Yes, calendars. Plural. There's seemingly two of them now. Abrams, the company responsible for the Zelda Calendar series that has been going for the last six years, isn't releasing their typical The Legend of Zelda Calendar for 2019. Instead they've made a calendar exclusively based on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, seeing how this is the new popular kid in town. At least this is giving us an almost fresh experience, where they even put in a little effort, like showing different character arts against backgrounds with ingame locations.
In addition Nintendo was licensing a Zelda Calendar to another company, Pyramid International. They now took over the typical calendar with motives from various Zelda games, for the most port the usual suspects - the big 3D Zelda games and A Link Between Worlds. The overall design looks a lot more polished and "valuable" than the Abrams calendars, but it's really just big artworks and illustrations in the same repeated frame, which means there are no character arts or other details to mix things up. Plus, the selection of artworks is really just the well known stuff, mostly cover arts, which feels super bland at this point, because many of these motives have been used in the Abrams calendars plenty of times already...
I'm not even sure where to hang the second calendar. Maybe I'll simply switch them in the middle of the month, where I can even save myself the trouble during June and December, because they used the same motives for both months. In June you have "Climbing Link" art from E3 2016 and in December the North American cover art of Breath of the Wild. Well, at least for the latter they've used a different crop.
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