Animal Crossing: New Horizons Snow Globes Return

The Animal Crossing: New Horizons snow globe gachapon that lets you fill the toy with water to make your own will be re-run in Japan starting in the first week of July 2025. It’ll cost 400 JPY ($2.80) per attempt. [Thanks, Inside Games!]

These water globe toys first appeared in Japan three years ago in 2022. Back then, it cost 300 JPY (around $2.60 at the time) per attempt, so you’ll be pulling for these toys at an inflated price. Each snow globe globe depicts a different seasonal scene from the Animal Crossing: New Horizons island once filled with water, complete with some popular villagers. There’s also one of the Island Representative standing at the Airport, as well as one using the promotional art depicting island life. This makes for a total of six variations.

As a note, you’ll have to put the water globe together yourself, and it doesn’t come in a capsule, making it a more sustainable type of gachapon. After filling the globe part with water, you’re supposed to set it on the stand. Then, you can display it.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons came out in 2020 as the fifth installment in the Animal Crossing series. The village the player lives in and gets to develop is on a deserted island, and they can go “scout” more villagers by flying to other islands from the Airport. It is one of the best-selling games on the Nintendo Switch, especially since it came out during the COVID-19 quarantine and was used as a replacement for social interactions.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is readily available on the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2.