The Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Lottery - Did You Get Zack?
We needed a second Cait Sith. I'd already won one in the Final Fantasy VII Rebirth lottery, a raffle-like event that kicked off last weekend in a limited number of participating stores. You pay ¥880, pick a sealed ticket from a box, open it up and see what prize you've won. It's a fairly common type of event here, usually scheduled to commemorate a new pop-culture release. Anyway, we needed a second Cait Sith. My daughter had taken a shine to the blocky, faux PS1-effect figure that I'd won on Saturday morning. Problem was, so had I. So we decided to try and win another, and put our minds to finding the best way of guaranteeing this outcome. We quickly ruled out robbery, as I only have one balaclava. Instead, we settled on a more scientific approach: we re-boxed the figures we'd already won, exactly as they'd come, and looked for ways to tell the different ones apart, so that we could make the right choice in-store. The figures come in blind boxes, so they all lo