Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury has been incredibly well received, especially with those players who may have missed the game on the Wii U. Super Maraio 3D World + Bowser's Fury's sales have been pretty impressive, with the game leading game sales charts in both the UK and Japan.
Though the game is selling very well, it seems that not every local game store was given equal treatment when it comes to advertising the game to customers. Recently, one Reddit user poster a picture of a funny, clever workaround that one GameStop store used after the store didn't have the proper standee to advertise Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury.
The Reddit posts comes by way of a user going by the name robinj555, who posted the picture on the Nintendo Switch subreddit. The picture itself shows a standard Super Mario cutout of Mario jumping in his iconic pose. Unfortunately, the Mario in the standee is not wearing the Super Bell cat suit power up. So, in order to advertise Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, the staff covered Mario in yellow, white, and pink sticky notes to give Mario the appearance of wearing the furry cat suit.
My local Gamestop does not have a Super Mario 3D World standee. They had an old Mario standee and a lot of sticky notes. fromNintendoSwitch
In all honesty, it's a pretty good solution that actually doesn't look all that bad. Of course, it would be much better if the GameStop got the proper standee, but this solution probably gets a lot of attention on its own. With the positive reception Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury has gotten already, any advertising is good advertising. Still, hopefully this GameStop manages to nab an official 3D World standee sometime in the future.
Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury is out now, exclusively on the Nintendo Switch.