Wednesday, August 13, 2008

The ultimate punishment - Banished to the Mii Parade

Alex loves our wii, and continues to do pretty well with it. When I bought it, a friend told me "oh, I don't think that's a good idea". They were expressing what I did have a bit of fear about - that he'd become addicted and want to play it all the time. So far, he's proved them wrong and is being reasonable with it. Well, reasonable with it with all things except for one. "Mii-Making". We have some serious mii-making issues over here to the point where I wish there was a way that I could shut off Mii-Channel access.

It started out quite innocently - we made Miis for our immediate "King's Choice" family and then extended family and friends. Alex watched as his father made them and took it all in. Over the next few days he began to explore the art of mii creation and make some Miis of his own. He decided that we needed a few new versions of ones we had already made. Where we had Alex, he made Alexander. Where we had Dad, he made Daddy, Mom - Mommy, and so forth. We had a Belle so he made Isabelle and also 'baby' which is what he calls her. One thing is for certain - he is brutally honest. He gave Daddy a receding hairline and made a close friend who is pregnant chubby (he's since gone in and made her even bigger since he saw her again and she is expanding). Once family, friends and neighbors were made - he started in on school. He made all his teachers and friends, he even made his Police Officer who comes here once a month for project lifesaver. After he ran out of real people he started in on 'fake' people and characters. He made Dora and Mami & Papi, he made Bob the builder & Wendy, he made the Man with the Yellow Hat, Steve & Joe from Blues Clues, Wiggles miis and even Lewis from Meet the Robinsons. Then he started in on what look to be "aliens" - bald headed all of them... Boots from Dora, Tad from Leap Frog and something called Moose (I think it is from Nick). Oh, and he even made Bush - yes, George Bush. Each time we'd turn on the wii, we'd find more Miis.

Daddy made a rule that miis had to be 'real' people and only people we liked and sent all the "media" miis off to the mii parade. Given the opportunity - he'll reclaim them all and bring them back to mii plaza from the parade and will re-make any of them that we delete. Earlier today we had an argument because Bush was banished to the mii parade. Is my 7 year old autistic son making a political statement with miis?

So, I was poking around online and found this really fun website & this one too they give directions step by step on how to make 'famous' miis. If you want to waste some time, it is fun though I happen to believe my 7 year olds are almost just as good.... no, they are better.

1 comments:

autismfamily said...

That is a language we are clueless about. Nicholas just started getting into Mario Bros because a kid at camp obsesses over it. The DS game is difficult and he got frustrated a few days ago but now all is well.

He actually gave away a airplane game to someone at camp and now wants a dinosaur one. We gave away on cafemom last year for Xmas the dinotopia game.