BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 in London: the NARUTO Tutorial Session, January 15 to 17, 2027

London is the later of the two BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest stops outside Asia with a NARUTO CARD GAME page of its own. Bandai announced it on August 28, 2026, eight days after Orlando, and the two listings are built from the same template with one meaningful difference.

At a glance

Admission is the difference

Update, October 29, 2026. Bandai has rewritten the field. London's admission now reads Pre-Registration Required. and nothing more; the words "Tournament Ticket" are gone. Orlando's, filled in at the same time, reads Pre-Registration Required. Tournament Participants only. The two January stops now say different things and Bandai has not said why. Still no price, and still nothing on how a visitor who wants only the NARUTO Tutorial Session registers. The Event Commemorative Items field has also changed from Coming Soon to a Learn More link, with no item named on the NARUTO page.

When the page went up, Orlando's admission field said Coming Soon. London's said Pre-Registrationed Tournament Ticket Required, typo and all, and the Fest's own London page confirms that attendees must complete advance registration.

What that phrase actually implies is not spelled out anywhere Bandai has published. It could mean the whole venue is behind a tournament entry, or that a pre-registered ticket is the mechanism and there are non-tournament tiers within it. No price is given on either page. If you intend to go, the ticketing detail will appear on the Fest site before it appears on the NARUTO one, which is the pattern Orlando has already shown.

What the Fest is putting on

Bandai's own description of the weekend is a celebration of BANDAI CARD GAMES: event commemorative merchandise, the National Finals, and a wide variety of side events across the three days, for seasoned competitors and fans alike.

The Fest site's London page lists the titles present: Digimon Card Game, One Piece Card Game, Dragon Ball Super Card Game Fusion World, Dragon Ball Super Card Game Masters, Gundam Card Game and the Naruto Card Game. It describes tournaments, product sales, giveaways and livestreamed championship coverage, and notes that a commemorative item will be given out to attendees as they enter the event venue.

One small thing worth noticing: Union Arena is on the Orlando roster and not the London one. The Fest is a different show in each city, and the title list is not a constant.

The NARUTO half is one line

Under Information on Event, Bandai's London page carries Main Event: Tutorial Session. That is the complete list of NARUTO activity. The Learn More link leads to the Fest site's NARUTO CARD GAME page for London, which as of October 5, 2026 repeats those two lines and adds: "Details will be updated in the future."

No NARUTO tournament. No promo card named, no session times, no capacity, no hall assignment within the eleven halls, and no participation gift. Event Commemorative Items was marked Coming Soon until October and is now a Learn More link, so whether a NARUTO item is among the entry giveaways is still unknown.

It bears repeating because the Fest boilerplate invites the opposite reading: the National Finals line covers Bandai's established titles. The NARUTO CARD GAME's Starter Decks and Booster Pack 01 do not release until June 2027. There is nothing to qualify with, nothing to build, and no format to build it in. What Bandai is bringing to ExCeL is a teaching table, and the rules guide covers what will be taught at it.

Two continents, eight days apart

Orlando runs January 7 to 10 and London January 15 to 17. In between and around them, Bandai's roadmap has in-store tutorial sessions beginning to roll out at local game stores in January 2027. It is the month the campaign moves from convention halls to shops, ahead of the June 2027 worldwide release.

For UK readers there is one piece of trade context on Bandai's own site: its retailer page names Asmodee UK among sixteen official distributors, alongside ADC Blackfire, Asmodee Nordics, Asmodee Netherlands, Gametrade Distribuzione and TCG Factory in Europe. The same page says more information on how to become a Bandai TCG+ store and carry the game will be available soon, which is as close as Bandai has come to a UK retail statement.

Still unannounced

No set code, no card MSRP, no Fest ticket price, and no NARUTO specific programme beyond the Tutorial Session. Bandai's Premier Demo Event page of October 13, 2026 listed two priced items for London, the Premium Card Collection vol.00 Chakra Set at 20 USD and the Official Playmat Naruto vs. Sasuke at 40 USD, in US dollars with no sterling equivalent. A correction notice on that page dated October 22, 2026 says the Chakra Set "will not be available for purchase at BANDAI CARD Fest 26-27 in ORLANDO / LONDON". The playmat still lists London. The Fest's own London page had not added it when we checked.

Both January stops are covered together in our news write up on the eleven Fest cities. Nine of those cities now have a NARUTO CARD GAME page, after Kuala Lumpur and Taipei gained theirs on September 04, 2026. The events page carries the full calendar, and the pre-orders guide explains why nothing is buyable yet.