Pokemon TCG New Set Release Dates Australia: What Is Confirmed for 2026

If you are waiting on the next Pokemon TCG new set, here is the honest position: the next dated release in Australia is a product wave, not a fresh expansion. That next date is 2 October 2026, for 30th Celebration: Booster Bundle & Mini Tins. It is not a brand-new set. It is the next wave of 30th Celebration, the set that launched its first wave here on 16 September, with a further December wave still to come.

Everything below is a confirmed Australian date. Where a date has not been announced, it is not on this page, which is why you will not find a speculative 2027 calendar here.

The next release: 2 October 2026

The Booster Bundle and Mini Tins land on 2 October under the 30th Celebration banner. If your question is whether new packs are coming out soon, this wave is the next chance to buy product at retail rather than on the secondary market.

The newest set on shelves: 30th Celebration

30th Celebration is the set currently in market. Its first wave launched in Australia on 16 September, and it is arriving in product waves rather than as one drop, with a December wave carrying the Sylveon ex Tin and Greninja ex Tin. Mega Evolution, the base set that opened the Mega Evolution series, also sits on the release calendar with its own Australian dates, products and market prices.

What is still confirmed for the rest of 2026

December brings the Sylveon ex Tin and the Greninja ex Tin. One product has already moved: the Binder Collection was originally slated for that December wave, but Big W shipped it early in Australia alongside the 16 September launch, so it is not part of the December release here.

Then there are the bigger boxed products: the Ditto Premium Collection, the Ultra-Premium Collection in Day and Night versions, and the Mew and Mewtwo Figure Collection. Their preorder picture, as of the update on 23 September 2026, is patchy. Kmart listed the Ultra-Premium Collections online that day, but bot traffic overwhelmed the listing and no genuine customer using a standard browser could complete a purchase. Big W and Target have yet to open online preorders, and Pokemon Center AU has not made these available to Australian customers at all.

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For the products still to open preorders, the usual pattern is EB Games first, with the most structured preorder programme and specialist stores close behind, while the major chains such as Kmart, BIG W and Target tend to list closer to release day.

For whatever lands after the December tins, the Australian release calendar lists every upcoming and recently released set with confirmed dates, the products in each wave, and links through to market prices and live stock.

Do Australian release dates differ from the US?

Usually no. Recent Pokemon TCG sets have launched simultaneously worldwide, and 30th Celebration was the first fully simultaneous global TCG launch.

Before you flip the extras

New release waves leave a lot of collectors with duplicates, and two things are worth knowing before you sell them on. On the market itself, a one-year field study of 300 Pokemon cards offered on eBay found that 73.3% of the cards sold within the study period, at a median price of €1.95. Most singles move, but most singles are cheap, which is a useful calibration before you price your spares.

On the tax side, the line between hobby and business matters: amounts you make from a hobby do not need to be declared to the ATO, while income from a business does. Where your selling sits on that line is a question for your own circumstances, not this page.

How to be there when a wave lands

Preorders for a major set can sell through in minutes. We monitor 57 Australian retailers, covering the major chains such as Kmart, BIG W, Target, JB Hi-Fi, EB Games and Amazon, plus a long tail of TCG specialist stores. Monitoring runs continuously, and the moment a tracked retailer changes stock, price or preorder status, an alert goes out to Discord, Telegram and WhatsApp at the same time rather than as a daily digest, each with a direct link to buy. The core alerts are free, and a paid Premium community adds faster, more finely filtered alerts. Set up free restock alerts and let the notification reach you before the 2 October listings and the December tins sell through.