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Never again can we be accused of obsessing over the relative size of things. We admit, we're guilty of a chart here or there, and we've been known to calculate cubic volume like a mofo, but a poster at the GameFAQ's forums has just shown us how it's done.
DocCRP has crafted a pair of meticulous Wii mockups, complete with Wiimote, and proceeded to take pictures of the diminutive box next to ... well, just about everything. NES? Yup. Atari 2600? Sure. Ketchup bottle? Yeah. Dreamcatcher? Errr, yeah, that's here. John Philip Sousa award? Now it's just getting weird.
If you're really curious how the Wii sizes up compared to a 1998 US Mint Proof Set, I've handily hyperlinked the entire forum thread's worth of images after the break.
[Via DigitalBattle]
DS Lite, White Wii, Black Wii
Wii, DS Phat
Wii, DS Lite
Wii, Sega GameGear
Wii, Gamecube
NES, Wii
Wii, PlayStation 2
Wii, Atari 2600
Nintendo64, Wii
Wii, Game Boy
Oh my word ... there's more!
Wii w/ iPod
Wii w/ CD Case
Wii w/ DS Lite box
Wii w/ toy car
Wii w/ Rubik's Cube
Wii w/ Rubik's Revenge
Wii w/ PEZ Dispensers
Wii w/ pop bottle
Wii w/ ketchup bottle
Wii w/ bubbles
Wii w/ telephone
Wii w/ Nemo
Wii w/ 80's Koosh Ball
Wii w/ '99 Yomega X-Brain Wing
Wii w/ Stagg High School Marching Shako
Wii w/ Sonic the Hedgehog Comic #25
Wii w/ 5 equisized Nintendo handhelds
Wii w/ Qui-Gon Jinn
Wii w/ Mario learning card
Wii w/ space blanket
Wii w/ 3 NES games
Wii w/ Tellius
Wii w/ trumpet mute & mouthpiece
Wii w/ Webster's College Dictionary
Wii w/ Guidemap to Disney World's Magic Kingdom
Wii w/ Writer's Inc.
Wii w/ Wicked in Chicago souvenir program
Wii w/ Final Fantasy VII
Wii w/ Star Spangled Banner - Clarinet
Wii w/ Calvin and Hobbes
Wii w/ 1998 US Mint Proof Set
Wii w/ Blizzard, my White Tiger
Wii w/ Star Fox Bobble Head
Wii w/ Chug
Wii w/ Fender Strat
Wii w/ Game Boy Advance game box
Wii w/ the money I'll use to buy one
Wii w/ Luke's ROTJ lightsaber
Wii w/ Power Rangers (original) lunchbox
Wii w/ Bacon, Pizza, & Gummy Bear
Wii w/ Pokeball & Charizard
Wii w/ Selmer Reed Case, 4 Gonzalez Clarinet Reeds, & 6 Vandoren Clarinet Reeds
Wii w/ Ringo & the Yellow Submarine
Me holding my Wii
Wii w/ Upright Piano pedals
Wii w/ Beatles - Complete Scores
Wii w/ basketball
Wii w/ macaroni & cheese
Wii w/ Schroeder
Wii w/ the Golden Gate Bridge
Wii w/ Blue
Wii w/ Distilled Water
Wii w/ Lemmings Floppy Disk
Wii w/ Bill Nye book
Wii w/ Guitar tab book
Wii w/ Toilet Paper
Wii w/ Lava lamp that refused to warm up in time
Wii w/ Jabba
Wii w/ my bed
Wii w/ a stove
Wii w/ a refrigerator
Wii w/ high school John Philip Sousa award
Wii w/ VHS video case
Wii w/ my alto sax
Wii w/ a dreamcatcher
Wii w/ my high school NHS honor cords
Wii w/ my clarinet section leader binder
Wii w/ my ticket to a local drum corps show (headlined by The Cavaliers)
Wii w/ CD half-inserted
Wii w/ DS Lite
Wii w/ Chicago Bulls championship locker room hats
Wii w/ Master Locks
Wii w/ Graduation presents for my friends (all girls, obsessed with my copies)
Wii w/ 27" TV
Wii w/ a $40 star chart
Wii w/ 2 year old college applications
Wii w/ geode
Wii w/ laptop 1
Wii w/ laptop 2
Wii w/ USB plug
Wii w/ Wii
White Wii, Black Wii, $2 Bill
Front of dollar bill with front of Wii
Wii w/ CD on top
Wii in the Toilet
Ebony and Ivory
Wii w/ Telescope
Wii w/ my half-stack
Wii w/ DDR Dance Pad
Wii w/ Millenium Falcon
Wii on Top of the World
Wii w/ Bike
Wii's Dark Side
Wii w/ Wavebird receiver AND normal GC controller plugged in
'nother cool Black Wii, White Wii, DS Lite pic
Wiimote coming to life, 2, 3
Wiimote and DS Lite:
GC cables plugged into Wii
Wii, Wiimote w/ Piano (Wii spands a minor 10th, the Wiimote a major 7th)
Wii, Wiimote w/ paperback Tess of the d'Urbervilles (I couldn't find my copy of Catcher in the Rye...)
Wii, Wiimote, GC power brick, GC A/V cable, and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
N64, GC, Wii controllers, 2
Wiimote w/ GC Wavebird
Wiimote w/ N64 Controller
Wiimote w/ NES Controller, 2, 3
Wiimote w/ Atari 2600 Controller, 2
Wiimote w/ Game Boy
Wiimote w/ Pikachu Edition Game Boy Color
Wiimote w/ Game Boy Advance
Wiimote w/ Nintendo DS
Wiimote w/ Nintendo DS lite
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1. Thats alot of Wii lol...Man and I thought that bathtub was as big as a Nintendo can get...bad damn!
Posted at 10:31AM on Jun 23rd 2006 by Bobill 0 stars
2. What I want to know is, does the BLACK Wii's plastic show up scratches, even those tiny buff scratches (which black iPod was notorious for) that you get from wiping with a cloth. I really think the black one is more sexy, but if it shows up buff scratches, even the tiny ones, then I'll have to get a white.
Posted at 10:35AM on Jun 23rd 2006 by Ruari 0 stars
3. Dear Lord. This man is obsessed with his Wii.
Posted at 10:36AM on Jun 23rd 2006 by Felix Andrews 0 stars
4. Someone has just a Wii bit too much time on their hands. Were those hyperlinks manually inserted by Joystiq's fine staff? If so, take an early lunch.
Posted at 10:41AM on Jun 23rd 2006 by J B Cougar 2 stars
5. Wow, so that's what people without girlfriends do. No seriously it is kinda neat to see a well done mock-up size comparison. Ever since they ipod people seem to care about the size/looks of hardware waaaaay more than necessary.
Posted at 10:41AM on Jun 23rd 2006 by Aaron 0 stars
6. WiiStiq used to be Joystiq!
Posted at 10:44AM on Jun 23rd 2006 by Clint 0 stars
7. J B Cougar: sure were. I think I may do just that! 
Posted at 10:47AM on Jun 23rd 2006 by C. Grant 0 stars
8. hahahahhahahahahaha awesome.
Posted at 10:47AM on Jun 23rd 2006 by .ed 0 stars
9. I'm a huge fan of Wii...but if I had a choice between a Wii and that Bill Nye "The Science Guy" Book...well I might just have to flip a coin.
Posted at 10:51AM on Jun 23rd 2006 by MegaMatt 0 stars
10. Okay, the one next to a Game Gear is more than a little amusing.
Posted at 10:58AM on Jun 23rd 2006 by 32_Footsteps 12 stars
11. OMG, they didn't take a picture of it next to a stack of 3 DVD cases?
Posted at 11:02AM on Jun 23rd 2006 by x876543 0 stars
12. I'm impressed. Truly, an inspired documentation of the soon-to-be released console's proportions. It's interesting to see it next to some of your more common household items (TV, DS Lite, Chicago Bulls championship locker room hat).
The most suprising aspect was that his bedsheets didn't feature ALF. I'm afraid what an online pictorial catalog of all of my worldly posessions would say about me.
Posted at 11:04AM on Jun 23rd 2006 by TexasTHL 0 stars
13. x876543: actually he did, must have just missed those ones. They were in the beginning.
Posted at 11:17AM on Jun 23rd 2006 by C. Grant 0 stars
14. ... Holy crackers...
Posted at 11:20AM on Jun 23rd 2006 by Neko Tsukimi 0 stars
15. whats a pop bottle?
Posted at 11:24AM on Jun 23rd 2006 by southerner 0 stars
16. That's too much Wii for me. But that's a good mock up. I thought it was real for a second.
Posted at 11:43AM on Jun 23rd 2006 by Marc 1 star
17. the geek in him is strong...
Posted at 11:44AM on Jun 23rd 2006 by shaoron 0 stars
18. "whats a pop bottle?"
It's one of the regional terms for what's usually called "soda" or "soda pop". I know western Pennsylvania tends to use "pop," and I know Chris Grant's from Pennsylvania, so I guess we have a clue as to where he grew up.
The real test, though, would be to find out what he calls a long sandwich with multiple meats and cheese, particularly made at Italian delis. Does he prefer to say hoagie, sub, grinder, po' boy, hero, or something else?
Posted at 11:56AM on Jun 23rd 2006 by 32_Footsteps 12 stars
19. Pop is what stupid people in stupid regions call Soda.
Posted at 12:02PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by J Ron 0 stars
20. 18. No, Coke is what stupid people in stupid regions call soda. Trust me, I got made fun of all the time in Mississippi when I had to live there because I called it soda, and they said it should be called Coke. Even Pepsi they called Coke.
Posted at 12:13PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by martin 2 stars
21. Haha 32: would that it were. I just assembled his prewritten descriptions with his text-links and voila!
In Philly (and NJ where I grew up) it's most definitely soda. Although you nailed the second part ... is it hoagie or sub ... maybe even grinder. I grew up sub and have slowly gone over to the hoagie camp. Philly is *serious* about their hoagies.
I refuse to say "jimmies" though ... they're SPRINKLES!
Posted at 12:23PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by C. Grant 0 stars
22. here in the uk its called juice. fizzy juice. your all wrong, your all weird. end of
Posted at 12:25PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by neale 0 stars
23. neale: "end of ... " ? don't leave me hanging, padre
Posted at 12:38PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by Ross Miller 0 stars
24. Im impressed he won the John Philip Sousa award. I never thought I would run into another Sousa winner here on Joystiq. Figured I was the only one 
Posted at 12:40PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by Jon 0 stars
25. i'm more impressed that if you look hard for one of the pictures, it's an empty box 
Posted at 12:53PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by Rodents 0 stars
26. Your all wierd, why not call things by there names. In australia we call Pepsi: 'Pepsi', Coke is called: 'Coke', Fanta is called: 'Fanta'...is it really so hard. If we generalise exactly wot type of drink they are, it's called softdrink, the ones you mix with water is cordial. I think americans call it coolaye or something....pfft.
Posted at 12:57PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by Scott -1 stars
27. Cool, as per usual i get the -1 stars again. It must be automated for me, cause it is always there 
Posted at 12:58PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by Scott -1 stars
28. Oh, so you were just lazy and copied "pop". That makes sense.
Though I can tell you're from North Jersey. If you were from South Jersey, like me, you'd have been calling them hoagies your whole life. Oh, how many times did I get a hoagie from Wawa...
And I've always called them jimmies. Nothing was as good at starting an argument in college as the "jimmies vs. sprinkles" debate.
Posted at 12:59PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by 32_Footsteps 12 stars
29. Haha, 32, thrall me with your acumen!
N. Jersey indeed (en garde!). I've capitulated to S. Jersey/Philadelphia's hoagie demands but I'll never give you Jimmies! NEVER!
Go down the shore and every ice cream shack wants me to call them jimmies ... fascists.
Posted at 1:06PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by C. Grant 0 stars
30. Hey 23, I've got one too. 
I wonder if it's a bad thing that if I had a mockup of a Wii I could replicate most of the pictures he took... and include one comparing it to a 5.25" floppy
Posted at 1:25PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by Markham 0 stars
31. I want to see one beside my 360 on my cabinet November.
Posted at 1:37PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by cap-n-crunch -1 stars
32. #19
I really am offended by your comments of stupid regions and Mississippi......I call all carbonated, sugar drinks "soda" when referring to them generically, and by their product name when referring to them directly.
Regardless of where we live; however, I am pretty certain that GFY still means the same thing...
Posted at 1:39PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by devi8i 0 stars
33. Those are my models. They really don't take long to make, maybe 3 hours tops. I made the first one just for my own comparison purposes, and the other, more detailed ones were made with the intention of selling them.
As for all the talk about location, I'm a now-sophomore at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign majoring in Music Education, and grew up in the SW suburbs of Chicago, right around the Orland Park area.
Posted at 1:51PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by DocCRP 0 stars
34. Pop / Subs in Michigan
Posted at 2:02PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by Drew 0 stars
35. can anyone say "off topic"? or is that said differently somewhere else too
Posted at 2:38PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by neonez 0 stars
36. Wii + Saxophone + Wicked = Whoever you are, You're my new best friend.
Posted at 2:43PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by Jay 0 stars
37. 25. Your all wierd, why not call things by there names. In australia we call Pepsi: 'Pepsi', Coke is called: 'Coke', Fanta is called: 'Fanta'...is it really so hard. If we generalise exactly wot type of drink they are, it's called softdrink, the ones you mix with water is cordial. I think americans call it coolaye or something....pfft.
its koolaid. hahaha you crazy aussies and your socceroos. hey you did better than our stinkin team.
Posted at 2:59PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by marsel 0 stars
38. All that, and no pic of it beside the PS2 Slim?
Posted at 3:30PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by SushiShowers 0 stars
39. Because as we all know, Joystiq comment threads are known for their slavish devotion to the topic at hand.
Really, we've already had plenty of posts doing the Wii size comparison. So we found something else to talk about as a tangent. It's not like it'll hurt the Internet or anything.
Posted at 3:33PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by 32_Footsteps 12 stars
40. # 19. martin - Only a moron would say something like that. You're going to call an entire state stupid because you don't agree with what they call something? That would almost be insulting if it wasn't coming from a know-nothing like you. A lot of us call it Coke here in Texas also, but we mostly drink Dr Pepper (Not the shitty DP they have up north. The real stuff) so I guess that makes us stupid.
I can probably point out 20 or 30 things you call by a brand name when you shouldn't. Does that make you stupid too? Do you say Q-Tip? Zip-Lock Bag? Well you're stupid then.
See how that works?
Posted at 4:05PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by Matters 0 stars
41. In New York we call soda what it is. Wether it be Coke, Sprite, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, etc, we call it by it's trademarked name.
Oddly enough we call long sandwiches Heroes or subs.
Posted at 4:23PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by Marc 1 star
42. Scott, it's Kool-Aid.
Posted at 4:29PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by Marc 1 star
43. #31 devi8i
GFY?
Good fun Yummies?
Got food yet?
Good for you?
I guess it doesn't mean the same thing for everybody...
Lighten up, nobody was insulting anybody with any seriousness.
Posted at 4:32PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by crono141 0 stars
44. I want that mock-up so bad. It could possibly quell some of my antsyness before launch... plus, it would make for a fine joke to play on you friends. Set that thing on a shelf next to your Xbox and hear people ask how you got an early copy.
Posted at 5:12PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by Sam 0 stars
45. I'm from Omaha, NE, and we say "pop" here.
Another one is "sack" and "bag." Go into a store, buy something, and say "can I hav a sack for that?" I lived in California for a few years, and every time I'd ask for a sack, they'd just look at my funny until I remembered to ask for a bag.
Posted at 5:41PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by shidoshi 0 stars
46. Oooooh. I just figured out how comments work here lol
Well, again, those are my models. They really don't take long to make, maybe 3 hours tops. I made the first one just for my own comparison purposes, and the other, more detailed ones were made with the intention of selling them.
As for all the talk about location, I'm a now-sophomore at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign majoring in Music Education, and grew up in the SW suburbs of Chicago, right around the Orland Park area.
Posted at 10:32PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by DocCRP 0 stars
47. Sweet, I have a John Phillip Souza award as well! It's displayed proudly in front of my "Winnie the Pooh playing a sax" doll.
GO BAND NERDS!!!
Posted at 11:01PM on Jun 23rd 2006 by n8dogg 0 stars
48. Hey, I know this guy in real life.
Nice to see him hitting it big on the net.
Posted at 12:32AM on Jun 24th 2006 by supremespleen 0 stars
49. how on earth did he make such an neat and plastic wii mockup. the wiimote is also unbelieveably realistic. whith al its buttons that aren't flat etc... can somebodu tell me where he got the materials for his mockup?
Posted at 10:15AM on Jun 24th 2006 by Supr Mushy 0 stars
50. ^ it's mine.
The entire thing is pretty much posterboard (not plastic) and tape. I use a craft knife to cut the posterboard so that all my cuts are extremely clean, and I use patent images as a reference for accuracy.
As for the Wiimote, that's all posterboard as well, though I did fasten two AA batteries on the inside for more realistic weight. The face buttons, well, that just took patience lol
Oh, and supremespleen, good to see you around.
Posted at 11:43AM on Jun 24th 2006 by DocCRP
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