I'll get my kids fc's for this game if you don't mind; not sure you'd ever use it but, hey you never know. I let them play last night, and man, it's all I heard about. I'm not sure they completely understand the pokepedometer thing yet, is there something special about it I can tell them. They know of course, to put a pokemon in it.
Yeah I can hook them up and trade them some rare Pokemon from my Platinum game for free like Charmander or something. The PokeWalker is pretty cool because it encourages them to go outside and play or exercise. Of course you can cheat and shake the damn thing, but if you actually earn watts fair and square it feels extra cool when you get items and Pokemon for your hard work.
they can actually get a charmander the legit way in the game....after you basically beat everything you can go to prof oak and he'll let you choose one of the original starters