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Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - Smoke - 22nd March 2005
Super Mario bottlecaps from Pepsi!
![[Image: cap_1.jpg]](http://www.pepsi.co.jp/campaign/nintendo/img/cap_1.jpg)
![[Image: cap_2.jpg]](http://www.pepsi.co.jp/campaign/nintendo/img/cap_2.jpg)
![[Image: cap_3.jpg]](http://www.pepsi.co.jp/campaign/nintendo/img/cap_3.jpg)
Pepsi Twist Series:
1. Mario: Stand
2. Mario: Swim
3. Mario: Flag
4. Mario: Togezo (Spiny)
5. Super Mario: Cloud
6. Super Mario: Killer (Bullet Bill)
7. Fire Mario
8. Kuribo #1 (Goomba)
9. Patapata (Koopa Paratroopa)
10. Packun Flower (Piranha Plant)
11. Hodai (um, the things that launch Bullet Bills)
12. Hammer Bros. #1
13. Metto #1 (Buzzy Beetle)
14. Super Kinoko (Super Mushroom)
15. Super Star (Starman)
Diet Pepsi Twist Series:
16. Luigi: 1UP Kinoko (1UP Mushroom)
17. Luigi: Metto (Buzzy Beetle)
18. Luigi: Tsuru (Vine)
19. Luigi: Bubble (Podoboo)
20. Super Luigi: Dokan (Pipe)
21. Super Luigi: Kuribo (Goomba)
22. Fire Luigi
23. Kuribo #2 (Goomba)
24. Nokonoko (Koopa Troopa)
25. Gesso (Bloober)
26. Pukupuku (Cheep-Cheep)
27. Hammer Bros. #2
28. Metto #2 (Buzzy Beetle)
29. Fire Flower
30. Coin
List "borrowed" from john tv.
Pepsi Japan's Nintendo page
Time to hit up eBay!
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - Great Rumbler - 22nd March 2005
Those are amazingly cool, unfortunately the entire collection will costs you at least $80, or $4 for each one. Pricey.
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - Smoke - 22nd March 2005
I've bought more frivolous things on eBay. *Holds up box of unopened Super Mario trading cards*
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - Great Rumbler - 22nd March 2005
You truly are the king of wasteful spending.
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - A Black Falcon - 22nd March 2005
That's so awesome...
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - EdenMaster - 22nd March 2005
Great Rumbler Wrote:You truly are the king of wasteful spending.
Before you give that title up so easily, let me inform you that during one my Final Fantasy X binges, I bought the entire set of Coca-Cola figurines of all 8 characters, in color and crystal red.
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - Smoke - 23rd March 2005
A Black Falcon Wrote:That's so awesome...
It is isn't it? I love how they're all pixelated.
![[Image: capz4ff.jpg]](http://img201.exs.cx/img201/2774/capz4ff.jpg)
![[Image: 77f04873d59ed915205f76e486c2e33b.jpg]](http://ameblo.jp/user_images/69/b6/77f04873d59ed915205f76e486c2e33b.jpg)
![[Image: 02d8afb459c1a99b2a6cc66b29ad1964.jpg]](http://ameblo.jp/user_images/52/a5/02d8afb459c1a99b2a6cc66b29ad1964.jpg)
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - Smoke - 23rd March 2005
EdenMaster Wrote:Before you give that title up so easily, let me inform you that during one my Final Fantasy X binges, I bought the entire set of Coca-Cola figurines of all 8 characters, in color and crystal red.
I spent over $100 to buy a backpack shaped like a GameCube that was given to people who attended Nintendo's pre-E3 conference. Your turn.
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - A Black Falcon - 23rd March 2005
The pixellation is the best part, of course... there are plenty of Mario figures out there, but how many look like they're straight out of SMB?
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - Smoke - 24th March 2005
I've seen some mario dioramas that look similar to this before. Wish I had them. :(
The next series they do should be The Legend of Zelda. I want a tiny pixellated Link in bottlecap form!
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - A Black Falcon - 24th March 2005
Not quite as cool as Mario, but that'd be nice too...
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - Dark Jaguar - 24th March 2005
Wait, those look like CANS of soda, not bottles. So like, are they packing in bottle caps in every CAN of soda? *opens can and poors out bottle cap* Yay! I won a party with Slurms McKensy!
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - A Black Falcon - 24th March 2005
Hey, I just noticed, it's those weird metric soda cans... :)
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - EdenMaster - 24th March 2005
Smoke-X Wrote:I spent over $100 to buy a backpack shaped like a GameCube that was given to people who attended Nintendo's pre-E3 conference. Your turn.
...
You win.
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - Dark Jaguar - 24th March 2005
Smoke is freakin' obsessed with strange tasks, but he IS logical, ya gotta give him that. He's won a contest you people didn't even realize was going on, for example.
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - A Black Falcon - 25th March 2005
The one who does not know the truth is the one best suited to find it.
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - Dark Jaguar - 25th March 2005
What about the one who DOES know the truth? I'd assume they would be even better suited, since they know exactly where they last PUT the truth.
Oh, I get it, it's like some martial arts kung fu master lesson that means like "the person who isn't convinced they know the answer is more open to find out the truth" or something, right?
Yeah, that about describes it, but that just is a knock against having low standards for evidence than anything.
...okay now rip his heart out with your bare hand!
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - A Black Falcon - 25th March 2005
Quote:Oh, I get it, it's like some martial arts kung fu master lesson that means like "the person who isn't convinced they know the answer is more open to find out the truth" or something, right?
What do you think? :)
Quote:Yeah, that about describes it, but that just is a knock against having low standards for evidence than anything.
Not necessarially... more like the typical 'the people all have been doing this for a while and know how to do it but here comes the young person who doesn't know the limits of what can be done so they do what everyone knows can't be done and afterwards all the others can say is 'but you can't do that!'...'... it doesn't say that they are stupid, but that they've gotten too used to the way things are known to be.
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - Dark Jaguar - 25th March 2005
Except "the new guy" doesn't ever actually come around and do that, well in science anyway. I guess in business it applies. Generally scientists are always open to any sort of PROOF they are wrong, but in pretty much every case of the upstart trying to say "check this out", they only prove their own inadequecies... It really does take becoming "one of them" to really do that stuff. Then again, science is all about constantly proving each other wrong, and right, but generally it's about the proof above all else.
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - A Black Falcon - 25th March 2005
I mean in movies or books or stuff like that, where that happens all the time... :)
The way science works is different and doesn't really apply either in fiction or in the environment of a forum, I think.
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - Smoke - 25th March 2005
A Black Falcon Wrote:The one who does not know the truth is the one best suited to find it.
Confucius say what?
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - Great Rumbler - 25th March 2005
Confucius say: Stop posting philosophical nonsense on a videogame message board!!
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - OB1 - 25th March 2005
Quote:Oh, I get it, it's like some martial arts kung fu master lesson that means like "the person who isn't convinced they know the answer is more open to find out the truth" or something, right?
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - A Black Falcon - 25th March 2005
Quote: Confucius say what?
DJ explained what I meant there. You get it. :)
Quote:Oh, I get it, it's like some martial arts kung fu master lesson that means like "the person who isn't convinced they know the answer is more open to find out the truth" or something, right?
You might not get it, but that's almost exactly what I meant.
Quote:Confucius say: Stop posting philosophical nonsense on a videogame message board!!
Heh... :) It's not nonsense.
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - Great Rumbler - 25th March 2005
Quote:Heh... It's not nonsense.
Yeah, it totally is.
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - A Black Falcon - 25th March 2005
Might sound like it, but it's not. Trust me. :)
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - Great Rumbler - 25th March 2005
No.
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - Dark Jaguar - 25th March 2005
It's not, but it doesn't apply to anything EXCEPT martial arts.
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - A Black Falcon - 25th March 2005
No, stuff like that happens all the time in books, too...
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - OB1 - 25th March 2005
DJ, what on earth are you talking about? It looks to me like you're completely ignorant of all things martial arts-related. Like the only thing you know is from what you saw in Kill Bill or something.
Reason #5,385 that Japan is cooler than wherever you live - Dark Jaguar - 25th March 2005
What? I'm talking about a frickin JOKE here. I'm making fun of martial arts movies, and ABF agreed that was the basic idea. Don't take things so personally. It's not like I MEAN it or anything.
PS, I've never even SEEN "Kill Bill". I got that from the hilarious joke along those lines in Kung Pow.