A few days ago, the Pokémon competitive card game once again made headlines around the world after a most abnormal event that occurred at the Van Gogh Museum, and that is that the emblematic institution dedicated to the Dutch painter turns 50 and was pleased to hold a special collaboration at the end of September with the Nintendo video game brand and Game Freak to publish a series of unique cards.
Among all of them, a special version of Pikachu stood out by far, imitating the famous painting titled ‘Self-portrait with a gray felt hat’ by Van Gogh himself. The fever to obtain this very limited letter among the attendees was immediately noticeable, generating an avalanche of people and chaos in the museum that, later, could be noticed on the Internet when the resale of the Pikachu letter began with very high prices. The commotion and impact of all this has been such that the Pokmon brand has had to come out and apologize on social media.
Pokmon apologizes and assures that there will be more Pikachu Van Gogh cards in the future
On September 29, just one day after the event that occurred at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, the official Pokmon account from the social network
We apologize to all the fans eagerly awaiting our Pokmon Center x Van Gogh Museum release today.
Due to overwhelming demand, all our products from this collection have sold out. We understand this is disappointing to many who were looking to our official email and social media pic.twitter.com/KM3ZCO1EQZ
Pokemon (@Pokemon) September 29, 2023
“We apologize to all the fans who were anxiously awaiting today’s launch of our Pokémon Center x Van Gogh Museum,” the message reads at the beginning. “Due to overwhelming demand, all of our products in this collection have been sold out. We understand that this is disappointing for many of those who were looking to our official email and social media channels for guidance on how and when to buy,” they explain in the statement. and end with the following tidbit of interest: “We are actively working on ways to offer more ‘Pikachu with Gray Felt Hat’ promo cards for fans who purchase from the Pokémon Center in the future. Details will be posted at a later date.” “.
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Pokmon is already working on ways to offer more ‘Pikachu with Gray Felt Hat’ promotional cards, although there is no further news on this at the moment.
As we have said before, the special Pikachu card has been a very limited edition. Those attending the Van Gogh Museum on September 28 were able to obtain one by participating in an activity within the institution, but it quickly sold out. For their part, and alternatively, in the United Kingdom and the United States, some Pokmon Centers also gave away Pikachu Van Gogh cards to customers who made certain purchases, but this promotion only applied to those territories and for the moment it seems that the only way The only way to get the letter is through resale on the Internet, where it is already reaching stratospheric prices of hundreds of dollars.
Although the message published by Pokmon predicts that in the future fans will have more opportunities to get this Pikachu card, the truth is that many have not been pleased that more drastic measures are not taken against speculators and abusive resales. .
2023-10-03 13:00:47
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