BODY: If you have ever wanted a tiny Princess Laura on your desk next to a slime balancing a dessert, Square Enix has set a date — and it is fifteen months out.
The publisher has announced five new Dragon Quest merchandise lines, all releasing on January 26, 2027, with preorders already live at the Square Enix e-STORE. The headline item is the Miniature Figure Collection, a six-type blind-box series pulling from the first two games: the Hero and Princess Laura from Dragon Quest, plus the Prince of Samaltria and the Princess of Moonbrooke from Dragon Quest II, including a paired prince-and-princess variant. Singles run ¥2,200 (about $14), with a sealed six-box case at ¥13,200.
Monsters get three sets of their own. Miniature Sweets Figure Collection – Slime Cafe (¥1,650 single, ¥9,900 per box) dresses six monsters — Slime, She-slime, King Slime, Golem and two series regulars — in café-dessert styling. Smile Slime Mini Puppet Plushie Collection Vol. 2 matches that price with six finger-puppet plushies led by Slime and Healslime. Adventure Journal Collection – Monster Defeat Figures Vol. 2 (¥2,200 / ¥13,200) returns to the gimmick that made Vol. 1 work: a miniature adventure log that opens to reveal a monster inside.
Rounding things out is the Metallic Items Gallery, three die-cast metal replicas at ¥2,750 each — the Thief's Key, the Magic Key and the Final Key, the dungeon-door trio that anyone who played the early games will recognize instantly.
The insider take
The timing is the tell. Square Enix routinely opens e-STORE preorders a year or more ahead on goods like these, because production is scheduled against confirmed order volume rather than retail guesswork — and because the e-STORE is where Japanese collectors expect to reserve. The focus on Dragon Quest I and II characters is no accident either: the HD-2D remakes have made those casts current again for the first time in decades, and Square Enix is steadily converting that attention into the slow, dependable merchandise pipeline that keeps the franchise visible between mainline releases. Overseas buyers will likely need a proxy service.
Originally reported by GAME Watch (Japanese).