The Club Nintendo yearly rewards have gone out, and if you got 600 Club Nintendo coins in the last year that means you got the Platinum Status reward. Last year, it was a Mario statue. The year before that, it was a Mario hat. Now, it’s Mario pins.
No, it actually doesn’t suck. Well, not entirely. I got the package in the mail today, and I’m fairly surprised by the quality of the whole presentation. For slavish Nintendo game registration, you get 25 pins in six boxes, with a shelf-worthy display.
The boxes are as much a part of the reward as the pins themselves. They’re six long cardboard rectangles that can be rotated to make three different shapes: Mario, a mushroom, and a goomba. The other side of each box has cut-outs to show the pins. It’s just thin cardboard, but you can stack them and they look… presentable? Okay, it’s not the statue from last year. At least it’s not completely half-assed, like a handful of pins in a plastic bag.
The pins are… pins. They’re nice pins, and they’re well-made, all-metal, with Super Mario Bros. characters on them. However… they’re pins. You can’t do much with pins, except put them on a bag or a jacket or something. Okay, not amazing, but pretty neat, hard-to-find Nintendo swag from Club Nintendo. And so it has a place on my Nintendo shrine shelf with all my Nintendo crap.
