{"id":339295,"date":"2026-02-15T22:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/339295\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T22:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:32:11","slug":"the-official-pokemon-pinball-machine-has-an-animatronic-pikachu-and-a-master-ball-plunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/339295\/","title":{"rendered":"The official Pok\u00e9mon pinball machine has an animatronic Pikachu and a Master Ball plunger"},"content":{"rendered":"

At a staggering starting price of $6,999, you have a better chance of buying a bicycle in Cerulean City than getting your hands on the official Pok\u00e9mon pinball machine<\/a>. The collaboration between The Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/a> International and Stern Pinball is undoubtedly nostalgic, letting you battle with a team that includes Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle and Pikachu, as well as catch up to 182 different Pok\u00e9mon, mostly from the Kanto region, with more to be added.<\/p>\n

Besides catching ’em all and tracking your growing Pok\u00e9dex on Stern Pinball’s dedicated app<\/a>, you can do Gym Battles in four different biomes and eventually face off against Team Rocket. The pinball machine draws a lot of inspiration from the original cartoon<\/a>, including a monitor that plays clips from the show, an animatronic Pikachu, and speakers that can play the iconic theme song.<\/p>\n

Stern Pinball developed Pro, Premium and Limited Edition models, which can cost all the way up to $12,999. For the most expensive option, you’ll get one of the 750 limited edition machines that include a Master Ball plunger, a numbered plaque and a signed certificate of authenticity. For Pok\u00e9mon fans that can’t afford to spend that much money on a pinball machine, you can soon find them at arcades and bowling alleys instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At a staggering starting price of $6,999, you have a better chance of buying a bicycle in Cerulean…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[74],"tags":[160992,18,19,17,160991,160990,160993,82,65010],"class_list":["post-339295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-cerulean-city","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-pinball-machine","tag-stern-pinball","tag-team-rocket","tag-technology","tag-the-pokemon-company-international"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116077025979085426","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}