Thirty years on, Tamagotchi keeps finding new rooms to play in. The latest one is outer space. Bandai has revealed Tamagotchi Paradise "Neon Planets," a galaxy-themed model for the anniversary that reaches Japan and the US on the same day: Saturday, November 21, at ¥6,380 (tax included) in Japan and $44.99 in North America.
Neon Planets pushes the Paradise zoom dial one notch further. Where the first Paradise models zoom from space down to the cells, this one adds a whole "Tama Galaxy" level on top, then lets you flick between three planets: Cosmic Planet, New Tamagotchi Planet for the modern Paradise cast, and Tamagotchi Planet — Bandai's nod to the 30th anniversary, where the classic characters you raised in the late 1990s can grow up all over again on a color screen.
The daily routine stays familiar. You feed, flush away the poop, and treat a sick Tamagotchi in its sick cell; there is a Lab Mode with mini-games and a shop. Dock two devices for connection play and a compatible pair can have a child, and new co-op and competitive mini-games give friends something to trade wins over. Bandai Japan counts more than 50,000 variations you can raise.
The shell trades the line's usual pastel look for a dark blue glitter body with neon greenish-yellow buttons, zoom dial, and dock cover. The device runs nine languages — English, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean among them — and takes two AAA batteries, which are not included.
Pre-orders open in Japan on November 2 at 11:00 JST. On the US side, Bandai Namco Toys & Collectibles America confirmed the model at New York Comic Con, and pre-orders are already live on Amazon ahead of the November 21 street date at major US retailers.
If you want a hands-on look before committing, the anniversary festival gives you one. "Neon Planets" gets a preview from November 6 to 30 at MAGNET by SHIBUYA109's fifth-floor event space, running alongside the "Super Tamagotchi Festival" that takes over Harajuku and Shibuya starting November 7.
Bandai is leaning hard into retro for the big birthday, and Neon Planets is the clearest sign yet that nostalgia now has its own corner of the modern line. Raise your old friends, but on a device that still feels new — a planet-hopping, lab-running color screen instead of a single egg on a dot-matrix. Same-day releases in two regions, pre-orders landing this week in Japan, and a galaxy of familiar faces waiting in the stars. For context, Tamagotchi Paradise launched in July 2025 — July 12 in Japan, August 1 in North America — as the color-screen sibling to the connected Uni, and Neon Planets is the newest in a line that has quickly grown to half a dozen models. Where the Uni doubles as a networked pet with downloadable content, Paradise stays pocket-shaped and self-contained: two devices, a dock, and everything happens between them. The retro angle is what makes this one different. Bandai is bundling the anniversary into the hardware, so "Neon Planets" is less a niche collector piece and more a bridge between generations — a first color Tamagotchi for new fans and a return ticket for anyone who grew up feeding Mametchi on a gray egg.