As I am a member of these boards, it may not come as a surprise to you that I can be quite anal about minor things that may not be an issue to most people.
Today's culprit for my nit-picking is the Mario Kart 7 Trophies that were re-released on the Nintendo Stars Catalogue. Since the trophies have recently come back up on the stars catalogue, I went ahead and purchased a Leaf and Special Cup to complete my collection. As expected these trophies are reprints of the originals. Since the original release was numbered, as expected the new release has come with a different serial number on. What I didn't expect was the trophy to look obviously different when displayed. >.<
In this instance I am referring to the Special cup. I have taken some pictures for reference:
The sticker size on the boxes are different. The Larger sticker being the new Trophy. The small sticker for the old trophy.
Next, the base of each trophy, besides having year dates, the sticker colours are different, with the new one being gold and the old being white.
Now the most noticeable difference, the colour. >.< The colour of the new trophy is significantly darker than the old one. You can't see it all to well on the picture, but the new trophy has a Orangey-gold colour to it, unlike the old one which is a yellow-gold colour.
This might not bother some people, but for those who would like a full set, I found that with the reprint Special cup, you can see the difference in the shade of gold compared to the rest of the trophies. It actually looks quite odd, imo...
Here's a pic I posted before...
I thought I would post this as a useful reference for anybody who's interested.
