April Fools' Day 2007
From Bulbapedia, the community-driven Pokémon encyclopedia.
April 1, 2007 was an April Fool's Day that fell on a Sunday.
Hoaxes
- Sunain announced her departure[1] from #pocketmonsters and the community in general on March 26, then returned on April 1 itself.
- #pocketmonsters also released a fake episode of School Rumble falsely labelled as a subtitled DP024.
- Pokecharms.com was taken down impending action over the Copyright Infringements taking place on domain: Pokecharms.com under a claim by Plaintiff: Nintendo United Kingdom; relating to the franchise: Pokémon.
- Pokemopolis announced and effected a merger with Serebii.net.
- Legendary Pokémon announced and effected a merger with Serebii.net.
- Pokemon.Marriland.com claimed to have unearthed information about the third game in the Generation IV series, which they called Pokémon Zircon.
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Pokecharms: shut down?
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Serebiimopolis
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Legendary Pokémon
Meta-hoax
- Serebii.net revealed a number of English names for Pokémon Diamond and Pearl towns, attacks, abilities and items, which many incorrectly believed to be hoax.
Miscellaneous
- Bulbagarden forums became Bananagarden, then a mock civil war broke out between the League of Neutral Posters led by Evil Figment, and the rest of the staff and members led by Pie.
- SPPf removed all avatars and custom user titles due to "server errors". Some forums were also deleted.
- Dogasu's Backpack was changed to Satoshi's Orenospace (a play on MySpace) page. Pages for other characters were also created.
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Bananagarden
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Satoshi's Orenospace