3DS XL Coloured Charging Cradles Arrive on Club Nintendo in Europe

I really wanted to get one when the US had them, but they are literally every color I did not want.

I really want one, anyone able to log in on the site?

I'm not able to log in. Nintendo UK's website really is awful.

4500 stars is a lot for such a novelty (I'm not a fan of cradles, they just make you waste energy trying to keep something on full charge while you leave it afk in standby for eons) especially when the US price was 500 coins.

In America it is like 50 coins for a Wii game plus more for a post play survey. In Europe it will be 250 stars. In other words they buy 10 games, we buy 18. Then again it did sell out pretty quick in America so I guess it was popular and that makes things expensive.

Scrap that, finally got on. My green one has been ordered.

Even though I probably won't see it for a very very long time since I don't know when I'll be going back home to the UK.

Ah, the classic "Buy 16 games, get a piece of plastic free" deal.

Tempting, but then I noticed the 'Princess Peach Relaxation Set' ...SOLD!

NOOOOOO!! I wanted a yellow one but I recently ordered that Luigi Diorama...omg why!?!??! seriously upset

It sounds like a complete waste of coins to spend them on something that comes with the 3DS.

I wanted one, when they where on the NOA site but they sold out crazy fast, any color would of been fine but if I could choose I'd go with the red one. Still waiting to see if Nintendo plans on releasing them again on club Nintendo NA.

I need 500 coins. Dunno whether it worth the risk because it takes a while if you get a retail download to get the stars and it will probably be sold out by then.

I still don't see the appeal of these things. I don't even use the cradle personally.

@Baum897 I can't, because I don't have a PAL 3DS XL. If it really doesn't come with a cradle then I can see why people would order one.

Lets hope our European bros are not as greedy as their American counterparts.

Wanted to get one for my XY 3DS XL but sold out when I finally got to the link. I wouldn't have mind if it wasn't for the people bragging how they got 5 or more and/or selling it for over $50 online.

^ The NA 3DS XL don't have a charging cradle as well so it not just the PAL

I used the cradle a lot for my original 3DS a few years back, but my XL has never had one and I'm not really that interested in buying it. These ones however, especially the white one, are very nice. Too bad I'm 1000 stars short

I wouldnt mind a colorful cradle for my Wii U Gamepad along w/ a color coordinated clock app. The 3DS has a $1.99 clock app, how many people use that? And my Gamepad is in a cradle facing me.

http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/wdgC25ZuQhjUF8Dx09wWyG7dA5ijamss

Oh, to conserve electricity - and the battery - I have my 2 cradles side by side ad only put the Gamepad in the charger when the light turns red. If I had a clock app I would probably just leave it plugged in and running all the time.

@Starwolf_UK If we buy 10 Retail 3DS games. We get 250 * 10 = 2500. It is about the same as the US.

I did it!!! I I ordered a white one!!! ^O^

I know I sound too happy about it, but it was a "odyssey" to get it @.@;;;
I had 0 stars when I read this news, spent all the ones I had a month ago when I got informed my stars will be resetted anyway at the end of January; so I had to take all the points' cards I had still around and I crazily registered them one after the other (my hands are silver now for how many codes I scratched XD).

As that wasn't enough the Club Nintendo glitched on me and stopped to accept registration's cards forcing me to register a lot of downloaded games for get the last 750 stars @o@;;;

Never been so glad I always forget to register things, it was a crazy run (and a travel in my gaming-past, some games I registered were even 3-4 years old if not more XP), but finally my 3DS XL will have its own cradle for rest

Yellow one ordered! ZING!!!

Aw, I'm short 250 stars! Hopefully some cheap company makes knock off versions here so I can get a green or yellow one.

Why did I order 3 Luigi gold coins last year!

Ah damn I spent all my stars on the luigi diorama. For people having trouble with the site try using Chrome I always use that for the Nintendo UK site and never have problems.

It would be nice to have one option in black, since my Legend of Zelda 3DS XL would look horrible resting on any of these...but hey, Nintendo is the only company that rewards their gamers for buying their products. No complaints here!

Meanwhile in Australia, I'm still waiting for the Luigi's Mansion diorama to appear, having missed out on the Year of Luigi coin selling out in mere hours. Wouldn't mind a yellow cradle to (sorta) match my Zelda 3DS XL.

I'm a bit short on stars which is a shame but I think they are a bit over-priced tbh.

All it is is a bit of plastic with a few metal connectors! Would have rather got one in the box with the console like my original 3DS!

Spent 3400 points on Pikmin Keyrings a few days ago! Only got 2000 points left

Also, in the US Club Nintendo removed the Luigi Diorama and the Luigi 3DS pouch.

Just got a white one, between this and the luigi diorama i finally had something decent to spend my stars on

@ultraraichu But it does come with a charger which EU 3DS XLs do not.

I wish this came to the Aussie Club Nintendo, oh well. I'll just keep manually plugging my charger cord into my 3DS XL with dreams of one day being able to put it in a piece of plastic on my desk & having it "magically charge"...

And I thought I missed out last time... phew!
It was a chore to get onto the site, server overload for sure, but I finally got in and ordered me a blue one. My 3DS XL is black so blue is the least offensive color to go with it. Ah, the perks of being an American living in Europe.
@ReigningSemtex switching browsers will not help in case of a server overload. If the server is down, no browser invented by man will help you get on the site...

@TheRealThanos haha yeah I'm aware of this but I was more referring to the site generally giving me trouble adding stars etc with Firefox (my usual browser) I had a better experience using Chrome and thought I'd share lol

W7F 4500 star points to much again usa gets it much cheeper.

Argh, literally just cashed in my stars yesterday for Wii virtual console points. I had just over the amount required as well >.<;

4500 stars is far to much for a colored lump of plastic, I'll save my stars.

So, something that has been irritating me for a while... how are people notified of when new items hit the Club? It just seems like these things sell out immediately as soon as they hit the club store. People can't be watching the club store every day... ?? Is there some kind of notification that I'm missing?

Great work thanks for the info. When I saw these on the us starts shop I was like damn I want one.

Got my green one ordered yeahh.

Has anybody else got the Stars from Super Mario Bros 3 missing from Club Nintendo ? (I relinked it after creating a Nintendo ID at least a week before.)

I am not bothered about the stars I am bothered about my account being messed up and not getting Super Mario Bros Deluxe.

if anyone short of stars i have the following club points that i dont need
animal crossing wii
wii sports resort
nintendo land
& TLOZ windwaker hd

@ReigningSemtex Ah, okay. Guess I misunderstood then.

Jw, I got the WWHD Wii U and have linked my club Nintendo account to my eshop , how do I get points for WW?

@Anguspuss I'll take animal crossing wii & TLOZ windwaker hd if you are not using them.

Nice! Its bugged me that my 3DSXL never had the cradle and was thinking of getting one. Just ordered a nice blue one!

does anyone have a code for the mario land promotion, i can trade for a animal crossing new leaf code?

@Jazzer94 i sent you freind request over miiverse

@Anguspuss Accepted got to do this tomorrow evening cause I'm tired so just message me.

@Jazzer94 ill send them over to you. any probs pm me

@Starwolf_UK
Thats not true.
The 3DS's OS keeps it from charging. When it hits that full charge, it won't allow it to continue charging.

Would be nice to get, if it would be possible to all European countries to register for Club Nintendo, but this will most likely never happen since only "the big countries" can have Club Nintendo according to Nintendo's actions.

I'm in SA, would have assumed that it would be available as we are part of NoE, but doesn't seem available when I log into Club Nintendo... pity

Do those who dont live in a qualifying country still get the points cards in the game boxes? Couldnt you just pick an address from another european country to register to and have a friend send you them over?

Thanks for the heads-up, ordered myself a white one.
Perfect companion for my 3DS XL Luigi Special edition

Bagged mine! I got red to match my 3DS.

Cant believe these havent sold out yet!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I went on and had a look at my star balance yeterday, just shy of like 300 stars, tough luck I guess.

Then this morning I remembered you get star coins from games you buy on the eshop, went in and loads of games to survey going back to 2011! 3 hours later i earned 2500 star coins!!!!

I now have the Yellow Cradle to go with my red XL posting its way to me in the next 4 weeks, cant believe it!

Nice one, me!

What is the easiest way to get 300 stars ? (Annoying I never got the Stars for Super Mario Bros 3 otherwise I would only need one Retail game).

(Do all Retail Downloads get 250 regardless of what they are ?).

All retail games get 250 stars.

All eshop games and free downloads (EuroSport, Letter Box, maybe YouTube) get 50 stars each.

Super Acorn got me 50 star coins too, I paid €1.19 for it.

Dang... I only have 350 stars!

@readyletsgo Would that Gabriels Ghostly thing count as 250 ? (As a download). Not worth more than £10 to me and it will more than likely be sold out before I can get a retail game.

(Could get that and another Sega Classic and have enough even though I probably wouldn't use it as I use either the circlepad pro or a grip with a stand always).

I want a gold one for my Zelda 3DS XL.

@unrandomsam Ya know what, I'm not really sure about that. Is Gabriels Ghostly on disc/cart or only on the eshop? Maybe someone else on here would know about it? anyone?

I got REMercenaries for €9.99 in the sale on the eshop last week, I got 250 stars for that cause it was released on cart too I guess.

@unrandomsam No its not the same. We buy 10 games get 2500 stars. Americans buy 10 games get 500 coins. They could buy their charger when it was on there with that (plus be 5/6 of the way to platinum but thats another story...) while we still need another 2000 stars.

@Kaine_Morrison But if it is in sleep mode the battery eventually drains a bit and needs charging again, meanwhile all this is doing is what exactly? Getting a streetpass hit once in a blue moon. Add in billions of consumer devices all cradled all being charged or on standby to do nothing and that is huge amount of electricity being wasted. In short, Turn the things off before you cradle them.

@Trikeboy gold would have been nice with the zelda xl alright, went for green instead think it'll look pretty sweet and it is year of luigi and all

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

my green one arrived today