Ikea gives its 2021 catalog an Animal Crossing-themed makeover in Taiwan

After the newest Animal Crossing grew to become a worldwide phenomenon with its compelling mixture of fishing, looking, and inside design, it was solely a matter of time earlier than a serious outlet tried to capitalize on its success. Now, Ikea Taiwan has completed precisely that by recreating a lot of pages from its iconic catalog utilizing characters and in-game objects from the Nintendo title. It posted the outcomes on its official Fb web page.

The Animal Crossing-themed catalog isn’t an ideal facsimile as a result of limitations of the sport’s inside design choices. However it’s a rattling good try. I significantly like how they’ve used the sport’s colourful solid of characters and matched their outfits nearly precisely to Ikea’s fashions.

In fact, purchasing for furnishings in Animal Crossing doesn’t work fairly the way it does in Ikea. In Animal Crossing, purchasing for furnishings is a irritating means of repeatedly visiting the in-game store and hoping the objects it’s good to full your assortment are in inventory. However in Ikea, purchasing for furnishings is as a substitute a irritating means of being pressured to stroll spherical its labyrinthine inside so as to seek out the one merchandise you want. Crucially, at the very least there are meatballs.

Right here’s a number of the pictures Ikea Taiwan shared on its Fb web page alongside the pages from its real-life catalog. Should you’re viewing them on desktop, you’ll be able to hover over them to indicate the distinction between the 2 variations.

Ikea is simply the newest firm to have latched onto Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which PR Week mentioned again in Could had turn out to be a “PG paradise for manufacturers” (nauseating, I do know). Certain, possibly it’s a bit of unhappy to see company manufacturers hijack a easy sport about relentlessly harvesting an island’s pure sources to repay an exorbitant mortgages you had been tricked into taking out by capitalist overlord Tom Nook, however what else did you count on?