For more than 22 years, Pokémon fans had to do without one of the original 151 monsters.
Above all, the trading card game was not complete without Kadabra.
The bright yellow Kadabra belongs to the Psychos, is almost 1.30 meters tall and has long mustache hair.
He also has a slightly bent silver spoon in his hand, which is supposed to amplify the alpha waves in his brain.
But that was the problem: Nintendo turned him into an evil character and stole his identity, Uri Geller claimed in 2000. The Israeli mentalist has become particularly famous for one thing: he can bend spoons, although it is still not clear to this day whether the meanwhile 76-year-old Geller succeeds through alpha waves or other telekinetic powers.
Or whether he is not a paranormal, but simply a completely normal fraud among magicians, as many of his fellow magicians claim about him to this day.
In any case, Geller sued Nintendo in the United States for an alleged violation of his personal rights and demanded around 40 million euros in damages.
The first lawsuit was dismissed, but new lawsuits in other countries followed.
Geller finally had an insight: Pokémon fans could be happy that Kadabra would return to the card game, he said.
"I admit I was an idiot," he told fansite Pokebeach.com.
"It was a big mistake to sue Pokémon."
Because Kadabra was actually a homage to Uri Geller.
When asked why he changed his mind, he replied that a lot had happened in 20 years, "but the most important thing was that I became a grandfather.
I watched my granddaughter grow up and thought to myself: Come on, let the Pokémon card circulate freely again".
The card game, supplemented by Kadabra, is scheduled for release in June.