#Digimon V-Pet

[midnight197]

A Photo of all the V-Pets I currently own!

[confused-robot-cat]

holy crap ive been looking for that background

Koromon ST1-01 by sasasi from ST-1: Starter Deck Gaia Red

This card of Koromon from ST1 is a reference to the original Digimon V-Pet Ver. 1!

[eliotdrawings]

happy birthday digimon!

[firedragon1321]

I Found the Digimon 25th Color Evolution Kid Sprites on Wikimon so Here Ya Go!

(They're transparent if you wanna do stuff with them.)

[digi-tama-in-your-pocket]

Well... looks like Digimon is going to be collaborating with Monster Hunter on a new color screen V-Pet. I do believe this is Digimon's first collab on a traditional v-pet, meaning a non Vital Brace. Funny, I was just thinking about how I'd like Digimon to consider a collab, but I was thinking along the lines of Godzilla or something, given the version 5 was originally going to be a Godzilla V-pet.

I have a bad feeling this will be another premium bandai exclusive item, so likely to be high price and limited quantity. I don't have much knowledge or interest in Monster Hunter, but unlike Tamagotchi, who tends to let their collabs go to retail so I can always pick it up later, the FOMO might be real with this one...

[antrusimbol]

My partners 💪🏼

[weaselbug]

[maireadralph]

The Entrapdak fan comic I designed for Entrapdak Zine 5 - Nostalgia

…I didn’t intend for it to be mostly Hordak, 8 pages, accidental MOTU AU or in colour but oops my hand slipped 😅

You have NO IDEA how much fun this one image was to do:

[laxmon]

Digimon Evolution Lines 93/∞

Wall Rake! Ludomon debuts in the 20th Anniversary Digital Monster V-pet with its full evolution line. Ludomon (Data-attribute) and its evolutions are part of the "Legend-Arms", able to transform their bodies into swords. As the strongest shield, Bryweludramon is able to Jogress with Durandamon to become RagnaLordmon.

Stages: LV1: Cotsucomon LV2: Kakkinmon LV3: Ludomon LV4: TiaLudomon LV5: RaijiLudomon LV6: Bryweludramon — LV7: RagnaLordmon (Jogress with Durandamon)

Artwork by Bandai from the Digimon Reference Book.

[kichimiangra]

Just googl'in something...

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[midnight197]

So the Results are there, and it'll be another Pendulum Color Run! I'll aim for Tlalcomon this time! (also because it's the only Jogress-Mega I can get without another Pendulum that I don't have lmao)

It should be easier than getting Cernumon, since I need less Jogress to obtain it. I believe. As long as everything goes like it should xD I'll keep you guys updated!

So, now that my Pendulum Color Wind Guardians Journey is almost over, let's decide which Device to tackle next!

[gardhoulthehermit]

Repainted my 20th anniversary edition digivice, hopefully the varnish will help keep the paint rubbing off in my pocket! The original was a pain, I painted it black and since the original plastic was bright yellow I had issues with it showing through pretty quickly!

[snailfen]

anyways. two mimir

[globboh]

this just arrived. guess whos blog is gonna turn into a digimon log

[digi-tama-in-your-pocket]

I wonder if the virtual pet fad of the late 90's would have lasted just a little bit longer if Bandai, I dunno... maybe tried a little harder to keep it interesting?

I did some thinking about it and it just feels like Bandai was determined to shoot itself in the foot when it comes to virtual pets ( Something that seems to still be true today )

Despite Tamagotchi gen 1 and 2 being fairly gender neutral, from the Angel onward Tamagotchi's marketing leaned HARD on the notion that it was a "Girls Toy"

Tamagotchi Ocean feels like it was on store shelves for exactly one week and had absolutely zero marketing. You'd be forgiven for thinking you just imagined it.

They completely gave up on Tamagotchi after the Ocean until 2004's Tamagotchi Connection relaunch

They refused to greenlight the Tamagotchi cartoon

Digimon were actually really hard to find on store shelves and even harder to find anything that wasn't a version 1, you'd be forgiven for thinking we never got more than version 1 in the west

Why the fuck was the "Digivice" in the anime not based on the original v-pet?? They wanted it to sell a completely different toy?? Why?? Market what you have already!! Not only that but the anime changed the rules about digimon from how we know them in the virtual pets ( it was a dope anime but this was a double edge sword )

They made Digimon World play like a virtual pet, but couldn't think of a way to integrate actual v-pets into the game like how pokemon stadium did with the N64 transfer pak. Hell even Sonic figured that out with the Chao and the Sega VMU ( too bad the Dreamcast crashed and burned )

Kids moved on from v-pets when the robo dog and furby became the hot new toy, Bandai didn't even try to compete

When all of these factors lead to the decline of virtual pets popularity, bandai just kind of threw up their hands and quit, didn't touch Tamagotchi until Tamagotchi Connection, but continued to market it as a "Girls Toy", maintaining the stigma ( don't shoot the messanger btw, I hated the stigma but I also had a dad who "threatened" to get me girls toys for christmas to emasculate me which caused me to distance myself from Tamagotchi ), the only Digimon things we got was anime, and anime tie-in toys.

Like if you look at the history of how Bandai handled virtual pets despite them being essentially pokemon before pokemon, it's pretty easy to see why they dropped the ball so fucking hard these days. They're getting better but there's still room for improvement, ESPECIALLY when it comes to Digimon. Tamagotchi is mainly where they're improving but Digimon has no support in english speaking territories unless it's anime nostalgia, while Tamagotchi is at least trying to do better.