Just a heads up for anyone looking for a cheap, brand new Wii U, the Skylanders + Nintendo Land Wii U bundle is on sale at eBay for $199.99 (free shipping to boot).
Note that this model is the white Wii U with only 8GB of storage, but honestly if you're seriously going to be downloading a lot of games to your Wii U you probably were going to use an external HDD anyway. If you have one lying around the house just use that.
Get this for $199.99 then pick up Mario Kart 8 on May 30th + free game deal from that, and effectively you get Skylanders + Nintendo Land + Mario Kart 8 + Pikmin 3/Wind Waker HD/etc. for $259.99 ... not a bad deal, especially if you already have a spare Wiimote, it's probably a better value than the MK8 bundle.