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In Colombia, Fat Princess sells discount clothing photo

I love the visual work put into PlayStation Network game Fat Princess. I especially love the iconic chubby princess artwork they used for the virtual cover and advertisements. It looks like a clothing store in Cali, Colombia also dug the art. 

An advertisement there, spotted by Destructoid reader Stark_Sam, shows the royal fatty herself, with discount percents floating around her pudgy bodice. The sign says "The big fat giveaway" or, alternately, "The fat giver girl." 10, 15, 20 and even 25 percent off!

As a bonus, Stark_Sam also included a picture of Colombia-based fast food joint Mario Boss. Copyrights and trademarks be damned! Holy sh*t, that's an ugly Mario.

[Thanks, Stark_Sam]

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Al Moreno's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2010 13:11
Al Moreno
its Colombia not Columbia
timtheterrible's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2010 13:11
timtheterrible
Slooooow news day.
free touch's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2010 13:12
free touch
Fucking canadians.
skullz2099's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2010 13:16
skullz2099
ha i love that Mario "boss"
juan david's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2010 13:25
juan david
What i find really sad is that the mario boss fast food picture is a pirate version of another (also pirate of course) fast food chain (yes there are more than one of those in my city) that already operates here.
The Average Guy's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2010 13:29
The Average Guy
I remember that Mario Boss from when I visited Colombia! I never actually went inside, but I wanted to because I thought it had something to do with video games.
s41to's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2010 13:34
s41to
LOL my city in destructoid hahahaha
BTW is Colombia not Columbia
m_earendil's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2010 13:38
m_earendil
Yeah, the "original" fast food chain from Medellin is "Mario Bross" (with a double S, not a typo of my part) and it's even more shameless, because they use the SNES era Mario as a logo.
Internecivus's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2010 13:53
Internecivus
They also had a pirated version of that particular Mario Bross. restaurant over here in Cartagena, for those of us Colombians that know where I'm talking about :p Hah, it definitely makes my day to see our "resourcefulness" pasted in this site :p I've seen a LOT of pirated logos from games here in my day... hell, not even the government's safe!

The logo of the 3rd Notary office here? Yeah, you guessed it. N3. Just take a guess where they took THAT logo from :p (knew I should've taken a picture >_<)
Danzflor's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2010 13:58
Danzflor
Only Happens on Latinoamerica...
Pixels's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2010 14:13
Pixels
It's refreshing to see Colombia in the news where it's not about some new shooting or kidnapping. Fail that you can't spell Colombia though ._.
m_earendil's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2010 14:19
m_earendil
@Pixels: The sad thing is that, lately in the US, it seems that copyright infingement is considered worse than shooting or kidnapping someone, as it gets a faster reaction from the law, higher fines, and more jail time. Get your priorities straight people!
Janledroxa's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2010 14:30
Janledroxa
Funny how everyone talks about the copryright stuff and everyone fails to mention the food they actually serve.
Mario Bross' Hot Dogs are TEH 1337! never been to Mario Boss though where is that by the way?
Knivy's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2010 14:46
Knivy
What danz said, I always laugh when I see something like that here.
JDigital's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2010 15:06
JDigital
Ok seriously... This full-screen annoying ass fucking ad is about 1 showing from getting this site into my never-visit category.

Quit treating your readers like shit. You are not too big to fail.
Videodrone31's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2010 15:14
Videodrone31
@Jdigital

take some midol you whiny bitch. An add is not treating your readers like shit. It's called producing income to run the site.
Xzyliac's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2010 15:48
Xzyliac
@JDigital
What is this ad everyone is complaining about? I've been on the PC version 80% of the day and I still don't see it.
cali_yo's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2010 17:03
cali_yo
@Xzyliac: It's this giant Flash ad for the movie Legion that pops up and covers the entire browser. Even AdBlock doesn't block it. It's annoying but there's that little X in the corner you can click. It's a minor inconvenience at best.

On topic: I was having a conversation with someone yesterday over how I couldn't believe someone wouldn't know who Mario is. This came up because I was playing 1 vs 100, and the question was "What color is Luigi's hat?", and some random guy I was playing took like 3 seconds to answer, and he answered wrong, so it was clear he had no idea who Luigi is. This blew my mind.

I'm going to show him this and say "SEE? EVEN PEOPLE IN FUCKING COLOMBIA KNOW MARIO!"
Cristian Arbelaez's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2010 17:52
Cristian Arbelaez
im from Colombia, we have a lot of copyrights violations around here, not only videogames, but TV shows and even movies
Cristian Arbelaez's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2010 18:08
Cristian Arbelaez
here are some examples
http://foto.comotoy.com/images/287.jpg
http://foto.comotoy.com/images/909.jpg
http://foto.comotoy.com/images/774.jpg
http://foto.comotoy.com/images/20.jpg
http://foto.comotoy.com/images/124.jpg
Sebastian Fig's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2010 19:33
Sebastian Fig
This 'pirating' of copyrighted characters and logos is nothing new to people who have been to, or currently live in, Latin American countries. It's most popular among local restaurants and the quality of some can range from being pretty entertaining, to outright pathetic. The 'Mario Boss' one makes me a bit embarrassed to be Colombian.
Camiwaits's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/19/2010 20:57
Camiwaits
Mario Bross sells some nice hot dogs & cheesy corn dishes.
pl0x kthanxbai's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/20/2010 12:33
pl0x kthanxbai
@cristian

har har


well it aint any better here in venezuela the only difference is that there are far less knock offs and a hell lot more of piracy



- de paso que es lo pirata de la penultima foto? hip-hop es un genero no una marca, seguro fue un error
juan david's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/20/2010 14:27
juan david
@pl0x kthanxbai Pero no dice hip hop, dice hit hop
Internecivus's Avatar - Comment posted on 01/20/2010 21:53
Internecivus
There isn't much to say except...

Los Colombianos somos la verga... jueputa!
enoncicom88's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/14/2011 17:34
enoncicom88
of marvellously-finished little Flemish pictures, and also of order noroxin
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