how Pokemon was a big part of their childhood,” she said.

“The three of them came in and all got their Pokemon on the same day… it was a great experience”.

Childhood nostalgia was the obvious reason most of Miss Thomas' clients wanted a Pokemon tattoo.

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