Hello! Yesterday I had the chance to visit Nintendo NY for their re-opening. Formerly known as Nintendo World. They were closed for a month for renovations and re-branded Nintendo NY. Their renaming makes me wonder if there will be other official Nintendo stores opening in the US! Anywho me and my friend Tiff had a chance to check it out.
So Tiff and I already planned on going to the grand re-opening regardless of whether or not I obtained my special edition. I'll take about my whole special edition fiasco at the end of this post. I will be upfront and say I am extremely grateful to have gotten because a lot of folks haven't been able to get one.
We got to the store around 9:30 and to our surprise the line was super long. I have a feeling that some people camped out overnight. It was super cold and we tried to dress accordingly. I even had a blanket big enough for us to share which we ended up doing later on. The blocks in that area of town are quite long. So we headed to the back of the line. I received an email from Best Buy's eBay letting me know that my item was ready for pickup. I had selected a Best Buy two subway stops away from Rockefeller Center. So I called to double check that it was for the right item and it was! So I left Tiff in line to hold our place and then went to Best Buy. I was SO happy when I got my hands on it. I will say the box was smaller than I expected lol The trip only took about 20 minutes total.
When I meet back up with Tiff in line we had moved a good bit. We figured why not just stay in line and see how it all played out. It was really cold outside but we were pretty prepared. The voice actor of Mario even came out to day hi to everyone. It was awesome that he came that far back in line. Tiff even got a high five from him!
Voice Actor of Mario, Charles Martinet
I was able to snag this picture of him upstairs without standing in the long ass line to meet him. I think you needed to have a wrist band in order to participate in the meet and greet, but since the area was so open I figured I'd grab a pic.
Took these when we were finally by the store and thoroughly freezing our butts off