£646.77. £700.17. £513.91. £717.25. £696.62… and it goes on. If you’re happy to sacrifice the Ocarina keyring, one seller in France has the game and the replica box for a thoroughly reasonable £321.62 + £54.22 postage. Another has just the box and the keychain — not even the game — listed for £479.89 or Best Offer. Hmm, might a tenner get a bite?
For context, the sold-out Zelda-themed Switch 2 console (which is £434.99 retail price) is listed for less than some of these scandalous Buy-it-Now punts.
Obviously, these sellers are hoping to snare a Jabu-Jabu who simply cannot live without a slightly disappointing facsimile of an old N64 box. Likewise, the foil cover version of the remake is notionally “limited”, but we’ve yet to see the standard variant amongst NL staff’s copies, and some of us just wandered into a supermarket on launch day.
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Similar box-based bonuses were available at retailers in other territories, so this familiar pattern of speculative auction listings will crop up everywhere.
As always, if you’re desperate to own any of these cute bonuses, you do you. Unsightly corrugated pattern aside, the box is a neat little nod to the original game, and who doesn’t like a cute keyring? But having procured a couple of these “RARE” boxes, we can confirm they are almost certainly not worth 700 of your quids.
Consider this: You could get a PAL copy of the original game in decent condition, plus the remake and any number of alternative Ocarina keyrings, for far, far less.
Let us know below if you managed to get these bonuses, and how much you’d be prepared to pay for a small cardboard box.
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