Collecting pokemon figures

[oro]

I originally bought one hundred pokemon figures from www.LDUcompany.com but they say there are over 400 different kinds. They have one wholesale lot of 440 at this page http://www.liangdianup.com/inventory/109933.htm

Are there really that many different monsters? Every place I look says a different total number. Even the official pokemon website says a different total then some posters that I have seen. Is this a growing number? Do they even have this cartoon anymore?

[Holland Guy]

this is a brief pokemon amount timeline:

first series ->101/102 pokemon, depends if you count Mew.
second series ->they add 150 pokemon, which makes 251/252.
third series ->i'm not absolutely sure, i think they add 200 pokemon, but i'm not really an expert...
fourth series ->no idea, but it should be over 400, so there you go.

i also think that the fourth series has just started, sometime after the release of pokemon Daimond/Pearl, so yeh, they still do have pokemon.