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Tamagotchi Mobiles!

On the way to work yesterday, I couldn’t help noticing a line about 64 miles long wrapped around Toys ‘R’ Us like a hungry boa. Apparently there for some event tied to the brand new “Tamagotchi Connection” toys, enthusiasts from all around the world congregated at Geoffrey’s headquarters for a spirited round of “let’s wait 80 hours to see new Tamagotchi toys yeeaaahhhh!” Something like that. Just before navigating my way through the giant noodle and into my building, something caught my eye and wouldn’t give it back:

Tamagotchi-style Volkswagon Buggies! Herbies from Hell! There was a row of five of six of ‘em parked outside Toys ‘R’ Us with enough security hanging around to make me think our terror alert had been raised to Neon Carrot. Sadly, they could very well be repainted “Pikamobiles” from a few years ago – Pokemon had the same deal going with the same yellow cars. Poor Pika.

Posted by Matt on 08/11/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 108 comments

From the look of the illustration on the NBs, the graphic on the Tamagotchi’s thing look low tech.

Chestnuts roasted by Beta-Theta @ 08/11/2004 4:48 PM

I agree with Jenner, this return of stuff is getting boring, and you can probably tell that Pokemon Fire Red and Leaf Green will not make as much money since they are bascially remix version of Pokemon Red and Blue.

Chestnuts roasted by Beta-Theta @ 08/11/2004 4:53 PM

:(

Chestnuts roasted by Pikachu @ 08/11/2004 4:56 PM

That was truly amazing… around here we have an exterminator who’s got his bug (the car kind) painted as a squashed bug (the insect kind).

I wonder why more people don’t do that with shittier cars… like a Toyota Prius?

Chestnuts roasted by Barry J. Deeper @ 08/11/2004 6:47 PM

who gives a hoot? THe only hoot to give is to not pollute as that owl said. No I am not on drugs…

Chestnuts roasted by phunsauce @ 08/11/2004 6:50 PM

catch up with our old pal Woodsay the owl: http://www.fs.fed.us/spf/woodsy/

All i have to say is eddie vedder and mike watt were right when they said the kids of today should defend themselves against the 70′s…

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 08/11/2004 6:53 PM

catch up with our old pal Woodsy the owl: http://www.fs.fed.us/spf/woodsy/

All i have to say is eddie vedder and mike watt were right when they said the kids of today should defend themselves against the 70′s…

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 08/11/2004 6:53 PM

Toys R’ Us may get out of the toy business and foucus on their Babies R’ Us business. Imagine a world without Toys R’ Us, scary.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=businessNews&storyID=5944389

Chestnuts roasted by Gnarkill @ 08/11/2004 7:39 PM

I spent yesterday morning with my 2 year old son looking at sorts of crap. In my mind, a world without Toys R Us wouldn’t be that bad after all.

Chestnuts roasted by Shelby @ 08/11/2004 8:20 PM

Geez, and I thought (read: secretly wished) Tamagotchi had gone out of business. I never liked those little things. I’m a bad momma, I guess. Aways killing my little pets. Must be the fact that I’m a guy…

Seeing those little painted up Beetles makes me want to tamagotchi-jack one and drive it around. That would rock.

Chestnuts roasted by Paul Ortego @ 08/11/2004 9:10 PM

I gots ta tell ya, I really hate them bugs. I don’t care for Tamagotchi so much either. So I guess it’s safe to say that I hate the Tamaotchimobile.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 08/11/2004 10:11 PM

Jeff-I hate you because you won the contest.

Chestnuts roasted by Nate @ 08/11/2004 10:14 PM

i miss new york and all the candy colored crap in times square. oh, and crowd dodging. what fun!

Chestnuts roasted by chicklet @ 08/11/2004 10:28 PM

Cool pikachu is here! ^_^ When my mom saw the news stroy about the new tamagotchi pets she said "Those are back?" Pass me a twin set and Cherry Poppin’ Daddies CD. Is stuff from 1998 retro now?

Chestnuts roasted by pikachulover @ 08/11/2004 10:31 PM

Congrats, Jeff. Don’t forget to tell us what’s in the box when you get it, or I’ll have you hunted down and your legs aputated! ;)

Chestnuts roasted by A-wel Cruiz @ 08/11/2004 10:41 PM

tama"gotcha" a really stupid car. Get it?
ha ha ha!! ha…ha ha? (or not…) :)

Chestnuts roasted by chicklet @ 08/11/2004 10:46 PM

ME – thanks for the review link! Funny thing is, I didn’t get in ’til 5am and when I plopped my wasted ass in bed, Lost Boys was on HBO and I laughed my ass off!

~SHH! I’m trying to use the phone!

Chestnuts roasted by Mugzy... @ 08/12/2004 12:03 PM

Holy Crap, I’m glad I didn’t have to work yesterday… or today. (I work at Toys ‘R Us, though thankfully not the big monster one in NY)

Seriously, I doubt we had a line of people waiting for those things, though. Actually, we put ours on the shelf the other day and, I kid you not, we only had about 4 of them when I saw ‘em, and they were all pink, and were in a corner, on a single peg-hook where no one would ever find them. I hope *that* TRU got alot more than we did.

(btw this is my very first post here at X-E) :)

Chestnuts roasted by Ryane @ 08/12/2004 12:21 PM

Tama-wha?????

Chestnuts roasted by SuperStar @ 08/12/2004 12:29 PM

Ahh the Tomagotchi..this brings me back!

I can’t believe that the toy company that made it is actually trying to bring it back!

A good tip to keep your virtual pet happy is to have sex eith it at least once a week, or else it will key the side of your car ^_~

And you really should consider reviewing UHF, Matt…

Chestnuts roasted by Invader Norbert @ 08/12/2004 1:11 AM

toys R us used to be the coolest place on earth. I remember every christmas just gawking at the huge wall of NES games and making sure they had the game i wanted in stock. It seemed like so many times i’d just get the last ticket for the game i wanted. Although my most frustrating search for a video game ever had to be for Super Mario 3. After my brothers and i had FINALLY saved enough money to buy the game we called every store in the Cleveland phone book for about 2 or 3 weeks and asked if they had it. After getting rejected for those 3 weeks or so I remember vividly calling the last store of the day expecting to get rejected again. I almost peed my pants when the Best (Best no longer exists…RIP) store in Southgate had 5 copies in stock. We begged my mom to drive us to the store which was 40 minutes away and suprisingly she took us up there. When we got there my brother and i sprinted to the electronics department and low and behold there was ONE copy left. The game that had eluded us for some time was finally ours. We could finally become a tanooki and turn into a statue. We could finally slip on Kuribo’s shoe. A moment never to be forgotten…

Chestnuts roasted by phunqsauce @ 08/12/2004 1:21 AM

New Tamagotchis are out? When those things hit streets in Japan people went ape-shit over em. In fact certain popular Japanese boutiques had thier own special LE designer tamagotchis that sold for up to 100 bucks on e-Bay. Now there here… I had a couple of the originals back in the day, might as well grab anew one, but then again… ahhh whatever i’ll see.. but a world without Toys R’ Us’s? Where will bored teenagers hang out to get a short cheap laugh? Oh and on a related note, Matthew, after I read your Tamagotchi video review, I actually found the damn thing in a Anime store, and I bought it. Why…….gahhh.

Chestnuts roasted by Mr. S @ 08/12/2004 2:25 AM

Cartoon Network wants to turn its "Boomerang" channel, which shows old stuff from the 60′s and 70′s, into a preschool channel. That’s a pretty big spit on people from that era, because Boomerang is the only place where anyone could see 99 percent of that stuff. And that’s not the worst of it. This article says Toys R Us is pondering dumping their stores in favor of their Babies R Us spinoff? They can’t do that! Doesn’t it make enough money?? When I was a kid, I thought the closest thing to heaven was Toys R Us. STOP THE BABIES!! THEY’RE GOING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!

Chestnuts roasted by Mars @ 08/12/2004 2:54 AM

Damn that sucks about Boomerang, Mars. My parents didn’t get cable until 1994. Lucky for me Cartoon Network was still in the early years and showed pretty much everything from their library then, so I got to see the shows from before my time.

I guess the success of Nickelodeon’s Noggin is the main reason for the switch. My younger nephew and niece only watch Noggin and On Demand Noggin in the little time they are allowed to watch television. From what I have seen of the channel, http://www.noggin.com/shows/oobi.php">Oobi scares me the most, with the lack of budget for actual puppets.

This is why Matt needs to move up in the cable world and quick.

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 08/12/2004 5:32 AM

Arrrrrrg v_v;; I ordered a UK model like, 2 weeks ago and it STILL isn’t here (they’ve been out there for a while now)… People all over the states are finding stores that’ve put the Tamagotchis out on store shelves early. This infuriates me, as I ordered one on the ‘net early to avoid WAITING for them to come out (though then just might be available domestically before I get mine!).

Chestnuts roasted by jjgoreha @ 08/12/2004 8:17 AM

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