Tamagotchi Paradise, Bandai's runaway hit reinvention of the digital pet, is getting its biggest update yet. A new model called Neon Planets launches in Japan on Saturday, November 21, 2026, and it pushes the line's signature zoom dial all the way out — from a single cell to the galaxy.
First, some context. Tamagotchi Paradise debuted on July 12, 2025 as a deliberately analog throwback: no wireless, just a physical zoom dial that lets you care for your Tama from cellular scale up to outer space. It became a surprise monster hit. Bandai saw more than four times the preorders of its previous device, the 2023 Tamagotchi Uni, sold 1.5 times its first-week projection, and found its most devoted fans among twenty- and thirty-somethings returning to the brand.
Neon Planets builds on what made the original work. The headline addition is a new "Tama Galaxy" level on the zoom dial, plus a "Planet Switch" feature that lets you raise your pet across three different worlds: Cosmic Planet, where every run begins; New Tamagotchi Planet, home to the popular Paradise cast; and Tamagotchi Planet, where the classics live.
That last world is where the nostalgia lands. Tamagotchi Planet is an explicit 30th-anniversary callback, designed to let you raise Tamas from across three decades of the series' history, down to a planet that echoes the layout of the long-shuttered virtual world TamaTown. For fans of the mid-2000s Connection era, it's the closest thing to bringing that online Tamagotchi community back home.
The content is generous. Bandai is adding more than 60 new items, five fresh mini-games, and over 40 new Tamagotchi to raise, 22 of them brand-new species found on Cosmic Planet. And Neon Planets isn't only for newcomers — the extra content is built so that owners of earlier Paradise colors have a real reason to pick it up too.
The features go beyond a new shell. Two Neon Planets devices can now dock together for cooperative and competitive telecommunication mini-games, something the earlier Pink Land, Blue Water, and Jade Forest models couldn't do. It also links to the separate My Lab Tamagotchi, letting you send special food that can grow into Tamas shaped like the designs you've simulated in the lab.
Bandai is also offering a Premium Set for ¥8,250 (about $55) that bundles the device with an official silicone case — a Tamagotchi face up front, characters on the back — plus a star-shaped cover for the zoom dial, so you can match the device's color to your mood.
The standalone unit carries a ¥6,380 price tag in Japan (about $43), matching the original Paradise launch line. Crucially, Neon Planets is heading West as well: Bandai's English site lists it at $44.99 with support for nine languages, including English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. Japanese preorders open Monday, November 2 at 11:00 JST.
Neon Planets arrives at the crest of a big anniversary year for Tamagotchi, which marks three decades since the original launched in Japan in November 1996. Where the base Paradise was pitched as a return to the brand's roots, this model leans into the other half of the equation — celebrating the past while scaling the care routine into something bigger than a virtual pet has ever tried. We'll have hands-on coverage once the device is in hand.