Top Secret Toys Giga Pets Animal Toy (1108)

Great little gadget toy, great fun, easy enough to use, pocket sized so easy to carry round, battery needs replacement 2 weeks after purchase but can’t complain and would say it is value for money

Love it 😀

Fun and easy to play with two modes, easy and hard this is a fun little virtual pet and the cat sounds are cute. My only complaint is that the battery died less than 24 hours later, so either I got a diff battery or this thing drains them like nobody’s business, will put a new one in and hope it’s just a diff battery. Build quality is solids thou and the buttons arnt to stiff or stick. The games are very responsive as well and performance is smooth with no glitching. EDIT: had to return for replacement as it started to glitch out on me. Hoping the replacement works better as it is a fun little pet.

Came with a dead battery. Pathetic. I got sealed R2D2 Giga Pet the other day, it's 30 years old and the battery it came with works perfectly. Why do they put such worthless garbage batteries in thighs these days? Every year everything just gets worse and worse.

I bought this for nostalgia, it is nice but not as good as it used to be. It's a lot easier to keep it alive and the functions are really limited. Also I remember you could see the pet growing but here I cannot really see much difference.

This is a cool little virtual pet that is just as good as any alternative. However, this one is perhaps better value for money, as you get three pets to look after as time passes. Also, these pets don't die. They can escape and be recaptured, and maintain any progress they made. Although it does seem the older they get, the harder they are to keep happy, and by that time, you have three to manage. The pixel animations are surprisingly impressive, and you get some interesting interactions when healing them or feeding them, or more.

Such a shame as it could be a great little product, but despite replacing the battery for a top energiser brand like suggested it still dies after a week. My daughter loves it and thinks it came from Father Christmas so cannot return!

Bought this as a Christmas present. My five year old daughter was gutted when battery died after ONE DAY of use. Not good enough

Kids really love it! Compared to $100 gift we bought them and this is what they play the very next day and evryday.

Ma fille est ravie mais les piles sur que quelques jours dommage

Como el que tuve de pequeña. Exactamente igual

I first stumbled on Giga Pets rereleases at a Target, but passed them up as the AR aspect of older releases didn't interest me. I had the Lost World T-Rex as a kid, and it's the virtual pet I most remember from my childhood. Wish I had sprung for the rereleases earlier, as I finally went for these new Collector's Editions with some improvements from the AR releases (got all 3 versions), and I think they're my favorite virtual pet rerelease yet between the ones I've tried. I don't want to go too in depth on where other virtual pet rereleases have had their issues for me, as it varies pet to pet, and despite issues, I still overall have enjoyed all the rereleases I've tried. I don't want to discourage anyone from trying out various virtual pet rereleases and finding their favorites. The Giga Pet rereleases, which I've been running for 4 days now at time of writing (2 of them work days), are my favorites so far and one reason is they fit my lifestyle best. I often cannot check on virtual pets for hours on end at work (especially in the morning). These Giga Pets have so far been robust enough to last for a long time without absolutely requiring care. Sure, their stats drop considerably by the time I can check on them at lunch, but they're not sick or dead. Additionally, I still have the option to force them to sleep for a few hours to slow down the stat drop rate. But if I forget to do that, I'll still probably have an alive and reasonably healthy pet a few hours later, just one needing attention. Each Collector's Edition pet also has a variety of games you can play to raise happiness, which helps keep up variety. None are too terribly difficult, but it's nice to switch it up (though for the "jump the hurdles" game with the Unicorn, I wish the Unicorn was on one side of the screen instead of the middle, to give a little more lead time to jump). Additionally, many actions affect multiple stats, instead of each action only affecting one (for example, tricks can raise discipline and happiness, as long as you reward your pet afterwards). Feeding a meal affects hunger the most, but also health and happiness. Also, the animations. See the video to see some of the animations each pet goes through when you're not interacting with it. Every action also has some cute animations, and some animations can even communicate needs (the dog starts scratching itself when it needs a bath, for example). The animations give each pet a lot of life and personality. There's also a battery save idling image when you don't interact with your pet for a time, and a low battery warning. Battery case is easy to remove, you only need a small Phillips head screwdriver and a fresh CR2032 battery. It seems they have enough memory to allow a battery swap without losing progress, as I briefly disconnected a battery in one of mine and it picked up right where it left off when I reconnected it. Overall I have very few complaints about these so far. What small complaints I do have (like one of the Unicorn games) are far outweighed by what I've enjoyed. I haven't had any issues with any color or shell decorations rubbing off, but I do carry each pet in a small headphone case to and from work. The biggest complaint is that two of mine arrived with small screen scratches, but a bit of Displex fixed those and they look like new. I have to tilt the screens in a very specific way to even see where they were. For the MSRP price of 15.99 USD, these are a worthwhile purchase for anyone who's curious about them. Final note: In my pictures and video, I want to point out that I swapped the factory keychain out for ones I took off spare Digimon 20th anniversary devices.

Got these for a very long car summer road trip. They sucked when I was a kid because you'd go to school and they'd die, but absolutely perfect for an "I'm boooorrrred" moment. Better see if your pet needs a snack or a bath! The battery life is not great, so we also took along a pack of those.