The Toronto Tamagotchi Club speaks to how the childhood toys are making a comeback, driven mostly by adults buying them.

On a recent August afternoon, hundreds of people wearing wedding dresses and tuxedos wrapped around the block of Cecil Community Centre in downtown Toronto. An attempt to facilitate the world’s largest wedding was in the works: Once the doors opened, they flooded inside, looked for matches and read their vows. Only the people weren’t the ones getting hitched – it was their beloved Tamagotchis.

A Tamagotchi – which translates to “egg watch” in Japanese – is a hand-held device with a small LED screen that houses a digital pet. Users are responsible for taking care of the egg-shaped toy, shepherding it from infancy to adulthood. That means feeding it snacks, playing gam

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