Fans swamped the restaurants to collect the cards, with some discarding bags of food after buying, and police called in to mediate disputes
The promotion, which was supposed to run from Saturday to Monday, offered two Pokemon trading cards – one standard Pikachu and one randomly chosen from five possible species – with each Happy Meal, according to news website Sora News 24.
Previous collaborations between McDonald’s and Pokemon typically offered reprints of commonly available cards. This release was particularly popular because it featured a new artwork of a Pikachu reaching for a burger as well as a special McDonald’s stamp, gaming news site VGC reported.
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