There is an officially licensed, life-sized FF7R Tifa "Collectible Figure"
Are the otakus okay???
This showed up in my YT feed and it was too cursed not to share. What gets me is that this is an officially licensed, SquareEnix-approved product
It's seemingly made by one of those Chinese companies that make incredibly realistic and expensive action figures for rich nerds so it's technically not a RealDoll but there's probably a reason why its life-sized and why they chose the HoneyBee Inn outfit
Imagine visiting someone's house and seeing this thing on their couch
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Also imagine what it'll look like in 20 years once the silicone starts to degrade
This is a product created for the loneliest of the lonely. I had a pal in Tokyo who I met playing left for dead off himself because he was so lonely. It really fucks people up
What I've never managed to stop thinking about with these life-sized doll things is how much they must just seem like dead bodies, in form and function
If you had to move house with this thing you would need to make the exact same considerations as a killer moving a corpse
This isn't a sex toy though, which somehow makes it even weirder
Even if it was, I'd argue life-sized silicone dolls that cost thousands of dollars aren't the direct equivalent of a dildo or whatever. There's much more discreet and infinitely less creepy options for dudes looking to get their rocks off that you don't need to hide like a corpse when your mom comes over
I personally think it's creepy since I have the same reaction to it that I would to a corpse but if you know anybody in the BDSM community they have waaaaay more elaborate sex-related things in their house than this.
I've gone back and forth on this in my head, on the one hand yeah it's weird and creepy and objectifying but on the other if we're not going to stick sexless men in camps or kill them a good option is to allow them a release, there's been dudes through the years that have actually straight up marry these things and have romantic relationships in the case of Davecat (google him). idk it feels harmless compared to say like sex work which is actually pretty dangerous.
something very uncanny about it in that lighting, if the person taping wasn't physically fiddling with it i'd have thought it was a render
but looking it up it seems to actually be a sex doll, there's "Voice Dialogue: 18 Voice Control/Dialogue Touch Sensing: Touch Sensitive Area Can Sound Intelligent Voice: Three Character Modes [Girl (Chinese), Mature Woman (Chinese), European and American Women (English)]" and it has a metal frame like one.
i'm kind of fascinated, i wonder if these sorts of things can balance on their own
I just checked the link and saw more normal expensive collectibles like an 1/6 scale Anakin Skywalker figure with an incredible likeness of Hayden Christensen and assumed they didn't sell sex toys
I'm just flabbergasted a company as conscious of their brand and image as SquareEnix would approve a cursed product like this. The same company that currently has gamers in an uproar over slightly covering up female characters in the upcoming Dragon Quest remasters is also okay with turning one of their most iconic female characters into a sex doll homunculus
i can't find any information about 'juicy made studio' besides literally this product, i'm not sure this is a real partnership with the studio, seems kind of grey market. there's apparently a bit of a market in sexed IP-figurines & dolls that directly reference the content while clearly being unauthorized. but it's presumably niche & hard to crack down on
...it's generally prudent to assume that any foreign-branded merchandise produced in china for the chinese market is more likely than not unlicensed...