This is quite a demented story to start your week. The Nintendo World Store launch party for Pokémon Platinum in New York was the source of drama when a fake "mystery gift" was uncovered as an evil hoax by none other than ... Team Rocket -- or at least a sad geek dressed up as a Team Rocket member.
Some flyers promoting the launch event had been photoshopped with the promise of a "mystery gift" by some nefarious villains, who then went around the Nintendo World Store with plans to distribute a Level 50 Shiny Gengar. Public announcements were made throughout the event warning customers not to accept any mystery gifts on the grounds that they can corrupt game files.
A "rotund, bearded, and generally unkempt individual" (pictured in gallery) was eventually escorted from the premises for spreading his hacked Pokemans. Apparently the store staff only found one of two evil gift distributors that night.
Team Rocket is now real, and they've upgraded from merely kidnapping the Pokemans to murdering them. Be warned!
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You have to admire the dedication of these people
Why wait? I have some pamphlets I think you'll be very interested in.
Isn't there some law that says if you go out of your way to fuck with kids, you are labeled a kid-toucher? If not, can we label him that anyway?
I think the guy in the pic is former Madtv guy um..... Will Sasso. He needs a job Im guessing.
The Gengar's name was set to the infamous "N word". Not sure if it's listed in your source, but I saw it in a few RSS feeds myself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jshiYIGbFk
I always knew those gengar were secretly racist stereotypes.
You'd think they'd have chosen Jynx for their racist Pokemon though...
This guy is the equivalent of the drunk who runs over a kid's dog then throws up in the garden to put the icing on the cake.
Yes, I was there on the day in question, and no I wasn't Jessie that day. I was James, and just ask Tracey B. Wilson, the Pokemon hostess there about it, thank you very much. However, off to the side of the stage that afternoon, I saw a rather obese man dressed as a grunt being held by Rockefeller Center security and it was he - not me or anyone else - who was involved in the racist Gengar incident and it's because of abuse by "idiots" I wasn't at Philadelphia area events.
Whenever there is a Pokemon debut event such as the forthcoming Heart Gold/Soul Silver USA release in March, I like to dress up as that character and have improved my costume and make up. Sp please, deebite, respect the character, not the cosplayer.
Yes, I was there on the day in question, and no I wasn't Jessie that day. I was James, and just ask Tracey B. Wilson, the Pokemon hostess there about it, thank you very much. However, off to the side of the stage that afternoon, I saw a rather obese man dressed as a grunt being held by Rockefeller Center security and it was he - not me or anyone else - who was involved in the racist Gengar incident and it's because of abuse by "idiots" I wasn't at Philadelphia area events.
Whenever there is a Pokemon debut event such as the forthcoming Heart Gold/Soul Silver USA release in March, I like to dress up as that character and have improved my costume and make up. Sp please, deebite, respect the character, not the cosplayer.