The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Leak

There have been quite some worries all around the internet whether Nintendo has forgotten / skipped the 40th Anniversary of Zelda, despite the fact that the 30th Anniversary wasn't initiated until September 2016 either. Well, if you have followed this blog, then you will know that there never have been any doubts, especially with the remake of Ocarina of Time coming later this year.

However, just like with this remake, things got leaked in advance, before Nintendo could give us an official announcement. There are photos floating around of upcoming merchandise, which includes a logo for the anniversary on the package. This looks to be 100% legit with several sources confirming this. Apparently, there already have been leaks last month about this topic, which somehow eluded me... But it all lines up. Don't read the rest of the article if you still want to be surprised.

LEGO: Ocarina of Time – The Final Battle Revealed

We knew that this was going to happen for a while, but this Friday Nintendo and LEGO have revealed their latest collaboration around The Legend of Zelda. This new set will focus exclusively on Ocarina of Time, depicting the game's final battle exactly as you would remember it – with Link leaping high through the air and Zelda shooting her laser pistol.

To be fair, I think the set is actually quite neat. Ganon looks impressive and you can change its pose like with an action figure. There are three custom mini-figures, where there is also one for Ganondorf, who you can hide under the rubble:

The price points looks to be even more expensive than the Deku Tree set, however. That one had 2500 pieces for 300€, while the new one offers 1003 pieces for 130€. There is probably some special stuff in there, like Ganon's blades, but I'm no expert on the matter and LEGO is generally known to be overpriced. In any case, I have yet to buy any of the LEGO stuff around Zelda and I'm not sure I ever will, mainly because I wouldn't know where to display it.

The animated trailer for this set had me thinking that they might also make a LEGO game based on the Zelda license in the future. There would even be lots of potential here if they were to explore the entire Zelda series, like they did with the newest LEGO Batman game, Legacy of the Dark Knight. It's not necessarily something I want, but I also wouldn't be opposed to it.

Mario Kart World Magnets

This is something that you could get from the My Nintendo Store as a Platinum Points reward, where there was also a set for the Knockout Tour. They cost 500 points each and I got them back in November, because we have the perfect fridge for this type of item:

And they look quite nice. When playing Mario Kart World as of late, I made it a small ceremony to add a magnet whenever I got three stars on Mirror Mode, meaning that I had fully completed the corresponding cup or rally. (It also gives you three stars in 50cc to 150cc.) If they add 200cc eventually, then I will do it all over again.

But when you have kids who like to play Mario Kart, then this might be nice to have as well for similar reasons. So, I can recommend these items, should they become available again.

Anyway, this also made me realize how the icons between the Grand Prix cups and the Knockout Tour rallies mirror each other thematically:

• Mushroom  ↔ Golden Mushroom
• Fire Flower ↔ Ice Flower
• Star ↔ Moon
• Green Shell ↔ Spiny Shell
• Banana ↔ Cherries
• Leaf ↔ Acorn
• Lightning ↔ Cloud
• Crown ↔ Heart 

That's a cool detail. Makes you wonder whether they will replicate this in potential DLC or not care about this any longer. For example, they could do a Bell Cup and a Lucky Cat Rally. Or an Egg Cup and a Fruit Rally. And more importantly, will they also release magnets for those? 

Got the F4F Revali

The collection is finally complete! I have now received all of the First 4 Figures Champions as presents over the last couple of years, starting with Urbosa in 2023, followed by Mipha and Daruk last year. And as an early Christmas gift there is now Revali joining them.

Somehow my partner managed to hide this from me in our closet for the past six months, but since she had put Daruk in the same spot, I must have learned to turn a blind eye to it.

Well, normally you save the best for the last, but I would be lying if I said that Revali was my favorite of the Champions. The statue is still awesome, though. They have used an actual bowstring for the weapon, or at least a proper string, which is a fantastic detail. And to make Revali shine more, I got the light-up version:

My Mipha has this as well, but not the other two, so I will have to see how I make good use of this. And I still need to buy a proper display cabinet for them all, where there had been other priorities throughout the year. But at least I now won't have to leave an open space inside once it's in place.

Zelda Calendar 2026

It is that time of the year again, where your current wall calendar will soon have completed its service. And in the past Zelda fans could look forward to something new every year, but those days seem somewhat over...

The team at Danilo decided to make their Tears of the Kingdom calendars a trilogy, so it's more of the same. That means you get another 12 months of character artworks from the last 3D Zelda game, with some repeats and some new ones. Here is what's in it:

Link, Riju, Sidon, Tulin and Ganondorf are repeats from 2024. Zelda, Yunobo, Rauru and Hestu are repeats from 2025. And the Great Deku Tree, Purah and Mineru have their first occurrence.

Well, this could have been easily reduced to two calendars. Especially the current poster, which was last year's cover motive (and vice versa), seems rather uninteresting. And since there had been five repeats in the previous calendar already, two would have been enough to include all the artworks. Plus, they still haven't made use of everything there is yet, like Yunobo's default artwork.

At least the overall design has improved quite a bit, compared to last year. There is a lot more variance in the backgrounds and they have added the names of the characters, which looks good. I still like the one from 2024 the best, even though it has the simplest design of the three, but its simplicity made it the most stylish in my opinion.

Of course, the new calendar is very much still up-to-date with the releases that we had this year. Tears of the Kingdom got a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, new amiibo, and its own spin-off game with Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment. A calendar based on the latter would have been amazing, though, but that probably wasn't as easy/cheap to realize, since it involves a third party. In addition, Mineru and Tulin will make their crossover debut in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, so there is some small relevance to 2026 as well.

Still, some love for Echoes of Wisdom would have been nice. This is where Abrams could have shined, but I'm pretty sure they have simply recycled stuff from their previous calendars, while getting some inspiration from Pyramid with their cover motives. So, I'd rather take the Tears of the Kingdom calendar for a third time, because this has at least something "fresh" in it.

Got Metroid Prime 4: Behind

A little late to the party... That's what you get when you pre-order from Nintendo directly. So far I've been an advocate of the My Nintendo Store, despite paying full prices, because you usually get a number of nice goodies, mint quality, and the game on time. However, they hate the idea of you getting the game a day early, so they always keep the deliveries very close to their chest. A little too close. And during the Christmas season, in the week after Black Friday no less, this backfired. My package was stuck in some delivery limbo, where nothing happened for 48 hours...

But I blame Nintendo here. They sent it too late without the necessary priority labels / fast shipping. So, I honestly can't recommend their shop any longer if you want to be playing on launch day. And yes, I could have just gone to some store and pick the game up there, but I wanted the additional goodies and this would have created some unnecessary back and forth. And after the mixed previews and reviews my excitement wasn't the greatest either, so I was able to wait two more days after having waited 18 years.

It only sucked that I had taken one day of vacation... But luckily I was able to move some hours around to have more time to play on Monday. I just hope they won't ever release a new Zelda game in December again, because I won't be as patient in that case.

Anyway, the My Nintendo Store sold the so called "Power Set" of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. It came with a big mouse pad, 61x35 cm, and a set of nine holographic cards. You also get a small key chain in a litte pouch with the game's logo on it, but that's the purchase bonus item that comes with any physical version of the game.

In addition, there are three amiibo: Samus, Samus on Vi-O-La, and Sylux. For some reason, the first two already were released alongside Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment a month ago, on November 6th, but I haven't touched them until today. At least they were delivered on time.

And they look really nice. Well, I personally find the normal Samus to be somewhat redundant, since we already got a very good looking version of that suit with Metroid: Samus Returns, but there is some extra detail with the purple psyschic power stuff and it has a different pose.

Their functionalities inside the game seem to be either useless or questionable, which is a problem with main Metroid games, it seems. Federation Force did it actually best with the paint jobs...

Now, I'm off to finally play the game. I'm not entirely sure if I want to do detailed blogging about my impressions and progress, now that I have effectively lost two days of potential play time, but let's see how I feel after the first couple of hours. It will be a shame if I don't, but in that case a late review will have to suffice.

Got Age of Imprisonment

This has arrived with the mail just now. I've ordered from the My Nintendo Store, where you get this neat, little notebook on top. It's nothing special, but better than nothing. But of course it costs full price to order it there, while the game was already considerably cheaper elsewhere.

With Age of Calamity I had actually imported the game from a different country in the EU, because I absolutely hated the German title, "Zeit der Verheerung". And it's not any better now with "Chronik der Versiegelung" (loosely translates to "Sealing Chronicle"), where I still don't understand why they felt the need to localize the subtitles of the Hyrule Warriors games. Nintendo never does this with any of their games, it's always all in English, and so far no one has complained about that... It's so weird. Also, the German age rating will ruin any good cover, which was also sometimes a reason to import certain games, but I find the Switch 2 boxes generally not all that appealing, so I probably won't care as much going forward.

But I was surprised to learn that the Switch 2 boxes are of the exact same sizes as the old ones. I expected them to be the same size as the Switch 2 itself (without Joy-Cons), simply because that's where the old size came from. But I'm not complaining, quite the opposite, because this makes them a much better fit into my current collection.

Naturally, I will do my usual blog about the game, so you can look forward to that in the upcoming days and weeks. I'm excited!

PS: I also got the first two Metroid Prime 4 amiibo. But I will show those on December 4th, once Sylux is available as well.

Breath of the Wild: Vinyl Soundtrack Announced

A vinyl record collection was announced today by Nintendo. Not by Nintendo Japan, mind you, but Nintendo of Europe and America, which is unusual. Well, according to Bill Trinen in an interview with Variety, this is an experiment, where they are gaging the interest in such physical soundtrack releases, while in Japan the CD has remained as a popular format.

They are probably underestimating the collector's value of these items, where I have imported some of the soundtracks from Japan, even though I rarely listen to CDs nowadays. And I know of other Zelda fans who have imported these as well. Records are much fancier, of course, where we actually have a record player at home, which we use every now and then, like for a fancy evening. So, I might be getting this.

Four different versions will be available... You can either go for a 2LP "best of" with 34 tracks, or an 8LP collection with 130 tracks. And each of these come in a standard edition with black records and a limited edition with colored records.

Update: the prices for this are quite heavy. It's 190€ or 195$ for the 8LP Limited Edition. And 60€ or 50$ for the 2LP Limited Edition. You can find full track listings in the My Nintendo Store:

Double LP
8LP Box Set

Got the Tears of the Kingdom Sages amiibo

While the entire Nintendo community is busy with showing off their shiny, new Nintendo Switch 2s, my inner Nintendo simp will have to settle with what's probably the least interesting thing that came out today: the four amiibo of the Sages. Tulin, Yunobo, Sidon and Riju, all featured in their awakened form, now also get some well-deserved attention in the form of plastic figurines, equipped with NFC chips.

It's only fair after how they had to take the backseat to the Champions in Breath of the Wild (well, technically it was Teba in that game and not Tulin), but sadly they didn't get the same four-in-one pack. Or maybe this is a good thing, because some people might only want one of them, e.g. Sidon. And the prices are 33% higher this time around.

The figurines themselves are nice. They can't really compete with the Tears of the Kingdom Ganondorf from late 2023, but I do personally like them more than the Link and Zelda that we got in this series. Wielding the Champion weapons makes them look a lot more interesting already.

Riju and Tulin are quite filigreed, especially Riju, and they come with bent see-through stands to keep them in the air. Yunobo is very sturdy, not as heavy as Daruk used to be, but it still feels quite nice. And Sidon shines with his impressively detailed crown and collar.

They truly don't have to hide from their Champion counterparts, where they show more details here and there. For example, Sidon's Lightscale Trident actually shows those little, cyan pendulums beneath the top part. But they still go nicely next to each other, as you can see in the photos above.

What's not so nice are the new backsides for the amiibo boxes. They are now completely generic, only telling you that you can use amiibo with compatible software. And what software that might be is now up to you to find out... To be fair, with an amiibo from Tears of the Kingdom, you can make an educated guess, but it was still nice to read what it actually does within the game.

Well, it's curious that they were still featuring the Nintendo 3DS on the package back in 2023, where it's understandable that they don't want to show that any longer, or even things like saving your Mii on the amiibo. But they could have swapped all that for the Nintendo Switch 2 and generally put some more effort into this.

Of course, this isn't a deal breaker and most people may even throw the package away anyway. However, I always cut off the cardboard part to collect them for later reference and because the artworks look nice. And now there is a stylistic split between the first three Tears of the Kingdom amiibo and this group.

Still, I'm looking forward to the Mineru amiibo and to complete the collection. I have yet to scan them for their fabrics, where I haven't even seen them all, but I will do this later today or tomorrow and then make another post.

Got the F4F Daruk

This is what I got for Christmas, so I must have been a good boy. Mipha and Urbosa were already in my collection, where all of these have been presents from my partner, who is being quite generous here. But I already had a feeling when a big package arrived earlier this month and I was told to stay away from it...

Well, Daruk is certainly the most impressive of the bunch, who brings a nice weight with him and the largest weapon with his Boulder Breaker. It's the same as with his amiibo, only much larger, where the statue is roughly 29cm tall and the amiibo 9.5cm, so about three times the size. But the small Daruk could fit in big Daruk's fist.

Packaging was also much better than with the other two, because they used polystyrene foam to pad the backside and the plastic cover is simply put over the front. There is little risk of damaging anything this way and it's also much easier to put him back into his box.

I still need to keep them all in their boxes, because I didn't really have space for a big display cabinet in my old apartment. But these times are over and I will post pictures of all of them next to each other once I set everything up.

Zelda Calendar(s) 2025

The year is coming quickly to a close and it's high time to get some new calendars for your walls. If you want something Zelda-themed, you get to choose between two different companies again, which are Abrams and Danilo. I picked the latter, because their calendars are more easily available where I live and they are simply ahead of the competition.

Danilo's 2025 calendar is essentially a sequel to the one from this year. It's entirely focused on Tears of the Kingdom and uses exclusively the different characters arts for the game, but it's a different set for the next year:

You get Rauru, Yunobo, Teba, Hestu and the Captain Construct, which were all missing in 2024. And you also get the secondary artworks for Riju and Zelda this time, which is nice. However, the other five artworks are repeats, which is not so nice. Of course there aren't even that many character artworks to use, but there is still Yunobo's alternate art, as well as artworks for Purah and Mineru, which could have been included here. I didn't even know that some of these existed, like Hestu's for example.

At least the character variety is much better than it was this year. Only Zelda is seen twice and each of the sage descendants is featured exactly once. Ideally, they would have spread things out more, so that the 2024 calendar has no doubled characters except for maybe Link and then use the rest for 2025.

The overall design is fine. It's not the prettiest, but I appreciate that they were trying to do things differently for the same idea. The calendar by Abrams (not pictured) looks much cleaner with its backgrounds, but they are essentially just copying the competition from what they did last year, so they also are now doing a Tears of the Kingdom calendar with the character arts... At least they got the character variety right from the start, but this isn't the first time that they are just looking at the competition to make next year's calendar. This was also a thing when Pyramid was still around and it makes Abrams quite unappealing, because they always seem to be one year behind.

For 2026 I expect something that has Echoes of Wisdom in it... from both parties. But if you want some Echoes of Wisdom in 2025 already, you can try the free table calendar from My Nintendo.

My Nintendo Calendar 2025

Since I have lots of Platinum Points, I decided to give this one a try, which costs 300 in total. The quality is pretty much what you would expect, so it's just a bunch of thin cardboard sheets. And this isn't a purely Zelda-themed calendar, of course, but an overall Nintendo calendar:

At least there is some Zelda in there. You get artworks for both Echoes of Wisdom (in February) and Tears of the Kingdom (in July). This is the complete list:

• January - Mario & Luigi Brothership
• February - The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
• March - Princess Peach Showtime!
• April - Animal Crossing: New Horizons
• May - Splatoon 3: Side Order
• June - Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
• July - The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• August - Donkey Kong Country Returns HD
• September - Metroid Prime Remastered
• October - Splatoon 3
• November - Pikmin 4
• December - Super Mario Party Jamboree
  

The only real complaint is seeing Splatoon 3 twice... Which apparently they also had done for 2024. Speaking of, I actually like the 2025 design much more, it's less cluttered. Anyway, I would have swapped Splatoon 3 in October for Luigi's Mansion 2 HD, but otherwise this is fine. And that's how it looks when you put it together:

Nothing too fancy. It's like a small easel made out of cardboard, which you have to fold correctly. And then you put the cards in there. That's it. But I suppose you shouldn't expect something more stable and with metal rings from a gift. So, I'm not sure I will get this again... Maybe if the motives are really nice.

There is also a second My Nintendo calendar for the retro gaming selection, but I didn't get that one, because I didn't like it as much. It does feature A Link to the Past & Four Swords, though, which was my 2024 highlight from these online services.

Got Echoes of Wisdom

So, I woke up today, ate breakfast, and then the door actually rang, where I got my package with Echoes of Wisdom. That's how it should be... Well, I still needed to clean my apartment and write this post here, before I get started, because I'm disciplined like that and wanted that out of the way. But I'm on vacation today and next week, so I will have plenty of time to focus on this game, from now on.

However, I personally don't like Thursday as the new release day of Nintendo games, which is a thing that began with the current fiscal year in April. That's because I don't work on Fridays any longer, for a couple of years now, so the Friday release was always quite ideal for me, but now I have to take vacation (again) in order to play on launch day. For those where it takes quite long to have their game delivered the Thursdays are better, of course, because then they still have a chance of getting their game on the weekend. So, I can see why Nintendo has changed this.

But then there are always those who get the games way earlier. In this case this seems to be quite extreme, at least from what I heard around the German communities. Amazon Germany send out the game one day too early, so a lot of people already got it yesterday. And the big retailers also have reduced the price already by 22%, days before launch...

With that in mind it looks really stupid to have ordered from Nintendo directly, where I've paid full price to get the game on launch day. But at least my money goes to the right company and only the right company, so that's a a small consolation... And I got some merch out of it, as you can see above.

The scroll is quite nice, a bit larger than I expected. It's also made out of wood and some water-proof fabric, so it's overall a very decent quality. And I really like the artwork, so I'm happy to have this and will probably put this up somewhere...

It's also quite rare that we're not getting some Limited Edition or Special Edition for a new Zelda game, not counting the Nintendo Switch Lite Hyrule Edition here, because that's separate from the game. The last time was actually Tri Force Heroes on the Nintendo 3DS. And if you count remasters, then there's also Skyward Sword HD, but that one came at least with a new amiibo and those Joy-Cons. Together with the early price drop, this makes you wonder how much faith Nintendo and other companies have in this making big sales.

Well, I don't mind, I thought it was nice not having to worry about preorders for once, and I don't necessarily need a Special Edition for every new game, though I like to get them for my collection. But it has been overdone on the Nintendo Switch, where it's fine that Nintendo doesn't add more to that pile in its last year(s).

Got the Tears of the Kingdom Official Soundtrack

This beauty has arrived fresh from Japan this Friday. Like the Skyward Sword Soundtrack from three years ago, I ordered this one via play-asia and everything went well, so I can only recommend this shop (I'm not affiliated in any way). It's the Limited Edition, which comes in a nice box and some extras.

 

There is the soundtrack itself, spread across a total of nine discs, a booklet, and a small Master Sword statue. The inside of the disc box shows the mural in the background and the discs have the Secret Stone runes on them, which is pretty nice.

And here's the Master Sword statue, which is secretly a USB drive, which I find funny. It's so cool to remove this from its socket. Though, I got excited there for a minute, because I thought that it might hold the entire soundtrack, but it's only a Sound Selection of 15 tracks. They are flac files (lossless quality), however, with one of them taking a whopping 475MB. So, not exactly something that you want to put on your MP3 player, but nice to have, especially since you get to hear more instrumental details that I never noticed before.

The 15 tracks include all the major boss battle themes, the main theme, and the trailer musics, where the last one is of course the highlight. You can find a complete tracklist of the entire soundtrack and the sound selection on play-asia.

But I'm happy with this purchase, it's another beautiful addition to my Tears of the Kingdom collection. It's a shame that these soundtracks are never coming to the west, because I would love to be able to read the booklet (and the tracklist inside) without learning Japanese first.

Got Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition Deluxe Set

Well, I already got this yesterday, because for some reason Nintendo decided with this fiscal year that their new games should launch on a Thursday... But this was on a Thursday, so I couldn't even be bothered to unpack it. Anyway, it's finally here, the big summer release that we've been waiting for... Not really, but it could be a nice diversion for in-between, where I already got hooked with beating some Octoroks as fast as possible.

As for the Deluxe Set, this is the only way of getting a physical copy of the game. It costs it much as a normal Nintendo Switch game would, but you get a variety of goodies on top:

There is a replica of the golden NES cartridge for the Nintendo World Championships, though they felt the need to use this game's logo on a black background, so it isn't exactly the same. And of course it's not a real NES game, it's just plastic, but it comes with even more plastic in the form of a standee, so you can put it nicely into a display cabinet.

In addition, you get a pin set, which is surprisingly nice, because it feels like little trophies. I'm normally not a big fan of such pins and I don't get Nintendo's obsession with them, but in this case it seems like a very good fit.

 

Finally, there is a card set with the original covers of all 13 NES games featured in the game. It's actually a very good selection, they've went with the absolute best games here, unlike NES Remix and NES Remix 2, where they had one too many of Nintendo's old games in there. On the backside you get some pixel arts:

And that's it. Nothing too special, but still neat. My only real complaint is that the cover of the card case still has the huuuge age ratings on it. Why is that? One of the biggest selling points of these Special Editions, at least for me personally, is to get a clean cover. And they are not even selling this separately!

Though, maybe they had planned to... The pin box also comes with a plastic wrapping that's normally used for My Nintendo stuff, complete with a bar code sticker for the item. Maybe they first made the retail game and those pins separately, but then decided to create this Deluxe Set instead. Add some more cardboard and plastic, and then sell it for full price. Oh, well, it's obviously working...

Echoes of Wisdom ~ My Nintendo Store Goodies

Today Nintendo of Europe has announced that they will bundle Echoes of Wisdom with a wall scroll in the My Nintendo Store. It makes good use of the game's main artwork, which is also present on the cover, but not with the same height.

In addition, everyone who orders the game will get a small keyring for free. These bonus items are added to every order of the game, whether you will get the tapestry or not.

However, I still think that they will also make a Special / Limited Edition, which you won't be able to order together with the wall scroll, so that you will have to buy the game twice in order to get everything. With Tears of the Kingdom they had pulled the same stunt... Not exactly customer friendly.

Well, I do like the tapestry, however, so let's see. The keychain is nothing to be excited about, but it's a gift horse, so it's fine. I do prefer to order from the My Nintendo Store anyway, instead of Amazon or other big retailers, so I don't need necessarily need such incentives, but they are a neat extra nevertheless.

Tears of the Kingdom Puzzle (Ravensburger)

As a small birthday present to myself and some bad weather entertainment for the weekend, I got a jigsaw puzzle of the cover art of Tears of the Kingdom. It was made and published by Ravensburger, a German toy and puzzle company, has 1000 pieces and normally costs 16.99€, though I got for 6€ less, where this was a very good deal. As far as I can tell, this is the only Zelda-themed puzzle from this company, but they have done stuff for Super Mario and Pokémon in the past.

Anyway, we worked on this as a pair over the course of three days and it was quite fun for the most part. I like how the puzzle has this frame with the Triforces in each corner, because makes it easier to identify certain pieces that are next to the edge, because their tabs still have a part of the frame on them. Then you will probably start assembling the logo and the sky island with Link on it, because those pieces stand out more with their colors.

As for the rest, you have the blue sky at the top, and some darker landmarks with Hyrule Castle and Death Mountain, while the clouds in the bottom right also have their own "texture" to have them sorted. Then there is the storm cloud and the sky island above the logo, but afterwards things get a lot more challenging, because it's effectively fifty shades of cyan. In some areas in the middle you might as well be working on one of those one-colored puzzles, where it's all about finding the pieces with the right shape.

(I've also noticed for the first time how in this artwork the sun is still shining from the north, while in the game they've changed this to the south.)

If you're looking for something simpler, on New Year's Day we did a Breath of the Wild puzzle from Winning Moves with the free climbing illustration:

This only has 500 pieces and we could finish it within a couple of hours. It also comes with a poster of the motive, but it's as small as the puzzle and folded, so not a real reason to buy. I can't really say how much this has cost originally, because I got as a present from some other Zelda fans (from the ZeldaChronicles community) last year, who weren't really into puzzles and just wanted to get rid of it. But it looks like the puzzles from Winning Moves are a bit more expensive...

I would get another one from Ravensburger, though, where I'm hoping that they will do the Game Awards artwork for Tears of the Kingdom as well, because I love that motive so much. Though, it probably would even be more challenging than the first one, because a lot of the sky looks the same.

Got the F4F Mipha

Last year I got the First 4 Figurines Urbosa for my birthday and this year it was Mipha's turn. She was my favorite character to play as in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, so she was essentially a must-have for me in this line of figurines, where I'm happy to have her received as another fantastic present.

amiibo for scale

The Lightscale Trident looks great and it's a quite detailed figurine overall. Only problem was that the plastic wrapping around the figurine was put so tightly together that it's impossible to open without force, where I was very worried that part of Mipha's crown might break off. But luckily nothing happened.

This version also came with an integrated light in the socket, so you can make her shine in the dark. You can run this with either a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, a USB-C cable, or both, where none of this is included. The light switch is at the bottom of the socket, however, so it's probably best to power it via USB-C, so that you can turn it off without having to lift the figurine.