Has anyone seen this V4 design?

[dadpants]

I've been curious about this shell design- I can't find it anywhere online- I've never seen one like it before. I don't know if it's rare or not- I don't even know where I got it or how I got it- but here it is. Sorry for the terrible image quality and glare on the screen.

 

[Eternal Mametchi Fan]

I've seen it before! I think it's an Australian design.

 

[rjalda100]

I've seen that one before, it's a nice shell. It's an Australian/Asian design.

 

[TamaMum]

The beads chain usually mean it's an Asia/Pacific (inc Japan) design (rather than a US or European design).

The design looks familiar to me too - but it's definitely not common.

Are you certain it's a V4 and not one of the other versions that also had the same ball antenna - such as the Entama/Uratama or Haneruchi2?

In the UK our V4 was followed by the V4.5 and most of the releases had the star shaped antenna but I remember some V4.5 tama releases also definitely had the ball antenna and not the star - this was at the height of the tamagotchi craze and BanDai were churning out tamas as fast as they could - so I'm not sure if the antenna anomaly just happened in the UK.

 

[Hohotchi-HO7]

I'm in Australia and one of my active Version 4s looks very similar to the one above. It has the exact same pattern but with a different-coloured rainbow, a white background and a green ball on the antenna. Before I restarted my Tamas a few weeks ago I had no idea that there were regional-based patterns, but it makes sense to me now!