Summary
- Four of the most popular Pokemon’s Doll plushes are finally available at the US Pokemon Center.
- Bulbasaur, Charmander, Squirtle, and Charizard’s Pokemon Doll plushes are all available now.
- Doll plushes have chibi-style designs and are based on the dolls trainers can find in the Pokemon games.
Pokemon plushes comes in many shapes and sizes from Squishmallows to keychains. There’s even a line of plushes that takes the doll versions of Pokemon from the games and brings them to life. They’re appropriately called Pokemon Doll plushes, and four designs you really think would have been available long before now are finally available at the Pokemon Center.
Usually when Pokemon releases a new product, particularly a new type of plush, once Pikachu has had its moment in the limelight, Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Charmander, the series’ first partner Pokemon, follow soon after. That did technically happen as a few years after the Pokemon Doll line first launched, the original starter trio was added to the collection.
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Pokemon’s Doll plush design has changed since then though and until now, Bulbasaur, Squirtle, and Charmander’s overhauled looks haven’t been available in the US. Their chibi plushes have been exclusively available in Japan, but Pokemon has finally decided to make them available via the US Pokemon Center. Just in time for the holidays if you’re quick, although it seems unlikely they’ll arrive before December 25 with the listing noting delivery will take five to nine business days.
These Four Pokemon Doll Plushes Are Finally Available In The US
Time To Select Your Starter All Over Again, Or Just Choose All Of Them
A fourth Pokemon is joining the US Pokemon Center’s Doll plush collection along with them, and I’d hazard to guess it’ll end up being the most popular of the four. Charizard’s Doll plush is also available now. The fully evolved Fire-type was one of the first Pokemon to get its own Doll plush more than 14 years ago but just like the three above, this new design is quite a bit different from the original and is more in keeping with the uniform Doll plush design so that it will match any of the others you have from the range.
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Bulbasaur Pokemon Dolls Plush
The original Pokemon if you go buy Pokedex number alone, Bulbasaur has joined Pokemon’s Doll plush collection. The plush types are chibi-style and based on the dolls trainers can find in the games.
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Charmander Pokemon Dolls Plush
Charmander is objectively the best partner Pokemon to pick in the original games. That’s just a fact, I don’t make the rules. That’s why its overhauled Pokemon Doll design finally arriving at the Pokemon Center is long overdue. A chibi-style version of the Pokemon based on the dolls in the games.
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Squirtle Pokemon Dolls Plush
Pokemon Doll plushes are tiny, chibi-style toys inspired by the dolls that can be found throughout the Pokemon games. Squirtle was originally a part of the range more than a decade ago, but its design has been overhauled to fit in with the modern take on Pokemon Doll plushes.
All four new Doll plushes are available now and all cost $16.99 each. Pretty reasonable for an official Pokemon plush in the grand scheme of things, although Doll plushes are a little smaller than standard Pokemon soft toys. Most are around six inches tall since the idea is they’re supposed to look and feel like the little toy Pokemon the trainers we’ve been controlling in the games for the past 25 years have dotted around.
Charizard Pokemon Dolls Plush
If there’s a more popular fully evolved Pokemon than Charizard, then I don’t know about it. Charizard has been one of the most popular Pokemon since the series’ induction so it’s only right it now has a proper Pokemon Doll plush, modeled after the toy version of the Pokemon you can find in the games.
Plushes have taken a bit of a back seat lately, partly because it’s too late to buy them as Christmas gifts, but also because Pokemon’s holiday focus has been on Pokemon TCG Pocket. 60 million of you have downloaded the app so far, and I imagine many of you starting to lose interest were pulled back in by the addition of its Mythical Island booster pack.
