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Pokémon Pokopia: Fetching Scales for Feebas Starts 13 August

Feebas has set its sights on your Pokopia town — and it wants Prism Scales. The next Pokémon Pokopia limited-time event, “Fetching Scales for Feebas,” goes live this Wednesday, 13 August at 5:00 a.m. SGT and runs until 28 August at 4:59 a.m. SGT.

How the Pokémon Pokopia Feebas Event Works

Once the event starts, Feebas — the Fish Pokémon — will appear outside rebuilt Pokémon Centers across your town. Chat with it and you will be tasked with gathering Prism Scales throughout the two-week event window. The scales act as the event’s currency, exchangeable for a batch of swimming-themed furniture and, with the right habitat setup, Milotic itself.

Crucially, this event does not take place in Bubbly Basin or the Cloud Islands, which means every Pokopia player can participate regardless of whether they have purchased the Expansion Pass.

Pokémon Pokopia gameplay showing player character with water-type Pokémon including Psyduck, Piplup, Squirtle and Manaphy in a sunny town plaza
Image courtesy of The Pokémon Company

The Rewards: Beach Furniture and a Permanent Milotic

Collect enough Prism Scales and you can trade them in for a full set of summer beach furniture: a volleyball net, a beach umbrella, life preservers, and a Pokémon-branded cooler. Arrange them into the right habitat and Feebas’s spectacular evolution, Milotic, will move in — and stay permanently, even after the event closes on 28 August.

That is the same keep-what-you-unlock mechanic the game used for earlier limited-time events. If you set up the habitat during the two-week window, both Feebas and Milotic become a permanent part of your town. Miss the event and there is no other currently announced way to obtain either of them.

Pokémon Pokopia – Bubbly Basin Launch Trailer – Nintendo Switch 2 — via Nintendo of America on YouTube

Pokopia’s Event Pipeline After Bubbly Basin

Pokémon Pokopia Expansion Pass Part 1 Bubbly Basin Available Now on Nintendo Switch 2
Image courtesy of The Pokémon Company

The Fetching Scales for Feebas event is Pokopia’s fourth major seasonal event since the Switch 2 title launched globally on 5 March 2026. It follows the Tanabata Jirachi run in late June and Zorua’s Hide-and-Sneak Contest in July. The timing is well placed: the first paid Expansion Pass area, Bubbly Basin, only went live on 5 August, and this event keeps things moving for players who have not yet dived into the DLC.

Pokémon Pokopia gameplay showing player character and Pikachu in a lush green town area with furniture and other Pokémon
Image courtesy of The Pokémon Company

Singapore players who picked up the Switch 2 + Pokémon Pokopia bundle when it released locally on 23 July at S$769.95 will have had just over two weeks to get their towns in shape before Feebas shows up with a to-do list. More game news from us as the event rolls out.

Fetching Scales for Feebas: Key Details

  • Event name: Fetching Scales for Feebas
  • Start: 13 August 2026 at 5:00 a.m. SGT
  • End: 28 August 2026 at 4:59 a.m. SGT
  • Platform: Pokémon Pokopia (Nintendo Switch 2)
  • Who can join: All Pokopia players with at least one rebuilt Pokémon Center; Expansion Pass not required
  • Rewards: Swimming-themed furniture set — volleyball net, beach umbrella, life preservers, cooler — plus permanent access to Feebas and Milotic when you build the correct habitat

Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration: Japan Lottery Opens Monday

The Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration set does not land until 16 September 2026 — but in Japan, the race to secure the MEGA series products begins this Monday, 10 August. Pokémon Center Online Japan is opening lottery applications for four anniversary products, and for the first time it is tying the winning odds to identity verification. Here is what importers and collectors keeping an eye on the Japanese market need to know — and what Singapore fans waiting for the local launch can expect.

We first covered this landmark set when The Pokémon Company revealed it in June, including its historic first-ever simultaneous worldwide release and the 30 unique Pikachu illustration variants inside every pack. The lottery details below are new, confirmed via Dengeki Online’s 8 August report (Japanese).

What Japan’s Lottery Covers and When It Opens

Four MEGA series products are going on sale exclusively through a Japan-region lottery on Pokémon Center Online:

  • MEGA Expansion Pack “30th CELEBRATION” BOX — ¥7,200 (approx. S$68). This is the flagship booster box: multiple packs of the six-cards-per-pack Japanese expansion, all foil.
  • MEGA “30th CELEBRATION Premium Deck Set Espeon & Umbreon” — ¥6,200 (approx. S$59). A ready-to-play deck set anchored by Espeon and Umbreon.
  • MEGA “30th CELEBRATION FUTURISTIC BOX” — ¥27,500 (approx. S$261). The premium collector’s box featuring the set’s new Futuristic rare cards — Mewtwo ex, Mew ex, Greninja ex, and others in a never-before-seen card rarity tier.

Lottery applications for these three products open Monday 10 August at 12:00 JST and close Friday 14 August at 16:59 JST. A fourth product — the MEGA “30th CELEBRATION Card Set” (nine card types, ¥10,800 / approx. S$103) — has its own separate lottery from 28 to 31 August.

Pokemon TCG 30th Celebration Futuristic rare cards including Mewtwo ex and Jirachi ex
Image courtesy of The Pokémon Company

The New Anti-Scalper Measure: My Number Card Verification

For this lottery, Pokémon Center Online Japan is splitting applicants into two tiers: Players Club: Identity Verified and Players Club: Unverified. According to Dengeki Online (Japanese), “the majority of winning allocations are designated for the identity-verified tier,” making prior verification with Japan’s national ID card system — the My Number Card (マイナンバーカード) — a meaningful advantage.

This is a direct response to the scalping problem that has plagued high-demand Pokémon TCG releases in Japan over the past few years. By requiring government-issued ID to unlock the better lottery odds, The Pokémon Company Japan is also de facto locking out overseas resellers who do not hold a Japanese national ID. Singapore-based resellers who have historically obtained Japanese product through proxy services will find this lottery particularly difficult to access through the usual channels.

What Singapore Collectors Should Do

Pokemon TCG 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box
Image courtesy of The Pokémon Company

If you do not have a Japanese Pokémon Center account with My Number Card verification, you cannot enter this lottery directly. The good news is you do not need to. The 16 September 2026 simultaneous worldwide release — the first time the Pokémon TCG has ever launched a set on the same day globally — means Singapore fans will have access to the international English-language products on exactly the same day as Japan. Pre-orders for the English-language 30th Celebration range are already open via major international retailers and local games shops.

The English Elite Trainer Box contains nine booster packs and a full-art promo Nidorina card. The Pokémon Center edition has eleven packs and two full-art promos. Each pack contains five fully foil cards — there are no non-holo commons in this set — plus one of the 30 Pikachu rare variants drawn by a different illustrator. Collecting all 30 will be the collector challenge of the year.

Watch the Official 30th Celebration Trailer

[Official] Pokémon TCG – 30th Anniversary Global Synced Release — via Pokémon Asia ENG on YouTube

Singapore pre-orders are expected at major game retailers and electronics chains that carry Pokémon TCG products. The September 16 date is confirmed; local SGD pricing has not been officially announced at time of writing. Check the Pokémon section for updates as they land.