Kingdom Hearts Plushes Coming This Summer Are Available For Pre-Order

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Almost two years on from the announcement of Kingdom Hearts 4, it's been more or less radio silence ever since. Not even a hint at when the next game in the series might be released, and no new trailers previewing what's to come. A building influx of official new Kingdom Hearts merch might be hinting that an announcement of some sort is coming though, the latest addition being three new Sora, Kairi, and Riku plushes.

Square Enix revealed its three new plushes this week and the trio is already available to buy through the studio's Japanese store. No sign of them on stores outside of Japan for the time being, but pretty much all other official plushes from the series tend to be rolled out onto other Square sites. This isn't a Pokemon situation where if you want to make chocolate Clodsires for your significant other this Valentine's Day, you'll need to have the molds shipped thousands of miles.

All three characters are modeled after their looks from the very first Kingdom Hearts games, joining a collection that already features plushes based on Sora and Riku's looks from Kingdom Hearts 2 and 3. That Square has worked its way backwards and has now reached the point where Sora, Kairi, and Riku all have plushes based on their appearances in the three core Kingdom Hearts games, there's nowhere else to go until we have Kingdom Hearts 4, right?

Each plush is priced at 4,180 yen (roughly $28), and you can pre-order them through the Japanese Square Enix site right now. The plushes won't be released until June 8 though, so it'll be a few months before you can get your hands on them. While they don't tend to sell out (Sora and Riku's plushes from Kingdom Hearts 2 and 3 are still in stock), Kairi's tend to be harder to find. Kairi has plushes from those two games too, but neither is listed on the site.

As noted above, the Kingdom Hearts merch train is picking up speed, hence the belief an announcement of some sort is coming soon. The reveal of three new plushes is the second