It's all happening today. My Wii is being shipped in four parts - the pair of nunchaku, Wii Play + remote, the classic controller, and the Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess/Wii Console pack. All ordered via GAME UK. Bits are starting to arrive...
The first part to come was the nunchaku, out of the blue. Nothing to use them with. No sign when the other parts might come. And oddest of all, delivered by courier. Oversized box, lots of air cushioning in it wasting space. If someone comes up with a better way of packaging stuff, they'll make millions. The world needs a magic shipping box; entrepreneurs, save us all.
Next up came the Wii Play + Remote. Delivered by the mailman this morning with the rest of the mail in bubble wrap. Smarter packaging, why didn't they do this with the nunchaku? And how odd that Nintendo refers to them in english as nunchucks - a strange throwback to an anglicized spelling that I stopped using at 13 when you grow out of that whole "want to be a ninja" thing (these days, it's all about being Pimps at Sea).
And next? I don't know. All I know is that I've been waiting weeks now, and I'm camped out in my living room like a hobbit waiting for Gandalf to arrive with the console. Every truck that drives by gets a waiting stare and a whimper as it leaves.
Sure, I'm patient. I'm also neurotic, it seems. I feel like Woody Allen.
Anyways, the shipments appear to be arriving more-or-less in the order they were filled in. First to get packed were the nunchaku, yesterday at 14:25; then the remote, at 16:18. The console got packed at 21:06 and has a ParcelForce number; the last up is the classic controller, at 7:37 this morning.
In all probability, that's it for today. I can sit around the house trying to hotwire my mac to use the Wiimote, and that's probably about it.
But I can hope.
Oh, yeah. And Amazon, wankers that they are, are still reporting my component cables as unshipped, with an estimated delivery of tomorrow. My arse - they'd have had to ship it by today to get it here for tomorrow, I think; so it looks like I'm going to be component-cable-free. I just knew that would happen. Damn you, Nintendo, for screwing up one critical thing in an otherwise totally flawless worldwide launch.
Update: A parcelforce truck just drove up, sat outside my house for five minutes doing nothing, and then drove off. They're trying to kill me.
