Kadabra Lawsuit Halts Pokemon Cards

Pokemon's Kadabra stopped appearing in the trading card game after magician Uri Geller sued Nintendo in 2000. Geller claimed Nintendo had based the spoon-wielding Pokemon on his spoon-bending act and argued that Kadabra's Japanese name, Yungeller, sounded like his own. In 2020, Geller apologized and gave Nintendo permission to print Kadabra cards again.

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