The Pokémon Company Is Selling a 5 Foot Slowpoke for $450

The Pokémon Company is selling a giant, 59 inch-long Slowpoke plushie for $450.

As reported by Nintendo Life, the jumbo Slowpoke is now available to preorder online at the Pokémon Center, where it's pictured taking up an entire single bed and alongside a woman who's roughly the same size.

Image credit: Pokémon Center.

The Slowpoke plushie was released in Japan in 2021 but is now making its way to the west. "It is so cute and so squishy," said verified purchaser Christopher K in the reviews section. "Its vacant stare is also so calming, and its tail is so cuddly."

"You really don’t know how big it’s going to be until it’s taking up half of your queen sized mattress and you have to rehome all the other stuffed animals so you can sleep on your own bed," added Catherine B.

"You will read the measurements but nothing will prepare you for the sheer girth and size of this gargantuan unit in person," said Georgia M.

Slowpoke may be the ideal candidate for such a plushie given it rarely moves in the world of Pokémon. "It is incredibly slow and dopey," reads its Pokédex entry. "It takes five seconds for it to feel pain when under attack."

That’s a lot of bananas! 😅🍌 How else can we show off Slowpoke’s size, Trainers? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/Y5VA2suxI6

— Pokémon (@Pokemon) April 22, 2024

This plushie is on the large side even for a Slowpoke, however, as its average size is just 47 inches compared to this one's 59, which places it at four foot and 11 inches or 1.5 metres long. The Pokémon Company measured it in a less conventional way too, learning the Slowpoke plushie comes in at 11 bananas long in a X/Twitter post (above).

While this may seem among the most premium Pokémon merchandise available, its $450 doesn't scratch the surface of a custom line of Tiffany & Co jewellery. While some of the cheaper items come in at $1,290, the most expensive piece, a Pikachu pendant made of 18-karat yellow gold with diamond accents, costs $29,000.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.