In 2003, Pentel opened a branch in Brazil and began to manufacture pens and pencils there. At some point they began manufacturing the P200 pencils in the standard sizes and colors (P203E, P205A, P205B, P205D, P207C and P209G). Now all of these (and future releases) were released in Brazil with ‘PB’ (Pentel Brazil) at the end of the model number (in their catalogs, at least), so the P205A was released as P205-APB. I have no way of knowing for sure, but I believe that only the outer body is manufactured in Brazil, and all of the other components are brought in from Japan, as the clip still says Japan on it.
I believe that this was the first time that Pentel manufactured the P200 pencils outside of Japan, and thus, in the second line of the cutout, it does not say JAPAN. In fact it does not say anything, except for the mark.
Note, that some of the pencils released exclusively in Brazil were manufactured in Japan and say JAPAN in the cutout. I will mention that when I cover those pencils.
In 2009, Pentel Brazil began releasing color P200s that are only available in Brazil. Today I will be covering the biggest selection of these, the COLLECTION COLORS.
Another point is that these pencils are released either as a single pencil with the barcode sticker attached, or they were released as a carded retail package with a different barcode. Of the 58 pencils I purchased from Brazil (includes some duplicates), I only received 7 in the retail package, so I don’t have complete barcode information for those. The barcode information below is for the individual releases.
As far as I can tell, for the COLLECTED COLORS, these pencils are shown here in release order. I may write something later about how I determined this.
P200-WPB White
The P205-WPB White pencil was the first Brazilian color released in 2009. From a blog post I have found, I know the Blue text version of the P207-WPB was released in 2010. The P203-WPB and P209-WPB were then released in 2011, when they started expanding their line to other color pencils.
I have no way to verify this, but I suspect that they were going to make the text the color of the original line of P200s (0.3mm = brown, 0.5mm = black, 0.7mm = blue and 0.9mm = yellow), but when they started releasing other colors of pencils and changed their plans to release the other white pencils with black text. In my mind, this is the only thing that makes sense about why they P207 has blue text.
Up until 2017, they kept making the P207 with blue text, but in 2017, they replaced the blue text version with the black text version. Replaced is the key word here, as they kept the same barcode for the black text pencil.
All versions of this pencil were manufactured in Brazil.
The barcodes for these are:
P203 – 7898419156974
P205 – 7898419152440
P207 – 7898419153904 – both versions
P209 – 7898419157032
I received the first four (blue text P207) in the above mentioned April 2017 shipment, with the P205 & P209 being packaged. In May 2018, I received the black text P207 from anther friend from Brazil.
P200-FRPB Ferrari Red
These pencils are a brighter red than any other color released (other than neons). These were all manufactured in Brazil. These pencils were released in 2011.
The barcodes for these are:
P203 – 7898419157018
P205 – 7898419160872
P207 – 7898419160889
P209 – 7898419160896
I received these in a large shipment from a friend in Brazil in April 2017.
P200-PPB Light Pink
This one is a little out of order, but makes sense when looking at the next color. The colors in these pictures are a little washed out and the actual pencils are a little more pink than shown above. These were all manufactured in Brazil.
This series was released in 2011, and discontinued and replaced by the P200-PNPB Pink.
The barcodes for these are:
P203 – 7898419156998
P205 – 7898419160858
P207 – 7898419160865
P209 – 7898419155359
Again, received in April 2017.
P200-ZPB Silver
These Silver pencils are a very different color from the other silver P200 pencils, with these not having a metallic component, just a silver/light gray color. Compare these to the P205M-Z and the P205MZX from the P205 Metallics post or the blank silver P205-Z from the European Oddballs post. These were among the first non-white colors released in 2011.
Silver P200 Comparison – Top to Bottom: P205M-Z, P205MZX, P205-Z, P205-ZPB
These P205-ZPB pencils were all manufactured in Brazil.
The barcodes for these are:
P203 – 7898419156981
P205 – 7898419156738
P207 – 7898419156745
P209 – 7898419156752
These were the first Brazilian pencils I purchased. I got them from Andrey543 on eBay in September 2016, before I ever got in contact with anyone in Brazil.
P200-LPB Lilac
These are a light purple in color and were all manufactured in Brazil. These pencils were released in 2014.
The barcodes for these are:
P203 – 7898419158848
P205 – 7898419158855
P207 – 7898419158862
P209 – 7898419158879
Again, I received these with the large shipment in April 2017.
P200-MTAPB Matt Black
These are the same matt black that were seen in the European Oddballs post, and like those, were all manufactured in Japan.
I kind of believe that these may have been the latest pencils to be released since unlike most of the others, this has Collection in front of the normal text. They were released in 2014, but later in production than the P200-LPB Lilac.
The barcodes for these are:
P203 – 7898419159302
P205 – 7898419159319
P207 – 7898419159326
P209 – 7898419159333
Received in the large shipment from April 2017.
P200-XPB Gold
Like the Matt Black pencils above, these Gold pencils also include Collection before the normal text, leading me to believe the two colors are the latest releases from 2014. The gold of these pencils are different from the P205M-X or the P205M-X50 from the P205 Metallics post or the P209-X Kirari from the P209 Kirari post.
Gold P200 Comparison – Top to bottom: P209-X Kirari, P205M-X, P205M-X50, P205-XPB
I received one of these (P207) in a retail package, and it was manufactured in Brazil, but the other 3 were all manufactured in Japan.
The Barcodes for the P200-XPB are:
P203 – 7898419159340
P205 – 7898419159357
P207 – 7898419159364
P209 – 7898419159371
These were received in the April 2017 shipment.
P200-PNPB Pink
These are the currently available Pink pencils in Brazil, and were manufactured in Brazil. These replaced the P200-PPB Light Pink pencil in 2015.
I received all of these in the retail packaging, but unusually, one of these (the P203) also had the individual barcode sticker on it, which none of the other retail pack pencils had.
The catalog barcodes for these are:
P203 – 7898419162821
P205 – 7898419162838
P207 – 7898419162845
P209 – 7898419162852
Received in April 2017.
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