Corgi, who announced last year a merchandise partnership with Nintendo, have revealed the first of their Zelda-themed items. The item in question is a "Force FX" Master Sword replica, which is 30" long, very detailed, and has "Electronic LED lights and sounds for "real" battle action".
 
While the item does look like a good replica, I can't imagine many people willing to pay the £80 ($160) would be buying it to "play with", so the addition of LED lights and sounds seems a bit silly. Check out the pictures from the 2008 UK Toyfair here. You may also be interested in their huge range of new Mario action figures. I'm interested to see if a Zelda action figure series is also in the pipeline, but no word as of now.
 
No word on where any of these items will be sold, but you can probably expect to see them crop up in your local GAME or Gamestation, who are always eager to stock Mario and Zelda goods. Those outside the UK may have to resort to costly internet importing if waving a wiimote around doesn't make them feel enough like Link as they desire.

Yet again giving us something to write about during this mid-Zelda game lull, today's "Smash Bros. DOJO!!" update featured an interesting Zelda tidbit, which will especially please fans of Koji Kondo's compositions.
 
Sakurai unveiled possibly every music track which the player will have access to from the start of the game, and in this huge list are five Zelda pieces, some of which have not previously been revealed.
 
The list includes the Main Theme (arranged), an Ocarina of Time medley (arranged), Hyrule Field (Ocarina of Time, arranged), The Dark World (Link to the Past, arranged) and the Twilight Princess Main Theme (no-one is credited with the arrangement, so it is most likely taken directly from the game). More Zelda music is bound to be unlocked by picking up CDs in-game.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl is released in Japan this Thursday, and March 9th in North America.
 
For a full list of the game's starting soundtrack, check out today's DOJO update.

Today, in the most successful hype-machine of all time, also known as the Smash Bros Dojo, Sakurai revealed Zelda's Final Smash. It will be very familiar to those of you who have completed Ocarina of Time, The Wind Waker or Twilight Princess - the Light Arrow. Quite simply, Zelda fires a gigantic arrow of light. Check it out for yourself here! The Smash was previously revealed in low-quality scans from Japanese magazines, but now we have some proper screenshots. Such as this:

Super Smash Brothers: Brawl is out at the end of January in Japan, the start of March in the US, and unfortunately so far unconfirmed for Europe. Be sure to join our forums and take part in our inevitable tournaments and stage creation competitions when the game is finally released!

Hello again. Espy here. Just a quick update to apologise for the lack of news updates on the site recently - this is partly due to the lack of there being any news and partly due to us all still feeling sick from Christmas dinner.
 
While we're on the subject, are you looking for a place to spend your Christmas money? We may have just the thing.
 

 
Yujin have recently released a set of Phantom Hourglass capsule toys, or gashapon, in Japan. There are five in total, and they look quite cool. Espy-approved Play-Asia are selling the figures randomly for $3. If you want a complete set, you may want to buy a ton of them, or look to certain auction sites.
 
That's all for this update. I hope you all had a good Christmas, and that you enjoy the remainder of your break!