X-wing in Asia or any other country that is not the USA packaging

By Nickotine42, in X-Wing

Random question. My wife is travelling to Asia for work and asked me if I wanted anything. I immediately thought it would be great to have different versions of my favorite pilot cards. I totally envisioned a Wedge card written in Japanese. Well after a quick google search I came up with nothing. I don't know if FFG prints this in any other languages other than English. I do recall there being slight differences in some X-Wing pilots between the USA printing and the UK version. So, players in Singapore, China, Japan, and India. Notice anything unique about your sets vs. the USA counterpart?

I'm fairly sure there's no Japanese localization; I correspond fairly often with Ravncat, another forum member who lives and works in Japan. Not sure about China, but if there's no Japanese localization I'd expect that other, smaller Asian markets likely don't have one either.

There's definitely German cards. I think I remember there were Chinese ones somewhere... I definitely saw a Chinese (I think) box on BGG:

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Edited by haslo

As far as South East Asia is concerned there are no differences between the products sold here and those in the US.

Within the South East Asian Sphere, all the countries (Singapore/Malaysia/Philippines) use the North American Releases, in fact most of the American stock goes through Asia first before arriving in the states itself.

China has its own licenser for X-wing, but I believe they are quite far behind on the waves. Korea I believe has its own licenser as well.

Currently, Japan has no licenser for X-wing, and support is limited to expats due to the language barrier.

You would have better luck in the EU, given the support it enjoys in Germany and such.

I live in Japan. Can confirm total lack of support here.

Swedish player here, and I can tell you that I know for a fact that the game exists in Swedish, Finnish, and German, French I'm quite certain also exists.

Here's a picture with the Finnish Wedge on the left and Swedish version on the right. :)
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Man, Finnish looks nuts