Pokémon Day 2018

Date: February 26th 2018 - February 28th 2018

To celebrate Pokémon Day, Pichu and Pikachu in Party Hats became available in Pokémon GO again. For the first time, these Pokémon appeared as Shiny in the game. Outfits based on the Pokémon FireRed & LeafGreen protagonists were also released

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Date: February 26th 2018

To coincide with Pokémon Day, the Charizard Gallery Figure DX was released for the US Pokémon Center

Date: February 26th 2018

For the first time, the 20th Pokémon movie, Pokémon I Choose You, was released on the Pokémon TV app for free for all fans

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Date: February 26th 2018

To celebrate Pokémon Day, some Snapchat filters were released. This started with Bulbasaur in February but continued with the other Kanto starters as the year continued

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Date: February 2018

In 2018, Pikachu Talk was released on Google Home and Amazon Alexa devices. This small app allowed for you to talk to Pikachu through the smart speaker, command it to use Thunderbolt and more

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Date: Retailers across US

The first ever Trade & Play day event was held. This encouraged TCG collectors to go to stores in order to trade cards or play the TCG together