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iPad Hungry Hungry Hippos and Other April Fools for 2012
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OrangeSVTguy
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WestJet introduces child-free cabins and Kargo Kids service
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Not to be outdone, Sir Richard Branson introduces Virgin Volcanic:
WestJet April Fool Page
Not to be outdone, Sir Richard Branson introduces Virgin Volcanic:
Using patented carbon-carbon materials pioneered for deep space exploration, Virgin is proud to announce a revolutionary new vehicle, VVS1, which will be capable of plunging three people into the molten lava core of an active volcano.
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I know NES, NES was a friend of mine and you sir are no NES. I remember the NES being front loading:
yet they showed top loading, maybe the meant SNES:
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itickings
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swordfish5736
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The YouTube one is pretty great. A few years ago for April 1 every featured video looked normal but you'd get redirected to Rick Astley
gkarris
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I know NES, NES was a friend of mine and you sir are no NES. I remember the NES being front loading:
yet they showed top loading, maybe the meant SNES:
The US one is front loading. The Japanese Famicom is top loading. A top loading NES was introduced later...
SteveAbootman
macrumors 6502a
Some good pranks this year. Almost makes me think that Google has a dedicated April Fools division.
Fun facts: Nintendo of America completely redesigned the system to resemble a VCR because they figured that this would appeal more to the NA audience. An initial, black design that had a keyboard as an accessory looked even more like a VCR than the final design but it was disliked by the focus groups.
The NES left out some features from the Famicom such as a built in microphone on the second controller (the Famicom came with two hard-wired controllers) and two connectors that allowed a cartridge to have its own sound chip expansion.
charlituna
macrumors G3
yeah. it actually looks cool. Unlike those games were the iPad was just the spin wheel and you had a regular board and pieces.
I still want Nintendo to release the original Super Mario trilogy for iOS (and sure they could do Android as well). I think they would be a huge hit both sales and PR wise. Personally I'd be willing to as high as $9.99 a game on them.
OrangeSVTguy
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charlituna
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thinkgeek
i just went to the page to see what else they did and I have to say that I'm shocked that no one has actually done the Angry Birds Pork Rinds. I mean they have shirts and plashes, why not food.
Oh and that tattoo thing could probably happen one day. Which is creepier than the Barbie face
i just went to the page to see what else they did and I have to say that I'm shocked that no one has actually done the Angry Birds Pork Rinds. I mean they have shirts and plashes, why not food.
Oh and that tattoo thing could probably happen one day. Which is creepier than the Barbie face
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VenusianSky
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No. Transportation. Everyone knows you use a magic flute to call a whirlwind and/or giant bird to physically come pick you up.
Teleportation would be your bog standard magic whisking pads and other miscellaneous forms of metaphysical transversal, wherein you're basically using Geomathromancer magics to bend two points along a 4 dimensional plane to inhabit the same space at once. Magic flutes are rarely, if ever, used for such an endeavor.
