Pokémon Center (store): Difference between revisions

A '''Pokémon Center''' (Japanese: '''ポケモンセンター''' ''Pokémon Center'') is a retail store that sells official [[Pokémon merchandise]]. Japanese stores are operated by [[The Pokémon Company]], while mall kiosks in the Seattle, Washington, area of the United States are run by [[The Pokémon Company International]].

Pokémon Center stores sell many kinds of Pokémon merchandise. This includes [[Pokémon games]], [[Pokémon Trading Card Game|TCG cards]], {{pkmn|anime}} videos and DVDs, {{pkmn|manga}} volumes, [[CD]]s, and a wide array of products such as clothes, accessories, bedding, sporting equipment, dishes, musical instruments, and toys. For a gallery of merchandise, see [[a:Category:Merchandise|Bulbagarden Archives]].

|| [[File:Pokémon Center Fukuoka logo Gen VII.png|125px]]

* The current logo mascots are {{p|Pikachu}} and {{p|Zamazenta}}

** [[:File:Pokémon Center Osaka logo.png|Then:]] Meowth, Pikachu and {{p|Rowlet}}

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| [https://www.pokemon.co.jp/sp/pokecen_shibuya_2019/ Website]

* Located on the 4th floor of the Tokyo Solamachi mall<ref>[http://www.tokyo-solamachi.jp/shop/483/ Tokyo Solamachi store listing] (Japanese) (accessed October 31, 2019)</ref>, under the [[wp:Tokyo Skytree|Tokyo Skytree]]

* The logo mascots are {{p|Pikachu}} and {{p|Zacian}}

**[[:File:Pokémon Center Mega Tokyo logo.png|Previously, they were:]] Pikachu and {{p|Charizard|Mega Charizard Y}}

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* Opened as a part of the [[Pokémon with You|POKÉMON with YOU]] campaign in support of the region after the [[wp:2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami|2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami]]<ref>[https://www.pokemon.co.jp/withU/tohoku/ ''Pokémon Center Tohoku - POKÉMON with YOU'' - pokemon.co.jp] (accessed November 2, 2019)</ref>

| April 25, 1998

* Closed to became Nintendo World, a general Nintendo merchandise store. <br/>Nintendo World was open May 14, 2005 - January 19, 2016 and reopened as {{wp|Nintendo New York}} on February 19, 2016

In the United States a series of Pokémon Center branded machines are maintained by [[The Pokémon Company International]] and have been present in shopping malls in and around the {{wp|Seattle}} area since 2010. They sell a variety of goods including [[Poké Doll (plush)|plush]], [[Pokémon games|video games]], figures, Trading Card Game items, and charms.

Around mid-January 2008, the Pokémon Center online store in North America displayed a closing message, encouraging shoppers to take advantage of closing sales, because the store would be closing at the end of the month. The store did close effective February 1st, but kept a Q & A site in place of the actual store. The reason given for the closing was: "Pokémon USA, Inc. (now part of [[The Pokémon Company International]]) has decided to sell Pokémon merchandise exclusively through its retail partners."  The site continued to accept product returns that met their product return standards and were postmarked by February 21st of that year. If one visited [http://pokemoncenter.com pokemoncenter.com], it would redirect to [[Pokémon.com|the Pokémon website]].

** The Japanese and Korean version of the [[Generation IV]] games still refer to the [[#New York (Nintendo World Store)|Nintendo World Store]] as PC New York (Japanese: {{j|ＰＣ}}ニューヨーク, Korean: {{k|PC}}뉴욕), even though they were released after the remodeling. Games from [[Generation V]] onwards do not have a location index for the Nintendo World Store.

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