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.

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