Uri Geller says Nintendo can reprint Kadabra on Pokémon cards

Spoon Bending Assistant Uri Geller gave Nintendo permission to use the character Cadabra in Pokemon

cards today, after a sophomore legal dispute in which Geller claimed the Pokisjapanese from my the name and image were too close to yours.

“I’m so sorry for what I did 20 years ago, ”said Geller. tweeted today. “Children and adults, I lift the ban. Now it all depends on #Nintendo to bring my #kadabra #pokemon on the back of the card. This will probably be one of the rarest cards around! Lots of energy and love to all! “

How? ‘Or’ What Screenrant explains, while Kadabra is a word associated with magic, the PokJapanese name for emon—written differently as Young people, Yungellerand Yun Geller—seems to be a reference to Geller. Cadabra holds a spoon, an apparent reference to Geller’s most famous illusion. Geller sued Nintendo over Kadabra in 2000, seeking damages and insisting that the card cease to be used in sets. “Nintendo turned me into a hidden and evil Pokémon character. Nintendo stole my identity band using my name and signature image “, Geller said at the time.

Subsequently, Kadabra did not appear in a Pokemon card game 2003. The other evolutions of Kadabra, Abra and Alakazam, also have Japanese names which refer to actual magicians; These characters appeared on the maps without going through the evolution of Kadabra.

Talk to the website The playerGeller wrote: “Due to the sheer volume of emails I keep begging myself to allow Nintendo to bring back Kadabra / Yungeller I sent […] a letter to the president of Nintendo giving them permission to relaunch Uri Geller Kadabra / Yungeller to the world. The player

writes that Geller said his request was “picked up by ‘two Nintendo representatives,‘”, But it is not yet clear whether Kadabra will reappear.