So, given how long Voices of the Lifestream has been in existence, we’re not sure how many of you haven’t heard of it before, but since we here at Thelifestream.net are into all things Final Fantasy Seven and want to encourage fan projects of all sorts, we figured we’d tell everyone who wasn’t already aware know about this awesome fan orchestrated remix album to the great songs of Final Fantasy Seven, and let you listen to these awesome arrangements at the same time.

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Amazon.co.jp has recently added several pre-orders for PSP sets that include a product code for FFVII. All the sets are the same, but have different colored PSPs.

- Mystic Silver (3000MS)
- Pearl White (3000PW)
- Piano Black (3000PB)
- Vibrant Blue (3000VB)
- Spirited Green (3000SG)
- Radiant Red (3000RR)
- Bright Yellow (3000BY)

The release date is August 7th, and the sets are priced at 19,800 yen (about 1000 yen more than a PSP on its own).

Source: Mezzo.net

The SE Product Blog has updated with the new creatures that will be featured in the upcoming new set of the FF Master Creatures Collection. Included are Bahamut SHIN from FFVII AC, Zalera from FFXII, Valefor from FFX, Tiamat from FF1, and The Brothers from FFVIII.

However…In a magazine scan promoting the set…another figure is shown blackened out, representing that its a secret chase figure in the set.

Its silhouette, looks familiar… Could it be Terra, riding Magitek armor, from FFVI?

Source: FF7AC Reunion

A new Static Arts figure of Cloud in Final Fantasy VII was recently added to the Japanese Square Enix store. It shows Cloud standing in his classic SOLDIER pose in Aerith’s church, with rays of sunlight coming down onto the flowers at his feet. Click the title of the article, or the Read link to check out all the images.

Source: FF7AC Reunion

Square-Enix will publish a Post Card Book for the upcoming Advent Children Complete.

The ACC Post Card Book

The book will contain 24 postcards in the Japanese B6 format with CG renders from the movie and it’ll be sold for 1260 Yen.
It can be bought from the Japanese Amazon store.

Source: Square-Enix, CetraConnection

A new Static Arts figure of Sephiroth has been released for a price of 16,800 円 at the Square-Enix Shop. Sephiroth is standing on a base that has been designed to resemble Meteor & is calling up flames around himself.

Dimensions- Height: 38.2 cm, Width: 44.3 cm (22cm w/o the Masamune), Depth: 20 cm.

The figure will be available for shipping on 4/20/2009.

Source: FF7AC Reunion

SQUARE-ENIX has revealed today the box of  “Cloud Black” PS3 that will bring together a copy of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children + FF XIII Trial Set Version and a 160GB HDD PS3 version.

And there’s also the boxshot of the normal and the bundled versions.

UPDATE:

In addition to this information – “Cloud Black PS3″ has just recently gone up for sale on Play-Asia For $649.00 (USD). As of 4/1/2009 (not an April Fool’s Joke) all of Play-Asia’s preorders for the Limited Edition PS3 have been filled. Good hunting if you’re still looking to get your hands on one!

Source: SQUARE-ENIX E-Store

The Japanese online Square Enix shop as well as their physical shop in Hatsudai, Tokyo is now selling special character drink tumblers for 1900 yen each. The lineups are…

- Cloud
- Sephiroth
- Lightning
- Snow
- Vanille
- Noctis
- Cactuar
- Moogle
- Tonberry
- Chocobo

Also…A look at the promo back cover of the regular edition of FFVII Advent Children Complete has been revealed. And on it…it says nothing really new…..Save for the talk of ‘30 minutes’ of new scenes (rather than new and edited), and over 100 changes to the movie itself. So yeah, there you go!

Major thanks to hitoshura for translating this interesting bit of news!

Source:
The Light in Chaos

In Hobby Japan, we have pictures of the new Cloud Static Arts statue. The concept for this piece is “The morning light streaming into the church as Cloud stands still while gazing into the distance,” which includes a base designed around the image of Aerith’s flowers in full bloom. It stands 34.5 cm (about 13.5 inches), will cost 15,540 yen (about $174 USD) and is slated for a release sometime this spring.

The Release Date for the Limit Edition FFVII ACC PS3 has been confirmed as being 16th April. 

Named “Cloud Black”,  this limited edition will come with a 160 GB HDD and it will come with a copy of Advent Children Complete. Price will be 49,980 yen.

Also, the cover for Advent Children Complete has been revealed.

Update: It seems that the release of Advent Children Complete has been postponed,  since April 16th is the release date for all the three versions of ACC wich, besides the “Cloud Black” Limited Edition, also includes the Standard Version (4,900 yen) and  another one wich features  a FFXIII demo (5,900 yen).

Sideshow Collectibles has put up a images & preorder information for the Static Arts figure for Sephiroth set to be released in Q2 of 2009. It stands at 14″ tall, and will be sold for $150.

Sephiroth’s translated character profile from the FFVII 10th Anniversary Ultimania is now up. Enjoy!

Sephiroth
Compilation of FFVII: FFVII – AC – BC – CC – LO

Character Profile

Sex: Male
Height: Unknown
Blood Type: Unknown
Date of Birth: Unknown
Birthplace: Unknown
Weapon: Masamune
First Person Pronoun: オレ [ORE]*, 俺 [Ore]°, 私 [Watashi]†
Voice Actor: AC, CC, LO – Toshiyuki Morikawa

* ORE – Original game, sane pronoun. Male-only, coarse-sounded pronoun.
° Ore – CC and LO, sane pronoun. Male-only, not as coarse as オレ.
† Watashi – All titles, post-insanity pronoun. Genderless, normal politeness.

A SOLDIER: First Class who possessed outstanding merits, was admired as a hero, and after he learned of his birth, began a series of murders in his quest to be become ruler of the Planet. Though he was killed twice, his spirit will not return to the Lifestream, and remnants of his aggression continue to exist on the Planet. For Cloud, he is the foe that destroyed his hometown, a symbol of the past he must break away from.
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