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In Super Mario Bros. 3 and its remake in Super Mario All-Stars, it is not possible to interact with the wands that fall down after defeating the Koopalings by using Mario or Luigi’s tail in Raccoon or Tanooki form (top). However, in Super Mario Advance 4, an Easter Egg was added where hitting the wand with the tail will cause it to be thrown into the air while emitting sparkles.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Source: myself, footage captured in various emulators
Unused extremely low-polygon models of racers found in the data of Mario Kart Arcade GP. These were intended to be used for cases where the camera is extremely far away from the racers in question; however, in the finished game the racers simply are not rendered at those distances instead.
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During a cutscene in the Bowser Jr.’s Journey mode of Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story + Bowser Jr.’s Journey, two Fly Guys each drop a Bob-omb. Due to an oversight, one of the Bob-ombs (the one next to the right edge of the screen in the footage) has no idle animation and is completely motionless from the moment it is dropped until the scene is over.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Small Findings | Source: 1: twitter.com user “GamingReinvent”, 2
Top left: the Sphynx from Super Mario Odyssey. It clearly resembles the real-world Giza Sphinx in Egypt; however, it is not only designed in its likeness, but uses actual 3D scans of the monument for its textures.
Top right: a frontal view of the Sphynx’s face.
Bottom: a frontal view of the Giza Sphinx’s face. Note the identical positions of the major notches in the stone, such as to the left of the lips. Note also the identical breakaway markings around the nose.
This is not the first time a Mario game has taken source material related to Egypt directly instead of recreating it; Super Mario 64 uses a photo of the Pyramids of Giza in the Shifting Sand Land skybox, as can be seen in this post.
Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Small Findings | Source: 1, 2, 3
