A Lego duplicate of the enduring church the place Aerith tends her flowers in Last Fantasy VII just lately offered for an incredibly excessive quantity at public sale. The Sq. Enix giveaway fetched $12,500 over the weekend as followers bid over the uncommon collectible.
Again in 2023, Last Fantasy 7 Remake gamers voted for which scene from the sport needs to be made right into a Lego set. The church the place Cloud first meets Aerith and helps rescue her from the Turks ended up successful, with solely two ever being manufactured and ultimately despatched to the fortunate winners of a social media giveaway aimed as a tie-in for this yr’s Last Fantasy 7 Rebirth launch.
One in all them just lately went up on the market on the Heritage Auctions web site. The Sector 5 Slum set measured 41.5″ tall, 29″ huge, and 20″ deep, with the characters themselves rendered to blocky scale. A TikTok video confirmed it in all its glory. It’s suprisingly massive:
The $12,500 it ended up promoting for is loads in comparison with the place it began a few weeks in the past: within the a whole bunch. It’s a fortunate get for no matter collector it ended up with, however it could be neat if Sq. Enix managed to push ahead with a full-blown Last Fantasy Lego mashup. Mario, Sonic, Minecraft, and loads of different gaming franchises have already gotten the block-toy glow-up, together with Horizon Zero Daybreak. It’s now high-time Last Fantasy-heads bought their 25,000 piece, $1,000 duplicate of Midgar, from the blown-up Sector 6 reactor to Shinra Tower.
The truth is, it could be cool to see a complete Last Fantasy Lego recreation, full with multiverse hopping heroes visiting one of the best and largest moments from throughout the franchise. The opera scene in Last Fantasy VI, the airship in Last Fantasy 7, Cid—simply Cid—from Last Fantasy XVI, the attainable situations and spin-off units are limitless.
