You know who isn’t having a good day today? Whoever was in charge of preorder bonuses for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom over at Walmart.
As revealed by Wario64, Walmart was offering a gold-colored wall scroll if you pre-ordered The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom on their website. This is a limited edition wall scroll, and it is limited to 5,000 qualities. The listing also provided an end date for pre-orders to April 20, 2023.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – Nintendo Switch + Free Exclusive Gold Wall Scroll (Switch) preorder up at Walmart ($69) https://t.co/Ewh3bB8ypr #ad limited to 5,000 quantities pic.twitter.com/Uzfegcwegg
A few hours later, Wario64 confirmed in following up that the listing has returned, but the bonus had been switched around to a black wall scroll, with green accents. This item does not seem to have a limited number.
Both scrolls have the same image. The wall scroll showcases the broken Master Sword, with decorative motifs that indicate grey smoke surrounding it.
Walmart now switched the Zelda Tears of the Kingdom preorder listing to a black wall scroll (also says coming soon in the title) https://t.co/xoZrGUbdIu pic.twitter.com/Fpehg7r217
As expected, it does seem that the gold wall scroll has already run out, but if Walmart had done the marketing on this properly, they could have gotten a lot more people to visit their website and shop for other items, such as the OLED The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Nintendo Switch. It’s likely that the plans were for Nintendo to share this offer on their social media, but someone made a mistake and word got out early. If you happened to be following Wario64 you might have caught it, but Wario64 finds deals from elsewhere,
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