Mario AR card eShop point cards

Well, this is the best idea. Nintendo’s new eShop point cards are also AR cards, with new Mario, Goomba, and Peach 3D models for you to pose in your 3DS photos. There’s a new photo app, Photo Together Super Mario, that lets you pose these in different ways, with effects. There is also a ¥1000 Koopa, ¥2000 Luigi, and ¥3000 Bowser card to collect.

What a clever way to get people interested in checking out the eShop. Japan seems very strongly retail-oriented, so point cards are probably the best way to get people to buy stuff online.

This came out of a mini Nintendo Direct overnight (surprise!) all about eShop stuff. Other than this, though, it covered Dillon’s Rolling Western 2 and Freakyforms Deluxe, nbd.

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Super Mario 3DS LL covers by Takara Tomy

All right, maybe I just have 3DS/3DS XL skins on the brain lately, but these geometric Mario block arrangements are pretty swanky. Especially the blue “underground” versions. 

Pick em up at Play-Asia: Block, Block (Underground), Uneven, Uneven (Underground). They ship at the end of April for $16.90 each.

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With the launch of a new console, and a new Mario game, let us not forget what’s really important in the world of Nintendo: unlicensed Mario junk from Dealextreme.

Here we have some truly excellent (for certain values of “excellent”) phone accessories, including a novelty handset in two colors – Dealextreme finally finds a reasonable excuse for these silly handsets, calling them “radiation protection handsets”  – and these awesome surprised-looking Mario and Luigi “anti-dust plugs” for your headphone jack.

Hey, the Wii U has a headphone jack! THESE ARE WII U ACCESSORIES NOW.

Buy: New Super Mario Bros. 2
See also: More Dealextreme crap

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Who’s that Pokemon?! Er, I mean, Nintendo character!

GameStop is teasing some unrevealed characters that will be included in Scribblenauts Unlimited. Given Nintendo’s willingness to let third-party developers drop its mascots into their games lately (e.g. Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Dynasty Warriors VS), it’s likely these are some familiar figures from the Mario and Zelda series.

I’ve included an image above with our best guesses for the silhouetted people. Presumably, Yoshi’s butt will appear only in the Wii U and 3DS versions, and not the PC release.

Buy: Super Scribblenauts, Scribblenauts Unlimited
See also: More Scribblenauts Unlimited news and media
[Via Kotaku]

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Hungry Hungry Koopas, a customized version of Hasbro’s famous board game from Donald “KodyKoala” Kennedy, replacing hippos with Bowser and his progeny.

Buy: New Super Mario Bros. 2
See also: More excellent KodyKoala pieces
[Via KodyKoala]

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Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward now has a video game-focused Tumblr blog with cute Mario GIFs!

Preorder: Adventure Time for DS and 3DS 
See also: More mathematical Adventure Time posts

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A new series of Super Mario Bros. “Body Covers” for 3DS, by Keys Factory. See? You don’t need a 3DS XL – not when your regular 3DS accommodates fun accessories like these.

They ship later this month from Play-Asia, for $17.49 each.

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• Super Mario Bros. Blue
• Super Mario Bros. Turquoise
• Super Mario Bros. Clear

Buy: Nintendo 3DS XL Red or Blue,  Nintendo 3DS
See also: More accessories

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