I voted for TamaGotchi characters, but I shall display my opinion on each one:
Animals & Animal Prints It would be a cool idea. There are some, and they look wild. :mimitchi: How about some Kingfisher feathers with two kingfishers on top pointing at Tamagotchi? Or tropical fish? Or a mantis, specially for me?
Camouflage The camouflage designs are cool, but get repetitive... Maybe combining it with other patterns, like optical ilusions to give it a whole new look?
Beach If you ask me, beach goes under seasonal. xD But it would be nice. The bottom hald would be orangey yellow with some crabs and starfish traced on and a bucket and spade on the back. Or maybe a sea-scene.
Sports Not sure here. It would be nice to see a basketball, but honestly, I doubt Id buy it. Sport material doesnt look very attractive although its nice to play with. Although a Mimitchi scoring a goal would look good.
Candy No way!!! Lol. Candy just makes people drool over their tamagotchis. xD One too many marshamllows makes it sickly, although you can get good looking designs...
Make-Up Ugh, no. All make up designs are a bit too preppy, and I dont think they are attractive. No one I know would buy one like that. Waste of paint and plastic.
Toys Toys... In what way? Wind up toys? A windup Tama on it? I dont think it would go together...
Food Same as candy
Tama Characters Which ones? The important ones obviously! If its going to go by families, why not put on Memetchi, Mametchi and Kuchipatchi. Or put on Ojayitchi or Nazotchi as a smaller production as a cool Ltd Edition type tama?
Solid Colors Hmmm... If the colours are alone, they dont always look good. it depends on personal taste here. Violet, yellow.... They could come with stickers or markers to decorate them with.
Translucent Translucent are cool, but others are sickly. They show the inside of your tama right? Well why not have a khaki/yellow/any colour transparent, with a sketch of these cogwheels going round and a Mimitchi in working dungarees and a spanner, so it looks like TamaGotchi inner workings.
Seasons So lonmg they are released in those seasons... Maybe brown, green, yellow and red leaves for Autumn? A snowman throwing snowballs in Winter or a Memetchi huddled p in a coat or with a scarf? Bright violet lavender fields for spring, maybe with a dog/pochitchi/characetr rushing through it with an umbrella. Beach for Summer, or sunglasses, though I dont like sunglasses
Flowers So long they are well drawn. They could be done as close ups, and have bees entering them. Or make them "pop" design but flashed in different bright snazzy colours?
My personal ideas would be like on Japanese tamagotchis, combine words and images. Why not have TMGC here and there? Maybe have the design on the back too? With protective covering so it doesnt get scratched, instead of simply ahving a plain colour.
Although to please anybody, Tamagotchis could be sold with a certain design which you can take off, and you can buy other cases to put them in, like mobiles. Buy your one skin.
And banDai could sell sets where you can create your own egg shell. :mimitchi: