Ash Hat Pikachu Distribution Announced

As per usual, images from this month’s CoroCoro have leaked!

The Ash Hat Pikachu that was first revealed to the public via the Pokémon Sun & Moon datamine, has officially been announced for distribution! As many have theorized, Ash Hat Pikachu will be the bonus when you pre-book a ticket in Japan for Pokémon the Movie 20: I Choose You!

  • Original Cap Pikachu can be obtained from April 15th-May 1st and July 19th-July 31st
  • Hoenn Cap Pikachu from May 3rd-May 15th and August 2nd-August 14th
  • Sinnoh Cap Pikachu from May 17th-May 29th and August 16th-August 28th
  • Unova Cap Pikachu from May 31st-June 12th and August 30th-September 11th
  • Kalos Cap Pikachu from June 14th-June 26th and September 13th-25th
  • Alola Cap Pikachu from September 27th-October 9th and September 13th-September 25th

Along with the Ash Hat Pikachu, there will be a serial code given out that will unlock the Pikashunium Z Crystal. Giving you access to the exclusive Pikachu Z-Move: 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt!

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1,205 thoughts on “Ash Hat Pikachu Distribution Announced”

      • Idk, Serebii says “you can only redeem a pre-booking ticket serial code once” and since the different hats are being distributed during different days, I imagine you have to choose the time period to redeem your code

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  1. ALSO, where are the Pokebank renewal gifts? Are we not getting anything this year? Celebi, HA Regis, HA Johto starters…unless Mewinium Z was supposed to be it? But I mean…come on..

    ***This should also serve as a reminder for everyone to renew their pokebank passes so you don’t lose everything. ****

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  2. Remember when we were all speculating on why these were in the game after the demo datamine? There were theories about Ash coming into the canon, and theories about a logical explanation as to why, but NOPE. They’re just being plopped into the game with no explanation whatsoever it seems.

    I really miss the days of the events of Gen 4.

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    • The Shaymin and Darkrai events were truly exciting to me as a kid. Arceus as well I guess, but you had to cheat for that. They actually felt mythical. I’m sure the Diamond and Pearl remakes will take that element away, just like ORAS did.

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  3. Off topic, do you think the DLC storyline for BotW will be a large sidequest type thing or a Majora’s Mask situation, but smaller? To put it this way, do you think it’ll be a new story reusing BotW’s assets and such or will it just be a sidequest done from your file itself?

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    • I really can’t think of any aspect of the story that can be built upon. It does a good job rounding itself out, at least to the point I’ve played to. Maybe they’ll add a new mission at each of the four main locations and prevent Vaati from resurrecting or something.

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      • Maybe the story takes place after the main story, where you play as Princess Zelda or a co-op adventure with her. One of their goals in the beginning was challenging the convention of playing alone and the demand to play with a female character is quite high.

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  4. So Lapis got some attention in last nights episode…but I feel like they totally did not give her resolution that felt needed to happen. And then they just undid everything she was upset about when ruby actually turned out to be evil. Ugh…so she went no where again

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  5. Yes, finally. Pikachu is my favourite Pokeman. I love it so much and now it has Ash’s hat. Soo cute. Ash is so strong and determined. He is an idol for many kids. They are combining two best things Pokeman series ever created: Ash and Pikachu. I need to collect every one of them.

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  6. Well I’ve finally gotten my ideas together

    Astral & Stellar will be based on a few states in America (So far apart of this group Pennsylvania, Florida, Texas, Minnesota and Nevada more may appear)

    And I have more new Pokémon too for it
    An Axolotl, an Ice/Water Otter, a new Bat Pokémon based on a Bumblebee bat and a Rock/Electric fossil based on Brontotherium

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  7. Im thoroughly shocked they have changed to international releases, yet they still cant do international events. I honestly think it’s because they dont feel like it, or they think Japan deserves more stuff. Granted these will come to West because they would never do form events only for Japan in this day in age, but why cant they just make them worldwide releases. Gamefreak loves making us play the guessing game.

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  8. Regarding the 10,000,000 Volt Thunderbolt: The highest commercially used voltage in power transmission is 1,000 kV. If you come near that in a range of tens of meters, you’re zapped to death. This if Pikachu would use the move with 10,000 kV everyone within a radius of 50 meters is just plain dead. Use at your own risk. Source: I’m an engineer.

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  9. so i truly hate to admit it but after playing Breath of the Wild for 9 days the magic is wearing off
    Breath of the wild truly has fulfilled a gap in my life but now that i basically trekked most of the best locations
    so all i can truly do is hunt down the last of the shrines and upgrade gear, i just wish they rolled out with the virtual consoles

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    • This is exactly why I want to take my time with the game. I don’t have anything I’m looking forward to for a while so I want to make it last.

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    • I still enjoy playing the game, but I agree, playing the game for 10 hours a day won’t happen again. And I didn’t even beat all of the dungeons or the main story. There’s still a lot that I have to see, but I’ll do it at my own pace.

      A new game would be nice, yes. Luckily I have my PS4 for Persona 5 and Horizon, but it’s still a long ride before Mario Kart 8D drops.

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      • Can’t wait to see Persona 5 and see how it improves upon 4 and hopefully re-balances a lot of the issues with Golden. But yeah, hopefully we’ll see Some Indie’s and the VC show up before too long.

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      • you’re right eevee is better BUT PIKACHU IS BEST HAHAHAHAHA…….no eevee is 100000000000000000 times better it can actually evolve into different pokemon but PIKACHU is (i guess) 100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 time better for some reason.

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  10. I’ve just realized that I’ve never been to this one single location ever in Pokemon: Challenger’s Cave. The reason why is because I looked over it in Black 2, and in my first Black, I wasn’t able to get in because I was stuck at the E4. So this is very weird, considering I have 0 knowledge of the cave.

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  11. Also i harbor another Switch related dilemma
    i really want to buy games for the Switch and stuff for the switch, but there’s honestly nothing out right now, i just feel that i want more just to fill a gaping hole in my spectrum
    nothing good isn’t coming out for a while and things just are moving slow, at least waiting for the switch fueled a drive to look forward to it

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      • oh please my wallet has been fat for months
        i never spend more than 50 bucks a month and i’ve been saving cash for the next big ticket console since 2011 and never once used that cash

        I just want a nice collection of games for the switch, also they better freaking patch the Save mechanics on these games because without card based saves states if your Switch dies or gets stolen Zrrt that’s it it’s gone forever

        Also Virtual console games including N64, Gamecube and Wii titles if i could name a few…

        Mario Sunshine
        Paper Mario 64/TTYD
        Mario Kart 64/DD/Wii
        Earthbound i still need to finish it
        any of the Mario party games 1-8 (granted IVE BEEN HAVING SUCH PAINFULLY BAD LUCK)
        Maybe even Sonic Adventure 1 and 2
        Super Monkey Ball
        Metroid Prime i’m not a fan but they owe it to the fans after the rapeing that was Federation Force and its on my bucket list
        …….and maybe Spongebob Battle for Bikini Bottom…….mine doesn’t work anymore……. -__-

        Anything else?

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        • Yeah my interest in VC is a fairly low point. There’s not much I’d really want to see on Switch that I couldn’t get on other platforms or haven’t played yet. I’m more interested in seeing Stardew Valley, Terraria and possibly Minecraft on the Switch.

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  12. Anyone know how to get the Mawile and Beedrill Mega Stones? I participated in the competition and qualified for the reward, but I’m not seeing it anywhere.

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  13. I’ve been thinking alot about what the BotW DLC storyline coming in the holiday season could be, and I just had a thought. Could it have you playing through the events of 100 years ago? Granted they pretty much tell you everything from the memories (or not, I haven’t found them all), but maybe they could have you actually play throught it and expand upon it a bit.

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  14. I could’ve finished Zelda, I could’ve made that little switch video thing I’ve been wanting to do, I could’ve practiced drawing, I could’ve done so much.

    But I did this with my day. 390 red magikarps

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  15. Route 2: Here’s a seedot!
    (Me: FUCK, I killed it)
    Route 2: NOW HERES A RAYQUAZA
    Me: OH FUCK
    …and Slugma just OHKO’D it

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    • Tis a shame as it has a solid design and is quite the interesting Pokemon. I wish it wasn’t just a bad version of Decidueye. Even if it was still Ghost/Grass (which it really should have had something else in the place of Grass) it could have had a unique identity……*sigh*….Oh well lol

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      • Neither… ready for this?
        Offensive Defog

        I turn
        Defog
        Dragon Claw (this slot is literally pointless, use what you want)
        Earthquake

        Groundium Z

        It comes in, removes hazards, and can kill a majority of RUs threats with the z move. Due to its speed, a jolly one almost guarantees a kill on something if you time it right
        Plus it keeps momentum, and can remove hazards

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          • He actually works high tier because .. well.., Defog ground nuke is insanely good … some teams are downright crippled from it. 7th gen was very kind to Flygon

          • Not good enough
            It still deserves a HA
            I wanted it to be Sand Stream and it’s mega would get Sand Rush/Force

          • Oh, I know it’s not good enough, but this is an extremely good pivot support set and has won me more games than I can remember

  17. ok the activity log is working…ish
    it says i’ve played Breath of the Wild 90 or more hours……that doesn’t seem right

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  18. So now that the activity log should be open for BotW, what’s everyone’s play time? Mine is at “40 hours or more.” Not too bad, but I’m hoping to double that this week alone.

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    • I heard some people complaining that weapons breaks way too often but there’s people that say that it’s​ okay because in the game you get a lot of weapons throughout the game. The problem I hear the most is about inventory tho…

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    • It depends on how you look at it. By that I mean, if weapons didn’t break, the game would be very very easy. Plus you get new weapons all the time, so if you don’t get too attached to that Boko club, it’s no big deal.

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      • I get attached to my Lynel Sword that has a +attack modifier. Of course early game you won’t get attached to anything but later on when you get really good/fun weapons it sucks to lose them.

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    • It’s not THAT bad but it certainly is an issue in my book. Even some late game weapons break fairly quickly and it’s not so easy to get those back.

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  19. Soooooo I know I have my thing right below, but does anyone want me to list new mega’s into it and if so which would you like to see?

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  20. Gameplay question about BotW
    Can I only cook at designated locations or is there a way I can cook at a random fire I just put up?

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  21. i got an idea for some pokemon a water/psychic elephant it is slow but has high special attack
    and a water/fighting hippo also slow but high defences and attack stat.
    (kurusu i hope these ideas are cool)

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  22. Hey so I just wanted to say sorry Kurusu that I basically repeated the “create a Fakemon” question from below (it was the deleted comment). Didn’t realize that you posted the same thing before lol

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    • Don’t worry about it, it’s not a problem.

      Here’s what I would’ve posted. My one good idea:

      Mantlecore
      Ground/Fire
      Basically a volcano manticore

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        • yeah……you know what the fire/fighting bull sounds so much better like it starts as a small unintimidating baby bull but when it evolves it gets SUPER aggressive and gets mad at anything

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          • it’s just very cliche
            if i wasn’t doing a Fire Lion cub (or Bear Cub) it would’ve been a Fire Bull starter

            it would be a small skinny pink red Calf pokemon with black horns and hooves and a fiery tail that despite its young age it displays fierce competition and it can snort out flames

            then it gets bigger and beefier and its hooves armor up a bit and it gets flame decals and glaring eyes, it has a nasty temper and it can heat up its horns and hooves with flames to unleash powerful kicks a
            and finally

            a towering stud of a bull with a muscular build with powerful legs and thick horns and hooves that glow with heat, a fiery collar and spine and glaring eyes, it has such a hair trigger temper that anything makes it angry and every inch of its body engulfs with flames and it charges into everything

  23. Why doesn’t the switch pro controller have analog triggers? :/ Every time I see something I like about this console, they do something stupid.

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        • Neither did the Wii or Wii U though. It definitely should have analog triggers, but this isn’t anything new for Nintendo.

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          • I know, I just find it somewhat surprising since they’re charging $10 more than the competition, yet are missing a decently crucial part of having a physical controller rather than a joycon or whatever they’re called. Perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised though. Sigh..

  24. Holy crap just got to the form to look at the stuff and i have to say wow… Talent (I love all of them they all will be used)

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  25. They need to up the accuracy of Grasswhistle and also change its sound to Oracion from the Darkrai movie :3 (I know that’s on a leaf, but still)

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  26. Google is paying 97$ per hour! Work for few hours and have longer with friends & family! !mj361d:
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  27. One thing that really is confusing and disappointing about Complete Zygarde is when it’s Dex Entry (and even the bio for it during XY and Z) states that “it has power exceeding both Xerneas and Yveltal combined”. When we look at Complete Zygarde’s stats, only the Special Attack got a increase, up to 91. Along with its 100 attack, that’s still low compared to the likes of Xerneas/Yveltal’s attacking stats, which are 30 more basically. The only thing I would say that exceeds the deer ad the bird is its gigantic HP stat, but that’s it.
    I just think by saying it has stronger power than Xerneas and Yveltal made us a little bit too hyped, which in the end it has practically the same stats as normal Zygarde, but with double the HP, making us very disappointed.

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    • Yeah Zygarde Complete is disappointing cause to become whole he must lose 75% or something HP to change when they could have just made him like A-Greninja where beating an opponent transforms him

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    • True. We should have learned by now that Pokédex entries are not reliable though. And yeah, I’m one of those who was completely pissed off when I saw those stats and thought they were joking and just added Perfect Zygarde to the game for the sake of it.
      That said, the truth is it actually works well. After seeing on some videos how it functions in battle and having tried myself in-game, Perfect Zygarde is actually a lot of fun to use. Thousand Arrows might be the most spammable move ever and with its gigantic bulk, it won’t die anytime soon. And activating the form is not that hard, actually. If anything, I’m more disappointed with Ash-Greninja having to knock out a pokémon before transforming – that’s actually harder to do due to regular Greninja’s average offensive stats.
      The only thing that still bothers me about Perfect Zygarde is the fact we can’t maintain the form outside of battle, like Origin Forme Giratina and Black/White Kyurem (its 3rd-mascot counterparts).

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    • I couldn’t even do the battle tree but got the FC for signing up to it which was nice. I got no good facilities at all from the level ups though :/

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  28. Today sucks Mudbray balls
    Barely slept and my tenitus is getting worse I can’t even put a pillow to my ear without hearing an ultra high frequency
    My entire family except me got off from work so I gotta drive in a slush monsoon from and those inbred morons called the night shift can’t organize the re-shop department correctly and overstuffs carts that nobody can get into without dissecting it leaving me with six giant carts to organize and put away all by myself and I got no lunch, just kill me now

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      • I’m tired, sweaty angry and hungry
        I want to be home in my room, make my bed and move my tv to the foot of my bed with my memory foam wedge at my back with a bowl of fruit or popcorn and just play the Switch
        Getting shines down and hunting Lynels while my iPad streams Netflix and all I’d hear is my game, the pelting rain and nothing more

        But that’s ruined since I’m working late and the rainy day magic will be gone by the time I get home…

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    • oh wow so that hearing of yours is going to shit huh? well every once in a while i have a ringing in my ears that sound like tv static

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  29. I tried to find a meme where somebody made Scarce a Dunsparce
    And I got taken to a page talking about Pokemon Comaster before it was revealed as duel

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    • Hey, what’s up guys it’s DunScarce here and we got a double upload today, so much news. The first set of news comes from Pewdiepie, pretty small channel only 50 million subs, but anyways it was revealed that Pewdiepie is actually a Team Flare Nazi this is fucking crazy guys. Next up we have news coming from Videogame Mudsbray …..

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  31. TO THOSE WHO CARE
    FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY, REMEMBER THAT NUZLOCKE I DID THAT LASTED THREE HOURS BEFORE IT WAS SUBSEQUENTLY SWEPT BY A F**KING GARCHOMP!? YOU CAN NOW GET IT IN YOUR HANDS JUST ASK FOR ANY GEN 5 MAIN SERIES GAME AND I WILL SEND YOU A FILE WITH THE GAME BEING MODDED INTO SOMETHING GLORIOUS
    (Nds emulator not included I reccomend Desume)

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  32. Anyone else getting pelted with rain or snow?
    If so

    Yekid
    The Yeti Pkm
    Ice/Fighting
    Iron Fist/Fur Coat HA: Snow Warning
    Yekid are somewhat tall humanoid Pokemon at 5ft 6inches, they have a skinny lanky build with white shaggy fur, they have large human like feet and fists of a pinkish color with four digits apiece, their face is covered with a messy wild hair and two protruding fangs jut upward from their jaws, lastly a pair on tiny horns
    “Yekid thrive in mountainous and snowy climates, they toughen their fists by punching icy trees and boulders”

    And they evolve into
    Coldossus
    The Yeti Pkm
    Ice/Fighting
    Iron Fist/Fur Coat HA: Snow Warning
    A massive ape like Pokemon covered in thick white grey fur with exposed chest and stomach skin that is bluish pink, lumbering forearms and very big feet and fists, they have icy extrusions on their chest that resembles a rib cage and on their spine like spines, the head has powerful tusks and long horns, you can’t see their eyes but their mouth and nose show,
    “They claim mountain peaks for their territory and the howling roars of this reclusive Pokemon creates violent blizzards”

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  33. Well my foot fell asleep for no reason so I have a question
    If you were to have Nintendo do another Kirby game what would it be

    For me another Super Star sequel would be great

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  34. Hmmmm this is very odd,
    So i’m reading my smexy hardcover guidebook for BOTW and i’m reading the material list for some of the gear and they don’t corrospond with the game

    proof of faulty printing?

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    • Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It’s not a story the Jedi would tell you. It’s a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life… He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful… the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.

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  35. I hope the reward for the next Global Mission is a Love Ball (or 10), ’cause it’s hatching eggs which requires breeding.

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  36. today seems to be national Earthen Bad Luck day
    my stupid Switch won’t connect to the internet, and of all days for the pre-download to Splat2’s global testfire

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  37. So morning Junglers. So someone has found all 900 Korok seeds in BtoW, and found that there is a reward for finding them all, and its kind of the best thing ever in a Nintendo game. Look it up for yourselves since people do complain about every little thing is a spoiler, even content they’ll likely never see, but its kind of amazing.

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  38. I can’t believe this sentence is coming out of my mouth…
    Please remove mantine from RU, I just managed to win a match when the foe had 3 mons and I only had mantine. He had a Bewear, something random , and a Ribombee with 4 quiver dances up and I managed to stall the both of them to death

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