With so little Kingdom Hearts News around and plenty of people wanting to get their hands on a Keyblade, I decided I should show you where to do so. Unfortunately, this only applies to people in the US (which means I can’t get any of this so I don’t know the true quality).

Although there are real swords on the market at very expensive prices, there are some very reasonably priced replicas of Keyblades around, and Amazon.com currently has them on sale cheaper than anywhere else, including their supplier “Top Swords”:

Sora’s Keyblade (14lb) Price: $25.49 All Metal Construction Hanging Chain Included 35” Overall Length Shipping Weight: 14lb

Sora’s Keyblade (12lb) Price: $24.49 Unknown Material Unknown Overall Length Shipping Weight: 12lb

As for other Kingdom Hearts Merchandise, there’s a site that has imported items from the Official Square-Enix Store, including some of the items that were available at the Square-Enix Party 2007, and has them available at reasonable US prices:

GKWorld

Other than confirming again that the next game will NOT be called “Kingdom Hearts III”, it has now been confirmed in Dengeki PS Magazine that:

Unfortunately, this may mean very little news for a couple of months, but we’ll still keep you up-to-date on anything new!

• TheWertle is still working on translating the Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+ Ultimania book. We’ll hopefully be getting more scans of it as well. If you want to buy it yourself, you can get it at Play-Asia, but bear in mind that it’s 511 pages almost all in Japanese.
• We are also still getting translations on Kingdom Hearts: Another Report. The Proto Type Report should be the next to be translated.
• More Kingdom Hearts Novels are going on sale soon, apparently possibly with a little bit of information that we haven’t found out yet, but this is unconfirmed.
• After the great feedback on the “Fate of the Unknown” Piano Sheet Music, I’m working on the requests of other arrangements for that piece, as well as creating piano versions of other music from the Kingdom Hearts series by Yoko Shimomura. The Kingdom Hearts OST Complete is still available.
• The Square-Enix USA Online Merchandise Store should be opening soon, so if you’re a big fan, sign up to find out when the store opens.
• The Kingdom Hearts Complete Visual Art Book will be on sale in July if you wish to pre-order it now.
• If there are any unanswered questions about this site or about the Kingdom Hearts series that I might know, please ask in the Frequently Asked Questions section and read the Summary of Kingdom Hearts Interviews.

The Square-Enix Shop in Japan has now put up King Mickey’s Keyblade for sale, and also shows us its name: “Kingdom Chain: Dark Side“. Click the picture above to go to the shop page.

There are also two more scans from pages of the Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+ Ultimania book from Reflet. Click them to enlarge them:

This weekend (26th & 27th May), the London MCM (Movie, Comic, Media) Expo May 2007 will take place at ExCeL London, Royal Victoria Dock, Docklands, London, E16 1XL. There will be a Square-Enix stall (5704) which will include playable demonstrations of:

• Final Fantasy III (Nintendo DS)
• Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales (Nintendo DS)
• Valkyrie Profile Lenneth (PSP)
• Final Fantasy XI (Xbox 360)
• Final Fantasy XII (PS2)
• Kingdom Hearts II (PS2)
• Dragon Quest: The Journey of the Cursed King (PS2)

Bobby Edner the voice of VAAN in Square Enix’s latest instalment of the world wide hit Final Fantasy is set to attend THE London MCM Expo 26-27 May 07.

Watch out for further details which will include a daily autograph signing for fans of FF XII. As well as being the voice of ‘VAAN’ Bobby has appeared in many movies and tv shows including Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over, Charmed, The Pretender, Seven Days, Touched by an Angel & JAG to name a but a few!

Although I haven’t been able to find the video on GameSpot itself, a YouTube user has posted a GameSpot video about the Square Enix Shop at the Square Enix Party 2007, including the many Kingdom Hearts figures:

Gamespot have now reported on the Square Enix Party 2007, and you can see their videos below. Although nothing on Kingdom Hearts itself, see if you can spot the Kingdom Hearts reference…

Although there are also a few more videos around now, I was somewhat intrigued to see how long the line to get in on the Saturday was:

YouTube member mirafi recorded many videos of the Square Enix Party 2007. Although none are Kingdom Hearts related, I thought you guys may be interested to see some of them. The first two are of the screens outside the Closed Mega Theatre, and then there’s one of a walk around the building:

Also, the official Square-Enix Party 2007 site has been updated with photos of the two days:

Well, the second day of the Square-Enix Party this year was based mostly around Dragon Quest, and therefore no new Kingdom Hearts news has arisen. Famitsu believes that the surprise and “New Project” were something to do with the short trailer seen at the party yesterday, which means we can look forward to the Tokyo Game Show 2007 (at Chiba City near Tokyo in Japan, 20th-23rd September) for more Kingdom Hearts related news!

Japanese Yahoo Blog member gemaga1985 has put a lot of different information about the various projects and exhibitions announced and seen at the Square-Enix Party. The pictures above show the queues at 11am, in which he had to wait 100 minutes to get in, and then how packed it was when he got inside. He found out from different people that the waiting times for some of the events were up to 3 hours! Feel free to look at the gemaga1985 blog for more screenshots of the day, and of some of the announced projects including the many Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy related ones.

Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to find a picture of Yoko Shimomura on the Saturday yet, but she was there signing CDs and shaking hands. I haven’t been able to find a video of the short Kingdom Hearts trailer either, but it probably won’t be shown to the public for a few months officially.

Below are the final visitor numbers for the two days announced by Famitsu. 38,632 people turned up on Saturday and 36,602 people turned up on Sunday giving a total of 75,234 people over the course of the weekend - A great improvement on the 46,981 people who attended the 2005 Party.