[quote name='rawrker']They never ship out the end of the year awards until November/December time frame. You still have a couple months to wait for those.
As for others who complain about nothing really being good on Club Nintendo, I agree in part. Most of the stuff is crud in my opinion, but they are trying to appeal to a wide market. There are a lot of soccer mom's that actually would want to get something like Mario shoelaces to their kid. You can't expect everything to be crazy excellent since they don't directly earn money off of the goods they distribute (People would buy Nintendo games with/without CN). Items such as the Kirby medal only sold so fast because it is limited. Same with the Nunchuk. People would eventually buy, but when you slap on only 1000 available it makes people want it 10x as much. I managed to snag one, and if it wasn't a limited edition item I would not of bothered. It adds to the appeal. There is usually some nice collectible items that come out each year for those who are both lucky and patient.
Also...knocking Club Nintendo because people steal AR cards is pretty ridiculous.[/QUOTE]
I never knocked the AR cards, I said they weren't notable rewards because they were free and everyone with an account had access to them, and because Nintendo host's them free on their own website. I've got all sorts of sizes of the 6 original cards at my house, and my friend for some reason saw fit to print a giant copy of the Spirit Camera's book. It's not stealing in any way; these pdf's are hosted on Nintendo's own website for anybody to grab. Personally I think the whole concept of AR cards is lame (with the exception of Spirit Camera, that was a cool concept) but I know some people out there are into it.
I honestly have a hard time imagining soccer moms or casual gamers taking the time to create an account, register games, fill out the surveys, and racking up enough points to get prizes. Again, I know I can't expect every prize to be a Golden Link Statue or awesome figurine, but when they can't even be bothered to slap on a new label and send out the soundtracks that are so readiliy available in Japan, or bring over simple items, I think that's an issue. I personally wanted the DKCR and KI:U soundtracks and the Kirby frisbee, and have already bought a copy of the Galaxy soundtrack that they started including with new Wii's for some reason

. It's not like they have to translate the music or translate Kirby's face or anything, the work's already done, all they have to do is add it to the store and produce the goods.