We sometimes describe Mii characters as our happy, aspirational and trouble-free selves here at Nintendo Life, the embodiment of our personalities in a world where every day is a trip to the Mushroom Kingdom to share some cake with the Mario Bros. and Princess Peach. When Nintendo of America decides to represent Miis to the world, however, they use enormous foam heads that don't fit the poor actor's bodies; suddenly the vacant eyes and permanent smiles that are cute on a console take on a whole new dynamic.
If one of these walked up to you and simply looked at you, would you be charmed or a little freaked out? Remember, they don't blink.
Which brings us to the trailer for the upcoming National StreetPass Weekend in North America, celebrating Halloween and running from 31st October to 2nd November. StreetPass Weekend is like any other weekend, in reality, as you can use Nintendo Zone hotspots to get relay hits — like on any other day of the week. We imagine that StreetPass groups and Nintendo itself will, however, arrange some gatherings and special events.
No real details have been released on that score yet, but we do have the video promoting it. The theme is Halloween and, no doubt, it fits the theme. Those Mii outfits are still terrifying...
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Spooky scary skeletons
@Cooligan They're pretty terrifying without the costumes. I wouldn't even let them near my imaginary friend.
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@Cooligan Enormous heads with permanent smiles and vacant, unblinking eyes. They're an abomination!
A terror, to be sure.
At least NOA seems to be properly involved in the US StreetPass Weekend. In the UK it was simply tagged on to the existing EGX event with little promotion and StreetPass groups run by fan volunteers had to do all the organising of other meets. Nintendo very generously donated eshop credit, but did nothing else whatsoever. Would have been nice to have it as more than a mere afterthought.
2spooky4me ...I'm ashamed by myself.
Aw man! I could be Mii for Halloween! Not to be confused with U
Love the Miis. There definently have some really good games of the own. Wii Sport Resort, Wii Fit, Streetpass.
The Mii costumes would be a great idea for Halloween, if it weren't for the fact you'd probably be seeing me fall constantly due to no holes.
Is this for North America only? Or will it also be available in Canada?
I would want a Mii costume of sorts.
Even without costumes those Mii heads are the things of nightmares.
....Am i the only one who finds them kind of cute?
@OmegaStar
No, I really enjoyed both games, especially Wii Sports Resort. But to be honest, I don't think I get the best out of Streetpass.
While on the subject of Miis. I sure hope they get there cute "yeyup" voices back in Smash U, I liked there voices the best in MK7.
I'mma get myself some StreetSmash tokens on mah 3ds. (SSB43ds if it isn't obvious enough)
i wouldn't go as far to say "scary". But it was kinda funny to watch.
No more Starbucks. Really sucks for me, that's how I got about 90% of my StreetPasses.
The Mii heads are back!
I can see how it'd be creepy if you took it at face value, but knowing that's just an actor in a costume (and seeing their strange movements), it's awesomely cheesy to Mii. I mean, just look at how Count Mii salutes at 0:37.
@lamco Nope.
@Hero-of-WiiU I like their voices in MK7 too. I'm a huge Mii fan and kinda disappointed that they're completely unusable in Smash online.
All bets are off if Miis everywhere bursts through the 3DS and rampage into this world....
I get it, and it appears to be a great idea, but I'm not getting my hopes up. I doubt we'll get any more StreetPass hits then we usually do. My area sucks when it comes to StreetPass. Yeah we have Mcdonalds, Burger King, and Ruby Tuesday, ex.; but as far as passing another person carrying their 3DS....forget about it!
Maybe we'll get a Smash puzzle panel prior to the StreetPass weekend.
I wish i could get one of those mii heads made. I would totally walk around work like that just to freak people out.
Eh, I think it's cute. I like the idea, anyway.
The point of this Halloween Weekend StreetPass, is that the hotspots will give you random passes from across the country, instead of just the last 6 people that passed that same hotspot.
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