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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, it’s possible to get Mario up to normally inaccessible high places using glitches. If he then walks over a wall, the usual result is falling offstage and quickly respawning at ground level. However, hidden invisible platforms exist in certain areas that will stop Mario in midair below the stage.
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, on rare occasions the Penguins in Poshley Heights may walk backwards after Mario finishes talking to them.
Comparison between the actual size of Mario’s sprite in the Paper Mario series. From left to right: Paper Mario; Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door; Super Paper Mario; Paper Mario: Sticker Star; Paper Mario: Color Splash.
Near the beginning of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, a Bandit runs into Mario, stealing half of his money (upper left). You can find him in his hideout and get the money back (upper right). However, if Mario has 0 coins on him at that point, Goombella will not mention any theft (lower left). In that scenario, the Bandit will note how Mario should have had money on him (lower right).
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, during the events of Chapter 6 a paper is lying in front of Mario’s bed on the Excess Express. If Mario is standing in a precise spot between the paper and the bed, pressing A will bring up a cutscene and a sleep prompt at the same time. Pressing A again will send Mario to sleep, cutting off his partner’s dialogue.
Early version of the “All Aboard” theme from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, found in the files of the prototype of the game.
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Goombella mentions having shoes. Since her sprite uses the same graphics for her feet as all the other Goombas in the game (with only a color change applied), this seems to imply that all Goombas are in fact wearing shoes. However, in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Goombella’s trophy shows a new design for her that adds soles to her feet, differentiating them from other Goombas and making them look more like shoes. While this design decision was most likely a coincidence, there is a chance that it could have been an attempt to clear up the above quote.
This Yoshi in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is the only adult Yoshi character in the game outside the ones that briefly run across the screen during the Yoshi Kid’s Stampede attack, and is the only Yoshi besides the Yoshi Kid that talks. There is roughly a 1/16 chance of encountering him when taking the Excess Express after the completion of Chapter 6, resulting in only a small fraction of players seeing him.
In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, some of the items in the potion-mixing room in the X-Naut Fortress are actually only slightly edited cutouts from stock photographs of real-life objects.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Super Paper Mario use the exact same texture for generic signposts.
