of coarse they're real! omg. they are in wal-marts, i have 2 of them, and my friend has the glow-in-the-dark one... :( gosh, they even connect, and im on the 4th generation, wow look at that! ;)
yah that happened to me too, i have v4, but when i was looking through the snaks there was 12 balls and i tried to wrap a present for my friend (popcorn, a snack) , it said emty!