Pokémon Restock Report:
September 2026

1. Swooper's monitors logged 124 Pokémon TCG restocks across Target, Walmart, and Best Buy in September 2026. Target accounted for 118 (95%).
2. 82% of Target's restocks landed between 10 PM and 6 AM ET. The busiest hour was 3 AM.
3. Target restocked on 19 of 30 days. Wednesdays (49) and Fridays (41) carried 76% of the month's restocks.
4. Restocks came in waves: 74 of Target's 118 restocks (63%) were repeat restocks of the same product within two hours. The biggest: 30th Celebration Booster Bundle Box, restocked 8 times between 3:10 AM and 5:54 AM on Friday, September 11.
5. The most-restocked product was the Mega Evolution Pitch Black Booster Bundle: 19 restocks at Target across 4 days.
6. Walmart restocked Pokémon cards online 4 times and ran 3 online drawings instead, all on Wednesdays, covering 10 products.
7. Target listed or relisted 15 Pokémon TCG products during the month.
8. Best Buy logged 2 Pokémon TCG restocks.

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

Pokémon's 30th Celebration products arrived in September. Target listed them in overnight waves, while Walmart put its most wanted 30th Celebration products into online drawings instead of open restocks.

Mega Evolution product, led by Pitch Black and Chaos Rising, kept restocking at Target all month alongside the new 30th Celebration releases.

118 restocks on 19 of 30 days, across 30 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

74 of the month's 118 Target restocks (63%) 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

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

• First Partner Illustration Collection: Series 2 first seen September 2
• Mega Evolution Chaos Rising Elite Trainer Box first seen September 2
• Mega Greninja ex Premium Collection first seen September 9
• 30th Celebration Battle Deck: Umbreon ex first seen September 10
• 30th Celebration Battle Deck: Espeon ex first seen September 10
• 30th Celebration Booster Bundle Box first seen September 10
• 30th Celebration Mini Tin first seen September 10
• 30th Celebration Tin (Sylveon or Greninja) first seen September 16
• 30th Celebration Tech Sticker Collection (Lucario or Alolan Exeggutor) first seen September 16
• 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Box first seen September 16
• Mega Evolution: Ascended Heroes Tin: Mega Meganium ex first seen September 18
• Mega Evolution: Ascended Heroes Tin: Mega Emboar ex first seen September 18
• Mega Evolution Ascended Heroes Tech Sticker Collection Gastly first seen September 25
• 30th Celebration Greninja ex Box first seen September 25
• 30th Celebration Poster Collection first seen September 25

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

Walmart restocked Pokémon TCG online 4 times in September 2026 (Mystery Power Box: Vault Edition, Mega Evolution 5 Pitch Black Booster Bundle), and ran 3 online drawings covering 10 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 →

Best Buy logged 2 Pokémon TCG restocks in September 2026: Knock Out Collection Q1 (2).

Live Best Buy restock data →

Our Pokémon Center monitor flagged no new Pokémon TCG listings in September 2026. The new products it saw were plush, pins, and other merchandise, which this report excludes.

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 September 2026?

Swooper's monitors logged 118 Pokémon TCG restocks at Target in September 2026, on 19 of 30 days, across 30 products.

What time did Target restock Pokémon cards in September 2026?

Mostly overnight: 82% of restocks landed between 10 PM and 6 AM ET, and the busiest hour was 3 AM ET.

Which Pokémon product restocked the most in September 2026?

The Mega Evolution Pitch Black Booster Bundle, with 19 restocks at Target.

Did Walmart restock Pokémon cards online in September 2026?

Rarely. Walmart restocked Pokémon TCG online 4 times and sold its most wanted products through 3 online drawings: Wednesday, September 9 at 5:27 PM ET; Wednesday, September 16 at 5:17 PM ET; Wednesday, September 30 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, September 2026 with a link to swooperhq.com/pokemon-restock-report/september-2026. Free to quote and chart under CC BY 4.0.

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