WHAT:

Nintendo and Starlight Children’s Foundation™ will place a Starlight Fun Center™ mobile entertainment unit, featuring a Wii™ video game system, DVD player and a Sharp AQUOS™ LCD TV, in the Miller West pediatric unit at Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach.

The Fun Center dedication is part of a series of festivities surrounding Nintendo’s launch of its Kirby’s Return to Dream Land™ game for the Wii system on Oct. 24.

Earlier this month, Nintendo inspired kids across North America to discover their inner superheroes with some help from the iconic Kirby™ video game character. Kids who visited a website created for Kirby’s Return to Dream Land were invited to create drawings and descriptions of their dream Super Abilities. Their imaginative creations were then submitted to Nintendo to be part of a project to aid Starlight, raise awareness about the organization and encourage children to help others. For added inspiration, kids can also visit The Stacks website at http://www.scholastic.com/nintendokirby/ and take a “What’s Your Super Ability?” Quiz.

Nintendo will display several of these submissions during the Fun Center dedication at Miller Children’s. Patients at the hospital will also be invited to use coloring sheets to create their own Super Abilities, which Nintendo will use to create a mural for the hospital.

Kirby will also be on hand for the Fun Center dedication to interact with young patients, play Fun Center games and distribute special blankets.

Kirby will be joined by actress and Starlight Fairy Godmother Jamie Lee Curtis, Executive Vice President of Nintendo America Inc. Don James and representatives from Miller Children’s and Starlight.

WHERE:

Miller Children’s Hospital Long Beach
2801 Atlantic Avenue
Long Beach, CA 90806

WHEN:

Thursday, October 27, 2011; 2 p.m.

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