Pokémon TCG Cards Back At McDonald’s, But Not In U.S. (Yet)
The Pokémon TCG is now collaborating with McDonald’s once more, with Happy Meals containing 4 promo playing cards obtainable within the UK now and the US subsequent week.
The Pokémon Trading Card Game is collaborating with McDonald’s as soon as once more, with Pokémon-themed Happy Meals returning to shops. McDonald’s has run Pokémon promotions up to now on quite a few events, with with them normally proving in style.
There have been quite a few collaborations between Pokémon and varied different corporations through the years. These have included the manufacturing of every little thing from novelty foodstuffs to collectible toys. Only final 12 months, as a part of Pokémon’s Twenty fifth-anniversary celebration, a particular promotion was run along side Mcdonald’s. Through this occasion, followers have been capable of get hold of packs of particular Pokémon TCG playing cards with Happy Meals. In whole, 50 totally different playing cards have been made obtainable as a part of the promotion. However, controversy quickly enveloped the promotion. With TCG playing cards skyrocketing in worth on the time, scalpers drawn to the Pokémon promotion ruined it for a lot of followers by shopping for up inventory after which promoting the playing cards on for outrageous costs.
Last 12 months’s issues don’t appear to have dissuaded The Pokémon Company, nonetheless, because it has now teamed up with Mcdonald’s for a brand new wave of Pokémon TCG promotional objects, together with a brand new set of playing cards. As reported by PokéBeach, the promotion is at the moment dwell in UK McDonald’s shops. US retailers, in the meantime, will start the enjoyable subsequent week, with the promotion operating from August 9 to September 26. Included in every Pikachu-themed Happy Meal field are 4 playing cards, in addition to a particular spinner and coin used to play a brand new recreation named “Match Battle”. The measurement of the booster packs is much like that of the Pokémon TCG’s upcoming Halloween Trick-or-Trade BOOsters, which is able to themselves be obtainable in the identical interval beginning September 1.
This 12 months’s promotion is reportedly made up of simply 15 playing cards, a dramatic discount from final 12 months’s promotional card listing. Of these, six (Rowlet, Gossifleur, Growlithe, Victini, Pikachu, and Smeargle) will at all times be holo playing cards, utilizing the identical confetti-style foil as was utilized by final 12 months’s McDonald’s playing cards. The remaining 9 will equally at all times be non-holo playing cards. Also included will probably be directions for Match Battle, which seems to be a easy Top Trumps-like recreation. The spinner and coin used to play Match Battle will function one of many six Pokémon featured on the holo playing cards, with the particular Pokémon obtainable apparently being rotated on a weekly foundation. It is at the moment unclear whether or not these Pokémon Happy Meal gross sales will probably be restricted to fight scalpers, as they have been final 12 months in lots of areas.
The introduction of Match Battle appears prone to make a splash amongst youthful followers. With a straightforward algorithm to observe, it seems to be an entertaining recreation that may be simply performed even with just some Pokémon TCG playing cards. Furthermore, with simply 15 playing cards to gather, this 12 months’s promotion with McDonald’s ought to hopefully show to be a better time for collectors. While it appears inevitable that scalpers will probably be trying to purchase up playing cards wherever they’ll, the a lot shorter card listing will hopefully result in the promotional assortment being a lot simpler to finish. With fewer totally different playing cards, the inventory of every particular person card will naturally rise accordingly. This ought to in concept result in the scalpers’ efforts being stymied by the legal guidelines of provide and demand, which ought to make these Pokémon TCG playing cards lose their worth in consequence.