A Colossal Discovery - Regigigas now in Pokémon GO

This weekend on Saturday there was a global special event called A Colossal Discovery. It featured the Colossal Pokémon, Regigigas. The event took place from 11 am through 7 pm local time that day and you could participate from anywhere in the world. To access the event, you'd have to purchase a special event ticket though. Upon purchasing the event ticket, you receive a special badge named the same as the event to show under your medals that you've participated in it.

With Regirock, Regice and Registeel being back in Raids for a few days before and after the event, they have added Shiny Regirock, Shiny Regice and Shiny Registeel in the game.

Purchasing the event pass unlocked the Special Research questline A Colossal Discovery. This is a Special Research quest that rewards Regigigas at the end of it. Trainers, don't fear though if you missed out on the event itself, because Regigigas will make its way into EX-Raids later in November and likely stay in there for several months.

During the quest several other Pokémon could be encountered as rewards from the quest, as well as obtaining a Sinnoh Stone and an Unova Stone. A special Pose for your character, visible on your own page, for your friends when they click on you, during Raid lobbies.

Other than that it was also possible to obtain up to 10 additional Raid Passes from spinning Gyms' Photodiscs throughout the event. Which excluded the daily free Raid Pass, so it was possible to do 11 raids in total with those passes throughout the event.

The first step focused on catching and evolving Rock-type Pokémon, the second step required Ice-type Pokémon and the third step featured Steel-Type Pokémon. All steps also required catching either Regirock, Regice or Registeel, so it was important to make sure you did one of those Raids during every step.

A lot of people were playing in my city. We often had to split in two groups for the Raids we were doing due to the amount of people. It was really easy to finds Raids, as the Raid Eggs on top of the Gyms often didn't take long to hatch, and sometimes a Raid Boss would just appear on a Gym without even having a Raid Egg prior to showing up.

The final part of the quest required taking snapshots of Regirock, Regice and Registeel. Once I did that I could complete it and get to the Regigigas encounter. Which can be seen here. Now I have Regigigas registered in the Pokédex!

Its stats were not particularly good, so I traded it afterwards to see if we could get lucky and get a Lucky Regigigas straight away. Unfortunately it didn't, and it became way worse stats wise. But I don't mind because it will be available through EX-Raids later this month, so I can just try to get a better one then!

Here are the AR pictures I took of Regirock, Regice and Registeel as part of the final step in the quest. I wanted to make it seem like they all walked out of the playground through that gate. After catching Regigigas there I also took an AR picture of it there, as that made the most sense!

The event itself was pretty cool. I kinda dislike the fact it was locked behind a paywall for having to purchase the ticket to the event, but they did give us more value in Raid Passes than the price of the ticket was. So it was definitely still worth it when it comes to purchasing Raid Passes! :D A lot of people also played during the event, it was really great seeing so many people around and doing Raids with them. I played for just over 6 hours that day, so it was also worth it when looking at the time spent playing. A lot of people I was playing with also played for a long time, sometimes some went for a short break and returned to join us later.

I did only did 11 Raids though, so using my daily Raid Pass and the 10 Raid Passes that I received as part of the A Colossal Discovery event ticket.

Did you participate in this event?