Celebrate Pokémon Day at a Local Pokémon League

 

We are pleased to announce that we will have special Pokémon-themed gifts to commemorate the big day.

Get together with your local community to celebrate 30 years of Pokémon! On Friday February 27th, at 7 pm  and Saturday February 28th, at 11 am we will be running an events for fans of all things Pokémon. Whether you’re into trading cards to fill out your collection, taking part in fun battles, joining a Raid Battle in Pokémon GO, or just hanging out with other Pokémon fans—there’s plenty to enjoy at these Pokémon League celebrations.

We will have special promo items, including an adorable Bulbasaur promo card, 2026 Pokémon Day stickers, Pikachu paper visors, Play! Pokémon Prize Packs (Series 6), and a unique code for Pokémon GO digital items to be emailed after the event. 

That’s not all—as a PLAY stores we will also receive the following premium Pokémon TCG products as additional Pokémon Day prizes!

Mega Evolution—Phantasmal Flames Elite Trainer Box - this will be a prize for a Standard Tournament held on Friday evening for older players. Entry is covered in your normal £5 for our casual event. This will be a best of 1 event, so make sure you bring your best deck.

Mega Venusaur ex Premium Collection - this will be a prize for a GLC Tournament held on Saturday evening at 7pm, this is open to everyone and will also cost £5 to enter. (Prize packs will be given to all that enter)

Pokémon Day 2026 Collection - this will be handed out randomly to one player that attends our junior pokemon club on Saturday between 11am and 12pm.

Attend our Pokéween event for spooky times and scary-cool prizes.

Lavender Town is calling, Trainers, and Pokéween is quickly approaching. 

Are you feeling giddy for Gastly, going batty for Lunala, or dying for Dusclops? 

We’ve got just the event for you! Play! Pokémon Stores will be eligible to host Pokéween events from October 1–31, 2025, that celebrate all things Halloween! We will be running our event on Saturday 25th at 11am as part of our normal Pokemon Club

Connecting with your local Pokémon community is already a treat, but things get even sweeter—all attendees will receive a tantalizing Trick or Trade BOOster pack, a Pokémon GO code that awards seriously sweet Rare Candy alongside an Incense or Lucky Egg at random, and an eerily stamped Spiritomb promo card that also features the Play! Pokémon logo. 

Play! Pokémon League/Cup events are a great opportunity to meet other Pokémon fans, and you can enjoy a Pokéween event in any way you like! Come through with a boo-tiful Pokémon costume, show off some of your scariest cards, or perhaps strike fear into your newfound friends’ hearts with your terrifying battle skills. 

Enjoy Pokéween at KD GAMES, Trainers!

End of Season 5 for Pokemon League

 

Our Junior Pokemon League has just finished its fifth season since the introduction of "Play Pokemon Prize Packs".

Each season we record the amount of games each of our young players takes part in, regardless of the result, win or lose you still get points.

At the end of each season we tally up the points and see who has played the most games. The final
scores for this season are as follows...

The top 5 (each getting an addition two prize packs)
Barnaby 94
George 80
Reuben F. 60
Ren 53
Ivy 53
From 6-12 (each get an addition prize pack)
Oscar 34
Callum 30
Rueben C. 30
Austin 29
Freya 24
Lily 24
Barney 19

Everyone else that played...

Molly 17
Leo 17
Olly 14
Winter 14
Leo 13
Nova 13
Sid 13
Rosie 12
Quinn 9
Edmond 9
Henry 9
Mikey 8
Mabel 7
Jack 7
Victor 6
Maddy 5
Hugo 5
Sophie 5
Woody 5
Lellah 5
Ella 5
Alice 5
Harrison 5
Olivia 4
Will 3
Reggie 3
Poppy 3
Bethany 3
Jackson 3
Riley 2
Tommy 2
Ivy 1
Casper 1
Dylan 1
Bobby 1
Milo 1
Elijah 1
Daniel 1
Sammy 1
Jimmy 1
Bo 1

Pokemon League - Come and Join the fun

 

Art Competition

Our summer art competition has come to a close. There was quite a bit of last minute drawing in our Pokemon Club this morning. We had lots of entries and there were some truly magnificent pictures. Judging was extremely difficult and many thanks to Toxi and Lily for helping me to select the 5 winners.

Everyone that entered got a packet of Scarlet and Violet and the top 5 all got a little extra. Thank you to all the children that took the time to draw their favourite Pokemon, it was really nice to see how creative you could all be.

Here are the entries that we received...

As you can see the standard was very high, but we had to narrow it down to just the top 5, which after a lot of changing minds we eventually did. The final winners were as follows...

Congratulations to Freya, Oscar, Alula, Ren and Rufus. The competition was a great success and we very much hope to do another one on the run up to Christmas.

Pokemon Club is changing

 

From December 1st, the club will have two parts to it. The first part is the general Pokemon club which will still cost £2 to attend and children aged 8 and over will be able to come along and meet with other children that share an interest in Pokemon. It will be an opportunity for them to trade cards in a safe place where we can check the value of cards, look out for fakes and always have the opportunity to trade back during the club if they change their minds. We can teach how to play the game if they want to and and from time to time we will run some competitions to give them a chance to win prize packs.

Pokemon League will be part of the club, which is for those children that want to play the game against their friends. We have plenty of decks that can be used if you haven't got a deck of your own and are happy to help children that want to build their own decks. Each time the children attend and play at least one game they will progress towards getting a free prize pack. 

There will be a chart on display in the shop and our website that will track how many games have been played for each season. Once a player has played their fourth game they will get a prize pack and then another one when they play their eighth game. (while stock lasts)

There will also be the chance to take part in some tournaments called League Challenges and League Cups which will be starting in the new year.

Our Masters League which is for older players (15+) will continue to run on Friday evenings from 7pm until 10pm and will give older players the chance to play against each other. Players in the this league will get a free prize pack for every event that they attend.