What's a better promotional tie-in than sweets, hey? Bandai knows that, and it's releasing some The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom-themed gummies in May in Japan to celebrate the release of the highly anticipated game. But they're not rupee-shaped or even Triforce shaped, oh no. They look just like Chuchu (via Tokyo Game Life on Twitter).
It just makes sense, doesn't it — edible Chuchu sweets? They look like bouncy little bits of jelly in the games anyway, and as they come in different colours. They're tailor-made for this kind of tie in, and we're quite surprised that this is the first time this has been done. But despite being different colours, they don't come in different flavours — they're all grape-flavoured. No apple-flavoured sweets for the green one? Really?
Edible Chuchus aren't the only fun part of this pack of sweet, though. With each packet, you get one of five sword-shaped picks to stab the sweets with, with one obviously based on the Master Sword, and the other four based on other Breath of the Wild and (probably) Tears of the Kingdom weapons.
The picks are only 6.5cm long, and we're sure many fans will be trying to collect all five swords. That'll probably be a lot of sweets, then. Hopefully they taste good. Now imagine if there was a giant sweet based on The Minish Cap boss — we're not even sure how we'd go about eating that.
The gummies are releasing in Japan in May 2023, most likely right before Tears of the Kingdom drops on 12th May. Perfect food for just sitting down and playing Zelda and doing nothing else for a week, then, right...?
Will you be importing some edible Chuchu goodness for your Tears of the Kingdom sessions later this year? Chu on your thoughts in the comments.
[source bandai.co.jp, via twitter.com]
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After learning how gummies are made...I can never look at them the same way. But these look nice.
@Vexx234 Agreed, the unnecessary slaughter of chuchus needs to be put to a halt!
I really hope that the red ones are spicy, the white ones are minty, and the green ones are sour / tangy.
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@Vexx234 agreed. I only eat veggie gummy candy ever since I got to know how they’re made.
https://wowitsveggie.com/vegan-gummy-bears-recipe/
I always thought they looked delicious!
Unfortunate that they don't come in different flavours (nothing wrong with grapes since I love them, just for variety's sake) but still, pretty cool!
I don't think I ever cared for promotional edibles tie-ins like I care for this. Sour as it's always japan exclusive
Do the picks break after you pick up 2 jellies with them?
THC not included.
How many Chuchus can a Chuchu choose if a Chuchu can choose Chuchus?
What would be really cool is if you had the ability to tame Chu-Chus and lead them into battle. And each different kind of element that a Chu-Chu has gives them different abilities.
Frankly, I do wish slimes were a real creature. I'd totally get one as a pet. And I would probably name it Chu-Chu. Or Rimuru Tempest.
@AstroTheGamosian Slime molds are the closest thing to a living slime creature. No idea if you can raise them or if that's a good idea.
Dang, that's an awful lot of packaging to pack up a measly five gummies and a plastic chotchky. Practically makes a typical stateside $1.99 offering of sixty or so gummy bears dumped unceremoniously into a plastic bag look eco-friendly (not to mention a screaming deal).
Also, while I'm being Mr. Grumpy McGrumpspants here, I've gotta nitpick that the 'giant' Minish Cap boss was, rather charmingly, a completely normal chu; it was just the player's perspective that was shrunk down to titular Minish form for the fight. If a magical packet of Nipponese sweets could pull that off, now that would be pretty newsworthy!
@Tourtus Interesting...
how many chews
could a chuchu choose
if a chuchu
could choose
chews?
@Sisilly_G
whoops! should've read the comments ✌️
@Fath
you just made me SO excited to finally get started on Minish Cap, after all these years! 👍
@Friendly I make mine from scratch with Jello.
@Tourtus I doubt you can raise slime mold. But I'm more or less talking about the fantasy-style slimes, like what you see in Zelda, Dragon Quest, Genshin Impact, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, and I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level.
Creatures that are capable of movement, combat, and thought (either limited to basic animalistic instincts as those in video games like Zelda or Genshin Impact, or humanlike intelligence like that in That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime or I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level).
I just think it would be cool to have one as a pet, and have it crawl or hop around. And then you can feed it pretty much anything, even your everyday garbage, because it's special absorption abilities would allow it to digest basically anything and everything. So not only would it be a cute pet, it would also be useful as a garbage disposal.
How DARE YOU!!!!!!! OBJECTION!!!!!!!!!
Definitely a throwback to the old GBA gummies they sold at blockbuster years ago... Does anyone remember those??
Oh, I’m buying this. Will they just be in every convenience store like the Animal Crossing goodies?
@Friendly @Vexx234 as a long time vegan, even if they were vegan, it'd feel weird... And not just because I don't eat candy anyways. I don't like it when vegan food resembles dead animals either. I can deal with the middleground, where vegan food looks like dead animal "food" that is made to NOT look like dead animals, such as a burger or sausage, just shapes for easy consumption. But vegan steak that "bleeds", dead turkey shaped tofu, vegan "shrimps",.. that is too much for me.
@Shambo I agree.
There’s a lot of jelly stuff that’s not made with animal substance though, that’s what I think about when eating vegetarian gummy-bears for instance.
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