The National Steps Challenge™ is a physical activity initiative by the Health Promotion Board (HPB) to encourage Singapore residents to be more physically active every day, anytime and anywhere. They have announced that they have partnered with Pokémon to help promote Season 5.

National Steps Challenge™ celebrates its 5th year with Pokémon

National Steps Challenge™, a nation-wide physical activity initiative organized by the Health Promotion Board, is back for its 5th year!

This season, they have come together with Pokémon to celebrate this joyous occasion! Head on down to their mega roadshows to meet with Pikachu and Eevee, plus enjoy fun-filled activities for your chance to win more prizes!

Location Details:

Tampines Community Plaza: 27 - 29 Sep 2019
Ang Mo Kio (Grass field in front of Djitsun Mall): 11 - 13 Oct 2019
VivoCity Outdoor Plaza: 18 - 20 Oct 2019
Punggol (Grass field in front of Punggol MRT station): 25 - 27 Oct 2019
Time: 11 am to 8pm

Source: https://sg.portal-pokemon.com/topics/event/191008152550_post_17.html

The Safari Zone New Taipei City 2019 took place from October 3rd, 2019 to October 6th, 2019. Niantic has written a post event synopsis on the activities and overall statistics.

An exciting Safari Zone New Taipei City finishes up!

Hi Trainers! The Pokémon GO Safari Zone event in New Taipei City, was a great success! Thank you to the Trainers who visited New Taipei Metropolitan Park and numerous exciting local attractions throughout the four-day event.

Over 327,000 Trainers from all over the world joined us at New Taipei City, walking 4.5 million km and catching a total of 50 million Pokémon. Perhaps attracted by the greenery and waterways at the New Taipei Metropolitan Park, many Water-, Grass-, and Bug-type Pokémon such as Oddish, Heracross, Marill appeared. In addition to catching these Pokémon, attendees also enjoyed a wide range of Taiwanese food from over 200 stalls at the Food & Beverage area, Pokémon dance show and even fun photo opportunities.


Going beyond the park, some Pokémon such as Oddish appeared around local attractions such as historical old streets and scenic mountain areas in New Taipei City. Reports show that Trainers even caught Shiny Oddish while touring around the city!


Stay tuned for more information about upcoming events—and until then, let’s GO!

Source: https://pokemongolive.com/post/ntc-safari-zone-2019/

To promote the upcoming games Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield, the Pokémon Center Singapore has announced that new starters Grookey, Scorbunny, and Sobble as well as Pikachu and Mimikyu will be making mascot appearances throughout October of 2019.

Mascot Appearance

October's here and our Pokémon friends are back to play with everyone, so get ready for a month packed full with mascot appearances at Pokémon Center Singapore!

Grookey, Scorbunny, and Sobble are the three starter Pokémon of the upcoming games, Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield! While these games will only be out on 15th November 2019 -- and are still available for preorder from Pokémon Center Singapore! -- the three starters are here early to meet all of you.

Of course, Pikachu and Mimikyu will still be around to meet all of their fans. Not only that, Pikachu has prepared a spooky costume specially for the occasion, so be sure not to miss it!

See you soon at Pokémon Center Singapore!

Mascot appearance schedule:

October 4th (Fri): 12pm - Pikachu/Mimikyu, 3pm - Grookey/Scorbunny/Sobble, 7pm - Pikachu/Mimikyu
October 5th (Sat) - 6th (Sun): 12pm - Mimikyu, 3pm - Grookey/Scorbunny/Sobble, 7pm - Mimikyu
October 12th (Sat) - 20th (Sun): 12pm, 3pm - Grookey/Scorbunny/Sobble, 7pm - Halloween Pikachu/Mimikyu
October 26th (Sat), 27th (Sun), 30th (Wed), 31st (Thu): 12pm, 3pm, 7pm - Halloween Pikachu/Mimikyu

Source: https://www.facebook.com/Pokemon.official.Singapore/

Starting on October 12th, 2019, the Pokémon Centers and some Pokémon Stores in Japan will continue selling a line of merchandise called Transform! Metamon (へんしん！メタモン) and it will add new products to the lineup. For the 9th addition to this line, 5 more Pokémon will be added including: Betbeton, Nassy, Mew, Sonansu and Mimikyu. All of these items will also be available on the Amazon.co.jp Pokémon Store starting on October 19th, 2019.

Item List:

Plushie Transform! Metamon Betbeton - 1,200 yen
Plushie Transform! Metamon Nassy - 1,200 yen
Plushie Transform! Metamon Mew - 1,200 yen
Plushie Transform! Metamon Sonansu - 1,200 yen
Plushie Transform! Metamon Mimikyu - 1,200 yen
Mascot Transform! Metamon Betbeton - 800 yen
Mascot Transform! Metamon Nassy - 800 yen
Mascot Transform! Metamon Mew - 800 yen
Mascot Transform! Metamon Sonansu - 800 yen
Mascot Transform! Metamon Mimikyu - 800 yen

Source: https://www.pokemon.co.jp/info/2019/10/191004_p01.html

Niantic has announced that Original Stitch’s Pokémon Shirts will be available in the Style Shop in Pokémon GO starting on October 4th, 2019. The shirts cost 200 Poké Coin each.

Original Stitch’s Pokémon Shirts come to Pokémon GO

Trainers, Dress your best! If you haven’t heard, Pokémon Shirts is an online service that allows you to mix and match prints based on the first 151 Pokémon to create your own unique and stylish custom shirt. In collaboration with Original Stitch and in celebration of the release of Pokémon Shirts in the United States, Pokémon Shirts avatar items will be available in the Style Shop!

Date + Time

• Select Pokémon Shirts avatar items will be available in the Style Shop starting on October 4, 2019, at 9 a.m. PDT (GMT −7)

Features

• There will be four shirt patterns in all—a Vileplume pattern, a Lickitung pattern, a Magikarp pattern, and a Snorlax pattern.

Physical Pokémon Shirts merchandise is currently only on sale in Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and the United States. Check out this link for more info on Pokémon Shirts. Happy exploring!

Source: https://pokemongolive.com/post/originalstitch-pokemonshirts-2019

The Pokémon Secret Club website has updated and has announced that those who have pre-ordered a copy of Pokémon Sword or Shield and have a club account can receive a serial code to unlock an Alternate-colored Crab in Pokémon Let's Go Pikachu or Eievui.


Source: https://swshmembers.pokemon.co.jp/