{"id":136285,"date":"2026-03-03T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-198174"},"modified":"2026-03-03T06:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T06:55:00","slug":"pokemon-center-confirms-anniversary-pikachu-plush-restocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/03\/03\/pokemon-center-confirms-anniversary-pikachu-plush-restocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Center Confirms Anniversary Pikachu Plush Restocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/83bd469e8fb8c\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/83bd469e8fb8c\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"83bd469e8fb8c\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Pokemon\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/83bd469e8fb8c\/pokemon.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/83bd469e8fb8c\/pokemon.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"563\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Pokemon\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: The \ufeffPok\u00e9mon Company<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/pokemon_firered_and_leafgreen\">Pok\u00e9mon<\/a> is celebrating its 30th anniversary in all sorts of ways, and one of the most in-demand products is the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pokemoncenter-online.com\/4521329413051.html\">&#8220;Beginning Pikachu&#8221; plush<\/a>, available at the Pok\u00e9mon Center.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, this retro Pikachu inspired the Pok\u00e9mon&#8217;s pixel design and look from the Game Boy generation, is exclusive to Japan, but it&#8217;s already sold out. Scalpers haven&#8217;t helped the situation, but thankfully, this anniversary item is returning.<\/p>\n<p>As highlighted by VGC, The Pok\u00e9mon Company has confirmed it will be restocking this item as a pre-order purchase, so in other words, Pok\u00e9mon fans won&#8217;t be forced to pay extreme resale prices and can instead wait for an official Pok\u00e9mon Center restock to come through.<\/p>\n<p>The key chain, which is based on the same retro Pikachu design, will also be getting restocked in-store and on the website.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"cols cols-2\">\n<div class=\"col col-1 col-width-50\"><a title=\"Pok\u00e9mon\" class=\"scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d2bb23f6d5028\/pokemon.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d2bb23f6d5028\/pokemon.445x445.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"445\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col col-1 col-width-50\"><a title=\"Pok\u00e9mon\" class=\"scanlines scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7b01859d73e8f\/pokemon.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7b01859d73e8f\/pokemon.445x445.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"445\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Images: The \ufeffPok\u00e9mon Company<\/em><\/figcaption><\/aside>\n<p>Select 30th anniversary merchandise has been made available on the Pok\u00e9mon Center locally, but at the moment, there&#8217;s no sign of this retro-inspired Pikachu plush. So, if it is released here, based on this update, it seems there could be a chance of restocks.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/pokemon\/related-articles:51564,198071 @ 1772527941 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>Would you be interested in this Pikachu plush? <em>Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: The \ufeffPok\u00e9mon Company Pok\u00e9mon is celebrating its 30th anniversary in all sorts of ways, and one of the most in-demand products is the &#8220;Beginning Pikachu&#8221; plush, available at the Pok\u00e9mon Center. At the moment, this retro Pikachu inspired the Pok\u00e9mon&#8217;s pixel design and look from the Game Boy generation, is exclusive to Japan, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}