When you boil the human experience down to its most fundamental essence, finding satisfaction in life consists of two things: picturing a desired outcome and having it come to pass. Maybe it’s turning a bit of flint into a sharpened tool. It could be using that sharpened tool to take out the sabretooth tiger that’s been terrorising your tribe. Or it could be desiring replica tennis racquets of the ones used by Wario and Waluigi in Mario Tennis, and then finding out a company will totally make them for you.
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This has been the experience of Alan Lopez, who wanted them for cosplay reasons and found out it’s actually not that expensive to have done. In a Reddit post, Lopez showed off these frankly gorgeous creations.
According to Lopez, he got both of them for around $100 USD each from a business in Florida, which seems like a low price for what will surely become an incredible historic artifact in the years to come.
The cosplay itself is a pretty good effort as well:
God bless nerds.
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