Ganon Dragmire
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What do these characters have in common?:
Yes, some do get a small figure or keychain made, but where are the PAKs, statues, and busts devoted to SEs huge list of popular Final Fantasy characters?
Why is this? They tend to release multiple figures and merchandise of certain characters:
Of course this is because of popularity of certain characters and most likely promotion for game releases. But lets take Cloud for instance. They recently released another PAK Cloud.
Speaking of XII, another example is Fran from FFXII. Aside from a very small toy and keychain, it wasnt until recently that SE released a figure for her:
Unless you count this:
is better than making at least one Terra with her magitek armor.
Before SE started to solely making their merchandise, other companies made figures for them. During that time you would not only see various types of merchandise, such as big figures for Final Fantasy monsters but other characters would get figures made as well. These are the only big figures made of Lulu and Kimahri and they were made by Kotobukiya:
Stepping away from FF for a minute, we go to another popular brand: Kingdom Hearts.
That brand has been more Soras than anything else, if we only count figures made by SE. Now, SE will release this:
So for those of you that like SE characters and like to collect figures/merchandise/ etc.(and anyone else that might know) I ask again: How does SE determine what character merchandise to make? Sometimes it feels like there's a logic to it and sometimes it feels like they say "screw it another Cloud".
Sure I like Cloud, but I'm disappointed that many of their characters are not represented in their merchandise.
Discuss
Aside from being recognizable popular FF characters, they along with many others have little to no merchandise devoted to them.
Yes, some do get a small figure or keychain made, but where are the PAKs, statues, and busts devoted to SEs huge list of popular Final Fantasy characters?
Why is this? They tend to release multiple figures and merchandise of certain characters:
(not my picture. and yes there are duplicate products,but you get the idea)
Of course this is because of popularity of certain characters and most likely promotion for game releases. But lets take Cloud for instance. They recently released another PAK Cloud.
Of course hes popular, but this Cloud is the Remake version. Instead of say, make a PAK for Ashe for The Zodiac Age, they decided to make another Cloud to promote a remake that is very far from releasing.
Speaking of XII, another example is Fran from FFXII. Aside from a very small toy and keychain, it wasnt until recently that SE released a figure for her:
Never part of the original Play Arts set either. Its a bunny girl in a metal bikini. It sounds like something they would release multiple figures of by now. The Judge on the other hand has been made into multiple figures and statues.
Even a mini bust version of him will come (along with the other judges) with the pricey special edition of the remaster. But theyve made the judge several times because he looks cool and is the logo. I bet no one even remembers his real name. There hasnt even been a Basch figure.
Unless you count this:
I find it hard to believe that making more Gabranth
not his real name
Before SE started to solely making their merchandise, other companies made figures for them. During that time you would not only see various types of merchandise, such as big figures for Final Fantasy monsters but other characters would get figures made as well. These are the only big figures made of Lulu and Kimahri and they were made by Kotobukiya:
When the HD Remaster of X came out it was just Tidus and Yuna PAKs. Thats it.
Stepping away from FF for a minute, we go to another popular brand: Kingdom Hearts.
That brand has been more Soras than anything else, if we only count figures made by SE. Now, SE will release this:
A figure that was never made during the release of the original Birth by Sleep despite them making three figures for Crisis Core. In this case though it could be even more tricky to release figures due to Disney.
So for those of you that like SE characters and like to collect figures/merchandise/ etc.(and anyone else that might know) I ask again: How does SE determine what character merchandise to make? Sometimes it feels like there's a logic to it and sometimes it feels like they say "screw it another Cloud".
Sure I like Cloud, but I'm disappointed that many of their characters are not represented in their merchandise.
Discuss
