Jul25

Australian Tennis Champ Nick Kyrgios shows off enormous new Pokémon tattoo

Taking to Instagram on Monday night, 2022 Australian Open Doubles winner Nick Kyrgios showed off the linework for his newest tattoo, a full back piece featuring Gengar, Mewtwo, Lapras, Gyarados, Snorlax, Dragonite and more, with a ready-for-action Blastoise as the centerpiece. The tattoo was completed by a team of five artists at Ganga Tattoo Studio in Los Angeles in the impressively quick time of a single hour, and was originally designed by Kyrgios’ brother Alexi Bouras.
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Jul6

Pokémon Company rebrands, expands, and relaunches official Pokémon Community Forums, moderators overwhelmed in initial surge of fan activity

Earlier this week, The Pokémon Company posted a news update on their official site informing people about their official Pokémon Community Forums. Despite being widely reported as a brand new forum, this forum has actually been in existance for well over a year. Up until now, the forum had been primarily focused on the Pokémon TCG Live Beta, as a place for users to report technical issues and bugs, and a variety of posts dating back to February 24th, 2022 are still visible in the sub-forums for the Pokémon TCG Live. Though many of the most inappropriate threads have now been deleted as of writing, it remains to be seen if these issues have actually been resolved, or if this is only a short term victory for a clearly overwhelmed moderation team.
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Jun18

Celebrating 50k Bulbapedia articles with our favourite wiki pages!

Documenting every facet of this gargantuan IP is a task perhaps only the most dedicated and/or foolhardy would embark on, yet that's exactly what our Bulbapedia team and thousands of selfless contributors have done over eighteen long years! With Pokémon now encompassing nine generations of main series games along with dozens of spin-offs, mobile games, movies, anime and manga series, merchandise and much more, the wiki itself has grown in tandem - we recently hit a whopping 50,000 articles! To celebrate, we've compiled a list from across the Bulbagarden team of our favourite wiki articles. Read on for an eclectic collection of articles detailing some of the most obscure corners of the Pokémon franchise!
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Apr13

Bulbapedia used Reflect! Please fill out our survey, and give your feedback on Bulbapedia's Scarlet & Violet coverage and your general user experience

With Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's launch now well behind us, we'd like to hear from you about Bulbapedia's coverage of Generation IX, as well as your feelings about Bulbapedia and its general user experience. If you'd like to help us out, we'd appreciate it if you could please complete this anonymous survey. This survey should typically take between 5-10 minutes to complete, depending on the length and detail of your answers. Please feel free to be as brief or verbose as you wish - we appreciate all of your feedback. The survey will remain open until at least the end of this month.
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Apr11

Join Bulbagarden and other creators from April 23rd to 30th in raising money for St. Baldrick's Foundation and Kids' Cancer research

St Baldrick's Foundation are once again challenging the Pokémon streaming community to a collectively catch 1 million Pokémon, and in the process help them raise $100,000 to fund childhood cancer research. Any and all streamers, big or small, with any appreciation whatsoever for Pokémon, are invited to participate in the event between April 23rd and April 30th, and help the foundation reach its fundraising goal, with prizes on offer from Logitech and LF Gaming for the biggest individual and community fundraisers.
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Feb18

St. Baldrick’s Foundation's Catch a Million marathon returns for 2023, asking streamers to catch 1 million Pokémon to support kids cancer research

Between April 23rd and April 30th, St Baldrick's Foundation will once again be challenging the Pokémon streaming community to collectively catch 1 million Pokémon, and in the process help them raise $100,000 in 7 days to fund childhood cancer research. Any and all streamers, big or small, with any appreciation whatsoever for Pokémon, are invited to participate in the event and help the foundation reach its fundraising goal.
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Feb16

TPCI invites fans to share photos and videos of their Pokémon memories ahead of Pokémon Day on February 27th, using the hashtag #PokemonTogether

Ahead of Pokémon Day celebrations on February 27th, The Pokémon Company International has launched a new campaign entitled Pokémon Together. The campaign invokes the spirit behind the overarching themes of connectivity that have been a part of the franchise since day one, asking fans to share their love for and memories of the franchise through social media using the hashtag #PokemonTogether. A selection of the posts made on this hashtag will be featured in a special Poké Ball mosaic that will be unveiled on Pokémon Day.
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Nov6

An introduction to our Bulbapedia team

Bulbapedia may seem monolithic at times, but the wiki's success rests upon the efforts of everyday contributors and especially the team of Researchers, Poké Maniacs and Super Nerds that run the site and manage those contributions. In this article we'll be speaking with some of those (very human) Admins and figuring out what makes both them and Bulbapedia tick, covering their day-to-day priorities as well as their future plans. Whether you're a seasoned wiki editor or have never so much as thought about getting involved, we hope you'll find it enlightening!
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Aug23

Win a copy of Pokémon Scarlet or Violet as part of Bulbagarden's pre-order giveaway!

The ninth Generation of Pokémon is swiftly approaching, and to celebrate this milestone, Bulbagarden is giving away nine pre-order copies of either Pokémon Scarlet or Pokémon Violet! It could hardly be easier to enter - all you have to do is make a comment under this news post, answering one simple question: Which starter Pokémon are you planning to use in Scarlet or Violet, and why?
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