NYC Pokémon Center Photo Gallery

The Pokémon Center in New York city is a two-story retail space that is devoted to nothing but Pokémon and Nintendo games and merchandise. As far as I know, this is the only store of its type outside of Japan. The store is located in Manhattan on 48th Street a couple of blocks east of Times Square, and just across the street from Rockefeller Center ( I could see the famous large Christmas tree and ice skating rink from where I took this picture- out of the frame to the right). Please enjoy the photos I took of the store and the accompanying captions.
 

This is the downstairs of the store. There were a number of demo units and  Pokémon models scattered about, and the back wall was nothing but  Pokémon TCG cards.

This is another shot of the downstairs of the store, showing some of the demos and the cards section.

It's all about the Venusaur. Venusaur is one of my favorite  Pokémon, so I just had to pose with the big model in the store.

Here I am doing my best impression of Groudon. Scary, eh?

This is a shot of the upstairs section of the store. The upstairs was packed with a lot more games and merchandise than the downstairs was.

The upstairs was where the DS demo was located. It was pretty popular! Don't ask me what the hell that lady in the fur scarf is doing. She kind of creeps me out...

That is a metric ass-load of SP demo units.

In one corner of the upstairs area, they had several demo screens set up for playing  Pokémon Pinball. These were also pretty popular!

They actually had a REAL  Pokémon Pinball machine. It was pretty sweet looking, but it was broken. Oh well.

There was also a card game playing area set up upstairs as well. I didn't see anyone playing the card game, but a number of people were just sitting at the table and talking. By the way, the scary looking middle-aged guy in the white and red hat was bragging to anyone who would listen how he has every  Pokémon game with a complete  Pokédex and every monster at Lvl. 100. What a freak.

 

Tucked away in a corner in the upstairs area was a room that had 6 GameCubes set up with  Pokémon Coliseum. Check out those chairs! I think I want one of those things.

 

Look at all the stuffed Pikachu!

 

Mounted on the wall behind the counter was  Pokéart submitted by the young patrons of the store. Some of it was pretty good. Most of it was total crap.

Here is another shot of the area behind the counter, showing more art sumbissions and miniature  Pokémon.