{"id":47926,"date":"2025-05-13T14:54:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T05:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=47926"},"modified":"2025-05-13T14:54:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T05:54:04","slug":"tekken-8-lead-has-been-trying-to-contact-waffle-house-for-a-collaboration-for-the-past-year-to-no-avail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/tekken-8-lead-has-been-trying-to-contact-waffle-house-for-a-collaboration-for-the-past-year-to-no-avail\/","title":{"rendered":"Tekken 8 lead has been trying to contact Waffle House for a collaboration for the past year &#8211; to no avail\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although it all started from a joke, <strong>Tekken 8<\/strong> fans have grown unironically hopeful for the US breakfast chain Waffle House to appear as an in-game stage. These requests have naturally been directed to Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada, known for his constant and frank communication with fans over on X. It turns out he\u2019s been doing his homework \u2013 or at least, trying to.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Harada_TEKKEN\/status\/1774023083764199566\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">viral post from March last year<\/a>, Harada decided to sit down and address all the crossover memes and ask fans,<em> okay, what\u2019s all this Waffle House stuff?<\/em> Although fans were thrilled to see Harada even acknowledge their requests in the first place, it seems the Tekken lead has since then not only fully understood the players\u2019 dream of being&nbsp;thrown out of a Waffle House window, but has also been working on making late night restaurant brawls a reality.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That was an excellent parry. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MkWDHhptXK\">https:\/\/t.co\/MkWDHhptXK<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Katsuhiro Harada (@Harada_TEKKEN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Harada_TEKKEN\/status\/1922124439006642244?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Harada_TEKKEN\/status\/1922122520406458818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new update from May 13<\/a>, Harada reveals that over the past year, he has actually been trying to contact Waffle House \u201cthrough several different channels.\u201d The sad news is \u2013 he&#8217;s yet to receive any kind of response, which, according to Harada, is a very rare occurrence. He speculates that the lack of response is due to Tekken, somewhat obviously, being heavily associated with fighting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is some good news too, however. Harada seems open to the possibility of adding a kind of parody stage to Tekken 8 that will &#8220;maintain the core message\u201d of Waffle House while swapping out names and other aspects that could infringe on the chain\u2019s rights. If his attempts to receive a license from Waffle House end up failing, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Harada_TEKKEN\/status\/1922113179674345512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he suggests<\/a> going for a stage named \u201cHustle House.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waffle House has been ignoring Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada&#8217;s calls for the past year, making an official collab unlikely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":47929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-47926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tekken 8 lead has been trying to contact Waffle House for a collaboration for the past year - 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