BANDAIBandai - Digimon

The media could not be loaded. These Digimon Vital Bracelets are incredibly good fun. And the whole Dim-Card integration thing, is such a brilliant idea. If this had existed back in the 1990s when I was a kid. OMG! It would have blown my little mind. As an adult man-child though, it's still pretty dam cool! And don't worry about the App (Vital Bracelet Lab) not being available on the playstore, for UK residents. As there is a simple workaround. On your phone's browser, search for APKPure. (3rd party App store, not region locked) Download and install. Then using the APKpure app you can search for, and install the Digimon VB lab. Once done. Simply set your app to USA when it asks. Job done. Also, if you make a Bandi Namco-ID. Setting your region of that to USA as well. You can then link that ID to the app. That way, if you get a new phone. You can still keep your Digimon and save data. Hope this helps any potential buyers. Also Dim cards can be bought on amazon.co.jp.

English language app now available in the UK on IOS and Android.Works really well. Loving it so far, has already got me moving a lot more

Been using this device in the uk for a while now. You can use the app but will need to download a different app store. I personally use Qoo.Lost a star because the build quality is very cheap and if you use this you should 100% buy a screen protector for a fitbit inspire

I got this for my 10 yrs old birthday. It wasn't until I got it out I discovered it has 15+ on the back of the box. I had it saved as a gift, came to give it to him and really can't. It's also very uncomfortable. Sadly the return date had passed by the time I got it out to give him so I'm unable to get my money back.

I was able to overlook some of the technical hurdles but as a game/toy this is hardly worth the 50 pounds spent on it.Firstly this is not a health tracker or fitness band its not even a good watch, This is a gimmick in search of a excuse to exist. At first I thought oh neat I can get some exercise in while gamifying it in the process but the first issues crept in straight out of the box. the strap was one link too short for my wrist(which granted this is a kids toy) but because it uses its own band the only way to get a longer one is to pay even more for something that should have been in the box.but that's a nit pick, No my biggest issue is the game its self. while sure my lack of knowledge on Digimon might be a factor. the watch is basically a paper weight for the first 4 hours nothing you can do will influence your digital pets battle stats.Which brings me to the watches only cool feature even if a little half baked. when outside (or though your phone for the lazy) you can tap the watch to any NFC point such as card readers or even some bus stops. doing this will initialize a battle with any monster from the same line Including stronger ones. the battles are completely Random, Unbalanced and more over the fact your monster you've spent 4 hours staring at can die.That last point is what urks me the most about this. If the battles were more balanced and you had more immediate control over what happens like in the app maybe I could overlook the death aspect but for this price along with other technical issues I can only recommend this to die hard Digimon fans with thin wrists and a bit of Japanese reading skills

When provided with this concept I was so excited, but unfortunately, the battery life is terrible and the construction is mediocre. The wrist strap snapped causing it to not be able to be worn. Before this the battery life lasted optimistically 10 hours and the Digimon would die if you didn't wear the bracelet for longer than 8 hours.

I thought it would be cool but honestly the app is slow like extremely slow and when I received my watch the band was covered in a white powder even after cleaning it there’s still a stain left by the white powder, I expected so much from this since I’m a big fan of the franchise but honestly it’s made me disappointed.

So with the dim cards you use with the VB, you get 1 use. If anything happens to the watch (which it will as the strap is unbelievably bad and falls off multiple times a day.) You will lose them as Bandai Namco won't let users in the UK make the appropriate account on the app to ensure that they're safe and transferable, after multiple emails to BN their view is clearly same as always digimon fans in UK and EU aren't important enough to consider, especially as half the dims are only available in japan and as usual with this stuff they exploit FOMO to do limited runs of fan favourite digimon. Loved the idea but corporate greed and ethnocentric views ruin a fantastic concept.