Mario gets canned [update 1]
by Ross Miller 
{ Jun 30th 2006 at 1:55PM }
He is 10 feet tall and weighs about 2,600 lbs. He is the reason Nintendo became a household name. He is ... made of 4,000 cans.On Thursday, Nintendo of Canada and Canstruction joined forces to create a canned sculpture of Mario, in honor of New Super Mario Bros. becoming the fastest-selling game in the country. All cans used in the art are being donated to the Daily Bread Food Bank.
Pictures of the event can be found here and here. Notice how his mustache, eyebrows, nose and ears seem to be the only non-canned items ... the rest is pure, unadulterated, cylindrical goodness.
[Thanks, semiunderscore and bassbeast]
[update 1: Well, I think the 't' in weights is silent, and so does Stephen Colbert, but who am I to argue with a dictionary? A blogger, that's who!
... okay, you win, it's fixed.]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Baboon @ Jun 30th 2006 2:03PM
So all those cans are actually full of food? That has got to be heavy. Hopefully their (glue?) holds.
Awesome statue by the way. :)
Rawnblade @ Jun 30th 2006 2:15PM
That title scared me deeply.
Very pretty.
Nukes and Candy @ Jun 30th 2006 2:36PM
haha!, that looks like bean cans and tuna cans. I wonder if they are empty, and if so... what happened to the delectables?
AoE @ Jun 30th 2006 2:52PM
Wow, that has to be the single strangest bit of game promotion I've ever seen, at least in North America. Disturbing...
#1 & #3, if you had read the first sentence of the post you would have found that indeed the cans are full of food, and weighs a collective 2,600 lbs.
And Ross, the t isn't supposed to be silent in weighs... it's not supposed to be there at all ;)
Baboon @ Jun 30th 2006 3:01PM
#4
I know, I was merely expressing surprise that they had built it with all full cans.
Also, I would like to note that on further inspection, it seems that it might not be glued at all. In order to get the reverse curves it seems they have employed the use of platforms to start the new, wider layers. Impressive.
Lestrade @ Jun 30th 2006 3:25PM
More photos on my Flickr account!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lestrade/tags/mario/
Brad Mecoli @ Jun 30th 2006 3:56PM
It's fitting that something like this would come from CANada, right?
garsh @ Jun 30th 2006 8:44PM
Why am I reading so much about Stephen Colbert on Joystiq lately? When did he become a figure in the game industry? It seems like I must have missed something.
Chad W Smith @ Jun 30th 2006 8:55PM
I think the eyebrows and mustache are made of bags of popcorn.
You can see them clearly here:
http://onnintendo.com/Posts/2006_06/92/2/00002.jpg
The ears and nose seem to be pink foam.
Aniruddh @ Jul 1st 2006 11:40AM
WONDERFUL,
REALLY WHAT A CREATIVE WORK.
Anthony @ Jul 2nd 2006 11:21AM
9. I think the eyebrows and mustache are made of bags of popcorn.
You can see them clearly here:
http://onnintendo.com/Posts/2006_06/92/2/00002.jpg
The ears and nose seem to be pink foam.
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