UK Pokémon Restocks·
Pokémon restocks in the UK come from supermarkets and toy retailers rather than card shops, and they are not announced. Stock appears on shelves, sells out in hours in the branches that got a real allocation, and sits for weeks in the ones that did not. There is no public calendar, which is why people end up refreshing the same four websites. Resell Vault, a UK reselling community on Discord, posts Pokémon restock alerts for these shops with the retail price and the resale price the team expects, and logs every call on its public ledger at /missed-flips: 34 Pokémon calls since November 2025, 34 of them confirmed with what they sold for.
We track 27 UK and EU retailers across 22 sets, and have logged 7,553 Pokémon stock alerts, 3,200 of them in September alone. Across the 120 Pokémon alerts posted with a buy and sell price attached, the median target was double the retail price. This page covers who actually gets allocation, how restock waves behave, and what each set has been doing.
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Pokémon 30th Celebration, Wave 2Called 27 Sep 2026 · £25 → £55-60
+£30-35Pokémon 30th Celebration, Wave 1 (UK launch day)Called 14 Sep 2026 · £49.99 → £115-125
+£65-75Resell Vault · the public ledger
Across the retailers · 8 most recent entries
Delta Reign half booster boxes in Tesco Express, Sainsbury's Local, Morrisons Daily, Co-op, One Stop and petrol stations, called at around £72 to £85-95.
TescoThe 30th UPCs possibly releasing at Smyths on Friday 13 November. The team expects Smyths to announce it rather than ghost drop it, so wait for confirmation. Delta Reign ETB restocks running on delivery days, called at £50 to £70-75, with figure collections possibly alongside.
SmythsA Night Edition 30th UPC drop expected at Sports Direct on Friday 13 November, posted as expected rather than confirmed.
Sports DirectStock now in hand: all the 30th UPCs and the Delta Reign stock are expected at The Entertainer on Friday 13 November.
The EntertainerDelta Reign release day. Smyths was the first stop for ETBs and booster bundles with the biggest allocation, after a brief that expected 150+ ETBs per store, and ETBs were called at £50 to around £85. The 30th UPCs did not release at Smyths that day.
SmythsConfirmed no drop at The Entertainer on Friday 6 November, so the chain sat out Delta Reign release day. The 13th had been named as its date the day before.
The Entertainer30th Mew and Mewtwo figure collections due alongside Delta Reign: around 40 units per store, one or the other per customer.
SmythsA Poké Ball Tin at £14 ran as an Argos raffle, open 11am to 3pm, rather than as a straight drop.
ArgosThese are the retailers our alerts have fired on, ordered by how often stock has actually appeared. The ranking is a count of real alerts, not an opinion about which shop is best.
Hub 02 · Drop alerts · departures
UK Pokémon allocationOrdered by alert share · 11 rows
| Retailer | Alert share | What it is good for |
|---|---|---|
| Argos | Highest | The most frequent source in our alerts, and the only major with a postcode stock checker you can work by hand |
| Smyths | High | Strongest single source for in-store sightings: Elite Trainer Boxes and launch-day stock, branch allocation varies enormously |
| GAME | High | Frequent online and in-store, including launch allocations |
| Amazon and Pokémon Center | High | Direct allocations, sell out in minutes, worth watching around launch weeks |
| Very | High | Online-only, allocations are real and go quickly, consistently under-watched by resellers |
| The Entertainer | Medium | Reliable on bundles and smaller sealed product, often still on shelf after others sell out |
| Asda | Medium | Supermarket allocation, frequently the source of quiet mid-week restocks |
| Sports Direct | Medium | Irregular but real, and often overlooked, so stock lasts longer |
| Tesco | Medium | Includes Express and petrol station branches, which are consistently under-checked |
| Waterstones | Medium | Books-first, so allocations are small but frequently mispriced against resale |
| Sainsbury's, Menkind, John Lewis, HMV, B&M, Morrisons, Hobbycraft, Waitrose | Lower | Occasional allocations, worth watching around launch weeks rather than continuously |
Here are real alerts from the Pokémon channels, one real weekly post and the confirmed results that followed. Times are UK time. The Pokémon and drop channels are for Pro and Elite members; the confirmed results are public on the ledger.
A web monitor is a program that keeps checking a retailer’s website. When something changes, it posts to Discord.
A real run, Wednesday 15 July 2026, UK time hCaptcha is up Queue detected Queue is up
Each retailer has its own monitor and its own role to ping. The Pokémon Center monitor also watches that retailer’s queue, which is why its posts include “hCaptcha is up”, “Queue is up” and “Queue down” as well as products.
Each card is one real alert, rebuilt so it reads cleanly. Prices are the ones the alert carries, and any resale figure is marked as the post’s estimate.
John Lewis #pokemon-retailers
Pokémon 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box
Buttons on the alertProduct pageeBay listingseBay soldStockX
A first card from a second John Lewis monitor listed the same box at 05:00 with no price. This one, four minutes later, carried it.
Pinged the Pokémon (UK) and UK roles
Very #pokemon-retailers
TCG: Elite Trainer Box, 30th Celebration
Buttons on the alertProduct pageeBay listingseBay soldStockX
Six more Very cards arrived in the same minute: a poster collection at £19.99, a binder at £37.99 and ex boxes and tins at £21.99.
Pinged the Pokémon (UK) and UK roles
Tesco #pokemon-alerts
New Pokémon lines on Tesco’s backend systems
Prices are the retail prices in the post. It carried no resale figure, and said the items would land in stores over the coming weeks.
Pinged the Drop Alerts role
Every week the team posts what is dropping, a day at a time, with a tag on each line. This is the post for the week beginning 12 October 2026, rebuilt. The Pokémon lines are in it too.
Week beginning Monday 12 October 2026
Posted Sunday 11 October, 22:30 UK
Visible to Pro and Elite members, read-only
Mon12 Oct
Nothing marked Cop or Potential
Tue13 Oct
PotentialSatisfy × Oakley Chapter VIIIsatisfyrunning.com · £190
PotentialLEGO 40909 Italy gift with purchaseLEGO · on orders of £160 and over, plus 2× Insiders points
PotentialTopps Royalty Tennis pre-order15:00 · EQL draw
Wed14 Oct
PotentialTopps Neon Marvel Hobby16:00
Thu15 Oct
Nothing marked Cop or Potential
Fri16 Oct
CopTesco × The Entertainer: Pokémon in-storelimit of one per person
CopSports Direct: Pokémon in-storeFrasers Plus members: 2 boxes and 2 tins
PotentialLorcana Beauty & the Beast Curator’s Collection08:00 · DisneyStore.co.uk
Sat17 Oct
PotentialPokémon × Santa Cruz14:00 · santacruzskateboards.eu
PotentialNIGO × j-hope Air Force 1 ‘Burnt Sunrise’humanmade.jp, about 01:00 · SNKRS on Thursday 22nd
Sun18 Oct
No scheduled drops
Pokémon 30th restocks, all week
| Retailer | Product | Retail | Expected resale the post’s estimate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon UK (invites) | 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box | £44.99 | about £120 |
| Amazon UK (invites) | Prismatic Super-Premium Collection | £89.99 | £200 |
| Asda | ex boxes, spreading nationwide | £22 | about £42 |
Watch HMV, Smyths, The Entertainer, Menkind, TG Jones, Waterstones and Ryman.
The post calls itself an overview, not a definitive list. Staff ping anything else through the week.
Mon 12 Oct
Tue 13 Oct
Wed 14 Oct
Thu 15 Oct
Fri 16 Oct
Sat 17 Oct
Pre-orders and watches
Photos from the members’ success channel, with names and faces left out, and the results the team has confirmed since.
Confirmed on the public ledger, with what they sold for
A set does not land once. It lands on launch day, then comes back in restock waves for weeks afterwards, and the waves are usually where the easier buying is, because the queues have gone and the people who wanted one on day one already have one.
Allocation is uneven between branches of the same chain. One store gets a pallet, another gets six boxes, on the same morning. That is the single most useful thing to understand: a generic "it drops Thursday" post is close to worthless, because the question is not what day, it is which branch near you.
Across the alert history, 22 sets have had stock movement worth calling: 151, Mega Evolution, Pitch Black, Destined Rivals, Ascended Heroes, Prismatic Evolutions, Black Bolt, White Flare, Perfect Order, Phantasmal Flames, Surging Sparks, Delta Reign, Journey Together, Stellar Crown, Temporal Forces, Twilight Masquerade and more. The heaviest alert volume right now sits on 151, Mega Evolution and Pitch Black.
That shifted over the following month. Between 10 October and 10 November, 30th Celebration products made up 527 of the 1,859 product pings across our UK Pokémon monitors, more than the next three sets combined: Pitch Black, Delta Reign and Destined Rivals.
Older sets do not automatically appreciate. Prismatic Evolutions has held because supply genuinely stopped; Pitch Black is the most heavily printed set of its era and has behaved accordingly. Treating "older" as "scarcer" is the most common way to lose money on sealed product.
These are from our public ledger, which only records calls after the outcome is known. Alert spreads quoted in the Discord at the time are targets; these are what actually happened.
| Product | Retail | Sold for | Margin a unit |
|---|---|---|---|
 Pokémon Center Astronaut Pikachu Plush | £24.99 | £50-55 | +£25-30 |
 Pokémon 30th Celebration, Wave 2 | £25 | £55-60 | +£30-35 |
 Pokémon 30th Celebration, Wave 1 (UK launch day) | £49.99 | £115-125 | +£65-75 |
 Destined Rivals Elite Trainer Box (restock wave) | £50 | £110-130 | +£60-80 |
 Pokémon × Polaroid Gen 3 Cameras | £129.99 | ~£199 | +£69 |
 Palafin ex Box (Asda) | £20.99 | ~£45 | +£24 |
 Ascended Heroes Mini Tins (Sainsbury's) | £10 | ~£22 | +£12 |
 Pokémon Delta Reign (ME06) | £49.99 | £65-115 | +£15-65 |
The chains behave differently enough that each of the big ones has its own page, covering delivery days, drop mechanics, limits, and a dated log of recent waves:
Most of the work is monitoring, which is exactly the part software is good at and people are bad at. Argos publishes stock by postcode, so that one is genuinely checkable by hand. The rest are not: in-store allocation is invisible online, which is why our in-store alerts come from members reporting what they see on shelves alongside the automated web monitors.
That combination is the part that is hard to replicate alone. A web monitor catches the online restocks; members checking their local Smyths and Asda catch the ones that never appear online at all.
More than the alerts
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.
There is no published schedule. Sets land on launch day and then return in restock waves for several weeks, and allocation differs branch to branch within the same chain on the same morning. Our alert volume runs highest around launch weeks, with 3,200 Pokémon alerts in September alone against 110 in April.
By alert frequency: Argos leads, then Smyths, GAME, Amazon, Pokémon Center and Very, then The Entertainer, Asda, Sports Direct, Tesco and Waterstones. Sainsbury's, Menkind, John Lewis, HMV, B&M, Morrisons, Hobbycraft and Waitrose get occasional allocations, mostly around launch weeks. 27 retailers in total.
Argos publishes stock by postcode, so it is genuinely checkable by hand. Smyths and the supermarkets do not expose in-store allocation online at all, which is why shelf sightings from other people are the only reliable signal for those.
Restocks, usually. Launch day has the most competition and rarely the best margin, while restock waves run for weeks afterwards with far fewer people chasing them. The exception is a set with genuinely limited print, which you only know after the fact.
Not automatically. Prismatic Evolutions has held because supply actually stopped. Pitch Black is the most heavily printed set of its era and has not behaved the same way. Print runs get extended when demand is visible, so "older" and "scarcer" are not the same thing.
The bulk of this is UK retail. We also run EU retailer monitors and a Pokémon Centre channel, but the in-store side, which is where the allocation advantage really sits, is UK-focused.
Yes. Resell Vault posts Pokémon restock alerts for UK retailers in its Discord, each with the retail price and the resale price the team expects from eBay UK sold listings. Its public ledger at /missed-flips lists 34 Pokémon calls since November 2025, 34 of them confirmed with what they sold for. The alerts come with Pro, and the Discord itself is free to join.
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