{"id":483049,"date":"2026-10-02T19:21:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483049\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T19:21:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:21:12","slug":"sacramento-pokemon-fans-camp-outside-target-for-30th-anniversary-card-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/483049\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Pok\u00e9mon fans camp outside Target for 30th anniversary card drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lines wrapped around Target stores in Sacramento and across the country early Friday as Pok\u00e9mon fans waited for the latest 30th anniversary trading card drop.<\/p>\n<p>The frenzy surrounds Pok\u00e9mon TCG: 30th Celebration, released in September to mark three decades of the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Weeks later, demand has hardly cooled.<\/p>\n<p>At the Target on Broadway in Sacramento, a line had already started forming around closing time Thursday. Some shoppers brought chairs and camped outside overnight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a cool community,&#8221; said Liz, who was camping out with her father. &#8220;It&#8217;s very respectable here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/sh-molly-6am-10022618-1.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"sh-molly-6am-10022618-1.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A significant line had already formed outside the Broadway Target in Sacramento by 6 a.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p>For some collectors, camping out means a better chance of buying the cards at retail price instead of paying marked-up prices online or from resellers.<\/p>\n<p>Other retailers also had anniversary products and promotions on Friday, including GameStop, Barnes &amp; Noble, Five Below and Hot Topic.<\/p>\n<p>More 30th anniversary products are scheduled to roll out later this month and into November, meaning more lines could still be ahead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lines wrapped around Target stores in Sacramento and across the country early Friday as Pok\u00e9mon fans waited for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[145354,121,123,122,2838],"class_list":["post-483049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-pokmon","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-target"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}