Monster Hunter Collaborations

Monster Hunter Collaborations (モンスターハンタ コラボ). This Article is all about the different collaborations, crossovers, and promotional gimmicks that the Monster Hunter Series have announced to date. These campaigns help Capcom sell more copies and to reach out to other people who have never played the game yet or are oblivious to the games existence. Depending on the agreement, collaborations can involve something small like giving away their latest copy of a game or as far as introducing other characters into the game.

GMR (magazine)
GMR is monthly magazine that is no longer in print. Its first issue debuted on February 2003 and the last issue ended in 2005. The GMR Chrome Heart is the first ever collaboration in the Monster Hunter franchise. This Great Sword was obtainable by completing an Event Quest called "The GMR Heavy Metal Crusade" which first appeared on October 24, 2004. The quest involved slaying a Diablos. The weapon costs 499z to make and requires the following materials: Chrome Voucher x5, Machalite Ore x5, Iron Ore x35, Unknown Skull x1. Because of its ease in obtaining and relatively decent stats, it was the weapon of choice for many new players.



Famitsu (magazine)
Famitsu (ファミ通), a Japanese magazine publisher, has often collaborated with Capcom to include its own equipments in the Monster Hunter games.

Pizza Hut, Domino's pizza and Gilco Ice Cream
The collaboration with Pizza Hut and Gilco Ice Cream is that Capcom decided to promote Monster Hunter Frontier with real food. Ordering a pizza from Pizza Hut or anything from Gilco Ice Cream you get an In-game quest item.



On 14th February up to March 26 of 2008 in Japan, Capcom had a promotional campaign with Pizza Hut for Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G.

Ordering a Pizza from the Japanese Pizza Hut website will give the buyer a chance at the following prizes:
 * A Ceramic White Play Station Portable. (PSP-2000CW)
 * A Black Monster Hunter T-Shirt.
 * A copy of Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G.

On July 16, 2010 Capcom announced that they had formed a collaboration with Dominos Pizza. This collaboration involved Dominos Pizza to give away 50 copies of MH Diary: Poka Poka Felyne Village between July 16 and September 2 in 2010.

Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
Collaboration talks between Capcom and Kojima Productions first began in 2008 when Ryouzou Tsujimoto and Hideo Kojima met in a talk event at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show. The idea was first presented by Kojima to do a tie-up between the Monster Hunter and Metal Gear Solid series.

The first part of the collaboration was announced on April 7, 2010. In the PSP game, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, Trenya appears before Snake and talks of an island full of monsters to hunt. These monsters include the Felyne, Velociprey, Rathalos, and Tigrex from the Monster Hunter series. A monster based on MGS's side, the Gear Rex, can also be hunted. Monster items can be obtained from these missions to unlock Design Specs for a new suit. A musket gun, based off the light bowgun, Demonlock, can also be made after the required conditions are met. In one of the screenshots below, Snake is able to "cook" a Ration on a BBQ Spit similar to what is done with Raw Meat in the Monster Hunter games.

Dead Rising 2
Monster Hunter Frontier in Japan for PC and 360 is getting Dead Rising 2 exclusive items. All are available and consisting of:
 * Dual Sword Boxing gloves with duct taped knives
 * Moose Head Head Armor Piece
 * Boomstick Gunlance
 * 4 colored variations on the "Terror is Reality" Racing suits.
 * The Racing Suits consist of Head, Torso, Arm and Leg Armor Pieces. There is no Hip Armor piece.

Players who get a copy of either Dead Rising 2 for the Xbox 360 or PC in Japan will receive a special token to get these items in either the PC or Xbox 360 version of Monster Hunter Frontier.

Lost Planet 2
A collaboration with Lost Planet 2 was announced on April 15, 2010. The main character used in Lost Planet 2 can use the Rathalos Armor from Monster Hunter 3. This was previously an exclusive downloadable content for Japanese PSN, but was later made available to Western territories for free late in May on PSN.

Namco Bandai


A collaboration with Namco Bandai was announced on August 19, 2010. A costume based on the arcade drumming game, Taiko Drum Master (太鼓の達人), will be available through an event quest. Felynes and Cha-Cha made an appearance in the drumming game earlier his year. For more information see http://www.capcom.co.jp/monsterhunter/topic_taiko.html

Hello Kitty
A collaboration with Sanrio was announced on March 16, 2010. Sanrio will also produce limited edition plush dolls based on the two crossover costumes. First editions of the MH Diary: Poka Poka Felyne Village game will come with a product code which can be entered into a draw to win 1 of 100 (50 Felyne, 50 Kitty) plush dolls or 1 of 1000 phone straps. The following Hello Kitty items are obtained through event quests: Hello Kitty costume, Helly Kitty house and Helly Kitty doll (house decoration).

SID (Japanese Rock band)
On August 25, 2010 it was made known that members of Japanese rock band, SID, will be lending their personal Felyne Comrade save data from MHP2g to be used in MH Diary: Poka Poka Felyne Village. The band members include Mao, Shinji, Aki, and Yuuya. Only the last three members are contributing their Felyne save datas. The downloads became available on September 12, 2010.

More information about the band members:

Secret Society Eagle Talon
Secret Society Eagle Talon (秘密結社 鷹の爪) is a popular Japanese Flash animation created by Ryo Ono. The show is played on various internet video sites like DLE (Dream Link Entertainment). On September 16, 2010 at the Tokyo Games Show, it was announced to have a collaboration with Monster Hunter Portable 3rd. It will serve as a promotion for the game, much like MH Diary: Giri Giri Airu Village. At the same time, it will also reveal certain gameplay aspects.

Videos can be watched here: http://www.capcom.co.jp/monsterhunter/P3rd/mhp3rd_x_taka.html

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