Summary
It’s been a while since the lastKingdom Heartsgame, and considering the lack of release date forKingdom Hearts 4, it’s probably going to be a while until we hear anything new about the next one, let alone find out when we’ll get to play it. Best to fill the Kingdom Hearts void in our lives with official merch from the series, andSquare Enixhas just revealed something pretty special on that front.
The latest items to join Kingdom Hearts' growing haul of unique merch are skateboard decks. That sentence will have sparked memories of Kingdom Hearts 2 for some of you, and rightly so. Japan’s Square Enix Store has two skateboard deck designs,one for Sora and one for Roxas, their faces on the bottoms of them. However, flip the decks over and you’ll find replicas of the designs on skateboards you could find and use in Kingdom Hearts 2.
The Sora skateboard has the black and white design from the skateboard in Kingdom Hearts 2’s Space Paranoids world, and the Roxas deck has the white and black design from Simulated Twilight Town. There doesn’t appear to be an option to mix and match Sora and Roxas' designs, nor have any of the other skateboard designs from the sequels been turned into real-life decks. You never know though, maybe we’ll get more in the future if these sell well enough.
Kingdom Hearts 2’s In-Game Skateboards Have Become A Reality
Which One Will You Choose?
Speaking of selling well enough, I noted above that, for now,these decks are only available in Japan. That doesn’t mean you may’t buy them and get them shipped - though that will naturally drive the price up - and it doesn’t mean they won’t eventually be available elsewhere. Square usually releases merch on its US store and elsewhere if it thinks the products will sell well enough outside of Japan, and considering the popularity of Kingdom Hearts worldwide, it feels like these decks will eventually be available elsewhere.
Kingdom Hearts II Skateboard Deck
Square Enix has turned two of the skateboard designs from Kingdom Hearts 2 into real-life decks. There are two designs available, one featuring Sora and the skateboard motif from Space Paranoids, and a Roxas deck that has the design Simulated Twilight Town on the other side.
The decks are 29,700 yen ($205), so you may want to wait for them to come to the US as that already pretty high price will be driven up even higher by shipping costs. Also worth noting the store listings state the skateboards are for decorative purposes only. I’m unsure who would spend more than $200 on a beautiful video game skateboard replica and then proceed to screw trucks and wheels into it so they can grind it down rails, but if you were thinking about doing that, Square is strongly recommending that you don’t.
