By Dawn and Piplup!

http://www.toonzone.net/blog/blogs/192/huge-pokmon-announcement-piplup-to-be-the-new-mascot/

I don't know what would make them do this! Since day one the show has been about Ash and Pikachu and their quest to be masters and now they're be taken out all together I get they want to do something fresh, but this is too much!

Sure... and Team Rocket are finally going to capture Pikachu, give it to Giovanni, and become leaders of Team Rocket and take over the entire world...

You call that an April Fools Joke?

a good one would be an annnoucement that Pokemon Special would be animated

-_- It'd bring my hopes up and then I'd die inside when it's announced that it's fake

*reads title and opens tab*

*opens thread, then switches to the other tab and opens photobucket, types facepalm pokemon*

*sees first post and clicks on quick reply, pastes the following*

Anyway, i don't know if that link sends to a thread at toonzone where that is started or if you just chained the that url to the url of a rickroll, but i don't really care. Thanks for giving me the chance of posting a facepalm though.

this isn't a april fools joke

This has got to be some kind of a joke. No way they would get rid of Ash after nearly 700 episodes.

It was an amusing joke at least.