{"id":19046,"date":"2019-05-17T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T00:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=19046"},"modified":"2019-04-28T13:25:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T13:25:46","slug":"unplugged-the-pokemon-card-game-featuring-detective-pikachu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/17\/unplugged-the-pokemon-card-game-featuring-detective-pikachu\/","title":{"rendered":"Unplugged: The Pok\u00e9mon Card Game Featuring Detective Pikachu"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>When I was in college and writing game reviews for The Dallas Morning News, the first E3 I went to was when Nintendo was going to release Pok\u00e9mon in the US for the first time.\u00a0 I knew it would be a big hit, so I requested to my editor that I be in charge of covering everything Pok\u00e9mon related for the newspaper.\u00a0 He was like, \u201cyeah sure, whatever,\u201d but he did keep his promise for at least a couple of years.\u00a0 I even learned how to play the Pok\u00e9mon card game so I could cover events and competitions revolved around it.\u00a0 I like to say that Pok\u00e9mon helped pay my way through college as I was writing tons of Pok\u00e9mon articles then!\u00a0 It\u2019s amazing to me that Pok\u00e9mon is still super popular after all this time, even the card game.\u00a0 And now there is a new live action movie out in theaters called Detective Pikachu.\u00a0 To celebrate, the makers of the card game have released a wide selection of Detective Pikachu cards and packages, so today we\u2019re going to look at all of them!<\/p>\n

The first is a blister pack featuring Detective Pikachu himself.\u00a0 It comes with a special card from the movie, two Detective Pikachu booster packs, and one regular booster pack.\u00a0 There is also a collectible coin featuring Detective Pikachu as well.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a bigger picture of the box.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s what you get inside.\u00a0 The packaging is the best part of these products, as you can fold the box out to see what you get.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s a closer shot of the coin and card.\u00a0 This package runs about ten bucks.<\/p>\n

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The special Detective Pikachu cards feature images from the live action film.\u00a0 Here\u2019s another example of two of the cards in the booster packs.<\/p>\n

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There are also two 20 dollar each packs featuring another character from the movie: the Detective Pikachu Charizard-GX Case File and Mewtwo-GX Case File.\u00a0 Each pack features a giant size shiny foil card of the character as well as a regular sized card.\u00a0 You also get four Detective Pikachu booster packs and two regular booster packs in each box.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the front of the Charizard box.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s what is inside.\u00a0 Another nice thing about the packaging is that they make sure the cards are well packaged inside so they won\u2019t get bent or anything.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s the front of the Mewtwo box.<\/p>\n

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And the inside of the Mewtwo box as well.<\/p>\n

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Next up is a set featuring Greninja.\u00a0 Similar to the other two previous sets, this one features a large foil card as well as a regular sized shiny card with Greninja.\u00a0 You also get a Greninja pin and four Detective Pikachu booster packs and two regular booster backs.\u00a0 All for 25 bucks, which isn\u2019t a bad price at all.\u00a0 Here\u2019s the front of the box.<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s what you can see when the box is folded out.<\/p>\n

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And last is a lunch box tin with goodies inside, all for only 25 bucks, too!\u00a0 Inside you get seven Detective Pikachu booster packs, two regular booster packs, a Detective Pikachu pin and coin, as well as a notepad and stickers.\u00a0 The tin I got was a little dented, though, so if you get this one in a store, inspect it first.\u00a0 Hopefully they package it better when sent in bulk to stores, rather than when mine came in through FedEx.\u00a0 Any of these sets would make great gifts for fans of the Pok\u00e9mon card game.<\/p>\n

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On the official Pok\u00e9mon Web site, you can order these and other neat Detective Pikachu products as well.\u00a0 I especially like the Detective Pikachu hat, which looks like an inspector\u2019s hat with Pikachu ears on it!\u00a0 But there are other Detective Pikachu promotions going on right now as well.\u00a0 Since we\u2019re on the topic, I thought we\u2019d take a look at those as well.\u00a0 The first is Burger King, who is doing Kids Meal toys featuring Detective Pikachu.\u00a0 The first two I got are of Pikachu and Mewtwo.\u00a0 The Pikachu one has cheeks that light up, but I don\u2019t know what the Mewtwo one is supposed to do.\u00a0 He holds a ball but drops it a lot, and I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s because they based the toy off the movie, but Mewtwo also looks a little weird and ugly and doesn\u2019t stand up very well.<\/p>\n

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The next two toys I got are of regular Pok\u00e9mon, and are a bit better as they stand up on their own better and have nice and annoying features.\u00a0 The Bulbasaur\u2019s Vine Whip acts as a grabber, and can be used to pinch people, too.\u00a0 And I\u2019m not sure if that\u2019s supposed to be a Growlithe or Arcanine, but it shoots out a little missile when you put it in its mouth and press down on the tail.\u00a0 It shoots out pretty far and fast, so be careful!<\/p>\n

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And finally, 7-11 is doing some Detective Pikachu promotions as well.\u00a0 You can download an app and play a game as well as get special Slurpee cups and flavors, among other things.\u00a0 Here is a picture of the Slurpee cup I got.<\/p>\n

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And that\u2019s all for now!\u00a0 Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was in college and writing game reviews for The Dallas Morning News, the first E3 I went to was when Nintendo was going to release Pok\u00e9mon in the US for the first time.\u00a0 I knew it would be a big hit, so I requested to my editor that I be in charge of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-reviews","category-television","category-unplugged-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19048,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19046\/revisions\/19048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}