Pokémon Restock Report:
October 2026

1. Swooper's monitors logged 95 Pokémon TCG restocks across Target, Walmart, and Best Buy in October 2026. Target accounted for 80 (84%).
2. 99% of Target's restocks landed between 10 PM and 6 AM ET. The busiest hour was 4 AM.
3. Target restocked on 7 of 31 days. Fridays (58) and Wednesdays (13) carried 89% of the month's restocks.
4. Restocks came in waves: 22 of Target's 80 restocks (28%) were repeat restocks of the same product within two hours. The biggest: 30th Celebration Battle Deck: Umbreon ex, restocked 2 times between 3:44 AM and 3:53 AM on Friday, October 30.
5. The most-restocked product was the 30th Celebration Booster Bundle Box: 6 restocks at Target across 4 days.
6. Walmart restocked Pokémon cards online 1 time and ran 6 online drawings instead, on Mondays, Thursdays, Wednesdays, covering 14 products.
7. Target listed or relisted 20 Pokémon TCG products during the month.
8. Best Buy logged 14 Pokémon TCG restocks.

Monitor coverage = days in the month the store's monitor posted anything. n/a = not part of that store's feed.

80 restocks on 7 of 31 days, across 42 products. Every bar below is an hour of the day in Eastern time; the shaded hours are 10 PM to 6 AM.

By weekday

Restocks come in waves

22 of the month's 80 Target restocks (28%) were repeat restocks of the same product within two hours. A drop is rarely a single moment. Orders get canceled, payments fail and those units return to inventory, and retailers often release stock in batches to spread out drop traffic. Each drip is a new chance to buy, which is why checking once is rarely enough.

Every product that restocked

New or relisted at Target

20 Pokémon TCG products showed up as new listings during the month, in the order our monitors first saw them.

• 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box first seen October 1
• First Partner Illustration Collection: Series 3 first seen October 1
• 30th Celebration Poster Collection first seen October 1
• First Partner Illustration Collection: Series 2 first seen October 1
• 30th Celebration Booster Bundle Box first seen October 2
• 30th Celebration Mini Tin first seen October 2
• 30th Celebration Binder Collection first seen October 3
• 30th Celebration Ditto Premium Collection first seen October 8
• 30th Celebration Figure Collection: Mew first seen October 8
• Mega Evolution: Delta Reign Elite Trainer Box first seen October 8
• 30th Celebration Ultra-Premium Collection: Day first seen October 8
• 30th Celebration Ultra-Premium Collection: Night first seen October 8
• 30th Celebration Figure Collection: Mewtwo first seen October 8
• Mega Evolution: Delta Reign Three-Booster Blister first seen October 8
• Mega Evolution: Delta Reign Booster Display first seen October 8
• Mega Evolution: Delta Reign Booster Bundle first seen October 8
• 30th Celebration Sylveon ex Box first seen October 9
• Mega Evolution Ascended Heroes Tech Sticker Collection Gastly first seen October 9
• 30th Celebration Battle Deck: Espeon ex first seen October 30
• 30th Celebration Battle Deck: Umbreon ex first seen October 30

Live Target restock tracker →Every Target Pokémon product with its TCIN →

Walmart restocked Pokémon TCG online 1 time in October 2026 (Scarlet & Violet Prismatic Evolutions Elite Trainer Box), and ran 6 online drawings covering 14 products. In a drawing, everyone who enters during the window has the same chance and winners are picked at random.

How Walmart Wednesday and drawings work →Live Walmart restock data →Auto-enter Walmart drawings →

Best Buy logged 14 Pokémon TCG restocks in October 2026: Deck Crafter's Collection (2026) (13), Scarlet & Violet - Prismatic Evolutions Elite Trainer Box (1).

Live Best Buy restock data →

Our Pokémon Center monitor flagged 4 new Pokémon TCG listings in October 2026:

• Mewtwo & Mew Discovery Damage-Counter Dice & Condition Marker Set first seen October 1
• Celestial Espeon & Umbreon Premium Binder first seen October 19
• 30th Celebration Poster Collection first seen October 27
• 30th Celebration Poster Collection first seen October 27

Pokémon Center sells its biggest launches through a virtual queue, and queue drops are not part of this feed. How the Pokémon Center queue works →

How many times did Target restock Pokémon cards in October 2026?

Swooper's monitors logged 80 Pokémon TCG restocks at Target in October 2026, on 7 of 31 days, across 42 products.

What time did Target restock Pokémon cards in October 2026?

Mostly overnight: 99% of restocks landed between 10 PM and 6 AM ET, and the busiest hour was 4 AM ET.

Which Pokémon product restocked the most in October 2026?

The 30th Celebration Booster Bundle Box, with 6 restocks at Target.

Did Walmart restock Pokémon cards online in October 2026?

Rarely. Walmart restocked Pokémon TCG online 1 time and sold its most wanted products through 6 online drawings: Wednesday, October 7 at 5:25 PM ET; Thursday, October 8 at 12:00 PM ET; Wednesday, October 14 at 5:00 PM ET; Wednesday, October 21 at 5:01 PM ET; Monday, October 26 at 5:01 PM ET; Wednesday, October 28 at 5:00 PM ET.

Why does the same product restock several times in one night?

Stock drips back in. Orders get canceled, payments fail and the units return to inventory, and retailers often release stock in batches instead of all at once to spread out drop traffic. Each of those is a new chance to buy, which is why checking once is rarely enough.

• Source. The alert feeds of Swooper's store monitors at Target, Walmart, Best Buy, and Pokémon Center. Each monitor posts every detection the moment it happens, and this report counts those posts.
• What counts. Pokémon sealed trading-card products only: booster bundles, Elite Trainer Boxes, collections, tins, blisters, decks, and similar. Plush, pins, figures, apparel, card sleeves, deck boxes, playmats, and binders are excluded.
• Restocks. An alert the monitor labels as a restock. Two alerts for the same product less than 5 minutes apart count once, so the true number of individual drips can be slightly higher.
• Waves. Repeat restocks of the same product within 2 hours of each other.
• New or relisted products. Products the monitor flags as newly listed, counted once per product per month. During a drop the same listing is flagged many times, so those repeats are not counted.
• Drawings. Walmart drawing alerts within 3 hours of each other count as one drawing.
• Coverage. The days in the month on which each store's monitor posted anything at all, so a quiet store is never confused with a monitor that was offline.
• Timezone. All times are US Eastern.
• What it is not. Online inventory only, for the products Swooper's monitors track. It does not measure in-store stock, and Pokémon Center queue drops are not part of its feed. The live restock tracker covers a longer window with an additional monitor, so its totals are not directly comparable to a single month here.

Using these numbers? Please cite Swooper Pokémon Restock Report, October 2026 with a link to swooperhq.com/pokemon-restock-report/october-2026. Free to quote and chart under CC BY 4.0.

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