Viva Pinata

I really thought this was an April Fools joke when I heard about it. I mean, the idea is just sooo freaking surreal. But apparently Viva Pinata is real.

Okay, quick summary of the concept. There is an island called Pinata Island where a breed of living pinata roams which you entice to come to a garden you maintain and befriend and raise and apparently train to fight hostile living pinata's.

Yes. Living. Pinata. As in the colorful papier-mache things that show up at childrens birthday parties.

Not just a video game for the Xbox 360, but also a kids series showing up on Fox 4Kids and apparently a toy line are going to be released before the next holiday season based on this concept.

This concept of animated papier-mache animals you befriend, lure into your garden, train to beat up other papier-mache animals, and then hang from a high branch with a short rope and watch while immature human spawnlings beat it to death with a wooden stick in order to crack its fragile body open and get at the sugary contents of its flesh.

Okay, not actually sure if that last bit will be in the game or the animated series, but c'mon... That is the end of the life cycle of the pinata. They don't grow old and retire to a Florida beach, they get beaten to death and devoured by children.

And there is now a childrens property making them all cute and lovable. Damn is that going to traumatize some kids as they look back on previous birthday parties....