Sleeping Pokemon plushes aren’t new. They’re a long-standing, incredibly popular type of Pokemon plush with a lot of options to choose from. However, The Pokemon Company is launching a new line of sleeping plushes this weekend, the designs of which are directly tied to how its creations appear in Pokemon Sleep.
It’s been three years since Pokemon figured out a way to keep us playing its games while we sleep. Now, not only can you wake up to find Pokemon sleeping around you on your phone screen, but you can have matching Pokemon lying around you while you drift off via four new official Pokemon Sleep plushes, all of which will be available to buy starting this weekend.
Three of the Pokemon kicking off the new plush collection are the usual suspects. The Gen 1 starters - Bulbasaur, Charmander, and Squirtle. The Fire and Water-type Kanto partners are crashed out on their backs while they catch Zs, while Bulbasaur is lying on its stomach with its vines resting on either side of its head.
Charmander and Squirtle’s standard sleeping plushes are lying on their fronts and curled up like cats. I know this because I have to move them every night so I have room to sit on my son’s bed and read him a bedtime story.
This is where I’d normally tell you that the fourth Pokemon in this new collection’s first wave of plushes is Pikachu, since there always needs to be a Pikachu. But no, not this time. The fourth and final Pokemon in the Sleep plush rollout is Mew. The mythical Pokemon is sleeping sitting up. I believe it’s kind of hovering in-game when you find it for the first time, if memory serves me correctly. The plush isn’t doing that, of course, but if you really want to, you could suspend the plush from your ceiling to make that happen. Seems like a lot of unnecessary time and effort if you ask me, but if you want to up the Pokemon Sleep immersion level, go for it.
All four plushes will be available to buy from September 5, so this weekend. I have good news and bad news on that front. The bad news is they will only be available through the Japanese Pokemon Center. 3,740 yen ($24) each, and eventually, they might be available in the US and elsewhere, though that is never guaranteed.
The good news is all four plushes will be available to buy through Meccha Japan, a third-party website that specializes in selling and shipping items exclusively sold in Japan worldwide. It does mean that they’ll cost a little extra due to the additional steps involved, but for now, buying them through Meccha Japan is the only way to get your hands on these plushes outside of Japan unless you travel to Pokemon’s homeland, buy them, and bring them home on the plane yourself.
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