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GameMaster
12-11-2003, 02:07 AM
IGN:

December 10, 2003 - Nintendo yesterday unveiled its five-foot-tall Mario wax figure at the Hollywood Wax Museum in Hollywood, California. The character, the first-ever videogame mascot to be inducted into the Museum, was placed at the former spot reserved for wax incarnations of Neo and Trinity from The Matrix movies.

Nintendo paraded one of its own around in a Mario suit to promote the wax figure unveiling.

Readers can download photos of both the wax Mario and the costume Mario in our media section.

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Dyne
12-11-2003, 02:18 AM
Aye!! I'm going to have to get a picture with that now. I have a picture of me with Sonic.. I need one of Mario.
bobcat
12-11-2003, 05:19 AM
what a waxy mario
Jason1
12-11-2003, 08:01 PM
I saw that yesterday. Very well deserved to say the least.
Perfect Stu
12-11-2003, 08:18 PM
LOL...it should be of Miyamoto if anyone

http://www.zelda-world.com/ImgdesdossiersVIS/shigerumiyamoto.jpg
Blix
12-11-2003, 08:59 PM
LOL...it should be of Miyamoto if anyone

http://www.zelda-world.com/ImgdesdossiersVIS/shigerumiyamoto.jpg
LMAO! :D yeah, but Mario is more of an icon so... Anyways, nice to know it. I now will have something new to do if I fly to N.Y. again next summer. Too bad they charge for entering the darn museum. :mad:
ZebraRampage
12-11-2003, 09:05 PM
LMAO! :D yeah, but Mario is more of an icon so... Anyways, nice to know it. I now will have something new to do if I fly to N.Y. again next summer. Too bad they charge for entering the darn museum. :mad:

Don't you mean if you fly to Hollywood? Because the wax museum isn't in New York.
Blix
12-11-2003, 09:09 PM
Don't you mean if you fly to Hollywood? Because the wax museum isn't in New York.
There's a wax museum in N.Y. Isn't that the one? I know for sure there's one on N.Y., I saw it.
Edit: Nevermind! just read again and that's not the one where it's in. :(
Vampyr
12-11-2003, 10:12 PM
I like it. :)

Also very well deserved.
Dyne
12-11-2003, 10:29 PM
LOL...it should be of Miyamoto if anyone

http://www.zelda-world.com/ImgdesdossiersVIS/shigerumiyamoto.jpg

Thy doth not begin to woo thy hammer and thy chisel into emulating such of a GOD!

Bow down to the creator!
:bowdown:
BreakABone
12-11-2003, 11:33 PM
Well, if you want you can follow the link below to see a video of the unveiling.

http://media.planetgamecube.com/waxmario.avi
The Duggler
12-12-2003, 11:39 AM
Yhea, try that sony or microsoft. Ha!
Ironfoot
12-12-2003, 06:01 PM
Interesting.
GameKinG
12-12-2003, 11:54 PM
The next should be another classic, like pac man.
Vampyr
12-13-2003, 12:16 AM
The next should be another classic, like pac man.

No way, man...That'd be way to easy. He's a ball with eye's.

I think they should induct one of the aliens from space invaders. :D

NO! Even better! The little ball from pong!!!!!!
Hero2
12-13-2003, 12:28 AM
they can make a whole pong game out of wax the paddles and the ball that would be cool
Canyarion
12-13-2003, 05:41 AM
Yeah playing pong for real, let's say on a table! Then we could call it ping-pong! :rolleyes:
One Winged Angel
12-13-2003, 12:58 PM
Yeah playing pong for real, let's say on a table! Then we could call it ping-pong! :rolleyes:

...?
Dark Samurai
12-13-2003, 01:21 PM
Yeah playing pong for real, let's say on a table! Then we could call it ping-pong! :rolleyes:

lol
GameMaster
12-13-2003, 01:32 PM
Pong and Ping-Pong are very different.

Pong involves a ball that is never "hit". It just bounces off the surfaces of the boundary walls and the little rectangular receivers. With each bounce, it's speed is increased. Pong is also traditionally a 2D game.

Whereas ping-ping, is played in a 3D environment and it involves players hitting the ball, and they don't rely on walls, they have to aim it towards the opponent on the opposite side and also make it over the small net. And when the ball lands on your side it can only bounce once then you have to hit it.

So Canyarion, I don't know where the little outburst came from, but everything about it was incorrect.
DimHalo
12-13-2003, 02:12 PM
Pong and Ping-Pong are very different.

Pong involves a ball that is never "hit". It just bounces off the surfaces of the boundary walls and the little rectangular receivers. With each bounce, it's speed is increased. Pong is also traditionally a 2D game.

Whereas ping-ping, is played in a 3D environment and it involves players hitting the ball, and they don't rely on walls, they have to aim it towards the opponent on the opposite side and also make it over the small net. And when the ball lands on your side it can only bounce once then you have to hit it.

So Canyarion, I don't know where the little outburst came from, but everything about it was incorrect.
Well, I thought it was funny.
Perfect Stu
12-13-2003, 03:15 PM
GameMaster makes a very good point...although you forgot to mention the most integral part of table tennis or 'ping pong' if you will: gravity.
GameMaster
12-13-2003, 09:39 PM
GameMaster makes a very good point...although you forgot to mention the most integral part of table tennis or 'ping pong' if you will: gravity.

Ah yes, my associate here brings up a good point, thank you Stu, we mustn't forget gravity.