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SirBoglor November 9th, 2015 6:35 PM

I'm in the States, so I'm pretty happy that I'll finally be able to get one. But in all honesty, it does suck that other countries won't get the opportunity. Only a relatively small amount are going to take advantage of this event, compared to Japan and maybe even other countries. I only say that because very, very few people near my location even play Pokemon, let alone go to an event for it. That could be a very different story in other parts of the U.S, though.

~RNC~ November 10th, 2015 9:43 PM

Question about this event coming out at McDonald's, will there be any pokemon toys coming out in the kid's meal there as well with this event release? I have been in my local one many times asking about this and not even the managers know about this for the 27th.

Tkain November 11th, 2015 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Astinus (Post 8991118)
Again, it's difficult to think of any other restaurant for the Pokemon Company to run this promotion at. Like with the Shake Shack, as Tkain suggested, the closest one to me is an hour away. Compare that to my closest McDonald's, which I can pop into after a short walk. I'm sure it's like that for other people all over the country. "Better" restaurants or more appropriate stores like GameStop aren't as common as McDonald's.

Even other fast food restaurants aren't as plentiful as McD's. Nor are any other fast food restaurants' kids meals as popular as a Happy Meal, and since TPC wants the best advertising, go with the most-known restaurant for the most exposure.

Still, as YellowTemperance and I have said, you don't need to give McD's a single penny of your money to download Hoopa. Just pop in, connect to the Mystery Gift, get Hoopa, and then leave.

I'm just happy my birthday falls in the middle of the promotion. I'll get myself the Lugia toy, a Hoopa, and a Fillet O' Fish.

I understand what you're saying, I was suggesting Shake Shack mainly because of its food-based appeal, but I agree McDonalds is much more well known and more kids would be willing, but it's either love or hate with the customers. And I must say the new toys have improved. I'm getting that Kyogre toy. And a free Hoopa to top it off really makes up for the place. :t382:

(Anyone else notice that certain locations are getting renovated? No more tile and lots of comfy seats.)

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Originally Posted by ~RNC~ (Post 8992668)
Question about this event coming out at McDonald's, will there be any pokemon toys coming out in the kid's meal there as well with this event release? I have been in my local one many times asking about this and not even the managers know about this for the 27th.

Wait seriously? The managers don't know? Crazy. There are some toys, yes; Pikachu, Primal Groudon, Primal Kyogre, Primal Rayquaza, Lugia, Hoopa, Mega Latias, and Wobbuffet.

~RNC~ November 11th, 2015 4:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Tkain (Post 8993126)
I understand what you're saying, I was suggesting Shake Shack mainly because of its food-based appeal, but I agree McDonalds is much more well known and more kids would be willing, but it's either love or hate with the customers. And I must say the new toys have improved. I'm getting that Kyogre toy. And a free Hoopa to top it off really makes up for the place. :t382:

(Anyone else notice that certain locations are getting renovated? No more tile and lots of comfy seats.)



Wait seriously? The managers don't know? Crazy. There are some toys, yes; Pikachu, Primal Groudon, Primal Kyogre, Primal Rayquaza, Lugia, Hoopa, Mega Latias, and Wobbuffet.

No I stop there every day and did go in and ask and they didn't know, I asked about what toys were coming out after the ones they have now and they didn't know that either.

magicalgirlj November 13th, 2015 6:42 PM

I have never done never done an event like this at a public place before. So do I go up to the counter and ask for the code, or do I connect to wifi from there?

Sopheria November 13th, 2015 6:49 PM

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Originally Posted by magicalgirlj (Post 8996046)
I have never done never done an event like this at a public place before. So do I go up to the counter and ask for the code, or do I connect to wifi from there?

You just use the Wi-Fi there and receive it through Mystery Gift :) Pretty sure this is the first time they've done an event like this (through Nintendo Zone) in the States, so we're all a bit new to this haha

Witchcraft November 13th, 2015 7:34 PM

Awesome, I'm going to have to take my brother so we can get our Hoopas! To be entirely honest, I have never gotten an event Pokemon that required me to leave my home. But I'm finally going to get one, cause I don't have a Hoopa yet. Also, excuse to get french fries.

~RNC~ November 14th, 2015 2:06 PM

I have only been to GS to get events outside of my house, but for me that will be alot of trips there to get all of those toys coming out with this event :laugh:

Syrex November 15th, 2015 4:48 PM

This would be my first event pokemon so i am especially excited for this :)

Lexatom November 15th, 2015 5:02 PM

I remember having to go to Game Stop every time there was an event for the Gen 4 games. It was both cool and annoying. But, why Mcdonald's? XD

magicalgirlj November 16th, 2015 2:39 PM

Is it possible to get a Hoopa in both X and Y or ORAS, or only one game? I am also worried it might not be every MC Dondlads, in Richmond VA where I live anime is not a big thing.

~RNC~ November 16th, 2015 2:41 PM

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Originally Posted by magicalgirlj (Post 8999452)
Is it possible to get a Hoopa in both X and Y or ORAS, or only one game? I am also worried it might not be every MC Dondlads, in Richmond VA where I live anime is not a big thing.

You can get them on all of those games.

Mawa November 18th, 2015 11:19 AM

Is it US only? So close yet so far from me.

TheSignWriter November 20th, 2015 2:19 PM

Oh wow! An event I can actually receive without driving for an hour! This just made my day ^^ and made my tummy growl..

Thepowaofhax November 20th, 2015 8:23 PM

Seeing as this event will be rarer than easily farmed Gamestop events, it will be of worth for me and other redditors from /r/PokemonTrades such as my self. This means that the McHoopa will most likely be worth more than the GAME and perhaps worth more than the Maxsoft Hoopa. I see this as a better way to distribute it.

Also, McNuggets.

Ammako November 22nd, 2015 7:38 AM

They're hosting it in McDonalds because this is where the vast majority of Nintendo Zones are, I'd wager.

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Originally Posted by Thepowaofhax (Post 9004356)
Seeing as this event will be rarer than easily farmed Gamestop events, it will be of worth for me and other redditors from /r/PokemonTrades such as my self. This means that the McHoopa will most likely be worth more than the GAME and perhaps worth more than the Maxsoft Hoopa. I see this as a better way to distribute it.

Also, McNuggets.

I don't see why we wouldn't be able to farm this Hoopa as easily as the Gamestop events.
Go there with two games, pick up one on Mystery Gift, trade it over, restart game, rinse and repeat.

Thepowaofhax November 22nd, 2015 8:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Ammako (Post 9006161)
They're hosting it in McDonalds because this is where the vast majority of Nintendo Zones are, I'd wager.



I don't see why we wouldn't be able to farm this Hoopa as easily as the Gamestop events.
Go there with two games, pick up one on Mystery Gift, trade it over, restart game, rinse and repeat.

Well, you see, if you go to Gamestop everyday on different shifts, you could get a good 40 codes depending on the amount of Gamestops near you.

Ammako November 22nd, 2015 8:48 AM

This isn't a distribution by code, though. You simply download it via wireless download. :p

Balrog~ November 22nd, 2015 5:54 PM

I live in south america, so no hoopa for me :/, I wish they gave a code or something for my country :P

Ammako November 23rd, 2015 6:24 AM

It will most likely be possible to download Hoopa at home by spoofing your network as being a McDonald's Nintendo Zone hotspot, by giving it a certain SSID ([email protected]) and spoofing your router's mac address (Unsure which mac addresses would be used for this yet.)
It's been done before for various other events, even more recently, for the Pokémon Center shiny Tyranitar in Japan without having to live anywhere near Japan (still need a Japanese 3DS and game, though.)

Balrog~ November 23rd, 2015 8:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Ammako (Post 9007220)
It will most likely be possible to download Hoopa at home by spoofing your network as being a McDonald's Nintendo Zone hotspot, by giving it a certain SSID ([email protected]) and spoofing your router's mac address (Unsure which mac addresses would be used for this yet.)
It's been done before for various other events, even more recently, for the Pokémon Center shiny Tyranitar in Japan without having to live anywhere near Japan (still need a Japanese 3DS and game, though.)

how does that work?? do we have to change something in the router or in the ninendo 3ds??

Ammako November 23rd, 2015 12:49 PM

To be honest I'm not entirely sure how to do this with a router, I've only ever done it with my wireless card in my PC.
It's the same concept as HomePass. You set up a wireless access point with the same name as the official Nintendo Zone access points, and use mac spoofing programs to spoof your mac address. Your 3DS will be tricked into thinking they are connected to a Nintendo Zone.

You can trick your 3DS into thinking it connected to a Nintendo Zone simply by changing your AP's name to attwifi or [email protected], but in order to be able to download Hoopa you'd probably have to have a certain mac address so your 3DS thinks it's connected to a McDonalds access point, and not just any Nintendo Zone.

This page has a list of mac addresses for various Nintendo Zone access points, so it should be possible to spoof your router or your wireless card as having that mac address, then use the right SSID, and start up your router or wireless access point to download Hoopa as if you were at McDonalds

Balrog~ November 23rd, 2015 3:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Ammako (Post 9007618)
To be honest I'm not entirely sure how to do this with a router, I've only ever done it with my wireless card in my PC.
It's the same concept as HomePass. You set up a wireless access point with the same name as the official Nintendo Zone access points, and use mac spoofing programs to spoof your mac address. Your 3DS will be tricked into thinking they are connected to a Nintendo Zone.

You can trick your 3DS into thinking it connected to a Nintendo Zone simply by changing your AP's name to attwifi or [email protected], but in order to be able to download Hoopa you'd probably have to have a certain mac address so your 3DS thinks it's connected to a McDonalds access point, and not just any Nintendo Zone.

This page has a list of mac addresses for various Nintendo Zone access points, so it should be possible to spoof your router or your wireless card as having that mac address, then use the right SSID, and start up your router or wireless access point to download Hoopa as if you were at McDonalds


ok, thanks a lot ^^, I don't know a lot about this stuff, but I'll try to do it xD, thanks for the info, didn't know that could be done

Niko Collins November 25th, 2015 4:09 PM

I can't wait!

Hikamaru November 27th, 2015 3:52 AM

Serebii has mentioned that this Hoopa event is now active, so if you're in the US visit McDonald's and pick up yours now!

And this may be a bit off-topic, but there's now been another Hoopa event announced for the Scandinavia region. Players in Norway, Finland and Sweden can obtain a serial code from Gamestop stores which they can use to download Hoopa onto their Omega Ruby or Alpha Sapphire games. This one will be active from December 2015 - January 2016. (Credit goes to Serebii for this)


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