Infendo reader/listener, CaliHurBoy is at it again. Today he brings you a whopping 7,000 Mii parade! Talk about a lot of friend codes. Great job, CaliHurBoy!  Here’s to 10,000!

Another insane Mii collection video by CaliHurBoy. I’d also like to bring attention to the latest issue (v.223) of Nintendo Power, in which our own CaliHurBoy was mentioned in the readers pulse section for his Mii parade videos! Keep it up and lets shoot for a 10,000 Mii parade!

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It’s no secret that fans of Nintendo’s Wii™ system love their Mii™ characters – those adorably cartoonish caricatures of friends and family members that can be used in games like Wii Sports™. Some of the more artistic fans have even taken it upon themselves to make Miis of celebrities, politicians and fictional characters. Nintendo supports consumers’ creative spirit with the Nov. 11 evening launch of the Check Mii Out Channel. This free new channel can be downloaded from the WiiWare™ section of the Wii Shop Channel by people who have their Wii systems connected to the Internet.”The Check Mii Out Channel lets people show off their Mii creations and vote on those created by others,” says George Harrison, Nintendo of America’s senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications. “It’s yet another way that we’re building fun, interactive communities of Wii owners without charging them extra for the privilege.”

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Our old friend California HurBoy is at it again, this time documenting his Mii Parade’s growth to 4,000 goofy looking characters.

How many Miis are in your parade?

According to an EA press release, Ronaldinho will be bicycle kicking his way onto various video game systems this fall with some exclusive content for the Wii. In addition to an exclusive Mii character of the soccer/football star, the game will also include a mode called “Footii Party” that features party games called Table Football and Shoot Off.

Ronaldinho commented on the character, “My character looks like he enjoys playing football and shares my passion for the game. This is important to me.”

If anything is extremely exciting about this for me, it’s the inclusion of an exclusive Wii foosball game. The one thing the press release didn’t mention was online play, but that goes for all systems and not just Wii or DS.

Now if only they had a Bicycle Kick Forever mini-game, Jack would finally be happy.

Infendo fan and Forum poster, CaliHurBoy, found out that it takes almost 5 minutes for 2,065 Miis to run across the parade grounds on his Wii. Roughly 214 of them are Michael Jackson, 108 are Jesus, and 42 are Mario .. but there’s only one Wenis.

I think its a YouTube record!

Infendo Fan and video game store employee Mark sent in this snapshot of an awesome t-shirt his local Nintendo rep dropped off.  Proceed to drool.

A French interview meticulously analyzed by 4cr reveals the Friend Code mystery, such as it is, has grown ever deeper.

G – And what about the Mii-specific codes?

Each Mii created generates a Mii code which never changes. This code will be used for all online games in the future.

Now, this doesn’t mean that Nintendo will retain a list of your friends from game to game – instead, specific Miis are assigned unique, permanent friend codes that will be used universally. It isn’t Xbox Live, but hey, just months ago, people were ready to go wading with their Wiis. It’s a lot better than we were expecting, right?

At this point, with all of the delicious misdirection coming from Nintendo (which they can do as king of the hill, right Reggie?), I have no frackin’ clue what the heck the Friend Code situation is going to be when the first batch of online Wii games drops in the very near future. Perhaps some of our European readers can keep us abreast of these kinds of developments as Strikers draws near.

The Japanese webpage for Wii’s “Big Brain Academy,” called Yawaraka Atama Jyuku, or “Soft Brain Cram-School” in Japan, has a section highlighting the game’s online features. The online component of the game allows you to compare your game grades with those of all your Wii friends, as well as race towards better scores. Big Brain will also be taking advantage of your system’s Miis to use as custom avitars in the game. Think these add-ons will make the game as popular as its DS counterpart? How about More so?

Pick one - The following video is an example of:

a) Effective social networking
b) Proof of the Sasquatch’s existence
c) The Mii Parade’s robust usefulness
d) None of the above

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Thanks for the video, CaliHurBoy!

And I thought Wenis was scary. James Kochalka (comic artist, rock star, and member of Infendo Nation) shares his bizarre Mii creations with us today. Click here for the full image, or head over to American Elf for more.

Have you created any abominations of (Wii) nature?

On Nintendo’s official Wii site, there are a couple “how to” videos with tips on creating a Mii for Zelda or Link. They cleverly use some repositioned eyebrows for Link’s pointy ears, but they don’t quite have the eyes right.

Which Nintendo characters would you like them to do next?

Lucky for us all, Wii bugs and malfunctions have not reached the levels of say, the Xbox 360. There are some, to be sure, including that infamous error message from November that roughly translated into “you are screwed” but far and away things have gone swimmingly on the hardware front.

But, when a Wii does go to that console heaven in the sky, what happens to your Wii points, Mii’s and VC titles? Sure, Nintendo promises everything will carry over to your shiny new system, but are they telling the whole truth and nothing but? Seems they are, says Joystiq:

When we sent a malfunctioning Wii back to Nintendo, the company returned a crisp, new Wii with all of our Mii data copied over. Additionally, Nintendo transfered our Virtual Console points to the new system, and we could re-download previous VC purchases for free. Nintendo deserves some credit for the smooth process, but we expected this to happen; we’d be angry if the company ate the Wii Points with the hardware exchange. The Mii transfer was a bigger bonus, preserving our 2040-rated tennis pro and our beloved Big Poppa.

This and that Redmond, Wash. story about the kid who brought his system to the Nintendo service desk and had it fixed lickity-split have me thinking about “Nintendo: the humbled, greedy corporation.”

Via Siliconera:

During the Nintendo keynote Shigeru Miyamoto mentioned that a new voting channel where people can vote on their favorite Miis was in the works. A message was sent to Japanese Wiis with the date of the new channel, April 29. In the channel players can pick one of two Miis as their favorite and results will be shown online, similar to the Everybody Votes channel.

Are you ready? Are you ready? Let’s get it on!

Yahoo News takes a look at the recently announced Mii “popularity” channel. In their article, they question whether or not the Wii will be a rival to MySpace.

Gaming industry analyst Richard Doherty, research director for Envisioneering Group, said that it is a smart move by Nintendo. “Absolutely. Within a year, the Wii may be the most successful and valuable social-networking community on the Web,” Doherty said.

I just don’t see it happening. It’s like saying “will the Instant Message replace email?” It just isn’t the same thing with the same purpose. If any question should be asked, it might be “will social content on Wii be more popular than PlayStation Home?”