Miis vs. Meez vs. WeeMees: most disturbing conflict ever

by Tony Carnevale { Apr 3rd 2007 at 3:54PM }

A whole lot of people want to get a piece of the lucrative "bobble-headed cartoonish humanlike thing with a totally emasculating name" industry. Clickable Culture brings us the saga of Miis, WeeMees, and Meez, three almost-identical takes on almost-identical things with almost-identical names. Back in November, WeeWorld even sued Nintendo over their Miis, but has unsuccessfully tried to bail on the suit when it looked like Nintendo would win. Can't we/Wii/WeeMee/Meez all just get along?

More importantly, why would anyone want to create a WeeMee -- which begins life as a creepy, hairless alien with a "fig leaf" covering its crotch?

Tags: lawsuits, meez, mii, weemee, weeworld, wii

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

hvnlysoldr @ Apr 3rd 2007 4:03PM

Whoever can combine this with furries shall win.

But seriously Nintendo hit a gold mine with Miis.

Lewis @ Apr 3rd 2007 4:05PM

NINTENDO NEEDS TO JOIN THE WEEMEE PHENOMENON, MINE IS HOT!

Derbeste @ Apr 3rd 2007 4:05PM

"why would anyone want to create a WeeMee -- which begins life as a creepy, hairless alien with a "fig leaf" covering its crotch?"

Because that fig leaf is covering the greatest controller ever made.

Mr Khan @ Apr 3rd 2007 4:09PM

Who wants to place bets on how long before required posts saying "I told you so,"

This plays right into his arguments, it does

(But those WeeWorld people were probably just patent trolls, they should've jumped on the idea faster, then they may have had a case)

required @ Apr 3rd 2007 4:11PM

Mr Khan is lonely.

xbox360-forums.com @ Apr 3rd 2007 4:22PM

Maybe a site where all of these Miis/weemees/diidees/ etc etc can fight would resolve such a problem.

http://www.MarioKartWii.com

Dale @ Apr 3rd 2007 4:30PM

How the hell would Nintendo win a case against WeeWorld?! The original UK patent filing for WeeMees was in 2002!

hvnlysoldr @ Apr 3rd 2007 4:33PM

But Nintendo started the creation of the Miis all the way back to the Famicom.

Rubang B @ Apr 3rd 2007 4:38PM

But dudes, all 3 of them are ripping off

http://www.playmobil.com/

!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111oneoneone lol

samfish @ Apr 3rd 2007 4:41PM

Hey, look! It's Jack Of No Trades in that picture! So THAT'S where the utter hatred of Nintendo comes from!

(Y'see, that's funny because it's a call-back, y'see?)

Jonathan Tran @ Apr 3rd 2007 4:52PM

@3

ROFL

@9

LOL (yes just a plain one)

REUYL @ Apr 3rd 2007 4:58PM

Mr. Potato Head > all

required @ Apr 3rd 2007 4:58PM

Nintendo tries to mimic the vernacular of playmobil and steals ideas from other sources such as:

http://www.smethporthistory.org/smethportspeciality/wollypage.htm#wooly

Mr Khan @ Apr 3rd 2007 4:59PM

1 Post, ladies and gentlemen!

1!

(this is shaping up to be a fun day)

Rubang B @ Apr 3rd 2007 5:10PM

The vernacular of Playmobil? Enlighten us, required.

required @ Apr 3rd 2007 5:21PM

Silly Rubang B, the reason everything goes over your head is that you must be at least "this" tall and you're not.

Brandon @ Apr 3rd 2007 5:45PM

At least they aren't making Mii's of their dogs like these people... http://www.novusliterae.com/satire/miipooch.html

Slaziman @ Apr 3rd 2007 5:48PM

Rubang = winner

Otis Whitaker @ Apr 3rd 2007 6:08PM

Is that J. Allard in that picture?

Freelance @ Apr 3rd 2007 6:48PM

I would definitely need a magnum fig leaf

coyo t @ Apr 3rd 2007 7:07PM

rubang = loser slaziman = wiiner

Rubang B @ Apr 3rd 2007 7:25PM

Hey take it back! I was refreshing this page and rereading Slaziman's comment all day! I finally felt good about myself and all this hair in awkward places I'm getting.

12Anonymous34 @ Apr 3rd 2007 8:25PM

Nintendo also CLEARLY copied the following concepts:

1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastics#Polystyrene_and_PVC
2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White#Shade
and most importantly...
3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity#History_of_electricity

Its amazing what people don't realize. XD

Rubang B @ Apr 4th 2007 2:17AM

12Anonymous34 you have no idea what you're talking about. Nintendo used the color white on Hanafuda cards in 1889, and they used Polystyrene on their Chiritory vacuums and used electricity in their clay shooting light gun bowling alleys. Suck my vernacular.