Carly, a member of staff at Forbidden Planet in Hanley, said the store had played the Pok\u00e9mon theme music to help get customers into the spirit while they queued.<\/p>\n
“I’ve personally not been in for a Pok\u00e9mon launch, so I had no idea what to expect. When I walked around and I saw the queue, I was like ‘oh my goodness’,” she said.<\/p>\n
She added it was a mixture of nostalgia and a significant anniversary that had led to the launch being so “heightened” this week.<\/p>\n
“There’s a lot of people love opening stuff where they don’t know what’s going to be inside it – it could be blind boxes, it could be like packs of cards or whatever.<\/p>\n
“I think people just like the not knowing, the surprise of what could possibly be in it.”<\/p>\n
Pok\u00e9mon cards were first released in 1996, and featured 102 different designs with drawings by artists Ken Sugimori, Mitsuhiro Arita and Keiji Kinebuchi.<\/p>\n
They soon became very popular, with tournaments springing up, and millions of cards have since been produced and played all around the world.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, one of the rarest and most sought-after Pok\u00e9mon cards sold for $16.5m (\u00a312m).<\/p>\n
It belonged to American influencer and wrestler Logan Paul, who bought it for $5.275m (\u00a33.8m) in July 2021.<\/p>\n
At the time this also broke a Guinness World Record for the most expensive Pok\u00e9mon card ever sold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carly, a member of staff at Forbidden Planet in Hanley, said the store had played the Pok\u00e9mon theme…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-774535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=774535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}