You probably saw this guy in various pictures during our Japanese Wii launch coverage…he was even in one of the Japanese news clips we posted. All was going well at the Wii launch…Luigi was on hand to give out the very first Wii, as well as take pictures with customers. Then…it all went wrong. A translated bit from the news story…
Apparently the employees at Akiba Yodobashi mistook this Luigi cosplayer as being an official rep from Nintendo. They had him do the opening ceremonies and present the Wii to the first customer. Shortly thereafter they realized that he was just a regular dude in a Luigi suit and they whisked him away.
