Nintendo's Mother 3 Plush Set Is Now Available And Yes, It Ships To The US

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Almost 20 years after its original release, Mother 3 has still never been officially released outside of Japan. Nintendo has never offered up a concrete explanation as to why that is, and for some reason, it continues to taunt those of us who would give them vast amounts of money for an official US release. Mother 3 was recently added to Nintendo Switch Online, but only on Japan, and the plushes revealed to mark the occasion are now available to pre-order.

There is a silver lining for all you Mother 3 hopefuls. Even though the plush set is technically a Japan-only release too, the set does ship outside of Japan which means fans in the US can order it now. Good news, of course, but also kind of cruel if you think about it too much. An acknowledgment from Nintendo that there are Mother 3 fans outside of Japan, yet it remains unwilling to release the game in the US or anywhere else other than the country in which the game was made.

If you want to own the set of four Mother 3 plushes, you will have to pay 11,000 yen ($71) for it. Not too bad for what are clearly high-quality plushes, but it will likely end up costing you quite a bit more than that. The price doesn't factor in shipping costs to get the set sent from Japan to wherever you are in the world, and that's going to be pricey.

Nintendo released an official set of Mother 3 plushes to celebrate the game's arrival on Nintendo Switch Online (Japan only). The four characters included in the set are Lucas, Klaus, Kumatora, and Duster. They come as a set and are not sold separately.

There are four characters from Mother 3 included in the set - Lucas, Claus, Kumatora, and Duster. Each of them is seven inches tall and they're all fantastic recreations of the characters based on the way they looked in the Game Boy Advance game. As for whether you will ever be able to have them sitting alongside you while you play an official US release of Mother 3, never say never, but if Nintendo isn't even willing to put it on