Pokémon Card Store That Made Headlines After Customers Held at Gunpoint Now Hit by Nintendo Request to Rebrand

Last month, New York Pokémon paper store The Poké Court was the absorption of media attraction pursuing a frightening equipped burglary that progressive its unit and customers being held astatine gunpoint.

The incidental prompted wide daze and sympathy for the fledgling outlet, which mislaid $100,000 worthy of banal successful minutes. But now, the concern has said the famously-litigious Nintendo has been successful interaction — not to connection aid, however, but to stock "concerns" implicit its sanction and logo.

The Poké Court is present being forced to rebrand, with its storefront, societal accounts and online tract each being rebranded to "The Trainer Court" implicit the coming days. The erstwhile plan featured a stylized Pokéball logo that is present being replaced by a elemental "C" colored successful green.

In a connection posted to Instagram, the newly-retitled Trainer Court thanked fans for enactment "amidst the robbery and beyond" but said it was present having to alteration its sanction and logo owed to a ailment from Nintendo.

"The abbreviated communicative is Nintendo reached retired to america with concerns astir our sanction and logo," The Trainer Court wrote. "This means we're evolving! Same team, aforesaid ridiculous deed rate, and soon, adjacent greater things coming your way."

The station has already gained plentifulness of further enactment for the outlet, with much than 2000 likes astatine the clip of penning and a remark praising the concern from Sarah Natochenny, the dependable histrion who antecedently provided the dependable of Ash Ketchum successful Pokémon's animated TV series.

Numerous stores selling Pokémon cards person been deed by robberies implicit the past year, including locations successful Boston, Los Angeles and Seattle. In December, $100,000 worthy of banal was swiped from a store successful Burbank — an incidental that Californian cops suspected was linked to "half a dozen" akin thefts wrong the confederate fractional of the state. Separately, IGN has reported connected galore different examples that person besides occured nationwide implicit the past 12 months.

Tom Phillips is IGN's News Editor. You tin scope Tom astatine [email protected] oregon find him connected Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social