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If you mean the blond guy, he's Roger Wilco, galactic loser extraordinaire, from the Space Quest series (Sierra).

UpIrons : the name you're looking for is NAM 75

(this picture was what ps3 fans could see on the other side of the river while waiting for the shop to open)

It isn't better in France.
I've been watching the launch event here in Paris. It was absolutely pathetic from the beginning to the end.
Sony had a boat turned into a floating store, docked in front of the Eiffel Tower with a thousand PS3s in it.
At midnight, a few dozen people came on board to get their consoles, and 30 minutes later, it was over. No one was left except journalists and security people (i'd say they were more of them than customers tonight), wandering along the deserted, oversized waiting lines.
A pathetic sight indeed.

Naaah, who am i kidding, it was hilarious.

And there was also this :
http://pix.nofrag.com/0b/c6/2c3648e3050807acc5ad22f237a2.html

Yay for 10 year-old girl feet!