Designer Mayumi Hasegawa does a lot of work in "python leather." As in "snakeskin." As in "a surefire way to get us to stop using our Wiimotes immediately, because ewww." This Wiimote cover isn't just a fashionable print. Snake! A snake! Oh, it's a snake!The Remocon Python Suit comes in two styles: "white" and "black" and sells via Hasegawa's website for 15,750 yen (about $150). With the slightly snake-like shape of the Wiimote, having a snakeskin-augmented controller on your coffee table is basically guaranteed to freak your cats out.
If you happen to think it's great, Hasegawa also has a line of pricey and vaguely unsettling DS Lite covers.
[Via Inside Games]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2-08-2008 @ 10:57AM
AnOffday said...
ugliest. thing. ever.
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2-08-2008 @ 11:13AM
Mountain lion link said...
Is it made from real snakes is my question, since the price makes it seem like it should be made from real snake skin.
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2-08-2008 @ 11:29AM
AnOffday said...
Probably. But seriously, anyone who pays 150 bucks for this deserves to have their Wii broken over their face.
2-08-2008 @ 11:22AM
Carlos M G said...
disgusting
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2-08-2008 @ 12:00PM
Zack W. said...
Wow, that looks cool...and by cool, I mean crap...and by crap, I mean total crap.
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2-08-2008 @ 4:10PM
Jhongerkong said...
What do you mean by total crap?
2-08-2008 @ 12:44PM
terronthesnake said...
I am a snake owner/lover/breeder and I am relatively positive that is not real snake skin. With that in mind why the hell would anyone pay $150 for fake ass ugly snake skin? Not I! Just because I love snakes doesn't mean I'm against snake leather as long as it's done right (humanely is key, yet not likely in japan). I make snake leathers when my snakes die (never caused by me). I have to give the skin this is is one of the best fake snake skins I've seen. Yet I am sure it is not real (there is no shine).
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2-08-2008 @ 12:45PM
terronthesnake said...
*it is* not is is
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2-08-2008 @ 1:14PM
Croove55 said...
Is it just me, or does that Wiimote look freakishly big? That hand looks too rough to belong to a child, so either it's an adult with really small hands, or that snakeskin adds some volume. Some hideous, uncomfortable volume.
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2-08-2008 @ 1:38PM
terronthesnake said...
It could just be a small asian adult hand. If it was real skin the texture would really suck for a controller.
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2-08-2008 @ 2:04PM
terronthesnake said...
I checked out this guys site, and all the skins are fakes, as in not real, as in polyester, as in how the hell does this moron expect to get that much for ugly fake skin?
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2-08-2008 @ 2:56PM
Sean said...
How is the title not "Snakes! Wii'd It have to be snakes!"
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2-08-2008 @ 3:24PM
FantomRedux said...
I dont get the second bit. -_-,
2-08-2008 @ 6:40PM
hvnlysoldr said...
Indiana Jones is afraid of snakes. In the Ark movie he says the line "Snakes! Why'd it have to be snakes!" I also say not to ship a bunch of these on a plane.