It wasn’t a separate email. It was way down at the bottom of the email that had a “Happy Bidoof Day” banner up top and then showed a bunch of the new merchandise
Checked my email yesterday and I got the offer to register interest in the promo. This whole thing is super weird. I wonder if they’re possibly using this promo as a test to see if they can start going to a raffle system similar to the Japanese Pokemon Center for future popular releases. I can see them doing this for something like the 25th anniversary box that comes with the gold Pikachu and Charizard cards.
We are truly in a golden era of the TCG! A (likely, but not confirmed) North American only promo with a fun release/story that they are limiting so supply doesn’t get eaten up overnight? Sign me up! I love how much fun TPCI is having with this one.
That’s a regular product available at distributors and local stores - it will be highly allocated but not a patch on the gold box Japan will get at the same time.
The deadline of the 10th is not the end of the promotion. It’s the deadline to register for a code. Presumably at some point after the 10th people will be sent out codes if they registered for them. Hopefully everyone who registered gets one.
At least this confirms that it works the way we thought it would.
“Later in the year” is annoyingly vague and it makes it sound not very close. That makes me think it will probably be around November to coincide with BDSP.