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Title: Faux Luigi Escorted From Property
Post by: David on December 04, 2006, 12:00:25 AM: At a Wii launch in Japan, someone showed up dressed in a fairly nice Luigi costume. He helped launch the system and sell the first game.

The problem was that he wasn't an NCL employee... just a random guy in a nice Luigi suit.

(Deezer, care to help translate?)

http://arena.nikkeibp.co.jp/col/20061202/120007/index2.shtml (http://arena.nikkeibp.co.jp/col/20061202/120007/index2.shtml)
Title: Re: Faux Luigi Escorted From Property
Post by: Deezer on December 04, 2006, 12:25:58 AM: Quote from: DavidDayton on December 04, 2006, 12:00:25 AM
(Deezer, care to help translate?)
Third photo: "Luigi handing Wii to first buyer."
Fourth photo: "Luigi [I don't know these words] to the people on the way to the register."
Fifth photo (not exact translation): "Authorized people lead Luigi the heck out of there."
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Post by: BP on December 04, 2006, 01:33:43 AM: W00t, Deezer Engrish. Well, not exactly Engrish... Authorized people rule. Poor Luigi.
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Post by: DeadAwake on December 04, 2006, 09:23:51 AM: I wonder what the poor guy was charged with.
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Post by: Luigison on December 04, 2006, 10:56:51 AM: Improper use of a preposition.
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Post by: Deezer on December 04, 2006, 11:59:11 AM: Wow, Japan is really cracking down on that.
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Post by: SushieBoy on December 04, 2006, 02:28:39 PM: Why is Luigi doing the...... "W" sign? And why did they use Luigi?
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Post by: Lizard Dude on December 04, 2006, 02:39:15 PM: "W" for Wii?

It was probably a crazed Luigi fan, or else the Mario got busted on the way in.
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Post by: Robert on December 04, 2006, 04:42:53 PM: I salute this guy. He's pretty brave, doing something like this and getting booted out of the store because of it.

I so want that Luigi costume.
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Post by: SushieBoy on December 04, 2006, 05:14:33 PM: I so want that Wii.
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Post by: The Chef on December 04, 2006, 07:07:44 PM: Ha ha!

This made my day!
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Post by: Red Paratroopa on December 05, 2006, 07:25:23 AM: Not knowing the translations, the three Luigi pictures appear to tell an interesting comic-strip-like story.
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Post by: MEGAß¥TE on December 05, 2006, 10:17:07 AM: Quote from: SushieBoy on December 04, 2006, 02:28:39 PM
Why is Luigi doing the...... "W" sign?

He was doing the "WII" sign. Look at his other hand.
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Post by: SushieBoy on December 05, 2006, 02:12:07 PM: Ah, okay, hey look, new fad!
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Post by: TEM on December 05, 2006, 04:17:10 PM: I thought it was supposed to be 2 back-to-back victory signs.
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Post by: AbercrombieBaseball on December 06, 2006, 11:24:38 PM: Normally I don't look at this section of the forum, but I think this is pretty funny.

I've been on some crazy teams and some guys have dressed up as stuff on road trips (we had a gorilla run through a hotel once and raid the continental breakfast of bananas), but this tops all of them. He actually looks like something out of Disney World--it's like a Mickey Mouse costume but it's Luigi.

Why escort this guy out? My crazy friends never got into trouble on our trips back in the day. Sr. Year tournament was the craziest for us--some guys brought like three costumes. I was always the sane one, who didn't dress up and just check out the ladies on trips.
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Post by: Lizard Dude on December 06, 2006, 11:27:56 PM: But we all know that ladies dig the costumes.
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Post by: Fwirt on January 10, 2007, 05:55:14 PM: This is hilarious!! It's always great to see things happening to guys in costumes (especially Luigi). This kind of thing seems to happen to Mickey Mouse a lot...
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Post by: Chupperson Weird on January 10, 2007, 06:41:15 PM: I'm going to call bump.
Title: Re: Faux Luigi Escorted From Property
Post by: Toad on February 16, 2007, 09:49:23 PM: Quote from: SushieBoy on December 04, 2006, 02:28:39 PM
Why is Luigi doing the...... "W" sign? And why did they use Luigi?

Heh.. Lu-Wii-gi! It's LuWiigi!
Title: Re: Faux Luigi Escorted From Property
Post by: Chupperson Weird on February 17, 2007, 11:27:09 PM: ...Bump x2.
Title: Re: Faux Luigi Escorted From Property
Post by: MaxVance on February 18, 2007, 09:38:15 AM: Perhaps he never got around to reading this until now.