A Super Mario variety blog.
Screenshots, photos, sprites, gifs, scans and more from all around the world of Super Mario Bros.
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The special character Gulliver from Animal Crossing: New Leaf will occasionally mention locations and characters from various Mario games.
Top left: the Overthere, the afterlife location from Super Paper Mario
Top right: Isle Delfino from Super Mario Sunshine
Bottom left: Bobbery, one of the party members from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, and Rogueport, a town from that game
Bottom right: Ricco Harbor from Super Mario Sunshine
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Unused animations for Mario found in the data of Super Mario 64, including two flips, Mario bending his knees while surfing on a Koopa shell, and an animation of him crying, likely used in a cutscene that was scrapped during development.
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Original animation from a promotional VHS distributed by Nintendo of Spain in 1992.
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Artwork used for an officially licensed Super Mario 64 jigsaw puzzle from Japan.
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King MacFrights, the boss of the sixth floor in Luigi’s Mansion 3, has a glitch in his programming that causes Luigi to rapidly snap to the end of his lance when performing his charge attack if he runs over Gooigi in the process. Note that King MacFrights always targets Luigi and two-player mode is needed to move Gooigi into his path for this to occur.
This is likely due to some portion of the code treating Gooigi being hit as Luigi being hit, and Luigi’s model being transported to the lance as a result.
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Group image of Nintendo of Japan staff with Mario in the shape of the number 25,
from Super Mario History 1985-2010, a booklet celebrating the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros., bundled with Super Mario All-Stars Limited Edition.
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Concept art for Super Mario Odyssey, depicting Mario taking an elevator with a New Donker and two Goomba businessmen in the Metro Kingdom, found in the Art of Super Mario Odyssey book.
Note that there is a Chargin Chuck outside the window; their appearance in this kingdom was removed very late in development as materials from E3 2017 show “Chargin’ Chuck” written on the world map in the Metro Kingdom. This suggests that Goomba businessmen could have made it past the concept stage, but were taken out during development, as well.
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In Super Mario World, the secret exit in Forest of Illusion 3 normally requires Mario to have a power-up to break the Flip Blocks. However, even Small Mario can access the exit by taking a Galoomba (called Goombas at the time of the game’s release) through the pipe. By throwing the Galoomba into the grey Hard Blocks, it will clip through, activate a Flip Block and allow Small Mario to reach the key and keyhole.
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Officially licensed Mario bear design from Build-A-Bear Workshop.
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In the Mario Party 8 minigame “Crank to Rank”, the camera briefly moves up when the minigame ends before moving back down to show the characters lining up for the results. During this, the characters teleport from their positions at the bottom of the flagpoles to their final positions; the camera is meant to hide this.
However, Waluigi is so tall that even with the camera pointing away, he is able to get into frame as he teleports, breaking the illusion. Watch the bottom right corner of the screen closely to see Waluigi pop in after the “FINISH” text disappears.
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