US Club Nintendo’s Platinum Gift? Not So Bad

Announced back in July, the pin set the US Club Nintendo is giving free to its platinum members this year was met with the usual round of griping and complaining. One of our readers just received his and, you know, it’s actually a pretty decent gift.

For starters, the display box is pretty big, as reader Jon A. notes by using his Wiimote to note its scale. It’s made up of six rectangular boxes that can be rotated to create one of three different images. You get 25 pins in all, and the case looks like one of those Advent calendars with the trap doors that reveal a surprise.

So, good job, Nintendo. But your gold member reward still sucks.

Discuss

(12 Comments)
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    Jake

    Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 2:08 PM

    Clearly this is the US Club Nintendo. They have no idea how garbage our one is.

    We have like 12 items, and half of them are folders or binders… -___-

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      Coulbe

      Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 2:37 PM

      No one understands Australia’s Club Nintendo pain.

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        Mixkon

        Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 3:35 PM

        ^ I second that.

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        Stevorooni

        Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 3:46 PM

        The one good thing they had was the Snes Classic Controller, and I have that now.

        It’s a pity that the codes on games I import won’t work in the Aussie Club Nintendo though.

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          scree

          Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 7:56 PM

          I missed out on that. They should have made it permanent

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          AerintheADEQUATE

          Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 1:49 AM

          Damn it, that’s the one thing I hoped I’d get at some point when I first signed up for the Club Nintendo here in the US…. and we never got it. All we get is some posters and screensavers and two tote bags and a tshirt.
          The best platinum reward they’ve given so far was a mario hat that must have cost all of 1$ to make :-P

          I want a freakin’ SNES controller, man. grr

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      Miu

      Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 3:30 PM

      First world problems eh?
      SCREW THE AFRICAN KIDS! WE WANT BETTER GIFTS!

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      PlimpyD

      Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 4:27 PM

      It’s Nintendo Australia in general, we pay twice as much as Americans for eShop purchases and as you said get the most pathetic club rewards ever (With exception to the snes controller that lasted a very short time). It’s a joke, go and look at the UK or US club Nintendo offerings and you’ll see how hard we get shafted. I’m so sick of Nintendo these days.

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        Joshy206

        Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 7:08 PM

        The T-Shirts were nice, but they were only there for a little while.

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    Phonic

    Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 8:18 PM

    A story complaining about free stuff. Welcome to the Internet.

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      brent3000

      Monday, December 5, 2011 at 11:43 AM

      stuff is never free -_-

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    Lord_Of_The_Skys (aus)

    Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 10:53 PM

    I ordered the 25th anniversary poster from club nintendo australia yesterday. And i also got the blue mario pencil case.

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