Yeah, 8 hours research day is much better, because it gives different players different times to play and more time to complete research to get the target Pokémon. The concept of research Day is to complete research and get Pokémon, while community day is about shiny checking and catching Pokémon
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Another new Pokémon that is egg locked for now
From the Pokémon they announced yes. You can also get Shiny Minccino and Shuckle from this event, though, but they are not in the wild, sadly. 
I still can’t enjoy those evolved forms being Shiny in the wild… 
(This screen shot is not mine, but I can confirm it is legit because I have seen more reports of Shiny Magmar being in the wild.)
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I am curious about other’s opinions on this event.
Honestly, I found the Hatchathon event to be bad, but this one even beats it in being terrible. This is why:
Pros:
- New Pokémon: Darumaka, Darmanitan, Minccino and Cinccino released.
- This event boosts some spawns that do not regularly get boosted by events.
- The evolved spawns are cool to see.
Cons:
- Darumaka is only available in 7km Eggs. Now they should not be everywhere around, but why this?
- The spawns are annoying. I have tons of Vulpix, Voltorb, Foongus, Jynx, Kricketot etc already. Those who don’t, can have them in just one hour only. Including their evolves.
- The 7km pool got ruined. It seems you can only hatch eight Pokémon from 7km Eggs received during the Lunar New Year Event: Foongus, Darumaka, Wurmple, Vulpix, Riolu, Magikarp, Shuckle and Magby. I definitely don’t want to walk 7km just to hatch a Foongus, Magikarp or Vulpix. They are everywhere in the wild already, even outside events they are pretty common for me.
- No new Shinies got released.
- Lack of possible Shinies in the wild. Only Magikarp, Gyarados, Magmar and Wurmple can be Shiny. Magikarp and Wurmple are cool, the others?
- Shiny Magmar in the wild. Just why? I don’t see the point. If ‘devolving’ was a thing, it would be fine by me, but since ‘devolving’ doesn’t exist, I don’t see the point. We could already have had a Shiny Magmar by evolving a Shiny Magby.
- Shiny Gyarados in the wild. This is the weirdest decision ever. I have yet to see the first Gyarados to pop up, and even IF I will, I bet it is not going to be Shiny. The Shiny Gyarados is just for the spoofers, in my opinion. Extra bonuses for the spoofers, because of their hard work. (Just kidding!) And it is yet again an evolved Pokémon. so glad I haven’t evolved my only Shiny Magikarp yet. You will see, that if I did, I would probably get the Shiny Gyarados.
- The Lucky Bonuses are nonsense. I did 30 trades yesterday, and only one got Lucky. I can still remember, that, when Trading Evolution came out, I did six trades, and five of them became Lucky. And that was without the ‘Lucky Bonus’!
- The new Pokémon are in different Egg pools.
- The duration of this
event is too long.
Now this is just my opinion, but I find this event to be very, very poor. The fun fact is that every procent has led to even more cons. I didn’t include the Minccino Research Day, because that is not ongoing yet, but I strongly hope it is going to be better than this and not as Feebas’ Research Day.
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I mean I also think it’s a lame event, but the way I look at it is this: yes it’s a lame event (IMO) but I don’t have to play as often then if I don’t like the event, gives me time to hang out with the wife more and play different games instead of shiny hunting (for mons I already have,except wurmple and alolan rat) all week long. So I mean in summary (and imho) yes it’s lame event, but I’m also glad it’s lame bc it gives me the perfect opportunity to take a “week” long break from the game and not feel like I’m missing anything.
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It’s a meh event, but I would have been much more mad had 7 km eggs had all the Alolans and the baby Pokemon on top of the red Pokemon. It would have made getting Darumaka next to impossible.
What’s really terrible is that Lucky Trades weren’t boosted at all by all accounts and purposes. I’d dare to call that false advertising. Thankfully, I had the foresight to not focus on trading on this event so nothing was really lost on me. Still, I feel bad for anyone else who reached the trade limit and didn’t get a single lucky trade.
I’ll still go for 7 km eggs for the duration of this event, but once it’s over, I’ll switch back to no 7 km eggs. I got a 96% Darumaka already (13 attack though) so I’ll see about getting the candies to evolve one.
Hopefully, the Minccino event next Sunday will be better.
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Actually Darumaka still feels impossible. Half of my eggs end out to be a Foongus…
I’m not impressed by this event either. The 7km egg pool is hell. I managed to get one Darumaka, though. Still hoping for a second for my livingdex.
I only received ONE rare candy from gifts so far, and I didn’t even bother trading.
I do love the fact that we have some shiny evolutions in the wild. I don’t need Gyarados, but I’d really really love to get myself a shiny Magmar. It’s almost impossible for me to hatch a shiny Magby (or any other shiny baby), so I’ll take it if I can.
But my shiny luck is not existent at the moment… 
The research thing might be ok, though… We’ll see. As long as it’s not like Feebas I’ll be fine with it.
I actually like the rare candy from gifts, I’ve gotten about 8 so far from the 15ish gifts I’ve opened the last 3 days (I’ve been pretty bad at opening gifts and sending them this event)
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Yeah this kinda sucks. It’s cool to see Gyarados, Chameleon, Flareon and Magmar since they arent that common. I have opened I’d say 15 or so gifts and no rare candies or lucky friends. In the 4 or 5 7km eggs I have hatched none have been Darumaka. I hate these 7km eggs but since it’s the only way to get Darumaka I’ll keep hatching them.
My favorite events tend to be the ones with really diverse and interesting spawns. Like the old rock events were some of my favorite because I never see kabuto, omanyte, lileep etc. That evolution event was also dope from a couple months back.
I understand not every event is gonna be a home run. Not every event is dedicated to everyone because not everyone plays the same way. Like the raid events arent for me. I don’t raid a whole lot so those events are whatever to me. The xp events arent for me cause I’m already level 40.
With that being said hopefully the next event is more appealing to a wider group of people.
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Got 4 lucky trades today with the wife, hate that most of them were ones that I didn’t want at all (for my account) I was just trying to rr them for her account.
I’ll be at work during event and I only have 1 pokestop.
Yeah I’m gonna be at work too. Thankfully I dont care about this pokemon really. I’ll get it eventually.
How are shiny Magmar and Gyarados a con?
Yeah, this event begins an hour and a half before the Super Bowl for me (my beloved Chiefs are playing! :D) and I have plans. There is no way I am going to take the time to do this. I’ll just hatch one one day. lol
Lol it was hilarious to watch all the 49er fans (since we’re in Cali) rush around for the first hour trying to do as many tasks before 3 so they could get to their parties.
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I’m in CA too (San Diego) and was the lone Chiefs fan at the Super Bowl party that I attended.
One person was catching Pokemon though. 
Now I’ve seen, the Chiefs have won… well… congrats to both, for have been in the finals
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