Pokémon 30th Celebration Restocks UK: The Living Log
The Pokémon 30th Celebration is releasing in four UK waves: Elite Trainer Boxes and EX products landed 16 September, booster bundles, tins and binders on 2 October, battle decks arrive 30 October, and the Ultra Premium Collections close it out on 6 November. Between waves, stock keeps surfacing in ghost restocks that never get announced.
This page is a running log. It gets updated as restocks happen, with what landed, where, and at what limits, built from the same alert history that called both completed waves to the day. The per-retailer behaviour that drives these entries lives on the retailer pages linked throughout.
Key facts
- Resell Vault is a UK reselling community on Discord and the UK's #1 Vinted cook group, with four money hubs: Vinted bots (a monitor that detects new listings in 0.14ms, AutoBuy, AutoCop), drop alerts logged on a public ledger, the Discount Hub and Wholesale.
- The public ledger at /missed-flips lists 165 drop calls made in the Resell Vault Discord between 10 November 2025 and 9 October 2026, and 161 of them are marked confirmed after the follow-up review.
- Buy one unit of every confirmed call at retail, sell it at the bottom of its confirmed resale range, and the margin adds up to £15,900+: the ledger's low-end margin, one of each call.
- Every call is logged with its retail price and resale range, including the calls that fell short.
- Drop alerts come with Pro: £18 first month · 30-day money-back guarantee · then £25 + VAT · cancel anytime.
- Resell Vault has 500+ paying members, and its Discord has 32,000+ members, free tier included, by Discord's own count on 12 October 2026.
Free tier, no card · the ledger includes the misses
The restock log
Known dates
Field log · 9 entries · updated 10 October 2026
- 9 OctWaterstones: member reports of stores receiving 30th EX boxes, £22 against a £40-45 market.
- 8 OctSmyths ghost restocks with zero pings: bundles £25 to £60 out, tins £11.99 to £20-25. Argos loaded more 30th items. John Lewis backend still showing 1,400 booster bundles staged (counted 7 Oct), undropped.
- 6 OctA Smyths store sold 30th stock at 9am without loading the website. If you are waiting for pings on ghost restocks, you are behind the shelf.
- 5 OctAsda wave 2 items appearing, mainly around Wales first, binder confirmed by a store worker.
- 2 OctWave 2 released: Smyths ~170 bundles a store with overnight queues, John Lewis dropped ETBs and tins, Argos released item by item, The Entertainer delayed. Group result £2,789 across 147 units.
- 27 SepWave 2 called five days early with per-SKU targets: bundles £25 to £55-60, stickers £15 to £30-35, tins and Eevee blisters a tenner to £25.
- 16 SepWave 1 launch day: 1,895 branches routed across seven chains, Smyths allocations around 120 ETBs a store, John Lewis, which had shown ~1,800 ETBs on its backend the day before, dropped in the early morning. Group day one: 99 ETBs, 117 tins and EX boxes, 83 binders and posters, £13,138.
- 14 SepEarly stock surfaced two days ahead of street date and the launch plan went out: allocation by chain, route priority, online backends to watch.
- 30 JunThe four-wave schedule surfaced. Called worth planning around then; it has held since.
From the ledger · confirmed calls
The four-wave schedule
The schedule surfaced in June and both completed waves have run on the published date. Smyths created separate SKUs for the 6 November UPCs back in August, which is as close to confirmation as retail plumbing gives you.
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| Wave | Date | Products | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wave 1 | 16 Sep | ETB, EX boxes, poster, blisters, tech stickers, Knockout | Released, restocking |
| Wave 2 | 2 Oct | Booster bundles, mini tins, binder | Released, restocking |
| Wave 3 | 30 Oct | Battle decks | Upcoming |
| Wave 4 | 6 Nov | Ultra Premium Collections, premium collections | Upcoming |
What to expect from the last two waves
Wave 3 on 30 October is battle decks, historically the lightest-margin product class of an anniversary set, which is exactly why allocations tend to sit on shelves longer and why it is the wave worth watching for the products around it: retailers routinely use a scheduled wave to move ghost stock from earlier ones.
Wave 4 on 6 November is the one the heavier buyers are waiting for. The Ultra Premium Collection has been on the watchlist since August, Smyths created its SKUs that same month, and Pokémon Center UK is the page to watch in the week before street date.
Both completed waves rewarded the same behaviour: knowing which chains had allocation before the morning, and treating the days after the drop as half the opportunity. The ghost restocks in the log above have been running for a week after each wave.
Which retailer pages to read before the 30th
- Smyths: the biggest allocations and the till-block mechanic that telegraphs release dates. Two deliveries a week plus Saturday.
- Argos: backend loading shows wave stock a day early, and collection orders get honoured.
- Tesco: the concession wave on 16 October is the next scheduled 30th event, 300 stores, one item per person.
- John Lewis: night drops between 3 and 6am, and backend counts that have been visible before each wave.
- Sports Direct and The Entertainer: smaller allocations, shorter queues, and the Frasers Plus multiplier at the former.
More than the alerts
What else does Resell Vault do?
The drop alerts this page covers are one of Resell Vault’s four money hubs. To see how all four fit together, start on the home page, which lays out the whole thing.
- The Vinted monitorUnderpriced second-hand listings caught the moment they go live, with AutoBuy. The live feed streams free on this site.
- Pokémon allocationsWhich stores are getting which sets, how many, and what the sealed product has actually been selling for.
- The missed-flips ledgerEvery drop we called, with the real buy and sell prices, published whether it went well or not.
- The guidesSourcing, pricing, tax, bans and photographs, written for people doing this properly.
- The community500+ paying members, and a free tier anyone can join with no card needed.
Frequently asked questions
When is the next Pokémon 30th Celebration restock in the UK?
Where can I still buy 30th Celebration products at retail?
Is the Pokémon 30th set worth reselling?
What is in the 6 November wave?
The next call is being written now
Drop alerts go out daily with retail price, expected resell and risk attached, and every call lands on the public ledger afterwards, including the ones that miss. Join the free Discord and read the room before you pay for anything.
Pokémon 30th Celebration, Wave 2£25 → £55-60 · from the ledgerFree tier, no card required · every call published at /missed-flips