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Tis the day for figure reveals! Square Enix has announced that Kingdom Hearts II Halloween Town and Christmas Town Sora will be released as Bring Arts figures. A Kingdom Hearts III Riku Bring Arts figure has also been revealed and shows off his entire new keyblade, including a Mickey keychain. No other information has been released at this time.

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Welcome back to Daybreak Town! Everyone ready to see how your hard work has stacked up?

In fifth place this week is KHV_Leopardus with a total of 42,747,123 Lux! The top scorer was @Noizless with 18,590,967 Lux—about 43% of the party's earnings. @Cat~ followed with 12,700,016 Lux, and @Haseo with 11,182,615 Lux.

In fourth place this week is KHV_Vulpes with a total of 82,513,030 Lux! The top scorer was @Aelin with 82,383,574 Lux—about 99% of the party's earnings. @Fearless followed with 129,206 Lux, and @Aura with 250 Lux.

In third place this week is KHV_Anguis with a total of 164,826,683 Lux! The top scorer was @Explode with 120,567,080 Lux—about 73% of the party's earnings. @Mixt followed with 25,885,727 Lux, and @~Acy_XIII~ with 18,373,876 Lux.

In second place this week is KHV_Unicornis with a total of 309,933,605 Lux! The top scorer was @GarrettFinch with 114,983,996 Lux—about 37% of the party's earnings. @Swordsman_John followed with 75,846,894 Lux, and @tokiodreamy with 57,342,129 Lux.

In first place this week is KHV_Ursus with a total of 327,669,120 Lux! The top scorer was @tamale with 327,655,574 Lux—about 99% of the party's earnings. @Krowley followed with 8,104 Lux, and @O.KnightofTwilight with 5,442 Lux.

1. KHV_Ursus
2. KHV_Unicornis
3. KHV_Anguis
4. KHV_Vulpes
5. KHV_Leopardus

Congratulations to the Keyblade wielders of KHV_Ursus! Master Aced would be thrilled with all your work! Maintain your top position for one more week to earn the Party Don't Stop pin!

Special congratulations to this week's top scorers from each party—Noizless, Aelin, Explode, GarrettFinch, and tamale! You'll all be sent special pins to commemorate your accomplishments if you've not yet received one!

If you want to join in the competition, you can still sign up for our official KHV parties here!

NOTE: If your Player ID is not already recorded in the party sign-up thread, please post it there in order to facilitate the creation of these leaderboards every week!

See you all back here at the fountain plaza next week!

Thanks to 4gamer.net, a myriad of screenshots from the two D23 trailers have been made available. All of these screenshots can be found on their website (as there's way too many to put here). In addition, new renders have been released of Sora, Donald, Goofy, Sully, Mike, and Riku and Mickey and can be found above and on 4gamer's website.

Thanks to @Cat~ for letting us know!

The Kingdom Hearts news just keeps coming this weekend! Thanks to KHInsider's Saken, we have some details on the future of Kingdom Hearts Union χ straight from D23 Japan!

First off, player vs. player battles are coming this spring! Though they won't be real-time, they're bound to be pretty intense! The developers intend for this to be a Coliseum-esque game mode. Make sure to prepare your best Keyblade decks!

Secondly, Union χ is going to start blasting forward with its main story very soon! This is bound to be especially exciting for players of the global version of the game, with the most recent events that transpired with the Dandelions...though we know from the Japanese version of the game that we still have a lot of Agrabah to get through first. But fear not! Once we get out of that desert for good, all Disney worlds in the game from there on out will be brand-new to the series!

On the subject of story, this one goes out to all you Kingdom Hearts conspiracy theorists out there—the Ventus you encounter in the game? He's "that Ventus." Look forward to Kingdom Hearts III for some resolution on that front!

That won't be the only link between Union χ and Kingdom Hearts III, either. Tetsuya Nomura says that the two games will be tied closely together, in something he calls Project Xtrace. We'll find out more later this year, apparently. But there's another, more literal tie between the two games—Kingdom Hearts III players will be able to access some kind of special surprise by connecting their game to Union χ!

In addition to all this news, there's the previously reported crossover collaboration between Union χ and Final Fantasy Record Keeper. The collaboration also includes a special minigame that unlocks in-game rewards for players of both games, depending on the cumulative score players around the world achieve!

What are you most excited for? Any new worlds you hope to see? What do you expect from the PvP mode? What are your crack theories for the story? Let us know in the comments below!

(Playing Union χ now? Come sign up for our official in-game KH-Vids parties!)

From reports coming out of D23 Japan, a video exclusive to the convention was shown about the development process/progress of Kingdom Hearts III.

During this video a screenshot of the Tangled world was shown with Rapunzel in the Kingdom of Corona. This suggests that we will be able to enter and possibly explore the actual city.

This picture also pictures NPCs in the background... which looks like it means no more empty worlds in Kingdom Hearts, which as been a criticism of the series for many years.

This is also supported by IGN Japan's article (translated by MysticDistance on twitter), which can be found here.

Source: Dlove

EDIT:

More images from the 'Making of' video have surfaced thanks to UrePia, showing Sora walking around Corona (including the many NPCs), as well as a first look at the 'Giantland' content in KH3 (which appears to be a Game & Watch style mini-game):