Monday, January 30, 2012

Skyward Sword Replacement Posters!? What gives?

Around the Christmas Season, Club Nintendo offered a three-poster series for the 25th Anniversary of The Legend of Zelda (which is now sold out/on back-order if you already ordered one). Two of those posters featured artwork for the newest Zelda, Skyward Sword, while the third featured one of Nintendo's official artworks for the 25th Anniversary. Well this last afternoon I got this email from Nintendo, which said:
Dear Club Nintendo Member,

As you may have noticed, 1 of the posters in the Legend of Zelda 25th
Anniversary Poster Set that we sent to you contained a minor flaw.
On The Legend of Zelda™: Skyward Sword poster, there is a design flaw
on the outline of the loft wing, to the right of the sword.

We apologize for the mistake and will be shipping a replacement poster
to you the first week of February.  You can expect to receive a
confirmation email when the package is shipped.

Again, we apologize for this error and we hope that you enjoy your
new poster.

Thanks again for your membership and loyalty.

Sincerely,

Club Nintendo
At first I said to myself: "There's an error on the poster?" "This can't be right!" "How bad is it?" "I could've sworn the poster looked perfectly..."
"Oh."
I couldn't even see this outline error until I got up close, and after 15 minutes of screwing with my camera's settings, got the shot you see up here. So if you already have the poster, you'll be getting a new one in a couple of weeks. If your posters are still on back-order, I'm guessing they won't ship them with this error. Honestly, it doesn't mean much of a difference for me, because anyone who isn't specifically looking for it would have to climb up on my bed to see it, and even then they might not. I have 20/15 vision and I couldn't notice it until I got close. And hey, I get a free poster, and who knows, this error could be worth money down the road! (honestly, probably gonna be worth $25 in 30 years when the dollar is super-inflated) Anycase, just another incident to cite that shows that Nintendo really cares about their customers, even to the point of nit-pickiness that only two people would ever even make a passing thought of otherwise.

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