GOOOOOOONDOLAAAAAAA It feels like June’s merchandise just went up and it’s al

 GOOOOOOONDOLAAAAAAA 

It feels like June’s merchandise just went up and it’s already time to start advertising for July. ಠ_ಠ (Side note: June’s charms and standees are being packaged and mailed out as we speak, so those who ordered either of those items will have hot wet Ignis in your hands soon enough!)

I associate fireworks with the month of July (Independence Day in America is celebrated on July 4th), so “fireworks” was the theme for this month’s design. As I learned after discussing my concept with a friend, there are actually quite a few FFXV fans who never got the chance to play the Moogle Chocobo Carnival (BRING IT BACK SQUARE YOU COWARDS (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻), and therefore may not understand the context of this design. The culmination of the carnival shows Noct chilling in a gondola with Carbuncle and watching a fireworks show, so I appropriated that scene for my own Ignis-centric purposes and turned it into the image you see above. (I admittedly had to take some artistic liberty with the gondola’s design, as some of the ornamental elements didn’t translate well onto the small scale of physical merchandise.) It took me ages to decide whether I wanted to include the baseball cap or not; on the one hand, it looked cute and tied the whole outfit together, but on the other hand, it disguised one of Ignis’ most defining features (his cockatiel hair). In the end I compromised and went with a visor, which is suitably appropriate for Ignis as I imagine he’d loathe letting a good bottle of hair gel go to waste.

As of this writing, July’s merch is set to be released on Saturday, July 4th at 1:00pm PST. Like June, there will likely be a short wait between the time merch is released and the time it actually ships, but I’ve already initiated the order for everything so in theory the wait shouldn’t be nearly as long as the last couple of months were. I’ve also upped the quantities of everything a tad, so hopefully everyone will get something they want without having to beat the initial rush. If anything changes I’ll let everyone know, but for now feel free to mark your calendar for July 4th!

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