what have you got in the mail today *continued* <3

[Decotchi]

My watermelon Entama just arrived! I've been wanting this one ever since I first started collecting

 

[Decotchi]

Tama mail! This was a pre-tama-ban purchase that just arrived (pictured alongside the Ichigo Milk shell)

 

[GrumpyPoney]

I got my Maze maze collection toy it's so cute

 

[GrumpyPoney]

I got mine pretty fast from amazon in less than a week and I'm from france so I was surprised - and happy of course !

 

[Penguin-keeper]

I haven't treated myself to a virtual pets shopping-spree in a very long time, but this was one!

Here we have;

Tamagotchi Original Gen 1 (Sunset)
20th Anniversary Tamagotchi Mini (Transparent Green)
20th Anniversary Tamagotchi Mini (Purple) (Purchased to make a custom wearable Tamagotchi)
GigaPetsAR 2.0 Unicorn (Transparent blue)
Digimon Original (Transparent purple and yellow)
Doraemontchi
MGA Bear clone
Tamagotchi Friends (Sapphire Gem)
Giga Pets Microchimp
Giga Pets Compu Kitty
Octo-Pets
Nano Fighters - Supreme Sumo (For repairs)
Gotchi Gear Pet Pouch - Ringotchi
Renamon plush
Gabumon plush

I still have a few more things on the way, but this is the bulk of it.

 

[Knighttchi's Ballad]

Got this lot on the 31st of July, the final day for two of my course contracts.

The candy has been opened so the bags have the tops torn off and not pictured is the mini Black Thunder cookie bar, since I split that with my brother. I have a sweet tooth so it was pretty natural to try some of Japan You Want’s recent foray into Japanese candy. It also helped that the main place I would buy Japanese candy, Candysan, has ridiculous shipping prices due to the circumstances. I can’t really comment on the value and it was a frivolity to begin with. Here’s some close ups:

Left to right: Puré gummy peach and plum, DARS strawberry chocolate, Apollo Starwberry Chocolate, Hi Chew peach, and Poifull jellybeans

The jellybeans – which were a soft, fruity jelly – had a little flap built into the packaging that acted as a dispenser, a cute little touch. The chocolate unexpectedly came on a little tray which makes it easy for serving – although I kept it all for myself :^) The strawberry filling had little crunchy strawberry pellets in it. The Apollo chocolate was something I always wanted but honestly, it’s kinda forgettable (although I’ve come to realize most Japanese candy isn’t uniquely Japanese unless it has foreign ingredients). The Puré gummies were a bit like Sour Patch Kids but with liquidy fruit centre. The Hi Chews had a similar texture to Starbursts and smelled exactly like a freshly cut peach. Being myself, I’ve already eaten most of the candy.

Now onto the tama things. First up, the cases.

It’s about time I got a hard case and the cute stickers convinced me. I’ll probably use them in other projects instead of decorating the case/tama. Even behind the case was detailed. This shell is supposed to be for the Umino or Morino, which is kinda funny considering these versions both have attacks which require keeping the device accessible. I usually don’t clamp it shut for that very purpose. The little cloth inside the case minimize the device jostling about, although it’s not perfect.

Now onto a real curio: a vintage-shaped bandaid case. I thought I could use the case for something else but it really can’t hold much in the end. The bandaids will be used as stickers instead since getting blood all over them just seems like a waste. Oddly, Japan You Want used the British “sticking plaster” instead of bandaid. Although Canada has a lot of ties to Britian, I didn’t know what it meant so I had to google it.

The case has a lenticular effect to cycle through Maskutchi’s discipline, idle, and sleeping animations. It’s not perfectly precise so some of the frames are distorted by other frames. It’s also way too big to be mistaken for a vintage, as compared to my Morino below.

Now onto the bandaids themselves:

Notice the back of the packaging has a little tam-bulance.

I also bought some Angelgotchi pencils that have tiny stamps on the end. It just seemed so perfect for me since I’m low-key obsessed with stationary – especially decorative stationary – for the aesthetic value. I also like stamps. I was happy to find that they were painted and not wrapped in plastic.

I don’t know what the Japanese says and oddly, the green one only has odd numbers with the text except for the inclusion of the even 8. It is also worth pointing out that the yellow things protruding out of the tamagotchis’ mouths is actually the heart candy they are fed in-game (so the Oyajitchi angel isn’t throwing up).

Lastly, the Vpets I bought because they were cheap.

These are a Gyaoppi Dino and a Henshin Counter (apparently for the animanga series Penguin no Mondai, which I should look into at some date). The Queen of All Penguins notes in an early post  that apparently the Henshin Counter isn’t a virtual pet but instead a pedometer game. I’ll move it out of the Vpet category once I’ve run it to see what it’s like.

The Gyaoppi did give me some trouble as although it was marked “working”, a battery connector prong inside the device was not fully attached to the indents on the circuit board. Said prong was oddly in one piece and I think someone had hot glued the other battery connector into it’s plastic indent. What kept happening was that the loose prong was lifted of the indent when a battery was put on the other end in the battery slot. I discovered this fact late on the night of the 31st - a day where I submitted three assignments - because I didn’t want to break my ritual of testing that new Vpets actually worked (my circadian rhythms still hate me). I solved the problems a few days later by making a block out of strips of duct tape, placing it on the prongs which were pushed into its circuit board indent, and screwing the device closed so the case forced down on block. Now it wasn’t acting like a seesaw. To my surprise, there was still nothing on the screen and then I discovered that, similar to the Penpy, this Gyaoppi has to be tilted downwards to see the display.

 

[Penguin-keeper]

I got this little lot in the mail today. A Tamagotchi bubble-watch featuring Tarakotchi, a PowerPalz Frog, the UK release of Tamagotchi: The Movie on DVD, and a Neon Tamagotchi Original Gen 1 for a custom project.

 

[Penguin-keeper]

Oops, here's another one!

This is a Funny Monkey, in green. I had thought from its looks that it might be some sort of clone, but it actually doesn't seem to be - I have no idea what I'm letting myself in for with this one.

 

[Penguin-keeper]

Aaaaand one more from me;

Here's a Tamagotchi Mini Keepers plush of Tamatchi, a Tamagotchi Cybies beanie of Zuccitchi, and a special guest in the form of a Mocchi-Mocchi clip-on plush of Kirby (he's just here because he's the first Western-specific Kirby merchandise that I've ever been able to buy in the UK, and he happened to arrive alongside the two Tamagotchi plushes ).

I've only got one more thing on its way, now, so that'll be the last one for a while!

 

[Penguin-keeper]

And finally, one more: A new-in-box Ganbare!! Inuda-kun (more famously sold in English as "Poochie Puppy" in North America, and under some generic name that I can't remember in the UK). I had the watch version of this virtual pet when I was a kid, and though I usually try to avoid re-buying the same pets that I had in my 1990s collection, this one was so cute that I felt that getting the keychain version in a different colour-scheme would suffice.

 

[mimitchi ^o^]

These two Digimon came in the mail today! I now have Versions A, B, D, and E, just waiting for my Version C to come in and I'll have all five versions.

 

[mimitchi ^o^]

I received the Purple w/ black Digimon a couple days ago and the Sprinkles P1 today!!! I now have all 5 Versions of the Digimon 20th

 

[LucidLyes]

Hah! this thread is definitely not for me lol

 

[iAM]

Another successful hunt! 

Always loved this shell design! I’m happy that I found it.  ^_^

 

[iAM]

Baluluna has finally arrived!

 

[Penguin-keeper]

I hadn't originally planned on picking up the Hello Kitty Tamagotchi, but after seeing a good picture of the red "Favourite Things" shell (which features pixel-art-style renditions of, unsurprisingly, Kitty's favourite things) I had a change of heart and ordered one.

No in-pack picture this time - I was so excited about this one arriving that I unboxed it and put the packaging out for recycling immediately!

 

[Penguin-keeper]

I never owned a Gen 2 back in the 1990s (I knew others who had them, but my only experience with the Gen 2s has been via the modern re-issues), but I have now rectified that with this smart clear-yellow and white unit.

 

[OldSchoolVPQ]

@Penguin-keeper@Penguin-keeper

You picked a great color, congrats! 

I am not allowed to buy Tamas for at least a month, maybe 2 after this splurge. 

Brand new. Pristine. Holy crud expensive, I also had to renew my apartment lease this month. Pre-spending my winter bonus, basically. Now when will I have time to play them? (Do I even have the courage to open the box?) 

 

[Penguin-keeper]

@Penguin-keeper@Penguin-keeper

You picked a great color, congrats! 

Thanks! Amazingly enough, even though one of my 20th Anniversary Minis is clear-green, I didn't have a single vintage device in that most 1990s of plastic-styles, so it felt like the right one to go for!

I am not allowed to buy Tamas for at least a month, maybe 2 after this splurge. 



Brand new. Pristine. Holy crud expensive, I also had to renew my apartment lease this month. Pre-spending my winter bonus, basically. Now when will I have time to play them? (Do I even have the courage to open the box?) 

Ooh, what a nice haul! Will you be logging these guys?

 

[OldSchoolVPQ]

Thanks! Amazingly enough, even though one of my 20th Anniversary Minis is clear-green, I didn't have a single vintage device in that most 1990s of plastic-styles, so it felt like the right one to go for!

You didn't have a clear 90s Tama?! A travesty! Glad that has been rectified by what my 1998 Bandai catalogue tells me is a EU-exclusive color. Apparently the US got clear yellow with black buttons instead! 

As for logging...I could certainly try. For now I'm scared to death of scratching the shells/squishing the boxes!