While we would all love to see a new (and proper) entry in the Pikmin series, right now - there are no real signs of it happening.
All we've got to fall back on is Niantic's Pikmin app, which isn't even out yet, and Nintendo's re-release of Pikmin 3 on the Switch. If you're looking for something else to lift your spirits, then perhaps some Pikmin candy will help...provided you're located in Japan.
Bandai's candy division has announced a new line of Pikmin-themed gummies that look quite similar to their video game counterparts. As described by Siliconera, the packs include a grape-flavoured blue Pikmin, apple-flavoured red Pikmin, and orange flavoured yellow Pikmin. The leaf parts on each one will apparently taste like muscat grapes.
The "rarer" white Pikmin will taste like lemon and strawberry and is also apparently a little sour to match its poison abilities. Each one is about the size of a cherry tomato. Here's a better look:
These tasty Pikmin gummy packs will go on sale exclusively in Japan on September 2021 for ¥108 (about $1 USD).
[source bandai.co.jp, via siliconera.com]
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You know I'm an absolute idiot that I want to buy packs of this to somehow preserve one of each.
Or at the very least to eat some.
They look almost too cute to eat.
I do wonder what's in them though. There are some natural confectionery brands in Australia that disclose precisely what ingredients are used (as opposed to a series of vague codes) and use plant-based colourings/flavourings as opposed to the low-quality garbage that the corporate giants typically use.
I'm also picky about the addition of cochineal (the resultant dye referred to as "carmine"; often disguised under the code 120 in Australia) which is an insect that is crushed up and/or boiled and used for colouring, because God forbid that one should use beetroot or amaranth instead.
Far too many people will throw a tantrum if they find a hair or a bug in their food, but will somehow justify the use of insects merely to superficially enhance their food. facepalm Those not in the know may be surprised by just how commonplace it is. Pardon the rant.
I can't wait to put on my Bulborb costume and gobble these up off my lawn.
Do they release tiny souls when you eat them?
How could Olimar agree to such an awful thing?
although, eating pikmin would probably taste good.
That tagline….
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!
OMG those would make the most perfect edibles and now I can't believe they aren't. 🌿
New Pikmin game confirmed.
Pikmin 4: All U Can Eat. 😆
@Eel
I may be looking too much into this, but between Pikmin Mobile, the cameos in the Universal Park, and now these candy’s, I really do think Nintendo’s making a genuine effort to ramp up the brand recognition.
This time next year, Pikmin 4 release, mark this comment! 😄
@Silly_G I love it when my junk food is organic, uses plant based colorings, and all kinds of stuff like that. It makes me enjoy my healthy junk food more!
There's a Bandai Candy Division?
This sounds quite delicious! I definitely would buy them just to see how they taste. Japanese gummies are delicious. 😋
@rjejr I didn't think of that, but you're right! Different colors could be various strains
Hey hey hey!!! There are 4 Pikmin in that picture, 4!! Yes yes Pikmin 4 confirmed finally!!!
Weird shaped plugs are the best plugs…
@beazlen1 Released the same day as Half-Life 3
See now Nintendo are you really trying to tell us that you think kids (and adults) across the world would not go crazy for these cute little gummies? Guess I'll just have to stock up next time I visit Japan... whenever that will be.
@Anti-Matter I need that game
Really though, shouldn't they all be carrot flavoured?
Lol and act like the bad Guy eating the pikmins
Tear their heads of and do a evil laugh.
@Silly_G Of all the things I could possibly be guilt-tripped/lectured over on the internet today, not caring about the killing of bugs for use in food coloring in an article about gummy pikmin candies (that may or may not use that substance in the first place) is one of the absolute last things I would have guessed.
@RupeeClock
Red = Raw Carrot
Yellow = Julienne Carrot, coated in oodles of butter
White = Carrot Cake
Blue = Last year's leftover carrots, dug out of the composter
So are the flavors of the gummies what pikmin canonically taste like?
Aw, there isn't a blackcurrant flavoured Purple Pikmin one?
I always thought the Purple Pikmin looked a lot like the Ribena Berry.
@60frames-please And now I'm searching edibles in NY, where recreational mj is legal, but nobody knows when dispensaries will be able to sell it. Somebody will be making these though I'm sure. Until the Nintendo Ni has show up and shut'em down.
Looking forward to Scott the Woz wondering what Pikmin taste like.
**** I want me some of them.
I fully anticipate this fun little candy tie-in to be scalped and up-priced to high heavens.
somewhere on youtube a blue fuzzy guy just screamed in delight.
No, but I like gummies
@SpaceboyScreams lol
@rjejr
They would be high-ly popular!
@Silly_G I actually enjoy eating certain bugs. Fried grasshopper is very tasty 😋
@k8sMum
Tip your waitress, I'm here all week.
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