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Nintendo Delivers Real-Life Mario Kart to GameStop Epic Reward Giveaway Winner in Tennessee
WHAT: Nintendo will deliver a life-size Mario
Kart™ vehicle to a Clarksville, Tenn., resident as the lucky
winner of the GameStop® Epic Reward Giveaway™. Nintendo will
present him with the keys to the fully functioning kart.
To celebrate the recent launch of the Mario Kart™ 7 game for the
portable Nintendo 3DS™ system, Nintendo teamed up with West
Coast Customs to create life-size models of two karts from the
game – one for Mario™ and one for Luigi™ – and unveiled them at
the 2011 LA Auto Show. A recent episode of Inside West Coast
Customs on the Velocity Network showed how West Coast Customs
and Nintendo worked together to make these video game vehicles a
reality. Members of the GameStop PowerUp Rewards™ program had
the opportunity to claim Mario’s kart as part of the monthly
Epic Reward Giveaway. The kart comes complete with a decorative
glider wing, as represented in the game. The Luigi Bumble V Kart
resides at Nintendo of America’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash.
WHO: Winner Nate Stehley of Clarksville, Tenn.;
David Young, Nintendo of America’s assistant manager of Public
Relations; Rob Henderson, GameStop PowerUp Rewards Program
Manager
WHEN: Tuesday, Feb. 28
10:30 – 11:00 a.m. (please arrive at 10:15 a.m.)
WHERE: Winner’s home
