{"id":75562,"date":"2026-04-15T13:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75562"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:36:25","slug":"pokemon-pop-tarts-are-back-for-the-first-time-in-25-years-and-i-need-one-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75562","title":{"rendered":"Pokemon Pop-Tarts Are Back For The First Time In 25 Years, And I Need One Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Retailer Target has announced a collaboration with Pokemon for a range of new items going on sale soon, and included in the bunch is the return of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.target.com\/p\/pop-tarts-pok-233-mon-frosted-vanilla-cupcake-toaster-pastries-20-3oz-12ct\/-\/A-94992405\">Pokemon Pop-Tarts<\/a> for the first time in 25 years.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, these are Pop-Tarts with the frosted vanilla cupcake flavor, featuring the legendary starter Pokemon Pikachu, Charmander, and Bulbasaur on the packaging. The Pop-Tarts come dusted with sprinkles meant to evoke the colors of those three creatures. They look very delicious.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/original\/1179\/11799911\/4683080-screenshot2026-04-15at2.49.47%E2%80%AFpm.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 12-pack of Pop-Tarts will go for $4 when it launches in stores on May 2 and online on May 3. Kellogg&#8217;s originally released Pokemon-themed Pop-Tarts in the early 2000s, as a tie-in for the Pokemon 2000 movie. There were only limited Pokemon Pop-Tart releases thereafter for other product tie-ins.<\/p>\n<p>The Pokemon x Target collaboration includes more than 100 items exclusive to Target, celebrating Pokemon&#8217;s 30th anniversary this year. Some of the other items include all manner of Pokemon clothing, Pokemon kickballs, Pokemon fragrances, Pokemon detangling hair brushes, and Pokemon water bottles.<\/p>\n<p>Not everything goes on sale at once, as the first wave of items&#8211;including the Pop-Tarts&#8211;will be available in stores on May 2 and online the next day, with a second wave of Pokemon items going<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retailer Target has announced a collaboration with Pokemon for a range of new items going on sale soon, and included in the bunch is the return of Pokemon Pop-Tarts for the first time in 25 years. Specifically, these are Pop-Tarts with the frosted vanilla cupcake flavor, featuring the legendary starter Pokemon Pikachu, Charmander, and Bulbasaur&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":75564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75565,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75562\/revisions\/75565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}