Club Nintendo in Europe and Australia has evolved into a source of unnecessary cruelty, as a number of members have likely already blown their remaining balances on a lamp, download code or a myriad of other options. Now there are new products, and what are some of the priciest drink coasters - in virtual money, at least - that you'll ever likely see.
The following sets of coasters have been added to Club Nintendo in Europe and Australia; they cost 2500 star in Europe and 1000 stars in Australia. All those stars only buy you one design in a set of two, though, so that'll be a whopping 10,000 stars for all of them in the EU.
Rather neat, but a little rich for our impoverished stars balance here in Nintendo Life HQ.
Are you planning to grab any of these?
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Meanwhile in North America...
As nice as these are, my stars would be better spent on one of the bigger prizes like the MK7 trophies.
Come on, a trophy, or four coasters? Not a difficult choice.
Got 7200 stars right now, I'm holding off for something better.
I'm especially interested in the Club Nintendo Goodbye coin, which'll probably come quite later on.
@RupeeClock Yeah, but the coin might be like 10000 - 15000 stars and no one will be able to afford it.
@manu0
I doubt that actually. The Year of Luigi coin they had only cost 1500 stars.
@RupeeClock You're right. I was thinking about the dioramas they had, which were super expensive. So I might actually be able to afford the coin.
@manu0 The Super Mario Bros characters diorama I have cost 7000 stars.
The most expensive item I can think of is the Golden Link and Epona statue, I think it cost 15000 stars.
@RupeeClock Guess I'm remembering a lot of things wrong.
But the G&W Ball was 15000, I think
@manu0
I thought that replica Game and Watch cost 7500 stars?
@RupeeClock Darn it, you're right again. But I'm 100% that there was one item in the past that cost 15000 stars.
I want those,but of course they won't come to NA...
So for 500 stars more, you can get an OST?! If it was 2500 for a set of four with one design each then may but 2500 stars for one design and TWO coasters? No thanks.
We all know what will happen to the unused stuff like this- it'll either end up as part of Nintendo's store's christmas sale like the Animal Crossing cd did or they'll become part of the new loot crate style thing they're supposed to be doing. Either way, they'll be used up.
What an odd price NOE have for their stuff. Australia have them for the right price. Definately something i won't miss when club Nintendo closes that's for sure!
@manu0 Yeah, I believe it was this item, as mentioned before.
@bouncer0304 Yeah, the prices make no sense.
The reason stuff is cheaper in Australia is because they get fewer games.
I used all my stars quite early on. Bought a Legend of Zelda Link Between Worlds CD, which was actually very good. Still, a bit annoyed I can't get anything else, especially those Mario Kart 7 trophies, those look ace
@DarthNocturnal lol, no kidding. I know it's free, I get that. But that doesn't prevent the way it went down from being insulting.
@rjejr I know, I keep hearing about all these new rewards every week, and I'm like "didn't this end several months ago?". NA didn't get anything like these rewards. Just VC games and trinkets.
Still waiting for the Goodbye-Coin. And hopefully it won't be ridiculously expensive. Would be nice if it's a last reward that everyone can enjoy.
@RupeeClock The Game & Watch was 7500 indeed.
I wish Nintendo would just sell these products in stores!
They would make a lot of money...
I logged in to Club Nintendo over the weekend, and you can now sign in with your NNID, linking the Club Nintendo account with your NNID will net you another 750 Stars. Maybe old news but I wasn't aware of it, so check it out!
They really exagerated with the star cost this time...
I admit I like those coasters, 2500 stars for get a set including two coasters of each kind (like in the article's picture) could have tricked me maybe, but luckily it's 2500 for only two coasters of the same type, my stars are safe XD;
2500 star for a costers! o....kay!
I've got 3500 stars left so I hope that I can afford the club Nintendo coin!
Meanwhile in America...
I have 2000 left. Waiting for an end of club sale.
I Saw that the Luigi's mansion diorama was coming back, can anybody remember how many stars it cost?
@drewodrew
I'm hoping so to...
Wonder what they'll do with items they have left over
They kinda remind me of these Super Mario Maker Buttons that you can get in the US if you pre-order 2 select games out of 9 at Best-Buy by Sept. 10th...
You think that was mean, try being a Club Nintendo member in America. They kicked us in the rear then spit in our faces. That's the thanks we get for our loyalty.
@rjejr They're still working on our replacement, I guess? It's been months. Haven't been able to register a single product.
I'm so annoyed by this. I thought this was a set of maybe 10 or 8 of those containing all the designs. Even if I had to decide for one design and got like 10 of them I would be glad to get them, but seriously? You get 2 of these in a design of your choice? For the same price as a soundtrack?
Whats their actual worth? Like 20cents? O.o
I was reaaally looking forward to these since they have somehow an actual use and look rather neat. =/
And I even hoped for them to release this month since I got 500stars that will expire by the end of this month and I have no clue on what to use them. I so hoped the Link Between Worlds soundtrack would return too, but it does not look like it. I got about 9000 stars and don't know what to get. The Toadlamp is cool, but also small and kind of useless.
I'm not really interested in the MK8 soundtrack, unfortunately...
Argh.
2500 stars!!! yeah jog on nintendo lol!! what a joke
2 coasters for 400 Euro...if you think about it it gets even worse.....O.o
@RupeeClock The most expensive item they've ever had if I recall correctly was the Giratina DS lite for 30,000 stars.
You guys are/were so lucky... there were never soundtracks available from the NA Club Nintendo (except for one as an elite status reward for the year). So many other items I was jealous of too, like that speaker set that held the Wii with a little sub-woofer and nunchuck speakers.
@MrGuinea we barely got trinkets... more like paper with a small thing once in a while that was gone faster than Amiibo.
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