Pre-Orders Open for BEMemory Digimon Adventure 02 D-3 White & Yellow & D-3 White & Red Dims Set

[MarcFBR]

Pre-orders have opened for BEMemory set Digimon Adventure 02 D-3 White & Yellow & D-3 White & Red

The Dim Set is available to pre-order at Amazon Japan for 4,400 yen

It's scheduled for release on October 28, 2023, which is right about when Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning is coming out.

The Dim lineups feature...

D-3 White & Yellow feature various members of the Armadimon, Patamon, & V-mon evolution families.
D-3 White & Red feature various members of the Hawkmon, Tailmon, & Wormmon evolution families.
(The star symbol, as always, means that Digimon has appeared in a Dim or BEMemory before.)


The Adventure mode for yellow features some of the primary villains from the original 02 TV anime.
The Adventure mode for red features characters from various 02 related movies, along with the TV anime. Plus a mystery slot.


Another fun touch is that while it's an 02: The Beginning branded product, and red uses the '02' from the logo as it's sigil, yellow actually uses a monochrome version of '02' from the original TV anime logo.


Very interesting lineup on these, sticking to longstanding 02 related secondary material, with the only new bit being Ukkomon from The Beginning (and we will see what's in the mystery slot.)


We don't know the mystery Digimon for each yet, but the overall line-ups for both of these look pretty nice. Interesting choice to brand as Armadimon and Hawkmon.

We'll see what else 02 Dim-wise we might get, as this information doesn't quite line-up with some things for 02 Dims that had floated around a few months ago.

 

[Muur]

RIP Salamon. Will this cause Ringless Gatomon to end up in the DRB?

Also RIP GranKuwagamon. At least Dinobeemon gets in, but Wormmon still stuck as Veemon fodder.

Loled at Vikemon, people insisted for a long time that Tri and such meant Armadillomon can't have it but then it's here anyway. I hope it's in the actual movie, lol

Intresting that this seemingly means no new main character evos for the movie and that the only new thing will be Ukkomon and the hidden guy who surely would be Ukkomon's Mega form? Veemon could still have a new I suppose but this is after the movie itself so it's not like they'd have no reason not to have it

Also wait they're calling it a DIM not a BEM

 

[robiu013]

eh, it's another monster gallery dim, so there isn't much interesting happening here.

But funny how Wormmon gets the big gun megas and Veemon gets Dragon Mode and Magnamon. I guess the distribution makes more sense that way, but still they could have done GranKuwagamon/GrandisKuwagamon and Kongoumon for Wormmon, but I guess that's too far removed from the anime.

Vikemon is there too. I guess it's the original Shakkoumon mega even if Pendulum Z rolled with SlashAngemon instead. That Free attribute just won't go away and Gomamon can stick with MarineAngemon and Plesiomon, I guess.

 

[e105zeta]

Welp, this explains why Heaven's Judgement got canceled, I guess. I really would have preferred that to this.

 

[Chimera-gui]

RIP Salamon. Will this cause Ringless Gatomon to end up in the DRB?

Probably not since Ringless Gatomon only exists because of the damn plot point in 02 and isn't really a thing outside of that, even though it technically shouldn't even be a thing at all because her subspecies are ringless by default and still Level IV.

 

[xm0c]

This pretty much deconfirms any of the 02 Digimon getting brand new Digimon as evolutions in the new movie, as that mystery Digimon is likely either the main antagonist, or Ukkomon's evolution, but more than likely both. Also likely means we're not gonna get a complete D-3 v-pet sadly.

No Plotmon as well for some reason. Like, I know these are based on the original D-3 toys, but Tailmon as a Child level has pretty much been in nothing else aside from that. Oh well. I could see this at the very least leading to Ringless Tailmon being added as alternative art in the Reference Book, similar to what they did with Arresterdramon: Superior Mode (Brave Snatcher), as they'll need some kind of Bandai art for when it shows up in battles. But adding it as its own entry is gonna cause a lot of confusion.

Also, as of right now Gomamon is the only Partner Digimon who isn't on any Dim card, aside from I guess Meicoomon. I'm kind of afraid he's just not gonna be on any card, considering literally every other Digimon in his line is in a card. Maybe in a future aquatic-themed line, hopefully another vote to be announced at DigiFes.

 

[vincenzocyan]

Glad there's new dims coming out but yeah there's gotta be more. Not complaining but I feel like at this point we should have DIM/BEM exclusive mons. Would be foolish not to at this point.

 

[Mattman324]

I guess it's the original Shakkoumon mega even if Pendulum Z rolled with SlashAngemon instead.

Pend Z wasn't explicitly the 02 partners. This is.

Probably not since Ringless Gatomon only exists because of the damn plot point in 02 and isn't really a thing outside of that

Meanwhile, Luminamon (Nene) sitting in the Reference Book be like:

 

[IndustrialPanic]

It cotinues to be funny to me how Bandai has sticked with Shakkoumon -> Vikemon for the 02 continuity specifically despite how little sense it makes without the context of the Wondersawn games. SlashAngemon fans continue losing lmao

 

[geoomega]

This reminds me of the D3 toy I got many years back, Armadillomon was my first Digimon to raise on a v pet but I only reached champion with it.

 

[Tarama]

I think the rules they made to choose the digimon are like:
- everyone that are in the anime first with their armor forms (this is why no Wormmon's armors)
- then that are in movies (Seraphimon, Holydramon, Imperialdramon PM, Armagemon, Ukkomon, and probably the "?")
- then that are in digivices (Valkrymon, Vikemon) to complete the evolution lines of the face of the BEMs, Armadimon and Hawkmon.

GranKuwagamon. He could be chosen like Dinobeemon but maybe there's no more slot.

I personally like the final lineups for the BEMs.
I like we get two Tailmon (with and without holy ring) because it's canonically like that in the series. Tailmon is a Child and Adult at the same time. So no Plotmon isn't a big deal since Plotmon in Adventure 02 at some time is equivalent to other babies.
I like they choose Armadimon and Hawkmon to represent the exclusive Adventure 02 BEMs since V-mon and Wormmon already got many and Patamon and Tailmon could get more in the near future with angelic theme.
I also like they stick with Vikemon after all this time (especially after SlashAngemon in Pendulum Z).
We have two Rosemon from two animes with different evolution lines. We also have two Vikemon with different evolution lines from two generations/different animes but in the same universe. Branch evolution.
No need to change anything established for so long.

 

[Chimera-gui]

Meanwhile, Luminamon (Nene) sitting in the Reference Book be like:

Not even remotely comparable. While I do consider Luminamon (Nene) being added to the Encyclopedia problematic for various reasons; there was never any question that it was technically distinct from Luminamon by virtue of being a DigiXros albeit one that, by its own profile's admission, should not exist in the first place.

Ringless Gatomon on the other hand is quite literally just regular Gatomon de-powered because the writers of 02 wanted to justify giving her the ability to Armor Digivolve despite the actual reasoning for this falls apart when we factor in the existence of her subspecies and even her D3 profile, one of the only place to even list her as Level III in the first place, technically lists her as being both Level III and Level IV simultaneously so I cannot see Ringless Gatomon as being anything but alternative artwork for the Gatomon profile page as xm0c said.

 

[Muur]

Meanwhile, Luminamon (Nene) sitting in the Reference Book be like:

Not even remotely comparable. While I do consider Luminamon (Nene) being added to the Encyclopedia problematic for various reasons; there was never any question that it was technically distinct from Luminamon by virtue of being a DigiXros albeit one that, by its own profile's admission, should not exist in the first place.

Ringless Gatomon on the other hand is quite literally just regular Gatomon de-powered because the writers of 02 wanted to justify giving her the ability to Armor Digivolve despite the actual reasoning for this falls apart when we factor in the existence of her subspecies and even her D3 profile, one of the only place to even list her as Level III in the first place, technically lists her as being both Level III and Level IV simultaneously so I cannot see Ringless Gatomon as being anything but alternative artwork for the Gatomon profile page as xm0c said.

We also see in later media you don't even need to be Rookie to armor evolve they just did it because Gatomon is a better merch seller. Just let her be a Champion that gets her ass kicked

 

[GeoCrimson]

NANIII?! Vikemon?? He has already made official canon mega for Gomamon! That's a shame cos I was hoping that Bandai would change Shakkoumon's mega to SlashAngemon (or ClavisAngemon due to their bulky theme and designs which I'd rather prefer). Oh well... *sobs quietly in the corner of the room*

 

[Muur]

NANIII?! Vikemon?? He has already made official canon mega for Gomamon! That's a shame cos I was hoping that Bandai would change Shakkoumon's mega to SlashAngemon (or ClavisAngemon due to their bulky theme and designs which I'd rather prefer). Oh well... *sobs quietly in the corner of the room*

And it was used for Cody's Shakkomon ten years before Joe got it. Adventure cast just has two Vikemon

 

[Lord Bearmon]

NANIII?! Vikemon?? He has already made official canon mega for Gomamon! That's a shame cos I was hoping that Bandai would change Shakkoumon's mega to SlashAngemon (or ClavisAngemon due to their bulky theme and designs which I'd rather prefer). Oh well... *sobs quietly in the corner of the room*

And it was used for Cody's Shakkomon ten years before Joe got it. Adventure cast just has two Vikemon

Didn't Jo's Gomamon had Plesiomon first, but they changed it to Vikemon anyways, so why can't they just change Shakkoumon.

 

[Mattman324]

Didn't Jo's Gomamon had Plesiomon first, but they changed it to Vikemon anyways, so why can't they just change Shakkoumon.

They could.

Or they could fix the mistake they made by changing Jou. Either or :V

 

[Muur]

NANIII?! Vikemon?? He has already made official canon mega for Gomamon! That's a shame cos I was hoping that Bandai would change Shakkoumon's mega to SlashAngemon (or ClavisAngemon due to their bulky theme and designs which I'd rather prefer). Oh well... *sobs quietly in the corner of the room*

And it was used for Cody's Shakkomon ten years before Joe got it. Adventure cast just has two Vikemon

Didn't Jo's Gomamon had Plesiomon first, but they changed it to Vikemon anyways, so why can't they just change Shakkoumon.

They could, but clearly don't want to.

 

[IndustrialPanic]

Adventure Shakkoumon has Vikemon because in the WonderSawn Tamer games it was the result of a jogress between it and Zudomon, which is why it has a free attribute to begin with. Zudomon originaly had Plessiomon but it nabbed Vikemon later on because it made more sense progression wise.
Shakkoumon evolves into SlashAngemon as it's default mega in most other media, but for some reason or another Bandai has stuck with Vikemon for 02 even though it doesn't make sense anymore

 

[Muur]

Adventure Shakkoumon has Vikemon because in the WonderSawn Tamer games it was the result of a jogress between it and Zudomon, which is why it has a free attribute to begin with. Zudomon originaly had Plessiomon but it nabbed Vikemon later on because it made more sense progression wise.
Shakkoumon evolves into SlashAngemon as it's default mega in most other media, but for some reason or another Bandai has stuck with Vikemon for 02 even though it doesn't make sense anymore

The jogress was in a vpet not the ws game

Shakkoumon can evolve to slash in three games. Two of which came *after* the pendulum z (so in 2021 and 2022). So before 2021, he had evolved to slashangemon once ever. It's not as common as you're pushing. Meanwhile shakkoumon > Vikemon is in every game Shakkoumon is in except like one