Another year past, another year speculation ... over how long the Pokémon phenomenon can hold out. Prophesying the Nintendo import's eventual demise we've brainstormed a list of how to recycle Pokémon figures when the sales figures start to dip. Now that you've caught them all, what are you going to do with them?

10: Shish kabob.

9: Scour for them in garbage cans and redeem them for five cents at the recycling center.

8: Send them back to Japan. En mass.

7: Attach electrodes to their heads, feed them with genetic fluid and bring them all to life to sell as real-life pets.

6: Firecrackers. Lots of firecrackers...

5: Melt them down into a huge plastic mecha.

4: Convert them into decorative salt and pepper shakers.

3: Hollow them out to use as antenna-toppers.

2: Sell them to stupid kids and say that they're "Digimon."

1: Stick them in a room with a bunch of typewriters to see how long it takes them to come up with "Hamlet."

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