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Giant Canned Super Mario Coming to Dundas Sq

Posted by Tanja
Filed in City
June 28, 2006

Don't you just love weird news?

According to the Canadian News Wires, Nintendo Canada and Canstruction are planning to build the world's largest Super Mario made entirely of tin cans tomorrow (June 29th) in Dundas Square.

The 10ft giant plumber (without plumber-butt hopefully) will be made of 4,000 cans and weigh about 2,600 lbs.

For Nintendo it celebrates their new Super Mario Bros game becoming the fastest-selling game in the country. For Toronto, it means something better than ads to watch at in Dundas Square as well as a charitable act from Canstruction (read more on their work at canstruction.org) as all food cans used to construct Mario will be donated to the Daily Bread Food Bank.

Update: Caught a glimpse of the finished construction today -- pix are up on Flickr

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"a charitable act from Canstruction (read more on their work at canstruction.org) as all food cans used to construct Mario will be donated to the Daily Bread Food Bank."

I thought "What a stupid idea" until I read this part. The ends justifies the means in this situation I suppose.

Posted by: brokenengine at June 28, 2006 6:38 PM

This is way better than the cn tower

Posted by: Jonathan at June 29, 2006 9:23 AM

"it means something better than ads to watch at in Dundas Square"

In addition to the solecism, this is inaccurate - what is this if not a giant (literally) ad for the SMB brand and game?

Posted by: x_the_x at June 29, 2006 10:09 AM

of course it's an ad, x_the_x! the point here is that this whole crew from canstruction will be there building it tin by tin and THAT is what is going to be great to watch. once the mario is done, the thrill is mostly gone.

Posted by: Tanja at June 29, 2006 10:22 AM