April Fools' Day 2012

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April 1, 2012 was an April Fools' Day that fell on a Sunday. In the Pokémon fandom, many websites pulled hoaxes on gullible fans.

Hoaxes

Fansites

Bulbagarden

• Bulbanews posted an article about several leaked upcoming games which included a 3DS version of the arcade game Pokémon Battrio and a demaked version of Black & White for the original Gameboy along with a fake trailer for the game created by Pokémon hacker Koolboyman.
• Bulbagarden forums were redesigned to become NOT Bulbagarden, with the forum taking on a look and theme of 2001: A Space Odyssey as though the fake announcement of the Bulbagarden forums moving away from Pokemon talk had just recently taken place.

Other fan sites

• Psypoke had shaking rainbow-colored text on the front news page along with a constant line of Bidoof marching down the page.
• PKMNcast.com followed last year's example and became distorted with images and signs of Missingno. The banner had an image of Missingno. on it, various parts of the website was missing, and the colors were changed.

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