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Pokemon Center Implementing New Bot Prevention Measures

Pokemon Center has been making Pokemon drops pretty regularly these last few weeks - usually spanning once or twice a week. Although, that doesn't come without challenges. Bots continue to overrun the queue and get through without many issues, as a lot of these bot providers continue to try their best with engineering any prevention updates Pokemon Center throws their way. However, this past Friday, something rather interesting happened... Pokemon Center queue had gone up a few times during the day, causing many people to rush to the site in the hopes of securing whatever drop was happening. As the minutes past, it became obvious nothing was dropping and rather a false alarm? I mean, it can happen! A lot of these monitor bots these Pokemon restock servers implement tend to look out for backend changes that happen to the site, alerting people of the queue going up.  The track record for that has been pretty impressive, but this past Friday, nothing came of it. What was interesting, ...

Pokemon Center Destined Rivals Items Preorder DROP - Experience + Analysis

Earlier today, the Pokemon Center dropped the Destined Rivals ETB, Booster Boxes, and Booster Bundle items. As expected, the queue system went up and was instantly inundated with folks trying to secure the PC exclusive Destined Rivals ETB. Here is my personal experience... I woke up early and my friend showed me the new ETB artwork. I was under the impression that there would be no drop until later this week. Considering the PC preorder drops tend to occur on Thursdays and Fridays, I would have assumed the same would happen this week, so I didn't pay too much attention. I almost decided to fall back asleep, but then I heard people mentioning a potential drop today. So upon hearing  that, I decided to stay up a bit longer, and I am glad I did! Shortly after, I saw the queue system notifications going off, so I decided to jump on the Pokemon Center website immediately. I was trying to queue up from my phone and PC, hoping to get in from one of those locations. It took around 15 minut...

Ethan's Typhlosion - Illustration Rare Revealed!

Ethan's Typhlosion illustrated rare has been revealed for the Heat Wave Arena set! This set is slated to release on March 14th, 2025 in Japan, and showcases various trainer Pokemon, ranging from Misty's Starmie, Ethan's Ho-Oh, and Cynthia's Garchomp (just to name a few).  Looking at the artworks for these cards, the hype will be off the charts the moment this set releases.  As someone who is getting back into collecting Pokemon cards again, I definitely need to cop all these illustration rares! The artwork, color, and attention to detail is beyond impressive. I can confidently say RIP my wallet, but then again, trying to secure it is another story. Until that moment comes, we can enjoy the artwork and anticipate getting our hands on these cards some day!  

TPCi Acknowledges Prismatic Evolutions High Demand - Official Statement

The Pokemon Company International has put out an official statement about the upcoming TCG release for Prismatic Evolutions. It should come at no surprise that the demand is extremely high due to the special illustration rares for Eevee and Eeveelutions. With the Pocket TCG app driving forth an incredible uptick in interest and fans rushing out to buy modern sets, and to social media driving forth poke-investing for singles and sealed products, this set is driving a lot of demand to the point it is almost close to impossible to order one. Unless you got lucky pre-ordering or spent a crazy amount towards scalpers, trying to secure any Prismatic Evolutions product is definitely a task to say the least. With that said, it is good to see Pokemon officially acknowledging this and releasing a statement. Hopefully more product can be printed and released for more fans to enjoy. As someone who is grew up with collecting the cards and is currently getting back into it due to the PTCG driving in...

Pokemon TCG Pocket Future Plans Announced + Pokemon Center Update

Recently, the Pokemon TCG Pocket app account announced its future update plans within a post on Twitter. This brief statement gets us ready for upcoming content within the coming months. While it didn't go into specific details, we can infer that November, December, and January will be jam-packed with events and packs. The app has been receiving regular updates every couple of weeks to highlight various features, whether it is the wonder pick, solo battling against AI, or solo battles against other players. So we can assume these features will be the focus for future events, in addition to the upcoming trading feature. I'm sure we will receive the A2 packs very soon, too.  The statement reads as follows: "To all of you playing Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket, This is the Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket Operations Team. First off, we would like to use this opportunity to thank everyone who waited in anticipation of the release, as well as everyone who has given the gam...

Pokemon TCG: November 2024 Collectors Chest Pre-Order Available

The Pokemon TCG November 2024 Collectors Tin pre-order is live on Amazon. This product contains the following: 6 TCG booster packs 3 foil cards, featuring Pikachu, Dipplin, and Teal Mask Ogerpon 1 coin featuring Terapagos 4 colorful sticker sheets Mini portfolio to store cards Code card for Pokemon TCG Live This product will be released on November 15, 2024, so within a few days! It's good to see Pokemon continuing to different item categories for their TCG. With the release of Pokemon TCG Pocket, I'm expecting an influx of new players within the scene, getting interested within the TCG. As someone who started collecting Pokemon cards from the 1990s when the first season of the show started airing, the Pocket app has rejuvenated my interested in collecting again, so this product does seem rather enticing for me, especially considering it comes in a collector's chest.  There is an ongoing shortage on the Pokemon Center website when it comes to a lot of TCG collector products...

New Pokemon Website Revealed! The Pokemon Works

Following the announcement of a dedicated team between Game Freak and Ilca being created, we now have further details about the collaborative efforts! The Pokemon Works website has officially launched .  Within the About Us section of the website, it states the following: -- "We are a development team born from two companies, Pokémon Inc. and Iruka Inc. Our goal is to provide a rich experience that extends the world of Pokémon to everyone, regardless of generation, country, or region. As a team focused solely on Pokémon, we are a group of Pokémon lovers who hone our skills and creativity to develop not only games but also services such as “Pokémon HOME”. The road to development is sometimes difficult. However, it is in times like these that we must maintain a strong sense of “Let's do it! But it is in times like these that we test whether or not we can maintain our strong “I'm going to do it! This desire to convey the appeal of Pokémon, no matter the difficulties, is the d...