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Wal-Mart Selling Wiimote Knockoff, Perfect for a Stepchild Stocking Stuffer
Posted by Matt Buchanan at 6:00 PM on November 5, 2007
Usually this kind of awesome is relegated to Chinatown shops, but this fake Wiimote produced by LA-based ToyQuest is available in that most red-blooded of American institutions, Wal-Mart. The $10 to $15 Wiimote-"inspired" toy actually features motion controls for the built-in game, but thanks to the tiny, cruddy screen you can't see anything when you're waving it around, making it impossible to play. But it does rattle when you shake it, making it the closest thing around to Wii Samba di Amigo maracas. [About]
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technophobia
Posted 1:01 PM 5/11/07
I always got Twinkies and a screwdriver from my step-dad... So I guess this might have been a step up?
technophobia
noxdesign
Posted 12:23 PM 5/11/07
Isn't this just another type of controller? I mean they sell those MadCats controllers for all kinds of systems. Wouldn't that place this in that same category?
noxdesign
bdkennedy1
Posted 12:07 PM 5/11/07
Any parent that gives this to their kid for Christmas is an asshole.
bdkennedy1
Dirk
Posted 10:39 AM 5/11/07
@x23: Because Wal-Mart's buying power ia simply amazing. The percentage of the U.S.'s (and the world's) goods which are sold through Wal-Mart is staggering.... you definitely don't tell Wal-Mart to go to hell...
Dirk
x23
Posted 9:56 AM 5/11/07
@greysky: why not?
x23
Bender
Posted 9:46 AM 5/11/07
I saw these at a Target a month or two ago, so it's not just Wal-mart with them.
Bender
greysky
Posted 9:24 AM 5/11/07
@jamar0303: Nintendo can't just tell the worlds largest retailer to go to hell.
greysky
jamar0303
Posted 7:50 AM 5/11/07
Even if they can't be sued, I'm sure Nintendo can tell them "no, you can't carry the Wii anymore". People looking for Wiis would go elsewhere, and then Nintendo would REALLY have grounds to sue if the Wal-mart people directed people searching for Wii stuff to this after such an action.
jamar0303
Aaron Stein
Posted 7:43 AM 5/11/07
interesting. i agree on the lawsuit except that walmart is not dumb. wonder if they think they have THAT much clout to just think they can tell nintento 'tough sh*%'?
Aaron Stein
qikamar
Posted 5:03 AM 5/11/07
sniff....sniff.. I smell lawsuit written all over this one.
qikamar
SilverHammer
Posted 3:13 PM 5/11/07
@Noxdesign
This is not a controller for the Wii. It is a stand-alone, crappy electronic game by itself.
SilverHammer
ninjatales
Posted 2:57 PM 5/11/07
@Dirk: Regardless of Wal-Mart's reach within the US, the Wii will sell-out when it comes in stock at BestBuys or any other retailer.
@Bender: Target doesn't sell Wiis. They sell the controllers though.
ninjatales
bermack7679
Posted 8:14 PM 5/11/07
This is something you give a four or five year old-they think they've got a controller like yours, and maybe they'll keep their little hands off of your Wii controller. By the time they figure out the difference, it'll be broken anyway. I think it's a kinda neat diversion for the kids.
bermack7679
Kobax
Posted 9:06 AM 5/11/07
In this day and age, when Wal-Mart has so much retailing clout they can muscle vendors into reducing prices just to put their products on the shelves? I have to say, not likely.
Kobax
tin
Posted 9:59 PM 5/11/07
@Dirk: I tell Wal-mart a surprisingly large variety of things, most of which involve the company and everything it is affiliated with going to hell.
tin
jamar0303
Posted 4:26 AM 6/11/07
@Dirk: What's worse- Nintendo being possibly associated with these due to dumb people (we're talking Wal-mart shoppers here- I used to be one, and I felt the difference when I went elsewhere to shop) or Wal-mart losing business due to people running elsewhere to get the Wii? Besides, Wal-mart's not the first place I think of going to to get anything electronic. It'd be Best Buy.
jamar0303
timerider42
Posted 4:01 PM 6/11/07
I saw this in a Wal-mart this (last) summer, then I sent the tip in to nintendowiifanboy.com.
I can't believe the crap this knockoff company losers can get away with.
timerider42