Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
The Lunar Whale concept is being used for the Fan Festival merchandise mount, so it seems unlikely that it will appear in the game story.
I don't think the fact that it's a mount necessarily rules out it being used to go to the moon. After all, you can ride the Skyslipper in cutscenes without ever obtaining the actual mount. I could see the Lunar Whale being a cash-grab: folks who pony get the mount all the time, those who don't get a few cutscenes with it and nothing more.

That said, I could also see it as being nothing more than a Festival-only homage, like Wind-up Rydia and so on.