{"id":18470,"date":"2018-12-03T00:01:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T00:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=18470"},"modified":"2018-11-16T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T17:23:07","slug":"nintendo-hallmark-christmas-ornaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/03\/nintendo-hallmark-christmas-ornaments\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Hallmark Christmas Ornaments"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Christmas is almost here, and what better way to celebrate than with some Nintendo themed Christmas ornaments you can get at Hallmark!\u00a0 I managed to get them all, and there\u2019s a nice variety of them, so let\u2019s check them out!<\/p>\n

The first one is of a Donkey Kong arcade cabinet.\u00a0 A few years ago, Hallmark did some arcade cabinet ornaments of Pac-Man and Galaga, so I\u2019m glad they\u2019re continuing to do that here.\u00a0 The ornament has all the authentic artwork, even on the sides.\u00a0 When you press a button on the ornament, it lights up and plays sounds.\u00a0 The marquee lights up and the screen shows a scene from the DK arcade game.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the lights on mine didn\u2019t line up very well.\u00a0 I know those things can happen when you mass produce something, but I still with it could\u2019ve been better.\u00a0 But my brother Jeff made a good point.\u00a0 He said the imperfections make it look like an old arcade cabinet that has been through some wear and tear, so that\u2019s kind of a neat way to think about it.\u00a0 The sounds it makes are from the arcade game.\u00a0 It\u2019ll play the diddy when DK climbs the ladder with Pauline, then Mario\u2019s walking and jumping sounds as well as the bass music in the background.\u00a0 Then it plays the theme when you pick up the hammer, followed by more sounds and the music that plays when Mario gets hit.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a picture of the ornament.<\/p>\n

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The next ornament doesn\u2019t light up or make sounds, but it\u2019s still very nice.\u00a0 It\u2019s of Mario Kart!\u00a0 The wheels do roll, which is pretty cool.\u00a0 I only wish that Mario held the checkered flag at a higher angle, as I believe that would make it show up better.\u00a0 But maybe it would also make it easier to break or snap off?\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 Just goes to show you how popular Mario Kart is if they\u2019re making an ornament out of it!\u00a0 Too bad they didn\u2019t have other characters.\u00a0 I would\u2019ve loved to have had a Toad Mario Kart ornament!<\/p>\n

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Next up is one of my favorites.\u00a0 It\u2019s a Legend of Zelda ornament.\u00a0 I\u2019m glad they went with the classic Link design on it.\u00a0 Don\u2019t get me wrong, I do like the more modern Zeldas like Breath of the Wild and Ocarina of Time.\u00a0 But the classic Zeldas are really my jam!\u00a0 When you press a button on it, it\u2019ll play the first 45 seconds or so of the title screen theme from the first NES Zelda!\u00a0 Yes!\u00a0 I think this ornament would also make a great amiibo, don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n

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Bonus Ornaments!<\/strong><\/p>\n

While I\u2019m here talking about ornaments, I got a couple of extras I thought I\u2019d show you here, too.\u00a0 The first is just of Mario standing there.\u00a0 It\u2019s just a flat ornament that could probably be a keychain as well.\u00a0 And even though it says Hallmark on it, I actually got this one at Wal-Mart.\u00a0 I only wish they would do other characters besides Mario all the time.\u00a0 Wouldn\u2019t a Kirby or Animal Crossing ornament be cool, too?<\/p>\n

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The last ornament has nothing to do with video games at all.\u00a0 But when I was ordering these at Hallmark.com, I saw one of Wacky Races, which is one of my all-time favorite Hanna-Barbera cartoons (I met Don Messick, the voice of Muttley once).\u00a0 Unfortunately I was rather disappointed with this ornament.\u00a0 It feels really lightweight and cheap, the characters in the cockpit are just flat cutouts, and the wheels don\u2019t even roll.\u00a0 Not worth what I paid for it, that\u2019s for sure.<\/p>\n

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And those are the ornaments.\u00a0 Let me know what you think in the comments section.\u00a0 What video game ornaments would you like to see them make next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christmas is almost here, and what better way to celebrate than with some Nintendo themed Christmas ornaments you can get at Hallmark!\u00a0 I managed to get them all, and there\u2019s a nice variety of them, so let\u2019s check them out! The first one is of a Donkey Kong arcade cabinet.\u00a0 A few years ago, Hallmark […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":18467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18472,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18470\/revisions\/18472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}