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Title: Club Nintendo Offering Free Kid Icarus: Uprising AR Idol Cards
Post by: Webmalfunction on March 14, 2012, 11:35:59 AM

Users can get a free pack of cards as part of a promotion for the upcoming title.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/29526

Club Nintendo members can now participate in a promotion to recieve a free pack of AR Idol Cards from Kid Icarus: Uprising for the Nintendo 3DS.

The limited-time promotion (which will be running while supplies last) contains three cards: Great Reaper, Drill Arm, and Palutena (Rare). The cards can be used in AR battles or for display using the 3DS camera.

According to Club Nintendo, the cards will begin shipping within 6-8 weeks, following the launch of Kid Icarus on March 23.

Title: Re: Club Nintendo Offering Free Kid Icarus: Uprising AR Idol Cards
Post by: 5kytar on March 14, 2012, 02:19:04 PM

Does it make the card RARE, if you're giving it out free to a lot of people?

Title: Re: Club Nintendo Offering Free Kid Icarus: Uprising AR Idol Cards
Post by: Ceric on March 14, 2012, 02:39:20 PM

Quote from: 5kytar on March 14, 2012, 02:19:04 PM

Does it make the card RARE, if you're giving it out free to a lot of people?

Maybe that's the only way in the world to get it.

Title: Re: Club Nintendo Offering Free Kid Icarus: Uprising AR Idol Cards
Post by: Discostew on March 14, 2012, 04:43:48 PM

Considering no purchase of the actual game is required to get the cards, these will go quick. Those with the game but too late for these freebie could consider them rare.  :)

Title: Re: Club Nintendo Offering Free Kid Icarus: Uprising AR Idol Cards
Post by: pureval on March 14, 2012, 05:30:26 PM

Are they available to order yet? I could not find them on the site anywhere.

Title: Re: Club Nintendo Offering Free Kid Icarus: Uprising AR Idol Cards
Post by: SeaNet on March 14, 2012, 08:43:13 PM

I got mine, you can find it from the front page club.nintendo.com
but club nintendo is currently under maintenence.
 

Title: Re: Club Nintendo Offering Free Kid Icarus: Uprising AR Idol Cards
Post by: UncleBob on March 15, 2012, 12:52:49 AM

Yeah, it was kinda dumb the way they did these.  Should have given them free when you registered the game (like the Zelda soundtrack...)

Title: Re: Club Nintendo Offering Free Kid Icarus: Uprising AR Idol Cards
Post by: Spak-Spang on March 15, 2012, 12:58:23 AM

Don't you know since collectables have become big business...rarity is now manufactured.  It is the one thing I hate about the collectable business.  Be it Card games, toys, comic books, whatever....


Rarity is now just being created by the marketers and not by natural means. 

Title: Re: Club Nintendo Offering Free Kid Icarus: Uprising AR Idol Cards
Post by: MegaByte on March 15, 2012, 01:44:08 AM

Nintendo could secretly put these on eBay and fund themselves for the next year :-p

Title: Re: Club Nintendo Offering Free Kid Icarus: Uprising AR Idol Cards
Post by: NWR_insanolord on March 15, 2012, 01:47:21 AM

Maybe that's their plan to ensure they're in the black for the next fiscal year.

Title: Re: Club Nintendo Offering Free Kid Icarus: Uprising AR Idol Cards
Post by: VickiL on March 15, 2012, 10:42:17 AM

I couldn't find any reference to it on the Club Nintendo front page, but I got it using the link in the Source line.  Just sharing in case anyone else was lost like I was for a minute.

Title: Re: Club Nintendo Offering Free Kid Icarus: Uprising AR Idol Cards
Post by: Olimar77 on March 15, 2012, 11:14:07 PM

I ordered the AR cards, which pushed me over the edge in deciding to pre-order the game. Nintendo worked its marketing magic on me again.