Seventeen years of Fallout fans walking around with a fictional computer strapped to their arm in their heads, and The Wand Company has finally made the thing real. This is the Pip-Boy 3000 replica, built from the original in-game 3D geometry of the wrist-worn personal information processor from Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas, and it is a fully functional, wearable, 724-gram argument that some obsessions are worth indulging. The Wand Company has form here, having already produced the Pip-Boy 3000 Mk V replica based on the Amazon TV series prop, but this is the one Fallout 3 and New Vegas players have actually been waiting for since 2008.
The front casing is die-cast metal, the body is injection-moulded ABS, and the cuff is memory foam with an included spacer bar that adds 22mm of circumference for larger arms. The 4-inch IPS LCD screen displays nearly all of the in-game content from both titles, and you can toggle between the classic green UI from Fallout 3 and the amber one from New Vegas. Hundreds of menus are navigable using the scroll wheels and dials on the body, the screen mimics a vintage CRT display with glitch effects and scanlines baked in, and you can temporarily fix those glitches by smacking the device because there is, naturally, an accelerometer inside. The whole package weighs about as much as a large can of soup, which will become noticeable roughly forty-five minutes into wearing it at a convention.
Designer: The Wand Company
There is also a playable version of Atomic Command, the in-game holotape minigame, marking the first time anyone has defended fictional American landmarks from nuclear missiles on their actual wrist. The flashlight at the rear, headphone jack, and alarm clock mode are all present and accounted for. The radiation detector deserves a special mention: rather than measuring the ionizing kind that would actually matter in a wasteland scenario, it picks up radiation from FM radio broadcasts, displaying readings on the Geiger counter screen with full sound effects. The replica can also function as a working FM radio, which makes it possibly the most elaborately housed FM tuner ever manufactured. This is either a charming bit of in-universe worldbuilding or a tremendous cop-out, depending entirely on how generous you are feeling about the whole thing.
When you are not wearing it, the replica sits on a solid machined aluminum display stand that locks into four slots on the lower front of the device. The stand is also where the alarm clock function comes into its own, with the Pip-Boy propped upright on a desk or nightstand doing its best impression of the world’s most expensive bedside clock. The Wand Company says Bethesda staff saw the prototype and were left speechless, which tracks, because the level of content depth here, over 2,200 menu entries pulled directly from both games, goes considerably further than anyone needed to go for a collectible.
Preorders are live now at the Bethesda Gear Store for $299.99, with shipping expected as early as June 2026. Bethesda is restricting it to one item per order. International buyers can order through the Bethesda Gear Store International. It is rated for ages 14 and up, which seems optimistic.
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