Collaborating With America’s Favorite Franchise Worth Over $100,000,000,000, Santa Cruz Skateboards Drop a Game-Changing Update

Published 09/08/2023, 6:00 AM EDT

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Skateboarding is a popular sport among the young generation who are now more attracted to it. With the success of world-level competition and the prize money involved in it, the skateboarding industry has evolved and grown. The growth is not just in its popularity and acceptance but also in its business and other entities associated with it.

The one entity that has a major association in the business aspect of the game is the skateboard companies. The skateboards are being manufactured in different sizes, shapes, and colors to attract skaters of all ages. In that direction, the renowned skateboarding company Santa Cruz Skateboards has announced a game-changing update.

Santa Cruz Skateboards’s new skateboarding collab

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According to Gameishard, the Santa Cruz Skateboarding company has announced that it has entered into a new collaboration with America’s favorite $100 billion franchise Pokemon. The company shall create limited-edition decks and apparel. The aim of this exclusive line which has the combination of skating excitement and the Pokemon character attraction is to entice skateboarders of all ages.

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The main feature of this collaboration is the blind bags collection. These blind bags shall contain an eight-inch skateboard deck which will feature popular Pokemon characters but shall be placed randomly in the bag. This exclusive collection consists of holo foil variants that are fifteen in number and each variant has different Pokemon printed. The foil is made of a glittering silver prismatic rainbow with silver metallic paint.

These exotic collections of decks will be able to penetrate the heart of the skateboarder with their fabulous stunning design and have decks for every character of Pokemon for fans who might like energetic Pikachu, comical Magikarp, or any other character. To make the sealed blind bag collection more appealing from a marketing point of view each bag will be accompanied by a rare variant. The rare variant is in the form of five special gold foil editions.

The golden foil will have characters printed with black and metallic gold ink on the base of metallic gold foil. These editions shall feature Pikachu, Eevee, Mimikyu, Charizard, and Gyarados characters of Pokemon. There are fifty pieces of each design available worldwide and apart from the deck, there are tees, hoodies, and headwear printed with a Pokemon theme. The Santa Cruz Skateboarding Pokemon collection will be launched worldwide on the 13th of September, 2023.

About Santa Cruz Skateboards

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Santa Cruz Skateboards was established by Richard Novak, Doug Haut, and Jay Shuirman in the year 1973 in Santa Cruz, California. The company was established under NHS Inc. the company name which has initials of each partner name. The Santa Cruz skateboard has survived through the times and is considered one of the original skateboarding companies.

In the year 2013, the NHS Inc. celebrated its 40 years in business. The other NHS brands are Independent Truck Company, Creature Skateboards, OJ Wheels, Road Rider Wheels, Krux Trucks, Ricta Wheel Dynamics, and many others.

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This new collaboration is indeed an exciting one and shall attract not only the fans of Pokemon and its characters but also others who might get to purchase the eye-catching graphic foil decks and other accessories.

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Saiful is a writer for USS at Essentially Sports. A postgraduate in Management with a major in Human Resources he brings his experience in content and is an avid sports enthusiast. From following sports like swimming, equestrian, and rodeo, he has been glued to the screen.
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