The Pokemon Company and McDonald’s have teamed up before, but not without attracting undo attention from would-be scalpers. Earlier this month, McDonald’s Japan was forced to end its latest Pokemon Happy Meal promotion a few days early because the supply of cards quickly ran out amid chaotic crowds clamoring for the cards that came with them.

According to Nintendo Soup, scalpers drove most of the demand for Pokemon cards and many of them abandoned their Happy Meals uneaten at the restaurants or on the streets outside. In some cases, the crowds inside the McDonald’s restaurants were so unruly that the police had to be called.

The most-prized item from this giveaway was a McDonald’s-exclusive Pikachu card featuring Pokemon’s iconic creature ready to scarf a Happy Meal of his own. Aside from the scalpers who came away with the cards, the only real winners of this PR debacle were the pigeons who devoured the discarded meals.

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