#micropup

[sailor-sylveon]

blueberry!!

blueberry: what was your favourite childhood food? do you still love it?

mashed potato, sweetcorn and ketchup, all mixed in together. i still do combine my mash and sweetcorn together, just minus the sauce now!

[thezombiespeaks]

wip

[lesbianhanguangjunji]

i think it's time to ask dad if i can have my 1997 kfc gigapet micropup back. he took it away from me in 1997 for reasons of i was insane about it but i think i could handle it now.

[vpet-encyclopedia]

VPet Profile: Giga Pets

Giga Pets are arguably the most popular non-bandai vpet! they were originally designed by inventors at REHCO LLC in 1995, then pitched to toy manufacturer Tiger Electronics, who began distributing the toys in 1997. Tiger Electronics was bought out by Hasbro in 1998, who continued selling Giga Pets in stores until the brands discontinuation in 2006.

The Giga Pets line was continually added to while it was active including two new lines called Giga Pets Plus and Giga Fighters as well as a plug-and-play tv console called Giga Pets Explorer! 

In 2018 the original creators at REHCO LLC formed the toy manufacturing company Top Secret Toys and relaunched the Giga Pets brand with all new models! How exciting!

More information about the original 1997 Giga Pets under the cut!

Giga pets gained a lot of popularity on their release because they were reportedly more readily available in the US than tamagotchi. They feature an overall similar setup as the original tama release with a pixelated, single color LCD screen with no backlight. They had 4 buttons labeled “left” “right” “mode” and “enter”. Pets had to be fed, played with, bathed, and napped 3 times a day.

[image of the Digital Doggie in its original packaging from Now And Then Collectibles]

The original 3 pets released were the Digital Doggie, Compu Kitty, and Micro Chimp. (those are such good names, I love them)

[image of the Compu Kitty pet from Worth Point]

[image of the micro chimp from an ebay listing, hosted on picclick]

I think its interesting how they all have different shaped shells and buttons! That seems like a really smart marketing and design choice to increase collectability! 

Giga Pets added at least 20 unique devices to their line by the end of 1997! These included brand tie-ins with Jurassic Park, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Disney. 4 of those were also new versions of the Doggie and Kitty pets available exclusively at KFC (reportedly sold for a special price of 7.99 with meal purchase)

[image of 2 out of the 4 KFC giga pets, called MicroPup and DigiPooch, from Worth Point]

That’s it for my basic overview of the original 1997 Giga Pets! If you have any corrections or additional information you’d like to share, please let me know! My main source for this post was the Giga Pets wikipedia page, which was very helpful. I think this will probably be the only brand that i’ll have a wikipedia page to look at unfortunately, considering that Giga Pets is one of the most popular classic vpets and even their page is pretty short and lacking in sources.

Anyway, there’s a lot more to cover in the history of Giga Pets, and once I’ve written about them I’ll link that here! Thank you so much for reading!

[wanyo]

Also some little micropups for also for PanzerPaw , I love how these came out! :D

[roseskies]

micropup replied to your photoset “Ever just feel very positive about yourself and you haven’t in such a...”

you're so pretty!!

aaaaaaaaa!! thank you so much this is v positive to see?? thank you dear~

[grapepack]

Look at my brother and I in summer 2k13

[thezombiespeaks]

This good boy loves his ball.

[poodlesandpups]

Micro Yorkie puppy female

Pocket Puppies Boutique, Chicago

[marimobaby]

a cute boy saw me reading yaoi at the library but I looked like an angel

[brainsrigazzi]

Teaching lil puppies bad habits @lilatheshihtzu #micropup

[deecolossus]

★∠( ᐛ 」∠)＿

url: don’t get it | not bad | nice | good job | love it omg | who did you kill

theme: not my type | ehh | decent | I like it | pretty amazing | I’m stealing it

icon: don’t get it | not bad | nice | pretty | flawless | brb killing myself

posts: not my type | not bad | nice job | love | perfection | give me your password

following: no sorry | just followed | yes | you mean stalk what

[holographings]

ur Instagram is beautiful! the colors are so pleasing!!

ah yess its exactly what i strive for!! thank u!!!

[tamashell]

Aside from the Digimon, these were my only non-Tamagotchi virtual pets.  The Micropup was my first, but Salem was my favorite.

[babybluevpets]

I lost my puppy today😔, it was obvious he was going to die since I was not able to pay a lot of attention to him. At least I was able to take some pictures from the beginning animation 🥰 . . .#tamatag #tamagotchi #mascotavirtual #virtualpet #gigapet #tigerelectronics #virtualpetcollector #nostalgia #90skid #90stoy #90stoys #juguetesdelos90 #gigapets #micropup https://www.instagram.com/p/CLc7gOrFMRU/?igshid=5qaj9ejwitnk

[grapepack]

My sister: in the car I was like “why does it smell like slugs in here?” then I realized it's probably weed.