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''Kingdom Hearts: Sora Florida Meets Hanna Montana'' seems to have been in development since early 2005, while ''Kingdom Hearts II'' was already underway. Originally planned as a plain ''Kingdom Hearts II demo'', Disney had secured a deal for a new television series called ''Hannah Montana''. Very late in the development of the demo, a suggestion was made to place elements of the yet-to-be released Hannah Montana series, along with bits from other already successful Disney Channel series, into the game by Disney. Disney hoped they could use this to attract an older audience, since the plot they had planned for ''Kingdom Hearts II'' was much more complex | ''Kingdom Hearts: Sora Florida Meets Hanna Montana'' seems to have been in development since early 2005, while ''Kingdom Hearts II'' was already underway. Originally planned as a plain ''Kingdom Hearts II demo'', Disney had secured a deal for a new television series called ''Hannah Montana''. Very late in the development of the demo, a suggestion was made to place elements of the yet-to-be released Hannah Montana series, along with bits from other already successful Disney Channel series, into the game by Disney. Disney hoped they could use this to attract an older audience, since the plot they had planned for ''Kingdom Hearts II'' was much more complex than ''Kingdom Hearts'''s plot. | ||
Shortly before distribution, [[wikipedia:Square-Enix|Square-Enix]] decided to withdraw their approval of the project, and the game was recalled. [[wikipedia:Tetsuya Nomura|Tetsuya Nomura]] was later quoted as calling it "a disaster, a joke, and against everything we worked for. It didn't even reference ''Final Fantasy VII'' once, and you all know that I need to include those references in the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series." Several weeks later, he added, "We would afraid it would hurt sales with our more loyal and hardcore fans, despite their age demographic." A few of the discs had already been released to the media for previewing, as well as to testers for debugging. A couple had slipped out at least one known time during a major Square-Enix convention, making it a rare collectors' item. The game has had few appearances in public, but the first, and so far, only disc to appear on eBay went for $4,200. The status of the other discs is unknown, but it is rumored that Sqaure-Enix has plans to pass the discs on to Disney for safekeeping, so that nobody would know of the terrible game demo they had created. | Shortly before distribution, [[wikipedia:Square-Enix|Square-Enix]] decided to withdraw their approval of the project, and the game was recalled. [[wikipedia:Tetsuya Nomura|Tetsuya Nomura]] was later quoted as calling it "a disaster, a joke, and against everything we worked for. It didn't even reference ''Final Fantasy VII'' once, and you all know that I need to include those references in the ''Kingdom Hearts'' series." Several weeks later, he added, "We would afraid it would hurt sales with our more loyal and hardcore fans, despite their age demographic." A few of the discs had already been released to the media for previewing, as well as to testers for debugging. A couple had slipped out at least one known time during a major Square-Enix convention, making it a rare collectors' item. The game has had few appearances in public, but the first, and so far, only disc to appear on eBay went for $4,200. The status of the other discs is unknown, but it is rumored that Sqaure-Enix has plans to pass the discs on to Disney for safekeeping, so that nobody would know of the terrible game demo they had created. | ||