My Dick Smith clearance sale pickups

I lined up for 2 hours for the Dick Smith clearance sale at Point Cook Town Centre.

This is what I got

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Mafia 2
Assassins Creed 2
Super Smash Bros Brawl
Super scribblenauts
Etc

There were no consoles and everyone was really annoyed. All the sale games were in just 1 bin which most of us who had got there first had walked past to get to the console areas etc. I had my heart set on some DSi and PSP consoles to keep sealed etc.

There was one staff member who we saw run off to the back carrying a blue DSi that he was buying himself and some women yelled at him. I don’t blame the staff for wanting all the goof stuff for themselves, as a lot of staff cleared out their stores yesterday I heard. It was bad for everyone who wasted their time though.

Mario Party 9 event at the Nintendo Experience Melbourne

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On Saturday March 31st 2012 I went to the Mario Party 9 party at the Nintendo Experience above EB Games on Swanston Street Melbourne.

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When we got there we had to sign up to play Mario Party 9 and were given these passes. I think the concept was to go to each station (5 or so) and play the mini games there and get a stamp when you were done. Get all stamps and you get a show bag. You also get a raffle ticket.

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There was also free juice, coke, mario and luigi cupcakes etc. I hear the Luigi ones tasted better.

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I spent the whole time playing Pokemon cards against little kids in a corner so I didn’t get a poster but scored some free promo Pokemon cards. The show bags had a sticker sheet, Mario Party 9 poster and a pencil case.

The raffle had about 30 winners and I had ticket 84, tickers 81,82,85 all won and the kid who came in before me (had met him previously) was raging hard. Most prizes were small promo items or things I already had but there were some cool travel coffee mugs but I didn’t win anything.

The winner got 7 wii games including Mario Party 9, Wii music, Animal Crossing, Kirby’s Epic Yarn, PokePark and some others.

Fake Pokemon card

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One of these cards is fake…

Context this photo was taken in:
Yesterday I went to Guf gaming lounge in Werribee to get some Pokemon cards and a kid had a bunch of his old cards with him and a few were fakes… One was super bad looking and someone peeled the front of it off and revealed this image of messed up version of the back of a card. This caused amusement etc. This photo was taken with instagram and has an effect on it so colours may not be acuarate.

Pinterest iPhone article I wrote for Social Media Overflow

I’ve been using Pinterest a lot lately. It’s great and I spend a lot of time out and about with my iPhone 4S and do not actually at a computer. With some snooping around without the Pinterest App I found something that allowed my to install some code into my Safari app that would let me Pin things from my phone. Before this you could only really see things already on Pinterest and not add new things. So here is my article “How to install the Pinterest Pin It button on your iPhone” and if you want to check out my personal Pinterest here it is.

Nintendo World Store New York – Pokemon Center

The bottom floor of the Nintendo World Store in New York is mostly Pokemon related items. Lots of Pokemon cards, plush toys etc. I bought a fair few cards here, they were much cheaper than elsewhere. I probably didn’t take enough photos down here compared to what I took up stairs. I will post pictures of upstairs later.


Here is a slightly blurry picture from above the Pokemon Center at the Nintendo World Store in New York. The shelves in the middle are all Pokemon Cards. Behind the counter they have the limited edition Pokemon Black and White DSi console bundles for about $180 USD each, they come with the corresponding game and a case. The back wall has DVDS and to the right you can see DS and Wii games ect. The wall on the left is mostly toys and shirts.

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