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Chaotic Pokémon and McDonald's collaboration in Japan ends early due to shocking food waste


A collaboration between The Pokémon Company and McDonald's has ended early due to scalping and food waste.

However, as reported by Poké Beach, the promotion resulted in chaos - long queues, card scalping, and food waste. Watch on YouTube There are plenty of posts on social media sharing shock at the amount of food waste left by Pokémon fans. Image credit: eBay / Eurogamer The promotion follows last year's chaos at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, where an exclusive Pikachu trading card was available among other merchandise and was quickly snapped up by scalpers to be sold for inflated prices.

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