Final Fantasy Swords, Materia, and More
Recently I discovered that the worlds of replica weaponry and Internet pornography have more in common than I would have ever imagined. Misleading links, endless pop-up windows, cheep, flashy banners, some sad design choices, and the feeling that you wouldn’t want your mom catching you looking at this menace of both industries. While trolling these depths of the Interwebs, though, I came across one site with a novel sales tactic: Final Fantasy.
Check out some of the more tempting pictures and dark pleasures after the jump.
Recently I discovered that the worlds of replica weaponry and Internet pornography have more in common than I would have ever imagined. Misleading links, endless pop-up windows, cheep, flashy banners, some sad design choices, and the feeling that you wouldn’t want your mom catching you looking at this menace of both industries. While trolling these depths of the Interwebs, though, I came across one site with a novel sales tactic: Final Fantasy.
King of Swords has a lot of the typical fare you’d expect to find in a Franklin Mint catalog: Excalibur, Sun-Tsu’s katana, oversized rings, belt buckles, that kind of stuff. But they also do a line of video game weapon replicas, like Cloud’s Buster sword, Sephiroth’s Masamune, Payne’s sword, Squall’s gunblade, Yufie’s cross, even a replica of Link’s Master Sword. Pretty neat, but still, nothing to write home about.
That’s when you might notice the link that says: Materia.
Aside from all the weapons, they produce these little stands with a fist-sized crystal orb and a scene from Final Fantasy VII. They also make special weapons with tiny holes in them where you can put smaller materia, customizing your weapon conceivably just like you would in the game. Then they have materia earrings, and necklaces, and combo sets. Then they do pretty much all the same stuff with the dress spheres from Final Fantasy: X2. From there it starts getting weird, with Final Fantasy clocks and Coca-Cola figuruine sets.
While none of this looks like official Square-Enix swag, (I’ll be nice and not say knock-off… oops) I have to admit that I was pretty tempted by the Sephiroth Black Materia set—especially since most of the stuff is pretty cheep. You can meet all of the King of Sword’s Final Fantasy and gaming related subjects right over here.
Lectric Lich
Posted to Video Games on 3 October 2006
· Comments (3)
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Name: Dave
Yeah, I have a twin-bladed sword I got at Origins.
The really weird thing is whenever I see online ads for Masamune replicas, they copy and paste the description of Sephiroth from the Wikipeida article which I originally wrote!
I mean, do you know how weird it is to read a catalog and then to find your own words in a product description?
i just want to ask you where did you get that black materia,im going to be sephiroth for halloween so plz help i need the costume to be as realistic as possible,so please email me with some helpful info on the subject.thx
your very unlucky matey if u didnt already get it, i brought a buster and gunblade and got black and green materia, i went back for a materia set…they stopped selling probably copyrights got them