PlayStation and Team Asobi have teamed up with Good Smile, the creators of Nendoroids, to turn some ofAstro Bot’s VIP bots into plushes. The first wave will include five characters based on bots you can find in the game. However, owning all five in real life will potentially be a lot more difficult than it is in Astro Bot.
The reveal refers to the set of five plushes as the “first installment”, implying that more of Astro Bot’s VIPs will eventually join the collection. Aside from Astro himself, the first five characters to get the official Astro Bot plush treatment areGod of War’s Kratos, Ellie fromThe Last of Us,Ghost of Tsushima’s Jin, and The Traveler fromJourney. All of them in their bot form, of course, that’s kind of the point.
Astro Bot’s VIPs are being turned into plushes with some big names kicking off the collection
The only problem is getting all five is seemingly much harder than it appears
The description onthe plush collection’s store pagenotes that “Each bag contains a random VIP Bot.” However, since the bling bag costs $74.95, I’m assuming there will be five bags with each purchase. That means, although not guaranteed, there’s a chance you will end up with one of each plush in your blind bag. A one in 3,125 chance, if my math is correct, so a pretty slim chance, but still a chance.
That rather annoyingly means that if you want all five and you don’t beat those unlikely odds at the first time of asking, you’ll have to drop another $74.95 for another five plushes, and again, cross your fingers and hope you bag the ones you missed out on the first time. You could also resort toGood Smile’s Japanese site, which appears to be selling individual bling bags, but even then, you won’t know which plush you’ve got until it arrives.
TheGamer has reached out to Good Smile to confirm whether or not you will receive a random assortment of plushes with potential duplicates in the blind bags.
If that is how these blind bags are going to work, it won’t be the first time a studio has divvied up its collectibles in this way. Last year,Square Enix released collectible standees modeled after characters from Final Fantasy 7. The standees are sold in boxes of eight. However, similar to the Astro plushes, the standees are boxed individually, which means you could end up with two, or even eight, identical figures.
Duplicate plushes or not, I’m just glad that it already looks like we’re going to be getting a gradual release of Astro Bot merch, in plush form at the very least, after the game seemingly reached its conclusion last week. Five more challenge levels,which finally introduced Final Fantasy characters to the game, were added via free DLC, with a thanks for playing message waiting for you at the end of the final level.
