April Fools' Day 2007

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April 1, 2007 was an April Fool's Day that fell on a Sunday.

Hoaxes

  • Sunain announced her departure[1] from #pocketmonsters and the community in general on March 26, then returned on April 1 itself.
  • #pocketmonsters also released a fake episode of School Rumble falsely labelled as a subtitled DP024.
  • Pokecharms.com was taken down impending action over the Copyright Infringements taking place on domain: Pokecharms.com under a claim by Plaintiff: Nintendo United Kingdom; relating to the franchise: Pokémon.
  • Pokemopolis announced and effected a merger with Serebii.net.
  • Legendary Pokémon announced and effected a merger with Serebii.net.
  • Pokemon.Marriland.com claimed to have unearthed information about the third game in the Generation IV series, which they called Pokémon Zircon.

Non-hoax

  • Serebii.net revealed a number of English names for Diamond & Pearl Towns, Attacks, Abilities & Items, of which many believed to be false.

Miscellaneous

  • Bulbagarden forums became Bananagarden, then a mock civil war broke out between the League of Neutral Posters led by Evil Figment, and the rest of the staff and members led by Pie.
  • SPPf removed all avatars and custom user titles due to "server errors". Some forums were also deleted.
  • Dogasu's Backpack was changed to Satoshi's Orenospace (a play on MySpace) page. Pages for other characters were also created.