It’s been an exciting year for Final Fantasy 6 fans. The brilliant pixel remaster made its way on PC back in February, and Square Enix is releasing an immaculately detailed statue of protagonist Terra Branford on Magitek armor for the ultra-low-cost of ¥1,485,000, or roughly $11,549.68 (thanks, Fanbyte).
If that sounds too expensive, then the good news is you’re, in fact, human. Thankfully, Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi is too, apparently.
“Isn’t this a bit much?” Sakaguchi said on Twitter, according to unofficial translations. “Square Enix, are you ok?”
これは、ないな。
FANTASIANのジオラマ制作費用からしてもｗ
ちょっとヤバいのでは？
だいじょうぶスクエニ？ https://t.co/QFtEoHVpl3— 坂口博信 (@auuo) April 24, 2022
You know merchandise might be too expensive when even someone that created the source material is raising a brow. In fairness, Square Enix’s Masterline always produces staggeringly expensive statues and figures, so this isn’t anything new. Some years back, the Maserline collection also made a massive Nier: Automata statue with variants that go for around $3,399. Basically, only the most wealthy Final Fantasy fans like Doja Cat can afford these.
The Terra Branford statue itself is beautiful, at least. You can see how gigantic the 1/6 scale model is in the video below. Shame they didn’t throw in Kefka for good measure!
Funnily enough, this is nowhere close to some of the weirdest video game merchandise.
Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.
