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[Rem]

With a lower price I could actually see this doing fairly well. It isn't looking for market share in the "wars" but more for a niche in just plain old toy electronics. When this thing comes out it will most likely be sold next to video now and all that other crap.

[Finch]

They did the same with a Mega Man NT toy and a digimon "digivice"

It's a lot beter than either of those, though. The Megaman was a $40 card fighting device with very little interactivity. Of course that's not going to last.

[RoleTroll]

When i was a kid, i didn't care if it was Gobots or Transformers or TEH ROBOT TAHT CHANGES! I just loved robots, especially the transforming ones.

Not me. There would be the "real thing" (Transformers, Pokemon) and then the "fake crap" (Gobots, Digimon). I only wanted the real thing. But there's gotta be a market for knockoffs - they keep making the stuff.

[Finch]

Digimon was before Pokemon, and more like a cross between Voltron and Tamagotchi. It wasn't fake.

[Bacon McShig]

Digimon wasn't before Pokemon.

LOL I think my brain just exploded a little bit for actually typing that.

[Finch]

Hm. Actually, they were created around the same time, but Poke'mon was released first. Digimon did come before Poke'mon in the US market.
From Wikipedia's entry on Digimon-

Digimon started out as a dueling digital pet similar to Tamagotchi, which was called "Digital Monster" and was released by Bandai on June 26, 1997. The Digital Monster toy was enormously successful, and four different colors of the toy were released in November of the same year. In December of the same year, the second generation of "Digital Monster" was released. Many have criticized it as a clone of Pokémon, as the Tamagotchi was released in 1997 as opposed to 1996, however Bandai was already working on Digimon in 1995[1]), though it became popular in the United States before the latter. However, the Tamagotchi bears little resemblance to the Digimon TV show or card game. Digimon and Pokémon may have a few factors in common (being marketed toward children in North America and being part of the same genre), but differ in original target audience, concept, spirit and design.

For the cartoon, there were kids and monsters, and there were fights between Digimon, but that's where the similarities ended. The Digimon were friends to the kids instead of pets, and they fought on their own. Each kid had a Digimon they associated with, and unless it changed after the first season, there was never more than one digimon per kid. Digimon evolutions were temporary and they changed back to their former state after a fight. The main difference is that Digimon was not based on collection.
Poke'mon, on the other hand, were pets and each trainer, adult or child, often had several. The only goal was to beat other trainers and collect more Poke'mon.

I will agree that Poke'mon had better designs as a whole than Digimon, but there were some interesting Digimon.
Also, the Pokemon movies were watchable and entertaining, and the one Digimon movie released in the US was poison for the eyes and ears.

[YellerDog]

Holy crap I just read that.

[Rem]

Yeah this needs to stop now.

[Fe 26]

I gotta say that their research certainly pointed to an audience for this shitbox.

The seven year old children of 45 year old socker moms in cali?

That is pretty much who they let test all their toys. Or at least that is what TLC has taught me.

Of course they will. They will blanket it over Nick and Saturday morning cartoons, full of pictures of the licensed dreck that will be on it. I mean, do you know the crap games kids buy? Then it'll sell like crazy and you guys will be all WTF OMG KIDS WANT PS3 AND WII

do you watch cartoons anymore? They really don't show toy ads anymore. It's mostly shit about refinancing your home mortgage and getting out of debt.

I probably see more game adds on spike tv and the scifi channel than nick, Disney or CN

[Saint of Killers]

Are you watching them during in the morning and during the day or at 10 at night?