With the holiday season coming up, it may not be the best time to have any Fallout fans at home. Or at least, Fallout fans who’ve already seen the new Pip-Boy 3000 1:1 replica, made to imitate the wrist-watch computer that Vault-Tec survivors are so fond of. You may just be coerced into dropping R5,000+ ($300) to pick it up.
Pipped to the Boy
Fortunately, most of the Fallout 3/New Vegas crowd are well into adulthood and can either purchase their own, or maturely stand by as they drop the cash on rent or servicing their car. If there was ever a time to shirk those responsibilities, it might well be worth it for a 1:1 Pip-Boy 3000 replica that was designed using “in-game geometry”.
Made from a “highly detailed and beautifully finished die-cast metal front casing, engineered injection-moulded ABS body, and a memory foam cuff,” Bethesda at least makes the buy a tempting one. It’s all fully functional, too, with the ability to toggle between the green hue of Fallout 3 or the more yellow look seen in New Vegas.
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Aside from simply telling the time and making for an awesome bedside clock with the accompanying metal stand, Bethesda reckons the Pip-Boy runs the Atomic Command minigame natively. As for the radiation bit, it won’t track down any harmful fallout of a nuclear bomb, but will instead measure the radiation of FM broadcasts, dumping it all onto the screen with flashing lights, metres, and fake Geiger-counter noises.
So, what’s the occasion? It can’t have anything to do with Amazon’s Fallout Season 2 premiere, seeing as Bethesda only expects these to start shipping in June 2026. We’re placing bets on there being a Fallout 3/New Vegas remaster coming out right around then. Whether it can make up for the company’s previous Pip-Boy missteps…
