Getting One Million Roses!

Juri and I have been hard at work getting the one million roses in We Love Katamari. We have reached 181,000 so far. It's been a chore, but when we work together, the progress moves along quite nicely. We had a plan last night to tape the controller so that the katamari rolls around on it's own, collecting roses while we sleep. It worked okay. I was hoping for some better results. It collected only 5,000 roses after about 7 hours, which I can easily accomplish on my own within 30 minutes. So, I think I need to do a better angle of rotation or something. We have the katamari circling the ice rink stage, which is circular in design and has a HUGE density of roses and rose bunches. Hopefully we can get some better results tonight!