Mount Names - Current and Future

[Mikita]

Chocobo: Kui

Chocobos remind me of Yupa's (later Nausicaa's) faithful companions in Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa so I named my chocobo after one of them.

[Shougun]

Chocobo: Kui

Chocobos remind me of Yupa's (later Nausicaa's) faithful companions in Kaze no Tani no Nausicaa so I named my chocobo after one of them.

Holy shit they are everywhere.. (I've seen this before.. just a long time ago forgot about it XD)

Is there an animal in Japan that has a chocobo esque shape? Or just too damn cute to pass up? lol

[Mikita]

Holy shit they are everywhere.. (I've seen this before.. just a long time ago forgot about it XD)

Is there an animal in Japan that has a chocobo esque shape? Or just too damn cute to pass up? lol

I thought they look a bit like dodos (not the more plump FFXIV dodos):


And apparently the idea for chocobos came from Nausicaa (if Wikipedia and its reference are to be believed)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica...nd_%28manga%29
(scroll down to the last line of the Reception section)

And reference #14 from that Wikipedia entry:

Rogers, Tim (March 27, 2006). "In Defense of Final Fantasy XII". Edge. "Okay, so the Chocobos -- big, yellow riding birds -- were actually stolen from Hayao Miyazaki's movie 'Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind', and Hironobu Sakaguchi freely admitted that way back when."

[Shougun]

I thought they look a bit like dodos (not the more plump FFXIV dodos):


And apparently the idea for chocobos came from Nausicaa (if Wikipedia and its reference are to be believed)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausica...nd_%28manga%29
(scroll down to the last line of the Reception section)

And reference #14 from that Wikipedia entry:

But .. dodos are in FFXI/FFXIV.. :P

Actually that makes me wonder.. Will we get a Dodo mount.. lol

(Thanks for the research ^_^) - I'll probably be watching that anime again now lol

I-I thought that Mr. Mog-mog was a s-secret. How'd you know? ._.,

What do you think he did when you were away? Mr. Mog-mog was a naughty moogle he changed my clothes too..

all i want ^-^

Yoshi said we will get it during one of the main quests - even talked about it possibly having special features during that portion of the quest.

[Gramul]

Holy shit they are everywhere..

Square's a bunch a thieeeeeeeeeves.

[syntaxlies]

Square's a bunch a thieeeeeeeeeves.

those look more like ostriches which could have been taken from reality since people actually ride ostriches.

[Gramul]

those look more like ostriches which could have been taken from reality since people actually ride ostriches.

I actually had the chance to ride one myself once, but they freaked me out too much.