Back in February this year, I wrote a letter to Nintendo saying how I’m a fan of the company and how long I’ve owned a Nintendo Wii console. I was hoping to get a reply from the current President, Devon Pritchard but apparently that’s not possible. Oh well. I am glad however I did get a reply back and some nice bookmarks to go along with it. Word of advice, if you want a letter from the President of Nintendo America, you have to be an Eagle Scout or Girl Scout Gold Award

I love Nintendo pins , specifically mario/dk and anything that is other game titles but has a Nintendo logo ! Very passionate about what I've managed to accumulate

UPDATE : thanks for the warm reception from mostly everyone! (Some people haters no matter what but thankfully so miniscule )! Some thoughts i wanted to share. Some of the most difficult to obtain naturally were years of service pins and internal employee pins , things never meant for the public. On top of that another difficult category are employee pins but from other regions!

Modern day pins make an exception from time to time , such as a Nintendo invite only event to media influencers that handed a swag bag with a pin(DK). Or one of my new favs, South America theatre exclusive mario galaxy pins (not the Luma blind bags).

As far as completion goes , for the older obscure pins , Employee , years of service, i reckon i have about 75 - 80 % of them . There's definitely a finite amount, and not all years of service ran a full course of say 15 years (some were just a few specific years) .

Modern pins , given at events , cons , game preorder , or online exclusive , have overall been fairly easy to get for the most part.

And there are some oddball choices I made in not collecting specific modern pins such as PowerA blind box series...dunno why :D

As far as where my collection ranks among others .. I know of at least 2 other pin collectors who have a large amount like myself , the gap widens from people who have a small to medium pool to those who are "end game" sized collections . So assuming there are a handful more people undiscovered of their pin collections , I'd rank myself at top 5 easy , given the amount of years of service pins, internal pins, region exclusives, and special promo event promos.

To really tell we would all have to compare photos and cross out matching pins and see who comes out ahead with the remainder I guess lol.

After a year of use this bottle started showing signs of damage already. Never dropped it, always washed by hand. Just a heads up when you want to buy a water bottle from the store in the future. I will also inform Nintendo about the poor quality.

Heyo... based on this screenshot in the new "Nintendo Today!" app (explaining how to add widgets and download wallpaper), it looks like we may get the app (which exists in Japan) after all. The phone here is in English. Perhaps it'll be announced next week during the S2 direct. Or maybe it was just a carryover screenshot they translated into English for our version of the app. Interesting either way.

In case anyone was wondering if it’s a waste of points, I know I was

Just got my first My Nintendo rewards order since my last order with club nintendo probably over 10 years ago, not really surprised but just disappointed in the poor quality of these items.

The animal crossing coasters are flimsy and dented, I don't mind the cork but you can tell from the tin that there are supposed to be 4 instead of 3; I was actually shocked when I opened the tin to find only 3 because I didn't look too closely at the photo and generally coasters come 4+ packs (who has 3 chairs at their dining table??). Lovely shrinkflation.

The Pikmin towel is also as pictured and very cute, but the EU version appears to be made from a different (nicer?) material and looks less cheap. And the detective Pikachu cozy.....it does the job but feels like it's about to fall apart. Poor quality all around.

I was bummed about spending the $10.47 (CAD) for shipping "free" rewards after years of free shipping with club nintendo but I figured if it's about the cost of these items it's not too bad. Not even close!! The tin for the coasters feels like the most quality thing in this lot.

Is this just how it is now?? Especially with points expiring now too, it just feels like a slap in the face with how things used to be before they axed club nintendo. Anyways just my 10 cents, I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend.

TL;DR: My Nintendo rewards is not Club Nintendo and I am not here for it.

I saw a post on this subreddit about a Wii Fit Jacket. I remembered that I have a very similar Wii Sports Jacket. Here it is!

I recently bought this exclusive mug from the Nintendo Pop-Up Store in London, but I'm not sure if it's dishwasher safe or not. It's exclusive to physical Nintendo stores I believe so quite rare (especially in the UK), so I don't want to risk ruining it. I can't find anything online confirming if it is or not, not from any of the eBay listings or anything. I initially thought the wine glass/fork symbol on the back of the box (see second image) meant it is dishwasher safe but now realise that means something else.

Does anyone know?

For context, back in the day when Club Nintendo was about, I was saving up as many points as I could, and trying to find all the little red paper with codes I could. I saved up about 5000 and was very close to getting this Dream Team Luigi blanket...

but then this guy popped up out of the blue. I had enough points, and the stars just aligned. I'm a big plush collector, so I went for this guy right away. He's still part of my collection to this day and I'm incredibly proud to own him.

So I have to wonder if we'll ever get something similar for MyNintendo. Ofc a lot of the products on MyNintendo are of a lesser quality to some of the stuff you could get from Club Nintendo (they did statue figures, exclusive DS games, and other actual products you'd actually want to buy) so I expect a plush from MyNintendo to be a small, fairly cheaply made keychain plush.

Even still, if they did a little Kirby, Super Mushroom, Boo, DK Barrel, whatever, I wouldn't mind that's just what I'd wanna spend my points on. I'm on my knees begging them to just add some unsold stock of plushies on there or somethin man

I can’t zip it shut😭