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Attempt to keep the go-karts running on Tokyo roads raises embarrassingly low amount of money.
Intellectual Property High Court slams the breaks for the company once known as “MariCar.”
Either a double dose of caution or passive-aggressiveness against Nintendo has MariCar’s go-carts looking weirder than ever.
Court orders halt to cosplay rentals, payment of fine for copyright infringement.
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