There's an IKEA Crossover Coming to Pokémon Pokopia

Pokémon Pokopia, the crippled wherever you physique a imagination satellite for your pouch monsters, volition big a collaboration with furnishings elephantine IKEA.

In galore ways, an IKEA crossover makes sense. Pokopia, similar Animal Crossing, allows you to furnish homes for your Pokémon with stylish items. There's thing akin successful Pokopia's simple, minimalist aesthetic to IKEA's world-famous Billy bookcases and Kallax shelves.

Beginning tomorrow, April 1, Pokémon's homeland of Japan volition connection real-life Pokopia-themed locations successful galore of its IKEA stores, with outlets featuring stamp rallies, stickers and adjacent themed nutrient offerings successful their restaurants.

Pokémon Pokopia x IKEA. Image credit: IKEA.

Closer to home, anyone with a transcript of the hugely-popular Nintendo Switch 2 beingness sim tin besides sojourn "IKEA Island" virtually. The in-game code for this land volition beryllium revealed tomorrow, though a website for the promotion already offers a sneak peek, with buildings themed astir Pikachu and Snorlax. There doesn't look to beryllium immoderate all-new furnishings here, but it whitethorn supply immoderate inspiration for your ain efforts astatine location improvement.

Allegedly, this land was created by existent IKEA employees. If you fancy popping over, you person from time until 23:59 connected Tuesday, June 30, to instrumentality a peek.

If you're looking for immoderate much ideas for your ain land close now, it's worthy checking retired immoderate of the different weird and fantastic things radical are gathering successful Pokémon Pokopia, with the astir precocious creations truthful acold including a moving calculator. Other fans, meanwhile, person leant into the series' lore (something Pokopia precise overmuch does already) by yet hiding Mew nether a truck.

Pokémon Pokopia has been a deed for Nintendo, which has trumpeted income of much than 2.2 cardinal copies for the Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive. The crippled is presently engaged hosting a Hoppip event, layered connected apical of its halfway quest to implicit the game's Pokédex — for which we've got extended Wiki guides close present to assistance you. Check retired our database of each the Pokémon successful Pokopia, and instrumentality a look astatine our Things to Do First successful Pokopia usher to marque the astir of your archetypal fewer days. To assistance you get started, we've besides got a database of 17 things that Pokopia doesn't archer you, positive How to Raise the Environment Level and How to Raise Pokémon Comfort Level.

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