This thing is pretty cool. I would definitely buy it for $5.95.

Honestly, what the fuck do you do with it once you own it? Do you put it on display?

I have to imagine that if you have enough money to buy this thing, you probably have an insanely nice home. Where exactly do you put a Crystal Final Fantasy Orb?

I'm asking for real. If it is worth $250k, you most certainly wouldn't leave it unlocked on display. It would need to be locked in a display case or a vault of sorts. So... beyond Michael Jackson's personal arcade, where the fuck do you put this thing?

To those who say that it is similar to a baseball, or comic, I disagree. Those are very easy to explain to others. When you have visitors you can say, "Yeah that is the baseball that Mickey Mantle signed for me" or "Oh that is the first spider man and it is worth a fortune". How exactly do you explain, "Yeah it is a crystal ball from a Nintendo Magazine contest back in 1990 and the mold for the ball broke so they just didn't make any more."

Syd Lexia wrote:

First off, I believe they broke the mold on purpose so that no more could ever be made. It's a common practice with limited edition items. Secondly, it's pretty obvious what you do with it. You put it in a giant room by itself, levitating in the middle of something that vaguely resembles a reactor core. You might also want to hire a giant boss monster to stand outside the room and guard it. If you don't, when the Heroes of Light show up at your house and explain they need it, you'll lead them into the unguarded room only to find that the bad guys are already in the process of stealing it and they've brought a boss monster with them. And yeah, the Heroes will beat the boss monster, but the bad guys will still get away with the orb.

That seems like a lot of work when the Heroes of Light could just go and explain to Nintendo that a new mold is necessary to stop the destruction of the world. Or they could just find one of the other 49 crystal balls that is not guarded.