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Club Nintendo 'Dot Mario Cushion' is another reason to envy Japan

by David Hinkle on Oct 25th 2011 1:00AM

We get it. Everybody deserves to come home from a long day at the office and embrace a loved one, whether it be an actual human being, a pet or just a really awesome pillow. In this case, it's all pillow. Get it? Get it?!

Ahem, sorry -- Nintendo's latest Club Nintendo Platinum goodie for Japan (yeah, we're upset, too) has us all aflutter with excitement. It's the very awesome Mario pillow you see above, available as one of three different freebies for Platinum members. The other two freebies up for grabs are two table calendars or two different soundtracks, from a total of five, though we know eligible members would never go against the pillow. Because that'd just be insane.

Via: Andriasang
Source: Club Nintendo

Tags: 3ds, club-nintendo, ds, mario, mario-kart-3ds, mario-kart-7, nintendo, wii, wii-u

Reader Comments (32)

meh...

@baddates77
You must not like Mario, because if you like Mario much at all, I would think it nearly impossible not to want this.

@mjp19xx You are correct. Link would be much cooler.

well if you haven't noticed Japan always get everything cool, see : all Playstation and Nintendo exclusive colors/accessories / Club Nintendo Japan SNES controller for wii

something cool and unique. awesome.

Stuff like this makes me want to... punch whoever is in charge of NA's Club Nintendo...

Why stop at just NA's Club Nintendo? Hit them at the top, Nintendo of America is a joke.

Terrible localization rate, with so many classics left unreleased in the US (which wouldn't be so bad if NCL wasn't unwilling to work with third party publishers like Sony or even Microsoft have when they aren't interested in localizing their own games - see Demon's Souls, WKC2, Phantom Dust). Terrible Virtual Console support that has all but been dead for the past year or two. Terrible Club Nintendo rewards, on top of the fact that they took so damn long to get Club Nintendo to begin with... that the rewards suck is just salt in the wound, especially after they tried hyping it having finally arrived.

Reggie deserves that punch.

@BPMOmega XBL PSN Steam Wouldn't you be afraid of punching Frankenstein's monster in the face?

Bring it on over Nintendo.

Meanwhile, we're still stuck with DS Lite cases and stylus boxes.

@Bronze Brad
Their lineup of stuff that you can order with your coins is actually not that different from what is offered in America. They just tend to get better platinum rewards.

Take that Japan we get pieces of flair.

I hope this is next year's gift for NA's Platinum members. I only hit Platinum the first year of Club Nintendo, and so far it's the only year that seems to have been worth reaching that status, so I guess I've been lucky.

@SolCross
Year 2 was a good one. The mini statue looks nice.

Cool...but do they have PINS and BOOKMARKS?

Already ordered mine!
It'll ship in March next year, apparently.
Awesome.

Contrary to NoA, Nintendo of Japan is actually still pretty awesome.

Okay, which one of you nerds do I have to beat up to get one?

@Faceless Troll
Look one post above.

NoA has yet to discover the power things like this have over consumers. It often seems seems like they're dumb enough to think it's a charity rather than something that'd ultimately boost sales of new games. Japan's figured it out. Europe's figured it out. Reggie? ...

I'll wait till a bunch pop up on ebay and buy one. My giant game center prize mushroom pillow is awesome, now this one will compliment it. Heh heh...

So, take a foam block and cut it out in this shape and then glue felt or some other fabric on top (Jo-ann is whoring the stuff out everywhere...)

I actually would prefer the figures we got last year over this. I mean, this is neat but when it's an 8 bit character pillow it really isn't that hard recreate for yourself and you can make the flip-side a small luigi if you wanted.

Or, give the little bastard a power mushroom and have one side be his flower powerup colors.

@Mmmmz A block of foam is exactly what this looks like.

@Mmmmz

Agreed. I sadly didn't have platinum level last year, achieved it this year, and was disappointed to hear the "reward" was pins. After a stunning piece like last year's I was hoping for something similar. Not that I really care all that much, free is free, but man that was an awesome looking piece. Also remember hearing the year prior was a replica Mario hat. Wouldn't have minded that one, either.

@Skorpeyon
Those reward pins were such a letdown I almost went with the damn calendar.

Reasons to love Japan = The world's greatest pop junk
Reasons to not love Japan = Whaling.

Uk nintendo club is even worse than USA.

I don't know about you guys but I'm really starting to see the real value in the so-called "crappy" US Platinum rewards. Maybe the Japanese are totally envious of our 2011 calendars, huh? Or maybe they wish they had a Mario hat? Oh, what's that? They already got theirs?

Oh.

Well... then.

@xiaobtt Would you happen to have Mario Cushions?

Still waiting for my pins to arrive.

They should make a custom console or console case that looks like this

Outside of Japan, the loyalty schemes Nintendo offers are absolutely rubbish. I thought when I moved from Europe to the US, it would get better, but it doesn't.

Gamestop's PowerUp Rewards programme is far better. I got a Batman t-shirt yesterday without even having to do anything, versus a tote bag for filling in a bunch of surveys.

I'd totally sleep with that. Is that weird?

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