Nintendo and Red Bull are teaming as much as throw an extremely large winged Pikmin from a really high flight deck. There’s still time to peer it, and plenty of other flight machines, attempt to survive the plummet.[Except]

The Red Bull Flugtag Ottawa-Gatineau is occurring this Saturday, July 27. There, you’re going to get to peer the large flying Pikmin and homemade flying machines burst off the top of a 22-foot high deck. 

The Flugtag, that’s German for “airshow,” have been running since 1992. The contest is open to anyone and the machines must comply with the foundations set forth by Red Bull, which vary in keeping with location. 

Judging occurs in three categories: showmanship, distance, and creativity. We’re interested to determine if the Pikmin will actually fly (or just nosedive to its doom). To date, Pikmin 3 is sailing high on strong sales in Japan. American audiences may have of venture to maintain the title aloft on August 4.

Our Take
This is one in every of Nintendo’s most clever bits of selling in quite ages, and it has the possible to interact an audience that will not know Pikmin or the Wii U. Provided there’s enough fanfare and signage (and Nintendo Canada reps accessible within the crowd to reply the inevitable “What’s that speculated to be?” questions), this is able to be a tremendous win for Nintendo.

More connections with audiences outside the core are precisely the sort of thing which could help Nintendo reconnect with an audience that knows and loves Mario and friends but doesn’t necessarily know what they have been up lately.