If you’ve been wandering around the Japanese MagSL regions at all recently, you’ve probably noticed these giant pink panda things in the central squares. Click the sign nearby and they’ll take you to the source of all this pinkness.
(Side note: I’ve mentioned before how these MagSL regions are arranged in a grid, but I’ve never said how well this works. Each region has a central square with a tower. Usually there are ads promoting events or stores, and sometimes there are King Kong like additions, like this one).
The point of this whole promotion is this little freebie guy. Attach him to yourself and he’ll follow you around. His default color is pink but an included HUD allows you to change his color scheme. You have to click on a white box below the HUD and complete a short survey in Japanese to enable his main purpose, which is to be a translator (which I never did quite get to work).
The survey looks like it collects demographic information. Since I don’t speak Japanese it’s very likely that I answered that I’m a married 13-year-old Japanese schoolgirl with rickets and a taste for ferret sushi. Oh, wait, that sounds like an alt of mine.
Japanese areas are great for interesting freebies, and this one is particularly interesting and expressive. He waves his arms around and falls asleep if you’re just standing around. If the head flopping down isn’t indication enough, little Zzzzs float in the air. If you hover, he’ll move from the ground to your shoulder. If you move to fast to do anything, little “sweaties” come out of his head.
Finally, if you start to fly in any direction, he moves from your shoulder to your back, holding on for dear life. When you sit, he sits on your lap. For a freebie, this little critter is damned sophisticated, even if you don’t use the translation piece.
