{"id":131700,"date":"2023-02-07T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-144789"},"modified":"2023-02-07T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T17:00:00","slug":"these-lovely-earthbound-plushies-are-getting-a-re-release-on-valentines-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/07\/these-lovely-earthbound-plushies-are-getting-a-re-release-on-valentines-day\/","title":{"rendered":"These Lovely EarthBound Plushies Are Getting A Re-Release On Valentine&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d7c0ed6aafdf8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d7c0ed6aafdf8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"EarthBound Plushies 1\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d7c0ed6aafdf8\/earthbound-plushies-1.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNjAwIj48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d7c0ed6aafdf8\/earthbound-plushies-1.900x.jpg\" alt=\"EarthBound Plushies 1\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1101.com\/mother_project\/\">Hobonichi<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Hobonichi MOTHER Project is bringing back those rather adorable EarthBound plushies next week in Japan! And no, the basket <em>isn&#8217;t<\/em> included. The toy set will be restocked on Valentine&#8217;s Day, 14th February, the company <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hobonichimother\/status\/1622905682684178434\">announced on Twitter<\/a>. (Thanks, <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/nintendowire.com\/news\/2023\/02\/07\/official-earthbound-chosen-four-plushes-will-re-release-on-february-14th-2023\/\">Nintendo Wire<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<p>Originally launched in 2020 by series creator Shigesato Itoi, The MOTHER Project stocks lots of various Mother series merchandise from Boney the dog in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gba\/mother_3\">Mother 3<\/a> to scarves to Mr. Saturn toys. This set of four plushies \u2014 Ness, Paula, Geoff, and Poo \u2014 are packed in a gorgeous box with Ness&#8217; House, Paula&#8217;s House, the school in Winters, and Dalaam on it.<\/p>\n<p>One day, we <em>really<\/em> hope these become available in the West. For now, we&#8217;ll just look longingly and save up our pennies for shipping&#8230;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\"><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Images: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1101.com\/mother_project\/\">Hobonichi<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/aside>\n<aside class=\"gallery\"><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Images: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1101.com\/mother_project\/\">Hobonichi<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/aside>\n<p>The set costs \u00a511,000, which is roughly \u00a370 (not including shipping, of course). And the detail on the toys is incredible. We just want to give them a squeeze and display them proudly on our shelves.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the listing on the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1101.com\/mother_project\/items\/friends.html\">MOTHER Project page<\/a>, and orders open up again on 14th February.<\/p>\n<p><em>What do you think of the plushies? Are you longing for some EarthBound merchandise? Let us know!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Hobonichi The Hobonichi MOTHER Project is bringing back those rather adorable EarthBound plushies next week in Japan! And no, the basket isn&#8217;t included. The toy set will be restocked on Valentine&#8217;s Day, 14th February, the company announced on Twitter. (Thanks, Nintendo Wire!) Originally launched in 2020 by series creator Shigesato Itoi, The MOTHER Project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}