11-Year-Old's Mario Collection Bigger Than Mushroom Kingdom

[Unhappy Crow]

Holy crap. Add this kid to Nintendo Power's Community page.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Good for the child.

 

[matrix3509]

There are over 200 Mario themed games in existence, so I would imagine that there are like MILLIONS of Mario related collectibles. He still has a ways to go yet.

 

[icyneesan]

Dear god, this kid's collection puts otakus in Japan to shame! TO SHAME!

 

[ArchBlade]

Wow.

He's only eleven?

Also wow.

I have my own reasons for not collecting shite(LOL I'M BROKE) but that's pretty impressive.

 

[CrazyMedic]

I am 14 and I am starting to collect military from world two my collection has swasticas and blades on it can he that about his, lol. Great job us child collectors need to band together and show the adults we can be just as obsessive.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

I wonder what his favorite video game franchise is?

I think the video makes it very clear that his favorite videogame franchise is Crash Bandicoot.

No, he is a Sega diehard since the time he left the womb

OT: I wonder how many old school Nintendo diehards would kill for that collection...

 

[Quiet Stranger]

I'm just gonna say one thing then go to bed.....what a fucking waste of money

 

[MovieBob]

You're only 11 once, might as well enjoy it how you want while you can. Looks like a lucky kid. Now I wanna go see Toy Story 3 again...

I'll readily admit I've given in and bought a couple of those big-ish soft-vinyl Mario figures recently, despite being 29. In my defense, when *I* was 11, you couldn't get Mario anything ANYWHERE in the states. I remember flipping the hell out as a little kid when, on vacation, I found ONE 2-inch hard-plastic figurine of Mario holding an SMB2 vegetable in a bin of cheaply-imported-from-Japan stuff at a roadside tent sale in the middle of nowheresville New Hampshire like it was the biggest thing EVER. That thing lived in my pocket as a "good luck charm" for YEARS; then one day I went looking for it and it was gone

Ah, well. Such is life.

 

[Glerken]

That's alot of stuff, probably be worth a small fortune some day if it isn't already.

Probably also cost a small fortune though.

 

[Mr. Omega]

Child, as a Mario fan, I salute you.

 

[pantsoffdanceoff]

HAH I have two things he doesn't... The game collection was really impressive.

 

[RowdyRodimus]

Well, we have apparently found the next Chris-Chan. Be on the lookout in the future for his original web comic Marigi and constant updates about his attraction sign and love quest.

 

[Chase Yojimbo]

Not only did the parents buy all of that shit, i can bet you that they also did the whole show to. That child probebly has the personality of a wet potatoe.

 

[Irridium]

Wow thats impressive. Granted his parents probably bought most of it.

All I have is a small crate full of DBZ, GI-Joe, Transformer, and Gundam figures. And you know what? I love it. Each toy in there has a history and each toy is special. Each one I've played with for years and years. Each one is an integral part of my childhood. And each one is awesome!

Not sure where I'm going with this... probably something about appreciating what you have, or something.

I should probably stop posting at 2 AM >.<

 

[zombie711]

Ha hes missing mario on the virtual boy. try finding that!

 

[Terramax]

What a terrible waste of time and money. Would've been much better spent on games or other, non-related videogame stuff. Instead, money on objects that just sit on shelves catching dust.

 

[Terramax]

Nice to know his parents are rich enough to waste all of that money in spoiling their kid. Hey here's an idea, why not donate to charity instead? Your kid grows up a balanced individual and you further humanist and environmental causes rather than feed the consumerist lifestyles we live.

This, basically.