Beep-Beep: Bandai Namco is launching a Superstar Wars R2-D2 Tamagotchi

Bandai America unveiled its first collaboration with Lucasfilm: a Superstar Wars R2-D2 Tamagotchi virtual pet toy.

That components your favourite droid from Superstar Wars will more than likely be inside of the most fresh Tamagotchi egg-admire toy, the place you nurture and grow your virtual persona and elevate it into an grownup. Love other Tamagotchi merchandise, the R2-D2 version has the finest of digital video games on it.

The digital toy debuts November 11, and preorders originate on August 3, said Bandai America brand strategist Trish Garrett in an interview with GamesBeat.

“That is the most tale collaboration that Bandai has, and now we comprise a holographic version with a translucent blue shell,” as well to a normal white version, Garrett said, maintaining an egg up to her digicam. “I reflect folks are going to be excited to net each and each of these.”

Bandai Namco has performed Tamagotchi brand collaborations earlier than (admire with Whats up Kitty), but right here’s the principle time the Superstar Wars brand is coming to it, Garrett said. The groups from Bandai Namco and Lucasfilm comprise labored on it for more than a one year.

“It’s a mountainous deal, and it’s house for a global open,” she said.

Garrett said it is possible you’ll possibly possibly prepare the R2-D2 Tamagotchi to grasp 19 varied abilities, akin to piloting spacecraft or doing repairs. Fairly than feeding R2-D2 admire other pets, or no longer it is foremost to payment the dinky droid. You furthermore deserve to preserve R2-D2 natty. You imprint aspects from a firefighting minigame and a Dejarik holochess recreation (you play towards Chewbacca, just correct admire R2-D2 did on the Millennium Falcon in A Recent Hope). You would possibly well possibly furthermore unencumber seven more minigames as you development.

You should be obvious that that you preserve your R2-D2 Tamagotchi ecstatic. In case you neglect the droid for too lengthy, the Jawas would possibly well furthermore remove R2-D2 away.

“We’re hooked in to that, but furthermore a dinky bit unhappy, because possibly folks is no longer going to remove care of him on goal so they’ll leer the Jawas,” Garrett said.

The Tamagotchi involves appealing pixel film clips as correctly. It’s focused for kids ages 8 and up. It doesn’t need Wi-Fi, and it uses two LR44 batteries. Bandai Namco hopes this would possibly be a first price stocking stuffer, Garrett said.

“Any Tamagotchi fan will know the diagram  to play with this,” Garrett said. “It’ll be a dinky learning curve for the Superstar Wars fan.”

The Boba Fett tv point to is coming to Disney+ in December. Garrett said she didn’t know if R2-D2 will point to up in the collection. She illustrious that Boba Fett makes an look in the device. This would possibly well occasionally rate $20.