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The Pokemon Center May Have Finally Sorted Its Anti-Bot Protection Out Following Latest Prismatic Evolutions TCG Drop

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sam Woods

Published May 21, 2025

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Summary

Pokemon TCG products have been difficult to obtain due to scalpers profiting.
Recent drops saw long queues and errors on The Pokemon Center website, hindering average collectors.
A recent drop of Prismatic Evolutions Elite Trainer Boxes had a much smoother process, indicating improved anti-bot protection.

The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Trading Card Game has been in a bad place for a while now. Earlier this year, I reported that cards were spiking in price and products were becoming increasingly diffi♕cult to obtain. It's only gotten worse since then.

With The Pokemon Company releasing more desirable products like the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Prismatic Evolutions🐼 Super Premium Collection, things have beco💜me more profitable for scalpers, and therefore, they've been harder to get hold of for the average collector.

A collection of Prismatic Evolutions products like loose packs, boosster bundles, and other boxes from the Pokemon TCG.

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Recent drops from the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Black Bolt and White Flare, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Destined Rivals, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Journey Together, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Prismatic Evolutions expansions have seen hours-long queues, multiple errors,🐷 and hundreds of scalpers ruin the𝓡 buying experience on The Pokemon Center website.

However, the tide could be turning. Last night, Pokemon dropped another wave of Prismatic Evolutions Elite Trainer Boxes, and the process was surprisinglyꦯ smooth.

The Pokemon Company May Have Finally Figured Out The Pokemon Center's Anti-Bot Protection

I'm going to start with a personal anecdote. In previous drops, I've been at the front of the line, sat there for four (!) hours, and still not managed to get my hands on the product due to multiple errors. Last night was a very different experience. I didn't realise a queue was up until 45 minutes after the alerts had been doing the rounds. This would normally be fatal. Determined, though, I pressed pause on 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us and trudged upstairs to my PC, expecting to spend my night staring at that damned Pikachu. 🎉That wasn't to be.

As I hun😼kered down, I picked up my phone and doomscrolled for a bit. After five minutes, I de🔥cided to look up, and to my surprise, the queue had already passed. I threw an ETB in my basket and checked it out with ease. The hardest part was navigating the anti-bot restrictions at the start, and I think The Pokemon Company may have finally got it right.

I spoke to dozens of other Pokemon TCG collectors on Discord,🐷 and they all fac🦹ed similarly positive experiences. The .

The Pokemon Company's crackdown may🌠 extend to existing orders placed by scalpers, too, with that those who placed mu𒀰ltiple orders are having them canceled.

Pokemon itself isn't the only one cracking down on scalpers, either. After 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:trouble in many of its stores, GameStop has that it is limiting Destined Rivals purchases to one unit per SKU per customer to "help ensure more fans receive the 💟opportunity to aওccess the latest expansion."

It seems like, finally, the ⛎hobby may start returning to normal, at least to some extent.