{"id":137696,"date":"2026-06-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-202853"},"modified":"2026-06-22T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:00:00","slug":"aardmans-pokemon-series-looks-cracking-in-new-poster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/06\/22\/aardmans-pokemon-series-looks-cracking-in-new-poster\/","title":{"rendered":"Aardman&#8217;s Pok\u00e9mon Series Looks Cracking In New Poster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cc0dc46bcbd76\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cc0dc46bcbd76\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"cc0dc46bcbd76\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Pok\u00e9mon Aardman\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cc0dc46bcbd76\/pokemon-aardman.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/cc0dc46bcbd76\/pokemon-aardman.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon Aardman\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: The Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Every so often, we remember that Wallace and Gromit studio Aardman is working on an animated Pok\u00e9mon series, &#8216;<strong>Pok\u00e9mon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch&#8217;d &amp; Pichu<\/strong>&#8216;, and it brings the biggest smile to our faces. The show itself is still a way off, but we&#8217;ve finally seen the official art and a brief summary of what it&#8217;s all about \u2014 and yes, it sounds cracking.<\/p>\n<p>As revealed at the <a class=\"external\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.annecyfestival.com\/\">Annecy International Animation Film Festival<\/a> (and shared on The Pok\u00e9mon Company&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZ2mrq-jJUO\/\">social channels<\/a>), the poster shows our titular heroes strolling through a mountain region, Pichu balanced on Sirfetch&#8217;d&#8217;s leek sword. Look closely, and you&#8217;ll see that the Fighting type is about to step off the cliff, so expect a good amount of Aardman slapstick from this one.<\/p>\n<p>The accompanying caption gives a little more info about the series itself:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Prepare for an epic journey through the Galar wilds where gallant quests and noble deeds await our heroes. Our new stop-motion animated series with Aardman, is coming in 2027.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"object object-instagram\">\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/DZ2mrq-jJUO\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The project was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2024\/12\/pokemon-announces-collaboration-with-wallace-and-gromit-studio\">initially teased<\/a> way back in 2024, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/07\/aardman-animations-pokemon-collaboration-teased\">short teaser trailer<\/a> dropping a year later. We&#8217;ll have to wait a while longer before we get to see it for ourselves, but gosh, we&#8217;re excited about it.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/pokemon\/related-articles:185521,201999 @ 1782157501 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>What do you hope to see from Aardman&#8217;s Pok\u00e9mon series? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: The Pok\u00e9mon Company Every so often, we remember that Wallace and Gromit studio Aardman is working on an animated Pok\u00e9mon series, &#8216;Pok\u00e9mon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch&#8217;d &amp; Pichu&#8216;, and it brings the biggest smile to our faces. The show itself is still a way off, but we&#8217;ve finally seen the official art and [&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-137696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137696","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=137696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}