{"id":121536,"date":"2020-12-03T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/12\/cant_resist_an_ugly_christmas_sweater_lidls_got_you_covered_in_animal_crossing"},"modified":"2020-12-03T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T17:30:00","slug":"cant-resist-an-ugly-christmas-sweater-lidls-got-you-covered-in-animal-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/03\/cant-resist-an-ugly-christmas-sweater-lidls-got-you-covered-in-animal-crossing\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t Resist An Ugly Christmas Sweater? Lidl&#8217;s Got You Covered In Animal Crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9af3d035af28b\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9af3d035af28b\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/9af3d035af28b\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><\/figure>\n<p>Discount supermarket chain Lidl is getting generous this year and distributing a traditional Christmas jumper to Nintendo Switch owners for absolutely nothing. <em>Free stuff!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The catch? Well, besides the fact it&#8217;s horrifically garish (<em>we wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way<\/em>), it&#8217;s also digital-only. Yes, in case you somehow missed the headline and lead image, it&#8217;s an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/animal_crossing_new_horizons\">Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a><\/strong> custom design for your islander to wear this holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>The jumper, which featured in the supermarket&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2waeUenMzYY\">seasonal ads<\/a>, was available to purchase physically for a very reasonable \u00a37.99 until demand reportedly outstripped supply. Fortunately, now the entire world (or Animal Crossing players, at least) can get their hands on this season&#8217;s most unlikely must-have item.<\/p>\n<p>The British <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LidlGB\/status\/1334517997600436226\">Twitter account<\/a> for the chain put out the tweet below with a cute little video featuring their festive offering:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Temperatures have dropped in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/animalcrossing?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@animalcrossing<\/a> &#8211; and so has our Christmas Jumper \ud83c\udf84<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa8 MO-PLTS-4L5V-N1XR <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4gUnjDh6gS\">pic.twitter.com\/4gUnjDh6gS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 @LidlGB (@LidlGB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LidlGB\/status\/1334517997600436226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As you can see above, to get your hands on this itchy nightmare you&#8217;ll need to enter the code &#8220;MO-PLTS-4L5V-N1XR&#8221; at the terminal in the Able Sisters&#8217; shop.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve certainly seen our fair share of Animal Crossing custom designs since the game launched back in March \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/animal-crossing-new-horizons-best-custom-design-codes-zelda-mario-pokemon-and-more\">many of them super impressive<\/a> \u2014 but even after all these months, they&#8217;re still managing to raise a smile. Keep &#8217;em coming, we say.<\/p>\n<p>Let us know below if you or anyone in your family will be sporting this monstrosity over the holidays, digitally or otherwise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discount supermarket chain Lidl is getting generous this year and distributing a traditional Christmas jumper to Nintendo Switch owners for absolutely nothing. Free stuff! The catch? Well, besides the fact it&#8217;s horrifically garish (we wouldn&#8217;t have it any other way), it&#8217;s also digital-only. Yes, in case you somehow missed the headline and lead image, it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}