BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 in Orlando set for January 7–10, 2027 — NARUTO gets a Tutorial Session, and entry requires advance application

The English official site’s news feed added “BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 in ORLANDO has been announced,” dated August 21 local time.

BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 was announced back on July 29 as simply “held in 11 cities worldwide.” This is the first time the NARUTO Card Game official site has published news about a single city.

1. What was announced — dates, venue, and the NARUTO content

Here is everything confirmed on the official news page and the Fest’s Orlando page it links to.

The Fest’s Orlando page states:

Joining “BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 in ORLANDO” will require application in advance.

That is a meaningful difference from NYCC 2026 and PAX Aus 2026, where tutorial registration is planned to happen on-site on the day. In Orlando, the event itself is application-based. When and how applications open is unannounced.

2. What is still “Coming Soon”

Most of what you would need to plan a trip is not filled in yet.

• Admission: “Coming Soon”
• Event commemorative item: “Coming Soon”
• NARUTO Card Game Tutorial Session details: the Fest’s NARUTO page carries a “Tutorial Session” heading and the line “Details will be updated in the future.”

In other words, what is confirmed is the fact that a NARUTO tutorial session is planned in Orlando, plus the dates and venue — nothing more. Which of the four days it runs, times, capacity, fees, and participant gifts are all unannounced.

The Fest’s Orlando page also mentions a commemorative item handed out on entry, commemorative merchandise for sale, National Finals, and a range of side events. Those are Fest-wide descriptions, though: there is currently no statement that a NARUTO Card Game tournament will be held. The only NARUTO content officially described is the Tutorial Session.

3. We checked all 11 Fest cities one by one

While we were there, we went through the Fest’s city list and each city’s detail page. Here is the result.

Two things stand out.

Takeaway 1: NARUTO appears in every published city page

Jakarta, Manila, Hong Kong, and Orlando — all four cities with a detail page list “NARUTO CARD GAME” among the participating titles. As of July 29 we could only confirm that NARUTO’s name appeared on the Fest site as a whole; now we can say it appears at the city level too, without exception.

That is not a guarantee that all four will run NARUTO demos. The Fest site itself notes “Which products are available will vary for each location,” so nothing is settled until each city’s NARUTO page is filled in.

Takeaway 2: Tokyo is still just “Early 2027”

The stop that matters most to fans in Japan, Tokyo, is still labelled only “Early 2027” — no dates, no venue, no detail page.

Given that the latest city with confirmed dates is Orlando on January 7–10, 2027, Tokyo may land around or after that. But there is no official statement either way, so the accurate summary is simply: nothing about Tokyo is confirmed yet.

4. Not published on the Japanese site

This announcement follows the same pattern we documented on July 31.

• English site (/en/): Orlando news posted August 21, 2026
• Japanese site (/jp/): the newest news item is still dated July 29, 2026, with no mention of Orlando

The Japanese “BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27” page (July 29) sticks to “held in 11 cities worldwide” and lists no city names or dates. After NYCC, PAX Aus, and the Yankee Stadium night, this is once again information you cannot reach by following Japanese sources alone.

5. What “January 2027” might mean

Orlando in January 2027 falls roughly six months before the Summer 2027 simultaneous worldwide release.

There is one overlap worth noting with an official document. The press release issued by BANDAI CO., LTD. on June 18, 2026 lists “in-store tutorials January 2027” on its road to launch. The Orlando dates fall in that same month — but there is no official statement that the two are the same initiative, and a Fest is not a store event, so reading them as separate tracks is the safer interpretation.

Either way, January 2027 now appears twice in official material as a period when pre-release play opportunities expand, and that much is a fact worth filing away.

6. Still unknown

• Orlando Tutorial Session day, times, capacity, fees, and participant gifts
• Admission method, admission fee, and when/how advance applications open
• Whether a NARUTO Card Game tournament will be held (only a Tutorial Session is described)
• NARUTO content details for Jakarta, Manila, and Hong Kong
• Tokyo dates and venue, and whether NARUTO demos will run there
• When detail pages go live for the remaining seven cities (Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei, Shanghai, London, Tokyo)

Summary

• The English official site announced “BANDAI CARD GAMES Fest 26-27 in ORLANDO” on August 21: January 7–10, 2027, Orange County Convention Center
• The NARUTO content is a Tutorial Session, still marked “Details will be updated in the future,” and attendance requires advance application
• Of the Fest’s 11 cities, four have detail pages published (Jakarta, Manila, Hong Kong, Orlando), and NARUTO is listed as a participating title in all four
• Tokyo remains “Early 2027” with no dates or venue, and the Japanese official site’s news feed has not been updated since July 29

We have added the Orlando stop to our event calendar. We will report again as soon as more details are confirmed.

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• Everything revealed on July 29
• NYCC 2026 and PAX Aus 2026 details revealed
• The official site differs by language — what we found comparing all four
• More tutorial sessions planned worldwide after Gen Con