This Zelda GameCube Controller is Awesome in an Ugly Way

That controller is awesome

Sweet! Never owned a Gamecube though.

garbage

Uh... the shield needs more detail and the joysticks look bad in that color.

It's pretty hideous to be honest. The shield especially is poorly located...

Lol, I'd like to have a Zelda inspired controller that I can pull from a holster... seems more a possibility w/ a Wiimote shaped like a Master Sword. There I go getting myself hyped again...

umm... I'm not sure if I should say "wow cool!" or just "ew " ...I'm leaning towards ew. xP

I would have been all over that bad boy.

Why is the right wing encased in an ice cream cone D:

Ugly shape/colours/add-ons... just terrible.

Looks like it was developed as a grade school art project.....a grade school for kids with special needs.

It looks like a failed teleportation mutation - and Link being in there somewhere screaming: Kill me....

This does look pretty bad, but i would not have hesitated to buy it even if i knew how it looked. It's just awesome in some way...

Um, wow, speechless.
words can`t describe how bad that looks.
but i bet it would have sold by the bucket load, simply because of the zelda branding.

The C-stick... it's so small...
By the way, I've noticed that the release date written for TP is 2007 instead of 2006. I don't think anyone really cares, though...

I thought it was homemade by one of those custom controller people.

It would look good next to my chainsaw RE4 controller.

I've seen better looking controllers...

I would have put that controller on a pedestal, then worshiped it. Maybe if I pray to it six times a day, then go on a pilgrimage to Hyrule, I will get to go to the sky temple when I die!

This is just a concept prototype so it's likely the finished article would have changed colour/had more detail, but I still think it's pretty unusual. That leather buckle... wow.

Most creative controller yet Nintendo! Looks...cool...(don't get me wrong, i tend to be a fan of bizarre things.) Would look good next to my Twilight Princess cap.

Oh my gosh. I must have this.

There's nothing I want more than having a belt buckle stabbing me in the palm while I'm galloping through Hyrule.

Maybe as a collector's item...but this thing does not look very practical...

It's like D:

though now that I've stared at it for a while, it's kinda growing on me
_{except for that unneeded belt buckle... that just seems uncomfortable}

I would've totally gotten it. How radical would it have been to play Zelda with a controller like that?

I like the ideal but I'm not crazy about game branded accessories. It's not like Link uses boomerangs, swords, and shields that say "ZELDA" on them. I'd prefer it if they kept the branding off and just made it look like something that would fit in with the game. I find it worse when it's consoles and they are branded after specific games rather than a series. A Halo branded Xbox 360 would be better than one branded as Halo 3 specifically.

I kinda want to make one of these though but use a 1st party controller as the basis.

If it was just a skinned official GC controller, I'd probably use it... if you could remove that horrible buckle monster eating the right arm of the control pad.

As it is, looks like crap, and if the final thing was going to come out like that, I guess its not hard to see why it didn't get past being a prototype

I love the zelda series, but I've got to say,those controllers look UGLY.

It's fine except for the belt-buckle.
@DarkRoy Where did you get your avatar from?

I wanna smell it..

LoL the C stick is Upside-down!

Wow. Thats all I got to say.

Ugly: Yes
Totally freakin' awesome!!!: YES

No, it is ugly in an ugly way.

It would be a cool collector's item, but dang it's ugly. They should make one for the wii.

It's kind of hideous and awesome at the same time O.o

I see why it never went into production.

haha its half ugly and half good the good side is the left with the link pic the bad is the right side of the controller xD

Looks neat, but the right hand grip looks kind of uncomfortable...

I think that leather thingy on the right side can actually come off, by the looks of it. So if you'd be uncomfortable with that you could just take it off.

i would

Would make for a nice novelty. Zelda freak as I am, I'd add it as a conversation piece, but I'd never try to play with that monstrosity.

That is one ugly controller for sure.

Haha, at the person who posted that it's like a failed teleportation mutation..we shall call ti BRUNDLE-CONTROLLER!

Man, I would have loved that!
And to all of you saying, "It needs more detail" and crap, know, that's the prototype. That's where the production ended. I think it was supposed to be like the one in the concept pics in the gallery. I would have straight up gotten it though.

What you've not put on this news article is the awesome box it would have been sold in. Take a look at the Kotaku article which shows it:

http://kotaku.com/#!5760393/the-bizarre-legend-of-zelda-controller-well-never-play-with/gallery/1

@Odnetnin It was made by a friend of mine.
Thanks to the NL staff for fixing the release data BTW.

The concept art looks so much better (and different) than the "finished product".

this is one ugly contoller...

I did not have this controller in particular. But I did have the Megaman X themed Controller (to promote Megaman X Collection). Though, It was supposed to have lights on it and light up when X Charges his X-Buster, but this feature must have been dropped. But it was still a good controller.

Looks like what I threw up last time I was hungover.....

Let me rephrase that:
It looks awesome in an awesome way.

Love at first sight...sigh...

i see why i never heard of this

It's like a retarded relative or something... you know you love him and everything, but at the end of the day he's still retarded...

Oh well, I don't even know what I meant to say here :S

Nintendo needs to put that up for sale right now for purchase. I will buy 2!!!!!