{"id":7923,"date":"2017-12-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/pikachu_gets_a_villainous_makeover_with_these_new_secret_team_pokemon_plushies"},"modified":"2017-12-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T00:00:00","slug":"pikachu-gets-a-villainous-makeover-with-these-new-secret-team-pokemon-plushies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/16\/pikachu-gets-a-villainous-makeover-with-these-new-secret-team-pokemon-plushies\/","title":{"rendered":"Pikachu Gets A Villainous Makeover With These New Secret Team Pok\u00e9mon Plushies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know eternal Pok\u00e9mon mascot Pikachu will forever remain a force for good &#8211; including when he <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/the_detective_pikachu_movie_has_received_a_release_date\">hits the big screen with Ryan Reynolds&#8217; voice<\/a>, no less &#8211; but that doesn&#8217;t mean The Pok\u00e9mon Company can&#8217;t throw an adorable curve ball in the form of these new bad guy-themed plushies.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re part of a new &#8216;Rainbow Rocket&#8217; line designed to tie in with the post-game content of the same name that extends the life of <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/pokemon_ultra_sun_and_ultra_moon\">Pok\u00e9mon Ultra Sun<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/pokemon_ultra_sun_and_ultra_moon\">Ultra Moon<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0one that&#8230; well, play it and find out.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/pikachu_gets_a_villainous_makeover_with_these_new_secret_team_pokemon_plushies\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/12\/pikachu_gets_a_villainous_makeover_with_these_new_secret_team_pokemon_plushies\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\" alt=\"news13.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>And the best part? We&#8217;re getting six special takes on the iconic monster in soft, cuddly form. Each one is based on a famous team leader, so if you&#8217;ve ever wanted an evil version of Pikachu that looked like Giovanni, then you&#8217;re in serious luck. The bad news? They&#8217;re only available in Japan. Boo, we want evil soft toys, too!<\/p>\n<p>Are you feeling these new heel-turn takes on a Pok\u00e9mon icon, or do you prefer your pocket monsters to remain true to canon? Go on, comment, you know you want to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know eternal Pok\u00e9mon mascot Pikachu will forever remain a force for good &#8211; including when he hits the big screen with Ryan Reynolds&#8217; voice, no less &#8211; but that doesn&#8217;t mean The Pok\u00e9mon Company can&#8217;t throw an adorable curve ball in the form of these new bad guy-themed plushies. They&#8217;re part of a [&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-7923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7923","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=7923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}