Pokémon collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum opens later this month

Scalpers have been spotted on sites such as Ebay reselling merchandise from the Pokémon Center Van Gogh Museum collaboration which began last week.

If you've seen what happened when Pokemon teamed up with Amsterdam's Van Gogh museum, you don't need me to tell you about the frenzy new Pokemon merchandise is capable of whipping up. That's why every time Pokemon's squishmallows are in stock somewhere, they tend to disappear pretty quickly. If you've been on the hunt for the latest two Pokemon to be added to the squishmallow collection, and you're seeing this in time, you might be in luck.

The Pokémon Company has apologised to fans after scalpers besieged the Van Gogh Museum earlier this week, buying up most of the Pokémon Center x Van Gogh special edition products and almost immediately selling them for heavily inflated prices on online auction sites.

The Pokémon Company has apologised after scalpers appeared to spoil a planned collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

It never fails to amaze me when massively popular companies host events with products they know will be massively popular with their base, but then act surprised when the event is, surprise, massively popular. That mostly sums up what happened with the recent Pokemon Center x Van Gogh Museum event, resulting in an apology from the the official Pokemon Twitter.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

Pokemon has done some rather creative collaborations over the years, and their most recent involves working with the world-famous Van Gogh Museum to celebrate the museum’s 50th anniversary and help teach young people about Van Gogh and his art.

As reported by VGC, the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam was recently swarmed by scalpers, looking to make a quick buck off Pikachu and his cute grey hat during a limited-time event.

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Pokemon TCG fans will know that collecting cards isn't exactly simple these days. Most of that is down to scalpers, as any new promotion or release brings swarms of them out of the woodwork to buy stock in bulk due to how popular they are and how rare certain cards can be. It was no exception with a recent collaboration with the Van Gogh museum, as scalpers caused chaos on the first day in which a special 'Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat' promo card went on sale.

Today, as part of its 50th anniversary celebration, the Van Gogh Museum launched a Pokemon crossover that sees a Pokemon art exhibition hit the museum alongside a slew of exclusive merch both at the museum and on the Pokemon Center Online.

Chaos descended on Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum as Pokémon fans and scalpers pushed and shoved their way to rare Pokémon merchandise. The Pokémon exhibition at the museum opened on Sept. 28, promising a special promo Pokémon card of Pikachu wearing Van Gogh’s iconic grey hat.