#Pikachu with Fly Surf Agility Celebrate is distributed with the first purchase from the #Pokemon Center online store (JPN) from 16th Feb 2016 to 22nd May 2016, redeemable from 16th Feb 2016 to 31st Aug 2016 Japanese ORAS only.
Of course, that means you need to sign up with them first...
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| What are you willing to do for him? |
To create an account and make a purchase, you will need
a credit card (VISA, MasterCard, JCB, Diners Club, American Express - foreign credit cards work too), an
address in Japan and the ability to
input Japanese text to fill out the forms (
Win/
Mac).
The code is posted to you with your purchased item so it is very important that you are able to receive the item that you buy in order to get the Pikachu code.
If you have a friend or acquaintance in Japan who agrees to forward your goodies to you, then you are set. Otherwise, (and this will incur additional fees) there are mail forwarding services who will provide you with a Japanese address which your order will be sent to, and then the package will be forwarded onto your real address outside of Japan. Some services are better than others so be careful!
Make sure the Pokemon Center Online Store will ship to the forwarding address.
Once ready, go to
https://www.pokemoncenter-online.com/ to start.
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| Click the button in the top right corner to make an account and then fill in your email in the box on the right. |
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| Confirm your email and submit to send a confirmation email. |
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| Check your inbox/spam/bin for this email and click on the link inside. |
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| Fill in your details. #1 #2 should be in Japanese. Filling in #5 should automatically fill #6 #7. #8 #9 will depend on your address. Numbers and passwords should be alphanumeric. If you are using a forwarding service, check their FAQ for their shipping address instructions. |
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| Confirm your details that you filled in previously, and submit. |
You can now log in with your email and password (use the same upper right corner button, and this time fill in the box on the left), and add items to your cart.
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| The cheapest item is probably an old TCG pack. |
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| Once you add an item to your cart, scroll down to confirm purchase. |
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| Here you should see your details you registered with previously. Click the red button to continue. |
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| Enter your payment details here and then click the red button to continue. |
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| Cheapest purchase is a total of 702 yen including tax and shipping. Confirm your order one last time! |
And that's it! Remember that purchases under 5000yen have a domestic shipping fee, as you can see in the picture above. They have lowered it to 3000yen as a special service for the opening of the store so make use of it while you can!
The Pikachu event code is being distributed in a "
as long as stocks last" basis so if you leave it too late, you may miss out. Just to reiterate: the code is posted on a post card with the item so you need to provide a working postal address to receive it.
The Pikachu event aside, the Pokemon Center has a lot of awesome Pokemon merchandise. Since pretty much all Pokemon Center merchandise are limited edition items, once they are gone, they are usually gone for good bar the occasional re-release. Personally, I also feel that almost all Pokemon Center exclusive items are well made, with plush toys feeling much nicer than the ones from Takara Tomy or Bandai for example. I think it is well-worth setting this up if you plan on making future purchases, especially since this store has a point system unlike the physical stores :)
