#Tamagotchi Friends

[artsyvii]

tamago tamago tamagotchi

#pixel art #pixel artists #aseprite #tamagotchi #tamagotchi friends #the sillies #silly doodle

[shrimp-moment]

yall are not gonna believe this 🫣

So happy to have this lovely Tama Friends

#tamagotchi #tama #tamagotchi friends #turtletchi #kuchipatchi

[satitchi]

Tamagotchi iD, Uni, Pix, Pix party, Some and Gigapets 💖

#tamagotchi #giga pets #tmgccollector #kawaii #tamagotchi friends #tmgc #pink #90s #tamagotchi pix #tamagotchi pix party #tamagotchi uni

[estethell]

My Tamagotchi collection, and 3 beautiful devices will arrive soon ✨

#tamagotchi #tmgc #tmgccollector #tamagotchi uni #tamagotchi friends #tamagotchi p1 #tamagotchi japanese ribbon #tamagotchi pix green

[tamapalace]

Tamagotchi Friends at the 2014 New York Toy Fair

#tamapalace #tamagotchi #tmgc #tamagotchifriends #tamagotchi friends #friends #tamatag #virtualpet #bandai #videos #nytf #newyorktoyfair #new york toy fair #tarabadie #tara badie #Youtube

[gotchi-blog]

I already forgot that this model has a screen saver. Sort of. Makes the visibility way better ✌

#tamagotchi #tamagotchi friends #virtual pet #my collection #toys #tamablr #tmgc

[spicymilkstar]

I am not one of the cool kids. I dont have a uni yet

#tamagotchi #tamagotchi connection #tamagotchi friends

[gabharhi]

3 different kinds of vpet ❤️ i love them all so much

my furby Mack helps me keep an eye on Zumi the Petithanatchi and Pooka the Grundo to make sure everyone's getting looked after!! one lil family working together~

(started up my Tama Friends for the first time in years and been playing on Grundo's Cafe lately and it's been a huge blast playing Neopets again!! if anyone wants to add me on GC my username there is "Beta"!)

#furblr #furby #furby 1998 #my furby #grundo's cafe #neopets #grundo #tamagotchi #tamagotchi friends #virtual pet #tamatown #vpet #safe furby

[jeepers-scoob]

Day 4: I was able to change colors again while giving her a food she loves! My boy just hung out and went to the park where there was nobody so he got a lil sad

#photos #kayla rambles #kayla plays tamagotchis #tamagotchi #tamagotchis #tamagotchi on #tamagotchi friends

[silversapphire5691]

welcome to another episode of silver's merch mysteries!

remember those zoobles plush posts i made a few months ago? well i think i might turn it into a series on here, where i will post about obscure/unreleased merch that interests me. today we have the mystery of the spacy brothers tamagotchi friends figure.

tamagotchi friends was a very short lived figure line for the very short lived tamagotchi friends release in the us. they were released in 2014 and only at toys r us. some figures came in playsets, some in single packs, and there was one(?) pack that had 5 characters in it. some characters are harder to find now than others, yumecantchi being the rarest in my opinion since i rarely see her go up for sale. i loved this figure line and i got into the tamagotchi anime on the tail end of this release, meaning a lot of these figures were now super cheap because the line flopped in america. but one thing that i always thought was weird were the choices of characters they made figures of. main characters like memetchi and kuchipatchi didn't receive figures yet characters like harptchi got figures? very strange. however, a while ago, i stumbled upon this image:

originally posted by tumblr user ashkeilolita in 2015, this image shows the collectors guide packaged with every tamagotchi friends release, with a few differences: kuchipatchi and spacytchi, two characters that did not receive figures, have figures shown on this guide. spacytchi replaces the character juilietchi and kuchipatchi replaces yumecantchi.

as i said before, this line did not do well in america and was forgotten about pretty quickly. so my first thought was "well, since this didn't do well, these are probably prototypes that were never released." but do you see the set below spacytchi? the "dream school classmates" set? that was released.

here's an ebay listing from last year that hasn't sold. and there's another on ebay from this year that also hasn't sold. (probably because they're both over 80 bucks....)

so if these released, what about kuchipatchi and spacytchi? i have yet to see any photos of spacytchi or kuchipatchi online. it could be possible that they released but have little to no documentation online.

while making this post, i also thought that it may be possible that this set released because they are just variants of already existing figures with different faces. (julietchi and himespetchi are the exact same figures). i also noticed that i have never seen the single pack for mametchi online anywhere, so that leads me to believe only this set was released.

and again while making this post i went back to the original post from ashkeilolita, and i found a comment from user auronsgirl saying the following: Someone asked about these figures on the Tamagotchi Friends FB page. And they said they were figures they were planning on releasing but no stores wanted to pick them up to sell them. So they won’t be getting made and sold at all now.

so... i guess that solves that mystery :(.

BUT, maybe there are unreleased figures out there? kuchipatchi has plenty of figures, but spacytchi only has one (a rare gashapon) and his brothers don't have any. it sucks these didn't end up releasing, but i can kinda see why. i would rather tamagotchi made new characters like these rather than rereleases but oh well.

what did yall think? i wanna do more of these so let me know if you have any ideas for things i should look into!

#tamagotchi #tamagotchi friends #tamagotchi friends figures #kuchipatchi #spacytchi #silver's merch mysteries #lost media? #lost toys

[humblemud]

I can barely see a thing, but I'm happy anyway.

#tamagotchi #tamablr #tamagotchi friends #tamatag #tmgc

[enderina]

Here is my smol tama collection :]

Hope to get an angelgotchi in the future too

{I'm currently running only my p1 & p2}

#tamagotchi #ender's tag #my tamagotchi collection #tamatag #tamagotchi p1 & p2 #tamagotchi pix #tamagotchi mini #tamagotchi friends

[shrimp-moment]

#mametchi appreciation #mametchi #tamagotchi friends

[satitchi]

#tamagotchi #tmgccollector #tmgc #kawaii #tamagotchi friends #tamagotchi mix #90s #tamagotchi connection

[hoshikarin]

💛💚💜 Which Tamagotchi do you love vs. the one you always ended up getting when they grew up?

#tamagotchi #tamagotchi friends #tamagotchi fanart #holographic stickers #holo #journaling stickers #tamagotchi fans #90s games #90s nostalgia #retro games #sparkly stickers #handmade stickers #homemade stickers #sticker art #mametchi #kuchipatchi #maskutchi #pocket pets #digital pets #pudding #panna cotta #matcha pudding #procreate artist #digital artist

[gotchi-blog]

Tamagotchi Friends review!

I was fighting with myself since I'm really not happy with this model, but I haven't seen much content with it, so here it is. My in-depth review of probably the worst Tama model ever produced.

General score: 3/10

Design and quality

Starting off with a big cannon - the quality of the toy is bad. I take into consideration the fact, that my particular one is a second-hand, however it was nearly unused, so nothing explains the quality of the plastic. Even though it was almost never exposed to light, the plastic went yellow like crazy. The front blue part changed too. I've heard that some Japanese models released around that time had a similar problem with sun damage, so probably it's just Bandai buying rubbish plastic to make everything cheaper. The result is awful.

The Dalmatian prints wore off, even though I rarely played with this Tama at all and handled it very carefully. My Connection V4.5 were in better state after 15 years of intense usage than this.

Generally, the shell designs were pretty ugly and unoriginal. I have the European Dalmatian version because it was the most interesting one. The American shells were already better, although Friends in general look bad. Bandai really didn't seem to care about anything in this model. They went with more "girly" aesthetics but not actually pretty ones. Want to see it done right? Look at Meets/On.

When it comes to the buttons, I like that they are made of hard plastic. It was a big change for me after the Connection's rubbery ones, but the decision was right. The problem is how absolutely insensitive they are. I have to press on each very hard for it to be registered (and sometimes it still doesn't happen.) It makes it difficult to play the games, especially the ones that demand quick reflexes, and the toy is laggy. I have very small hands (short dude curse) - if you're any taller than me, so basically of normal human size, you will suffer even more.

The sounds are rusty, the quality of the speakers is very bad. I haven't encountered another model with such bad sound. I often keep it off even when I'm alone because I can't stand the squeaking of an old Fiat Tipo's windows rolling down.

Finally, the screen quality is AWFUL. The American edition fixed the contrast, but it still wasn't good. The European one, on the other hand... I barely see my pet. Friends uses a similar idea to TamaTwon TamaGo, with black pixels in 4 different shades to create backgrounds. In theory - cool. Practice? Visibility = 0. There isn't a "good" setting of the contrast, there is only one that hurts less.

The screen is very deep-set, meaning constant shadow in the corners. Taking a good photos is almost impossible. The only thing that improves the visibility is tilting the toy towards light sources. Forget about playing in not very well-lit spaces.

Once again, a disappointment. Probably the most shocking element of Friends is lack of items. Yes, you can't buy and play with any items. Instead, you can collect ridiculously expensive pieces of jewellery that you can't interact with. Nothing. You can just look at them, displayed in your treasure chest. There are 60 in general. Obtaining 30 unlocks an additional game. There's a problem though - the games are so boring and difficult to win due to unresponsive buttons that it's hard to collect enough money for that (even though winning a game gives you an astonishing 1000 Gotchi Points.)

2. Unique mechanics

Something Friends used hard in its advertising is the unique connection feature. Instead of using infrared, like Lord intended, Friends uses a sensor located at the back of the toy. It's activated by bumping against another toy. Ah yes, what a great idea. Give children an electronics toy that literally encourages rough handling. What could go wrong. I like this idea in theory, but practice is simply too dangerous for the toy. I've never got to test this feature, as I have only one Friends and never met anyone with one (I wonder why), so I can't tell if the interactions themselves are fun or not. The thing is, Friends is yet another model where a decent amount of features is unlocked through connecting. There is a whole icon dedicated to SMSs you can exchange through bumps (also, the character growth is linked to that. I will elaborate later.)

The last unique feature worth mentioning is the BFF meter, seen under the scales icon. It's filled up through connecting with other Friends. Once it's halfway full, it unlocks another game. So if you don't have any other Friends nearby, forget about seeing that game.

3. Characters and growth cycle

The characters available are... meh. Here comes my problem with the Friends era of Tamagotchi - the characters are very humanoid. To me, the charm of the franchise has always been the strange, abstract characters that usually didn't remind of any real beings. But the characters available here all look like slightly weird humans. I get that Bandai wanted to advertise their product towards teen girls, so the pets were supposed to be a bit more cute than the older versions, but in my opinion Friends slightly crossed the line. I don't buy Tamagotchi to have weird humans in it. I want them to be weird, original, to have funny shapes (like Mimitchi. Or Tenpatchi from V4.5.) Here all characters, except for the two classics - Kuchipatchi and Memetchi, have the same big head + small human-like body structure. I can excuse Mametchi, he's an OG of this build. But the rest? Booooorrrringgggggg

The evolution is based on the care mistakes and the three special groups. The care mistakes work like in every other model, except for the fact that it's incredibly difficult to provide any care that's lower than excellent. Those bastards are so resistant to hunger and illnesses that I don't even know if it's possible to kill them. If so, then you'd probably need to leave the toy without care since the baby stage. The life cycle is simply too short to give too many care mistakes, especially considering that the teen stage is not demanding at all. Both Hunger and Happiness meters have 5 hearts, and they go down slowly. If you're able to neglect your pet in Tamagotchi Friends, congratulations. I was fighting for my life while trying to get something other than the best characters.

The second evolution mechanism are the 3 special groups - Social, Active and Gourmet. The methods of obtaining them are always the same for each teen:

Social - send 10 SMS

Active - play 10 games

Gourmet - feed your Tama 15 meals (probably works with the default bread, but to make sure, use the meals you can get in the store)

Considering that collecting jewellery is an important feature, and to do that you need money, you can see a problem here - it's very easy to end up with the Active group every time.

If you don't fulfil any of the three special group requirements, the character is selected randomly from the care tier that you've achieved.

Generally, the better care teen you had, the harder it is to obtain a low care adult, as the care "stacks." I had a Cosmotchi, so it was hard for me to get even the excellent care tier.

4. Games

Tamagotchi Friends offers 5 mini-games. The first 3 are available at the beginning. Another one is unlocked through the BFF meter, as mentioned before. Then there's the jewellery one.

I have the European edition, which means that all the games are recycled from older models. I'm not sure if that's the case with the American one, as the 3 standard games are different there. In mine, you can play Drop-Catch, Select-get and Mimic. Old, boring games from other Tamas. Bandai didn't even feel like coming up with something new for this one. Also, the games are pretty frustrating as two of them demand quick reflexes - that's not really possible with the horrible buttons, leading to many loses.

The games that can be unlocked are the same on both release versions. They are the Cake Catch and Flower Count. The first one is also recycled. I'm not sure about the Flower count, though it might be the case as well. I've never had a chance to unlock it anyway.

5. Conclusion

I think the whole review is quite self-explanatory. I absolutely dislike this model and wouldn't recommend it to anyone, unless you're a die-hard collector. Absolutely the worst way to introduce someone to the franchise - Tamagotchi Friends offers the worst of the whole brand. I ran it just to write this review and to check if my opinion has changed. It didn't. This buddy is going back to the box - it's more fun as a decoration on the shelf than as an actual virtual pet.

#tamagotchi review #tamagotchi friends #tamagotchi #my collection #virtual pet #toys #tamablr #tmgc