But what Miis to submit (you're limited to two)? Two months ago, I used that Flash game to make the Wiggles, the Beatles, and the Bigger-Than-Jesus Beatles... but the genuine Mii maker isn't as flexible. In RL, only Greg "The Yellow" Wiggle came out looking nice. Which is actually cool and timely, since he just retired from the group due to health problems.

For my second entry, I went with everybody's favorite 700 year old CG pre-hobbit, Gollum. An outside chance, to be sure.

In other Wii news, I was lucky enough to get one of the limited edition Legend of Zelda replica sets. In truth, my sister snagged it for me after a pleading phone call, when I read about it online on the very morning I knew her to be holiday shopping. Weird: it was apparently a Target Exclusive item and limited to 7,000. Why would Target negotiate something like this? According to my sister, the few in stock were displayed next to a ticking countdown clock that insinuated that you only had a few days to buy them before they would disappear.

The box comes in that awful unopenable plastic shell type of packaging... the type that you have to carefully cut open lest you damage what's inside. The main draw is the metal replica Master Sword and Hylian Shield (plus certificate of authenticity signed (not really) by Miyamoto), but you also get a six track Twilight Princess soundtrack.

At $40, it's awfully expensive for what you get. It's made by Master Replicas, a company known for this sort of thing, so at least it's quantifiably nice. The thing is, this is the kind of crap that Japan gets just for waking up in the morning. And given how much I complain about Japan getting all the neat gaming trinkets, it would be hypocritical for me to snub this unique US offering on the price. I (you, we) want companies to do more of this stuff. So I considered this a vote for future fun toys.

I did note that the shield is quite obviously intended for a left-handed sword-wielder... even though Link is right-handed in Twilight Princess to better integrate with the Remote (and the right-handed majority). Technically, I guess that makes this the shield used in every Zelda game except Twilight Princess. Cynically, it probably just means Master Replicas cast the mold a few years ago.

I'll end on a fun shot from near the end of Trauma Center: Second Opinion.