A Shiny Toxtricity promotion planned for Pokemon Sword and Shield leaked online. A new Reddit post has released a future GameStop promotion, which will give players in the United States and Canada a Shiny Toxtricity. Players will receive a QR code that they can scan into Pokemon Pass to unlock Shiny Toxtricity in their games. While some fans are worried that the promotion will require players to go to a GameStop store to get the QR code needed to get Shiny Pokemon, previously Pokemon Home the distributions used a common QR code posted in a public place, which means that someone could scan the code from a photo posted online. No information about the set of moves was available at this time, but it will probably be provided when the distribution is officially activated.
The promotion will start on February 19, which seems to suggest that this promotion is related to the long awaited Brilliant spouses extension for Pokemon trading card game. The next expansion will include over 120 Shiny Pokemon books, and many stores have already run out of pre-orders due to high demand. One reason for the high demand is that, unlike normal expansions, Brilliant spouses will not have individual booster packs for sale. Instead, fans will have to buy sets of boxes and special boxes to get the books. The jewel in the expansion crown is the Shiny Charizard VMAX card, which will probably sell for hundreds of dollars on the secondary market.
Brilliant spouses expanding the books is just one way the Pokemon franchise celebrates its 25th anniversary. The holiday includes new products, new games and other surprise collaborations with popular brands and celebrities. Pokemon has already announced a music collaboration with pop star Katy Perry called P25 Music, as well as a new McDonald’s promotion and a Levi’s clothing line. The franchise also has some new games – New Pokemon Snap begins in April and Pokemon UNITE will be released later this year. More announcements are also expected, including a new pair of Pokemon games expected to be remakes. Pokemon Diamond and Pearl.