Pokémon Day 2019

Date: February 27th 2019

On Pokémon Day itself, a Pokémon Direct was released. This Pokémon Direct featured the reveal of the eighth generation of Pokémon: Pokémon Sword & Shield

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Date: February 26th 2019

The day before Pokémon Day, a new trailer was released for the live-action movie, Detective Pikachu

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Date: February 26th 2019 - February 28th 2019

To celebrate Pokémon Day, all Kanto Pokémon were available in spawns in Pokémon GO during the event. Alongside this, both Pikachu and Eevee in Flower Crowns were made available for players to catch. Shiny Pidgey and Shiny Rattata were also added to the game for the first time

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Date: February 27th 2019

The first shirts in the Pokémon Shirts special collaboration were released. These included 100 Kanto patterns that could be altered and customised on shirts and created to order

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Date: February 27th 2019

To celebrate Pokémon Day, a special high quality collection of apparel, wallets etc. Was released on the Pokémon Center in the US

Date: Online

To celebrate Pokémon Day, the Build-a-Bear website gave 30% discount on all Pokémon plush bundles from February 25th through 27th

Date: New York

On Pokémon Day, a special Streetware collection from 10.Deep was released, focused around Team Rocket. This was held at the flagsip store in New York and then released at select stores afterwards

Date: Online

To celebrate Pokémon Day, the Twitch Pokémon Marathon returned where from February 27th through May 5th, it aired episodes from Pokémon Diamond & Pearl, Black & White and X & Y