Weekly Wrap Up 9/25-10/1

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Weekly Wrap Up is our end of the week digest of smaller news stories that are just as important, but didn’t get a dedicated post. If you’d like to get real time updates about what’s mentioned here you can follow our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages. Here’s what you missed from September 25th to October 1st!

Event Reminders

  • The Hoenn Cap Pikachu event will be ending this Monday, October 2nd. Be sure to use the code PIKACHU20 in Mystery Gift to get this event ‘mon while you can, and remember: you can only get one of the Ash Hat Pikachu – use the code wisely! Hoenn Cap Pikachu comes with the moves Thunderbolt, Quick Attack, Thunder & Iron Tail, and the Pikashunium Z Z-Crystal
  • The global distribution of Mewnium Z will also end this Monday! To obtain the Z Crystal you must have a paid subscription to Pokémon Bank and connect to Pokémon Sun or Pokémon Moon. As of now this is the only way to get Mew’s exclusive Psychic-type Z-Move, Genesis Supernova – so get it while you can!

Nintendo Wii Shop Channel To Cease Service

  • Nintendo has announced that the Nintendo Wii Shop Channel will cease operations on January 31st, 2019 (however. purchasing Wii Points for games games on the Channel will cease on March 27th, 2018). From that point on, several Pokémon games will no longer be available for download on the Nintendo Wii or for the backwards compatibility on Wii U:
    • Pokémon Puzzle League (Virtual Console)
    • Pokémon Rumble
    • My Pokémon Ranch
    • Pokémon Snap (Virtual Console)
    • And the Japan exclusives, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Keep Going! Blazing Adventure Squad, Let’s Go! Storm Adventure Squad, & Go for it! Light Adventure Squad

Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon Starter’s Pack

  • Those in North America will be able to purchase the Pokémon Ultra Sun & Ultra Moon Starter’s Pack bundle at select retailers! This bundle comes with the game of your choice, a Dusk Mane Necrozma (Ultra Sun) or Dawn Wings Necrozma (Ultra Moon) keychain, and a serial code for 12 Revives to be redeemed in game

Pokkén Tournament DX

  • More clothes codes have been released via the official Nintendo UK Twitter account! The following codes can be used across all regions and will get you a spiffy Cheeseburger hat in game:
    • Female:USBXKG8X4GLG
    • Male: H5D9YZFETCQZ

Marshadow Distribution

  • In addition to being distributed in Spain via Amazon pre-orders (as announced last week) it’s been confirmed that Marshadow will also be distributed by GAME stores across Spain via Nintendo Zone throughout the month of October

LINE Pokémon Stickers

Pokémon GO

  • Due to Pokémon Trainer Club login issues earlier this week, the Equinox Event has been extended an extra day to October 3rd. For details of the event head to its dedicated post
  • A massive amount of EX Raid Passes for Mewtwo Legendary Raid Battles have begun to roll out across the world at various Gym locations across the globe
  • A Pokémon GO in-real-life event will be taking place at the Tottori Sand Dunes from November 24th through November 26th! Full details aren’t known as of now, however it has been confirmed that rare Pokémon Mr. Mime and Unown will have increased spawn rates in game

Pokémon Shuffle

  • Costing 20,000 coins to access, the new Buzzwole Ultra Beast stage is now available and runs  until October 3rd – it can only be played a mere 10 times
  • The Mega Steelix competitive stage will be running until This is a competitive stage that runs until October 3rd, 2017. Top players will enjoy rewards including Steelixite (or a Level Up if you already have the Mega Stone), Mega Speedups, Raise Max Levels, and more!
  • The following stages have begun repeat runs until October 10th, 2017: Cyndaquil (Winking), Hitmontop & Zygarde

Check out the official Pokémon merchandise that was either revealed, leaked or is now available for purchase this week:

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Radiant Blutle

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843 thoughts on “Weekly Wrap Up 9/25-10/1”

  5. Well I may have changed, but I’m sad 🙁

    To put it briefly I’ve been thinking about my friend (Remember at the beginning of Summer about my female friend who moved away? Yeah that’s the one) and I realized today how much of a fool I was that I never told her how I feel or ever tried to get to know her (Some friend I was)

    I hope she kept her number from when she was up here because then there’s a chance she will see my text and then I want to get the closure I need and move on with it.

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  11. Goblet of fire ✔

    – Easily one of the best HP films
    – Its Azkaban taken to the next level
    – Very very dark theme and much more serious/mature than prev films but still has moments of light humour
    – Many deaths owes to the serious nature of film
    – Acting was great I liked Dumbledore here he was very serious at times, trio has grown up!
    – Loved how there were such a variety of characters old and new e.g Mad eye, Cedric, Death eaters, Ministry of magic and the 2 schools etc
    – Triwizard tournament was amazing, just so thrilling and a cinematic master piece
    – Plot was very good a lot of maturity, so much was happening in this film it was jam packed
    – Voldemort returns need I say moarrr!

    Next up is the order!!

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    • Harry and Rons’ long hair looked stupid to me. Other than that I love the film. It is one of my favourites as is the book (which has time to delve deeper into stuff and more dragons). Oh I also don’t like the Krum Hermione relationship,but mostly because I had a crush on her since the first book I read.

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      • Yeah me too I didn’t particularly like Krum although he was ok i guess.
        The film is amazing, I hope to read the books after the films. Its just that extra detail you get from them.
        I mean goblet of fire is a massive book isnt it haha

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        • Oh yeah, you could totally get 2 to 3 films per book were there time and money for it. Fortunately you can use the films to inform how you imagine some of the visuals the book describes too. Now I want to re-read them.

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          • Oh yes absolutely having read deathly hallows the detail and how JK creates a thrilling story is amazing!
            And you learn so much more than the films.

          • There are things I found hard to visualise early on before the first film released, largely due to my age when reading the early books, like Hagrid whom I had an odd image of before seeing it, but now the movie version completed him for me and now that is the one that resides in my imagination as I read it. It’s nice that things can go both ways like that .

          • Yeah that’s a good point picturing them from the films really helps too. I guess that can be said for Hogwarts as well!

          • Yeah the locations, especially places like Gringotts are well adapted to film. There are alot of places that are book only too like secret passages that I do kind of miss in the films tbh.

      • oh and are you looking forward to the possibly 4 films in the fantastic beasts saga and hopefully Dumbledore vs Grindelwald??

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        • Yep, as much of that universe I can get, as long as they have a good direction they’re going in and keep up the quality.

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          • They have same producer and director and JK is writing the scripts.
            Just when I thought HP was done we get this. Makes me really happy.
            Grindelwald is like the best character they could focus on imo

          • My main worries are: It might feel a bit drawn out by number 5, really depends where they go with them; Jude Law as Dumbledore, we’ve had 2 excellent actors play him quite differently, as he’s one of my favourite characters I hope he is once again done justice on screen; Johnny Depp as Grindelwald, he’s only really been good as Jack Sparrow in recent years imo. Also I really liked Collin Farrell in the role.

          • I think Depp is gonna be perfect for Grindelwald just by lpoking at the end of the last film that evil grin he had.
            Well JK said shes planned it out and I guess we can trust her and the support of WB guys.
            I have hopes for them!

        • I feel like additional Fantastic Beasts movies are unnecessary. It was good as a stand alone movie and doesn’t need more stories to follow up

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          • I see but honestly JK is taking a very active role in these films as the script writer or something so hopefully we’ll be getting good films.
            And naaaw the more films the better esp it being Grindelwald Dumbledore focused!

          • Not saying I wouldn’t be interested in seeing new stories, but I don’t think they need to be Fantastic Beasts related. I’m actually surprised that she’s taking an active role in the newer movies. She seemed to want to get a way from HP a little now that the core story is done. I recall hearing her say that she almost didn’t want to do the stage play as she was done with the characters more or less.

          • She said something that it was never going to be one movie but she expects 5. I guess she cant stay away but at the same time if there wasnt potential she either would not get involved or not give the green light to Warner brothers.
            Dont forget this builds up the greatest battle in history so we need sequels!

          • Well with JK writing the scripts I do wonder what she has up her sleeves. Like what majes a dual legendary? what makes it so good?

      • It really bothered me that the guy they chose to play Krum was…not hot. Like he’s supposed to be good looking. The actor is not…no offense to him.

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    • It’s a pretty good adaptation of a very long book. BUT BUT BUT in my honest opinion, they really screwed themselves for skipping out on Dobby’s role! Dobby has a good role in books 4, 5, and 6 and then when it came time to adapting book 7 they were like, “Well, we definitely can’t avoid Dobby any longer. Guess we’ll have to reintroduce him 5 movies later.” And they did a good enough job with that, but it really wasn’t necessary because he should’ve been around already. That and he should not have been wearing those slavery rags in 7 pt. 1. Ugh that bugs the crap out of me.

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      • I know leaving him out was unnecessary. Not sure why they did tbh
        I guess you’ve read the books?
        I only ever read DH but I hope to read them all once im done with the films

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        • Yes I love the book series! My favorite ever. He’s pretty important in the books, they just replaced his role with other characters (Neville usually)

          Spoilers from the books if you care:
          He actually steals the gillyweed for Harry. He also discovers the Room of Requirement for Harry and then warns Harry that they were ratted out. He also told Harry that Malfoy was using the Room of Requirement in Half Blood Prince. And then he has his bigger role in Deathly Hallows where he saves Harry & co.

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      • They mostly left out Dobby subplots and S.P.E.W due to time constraints and flow which is very different in a movie than a book. It is a shame as Dobbys’ end was much more impactful in the books imo. I agree with the rags bit, I assume they did it partly to help casual audiences remember this character that hasn’t been around for 4 movies.

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          • I agree, it may also have been money saving, not having to re-design him. Not like they explained what happened to him after film 2 really anyway.

  12. Harry Potter will forever be the Pizza of movies for me. It’s not that I need to watch it crazy often, but if someone offers it to me there’s absolutely no reason for me to turn it down. It scratches this little itch I have for magic and mystery. I’m not crazy into medieval/whatever kind of stories as I’m way more interested in futuristic things, but the idea of magic has always intrigued me. I love the idea of abnormal things existing in the regular world. Which is one of the reasons I love Fantastic Beasts. If the HP series continues as we’ve seen I’d love to see more interactions between muggles and those in the magical community. I’d like to see characters that are muggles harness magic in limited forms themselves. Like they wouldn’t be able to create magic themselves, but using charmed items to do various tasks would be cool. Anyway the idea of magic in the normal world is a cool thing. It’s that kind of thing that really makes me love the Persona series. It’s weird and out there concepts happening to (relatively) average people.

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    • The muggles you speak of would be Squibs, we’ve only had 2 so far iirc in the films, Filch and Mrs.Figg. I agree with you on watching the movies, though if I’m watching 1 I kinda want to watch the rest.

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      • Fair, but I’d like to see some non magic related people do something cool too. The both of them at least were born into the magical world. They just happen to not have the capabilities that their parents did.

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        • The main problem is they need to uphold secrecy where they can otherwise muggles might turn on them and more bad wizards would rise, which is tough to do if you have muggles using magical items. Kowalsky happened to be a nice guy, I guess certain verified Muggles allowed some magical items could be OK, as long as it’s nothing dangerous and they can keep the secret.

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          • True, but I think it’d be interesting to see the secret get out. There’s this constant fear that Muggles would freak out, but by the time the core HP story ends maybe people at large would be more accepting. It’s hard to say, but it’s an interesting concept I feel will never be dug further into…..

          • Given the way people react to those whom they deem ‘different’ now I’m not sure it’d go well. Muggles would likely fear and lash at at these people that are significantly more powerful than them. Magic was not always hidden.

  15. I hate that it’s the full incense and not the lax incense that you need to breed a Munchlax..they should’ve just switched wobbuffet and snorlaxs items when gen 4 came out tbh

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  16. Everyone’s asleep right now but Serebii just updated: global premiere of USUM footage tomorrow afternoon (or today afternoon?) It could be something decently substantial like the Lycanroc form!

    In addition, we’re T-8.5 hours from the Google Pixel event, and I’m personally excited for the Google Home Mini and Max (if they’re even going to be announced at all). Yes, I’m a slave to technology, sue me.

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  17. Back when I was like 15 I was able to maniacally laugh and girlishly scream
    I haven’t tried those in a while but if I can’t I’m gonna cry my schlong off

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