Wendy and their 400 free Wiis, plus points and games

by Alexander Sliwinski { Jun 29th 2007 at 3:45PM }

Since it began on May 21 the Wendy's Wii giveaway has distributed over 400 of the 800 available systems. Wiis aren't the only thing they're giving away, they also have gone through half of their 800 Wii Point cards and games. The Wii Point cards are the 2000 point version and the games available are Mario Party 8, Super Paper Mario and Big Brain Academy. The whole thing hinges on the purchase of a Frosty Float from Wendys, which has a code on the cup you put in at FrostyFloat.com. Of course, per usual, no purchase is actually necessary, but it does expedite the process. The giveaway ends July 31. There's some interactive features at FrostyFloat.com too where you can design your own shakes, sadly they haven't figured out yet how to pay for it and just grab it out of your screen.

We got some statistics from Wendy's about the contest. So far there have been 1,283,191 "gameplays" by 302,547 people. Now, let's see, at 400 calories a shake, that means if every one of the 1.2 million plays were from people who bought shakes, the desire to Wii has injected 480,000,000 extra calories into American society. Those 302,547 people could really use that Wii right about now with some Wii DDR and a few hardcore rounds of Wii Sports to work that off -- they could always follow the WiiHealthy.com guide as well. Curse you tasty fast food with giveaways!

Tags: contest, prize, reward, wendy, wii

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

hvnlysoldr @ Jun 29th 2007 3:57PM

That's not irony. It's just a coincidence.

polly @ Jun 29th 2007 4:02PM

Would you like to add a triple stack for $1.99 fatty?

Mr Khan @ Jun 29th 2007 4:03PM

Only one of the three games is actually worth it; Super Paper Mario

Everyone should get that game, and beat it

MAL @ Jun 29th 2007 4:17PM

they do have salads

JodyAnthony @ Jun 29th 2007 4:15PM

thats not ironic, it's just mean.

baby sea tuna @ Jun 29th 2007 4:29PM

Maybe they took irony-spotting lessons from Alanis...

JodyAnthony @ Jun 29th 2007 4:34PM

"the use of words expressing something other than their literal intentions" - now that. is. irony!

deaftly @ Jun 29th 2007 5:11PM

id rather spend the 250 then eat this crap

Mr. Objectional @ Jun 29th 2007 5:31PM

Well now that it's hit Joystiq I won't even bother entering anymore.

*sigh*

kingofwale @ Jun 29th 2007 5:42PM

for those who are keeping scores:

Sony's PS3 cures Cancer. Microsoft's Gates donates millions (hundreds of millions), Nintendo Wii gets Americans fat.

Bravo to all three. :)

captain underpants and the bringdown gang @ Jun 29th 2007 6:22PM

you are all futurama addicts.

Final-Fan @ Jun 29th 2007 6:45PM

"sadly they haven't figured out yet how to pay for it and just grab it out of your screen."

They don't have to -- Willy Wonka already developed that technology!

DarkSol @ Jun 29th 2007 6:51PM

Ironically... when I clicked to enter the contest from this link, I happened to win a Wii. Thanks Joystiq!

laserboyjc @ Jun 29th 2007 6:52PM

Doesn't it amaze everyone how Wii is still having supply problems yet the turn up like nobody's business as contest prizes? Glad I got mine back in February...

@ #3, yes everyone should play Paper Mario...but I haven't beat it because I got busy playing the Halo 3 beta, then picked up a DS and beat Elite Beat Agents and the awesome New Super Mario Bros...every platforming fan should play that game also

laserboyjc @ Jun 29th 2007 6:54PM

oops, meant to say "they turn" not "the turn" but you get the drift...so far I have won a computer 3 years ago, and a 360 when it came out, wonder if I can win a Wii as well...

Adv2k1 @ Jun 29th 2007 8:45PM

i played several times and nothing.

I already have a wii and those games don't really intrest me / I already own them.

However Wiipoints would be very nice. I get $2 drink and get $20 of wiipoints thats very nice to me. However after a few times and I haven't won anything I'm pissed off.

I expect not to win big prizes but little ones I think would be easier nope. How much you wanna bet about 1/2 of the winning cups got tossed away

ehanson @ Jun 29th 2007 11:23PM

Interesting. You can eat your burger and then burn it off while playing with the new Wii you won.

http://www.nycj.blogspot.com/

Vincent @ Jun 30th 2007 12:16AM

Damn, guy above me beat me to it..

Zuko @ Jun 30th 2007 1:15AM

Ha Ha, I already won a Wii from them, and I don't know if it's been mentioned, but you can enter for free, there is some alternative link thingy on their site, forgot where though. I won with the one Frosty Float that I really bought though :D

Shiro @ Jun 30th 2007 3:48AM

You guys are serious?

NOBODY has pointed out to Joystiq why the old "No purchase necassary" joke is retarded? It means "You don't have to pay money to enter the contest itself after you've already bought the cup with a frickin' code on it." I figured that out in fifth grade.

And you guys know what else? If they made the entire plane out of the black box, it would be too heavy to fly.

And you know ELSE else? The restaurant is called Wendy's. Not Wendy.