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The hulking figure and bird-like mask of Void Termina's humanoid form are inspired by Sachiel, the first Angel fought by the protagonist in Neon Genesis Evangelion.
Much like Sachiel, Void Termina can also project blades of energy from its hands.
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In Kirby Super Star, the cannonballs fired by Main Cannon No. 2 provide the Yo-Yo ability when inhaled.
In Kirby Super Star Ultra, they instead provide the Bomb ability. The reason for this change is unknown.
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Some unused Return to Dreamland animations. Note the idle for Chilly is used but only for a split second.
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Old screenshot from HALLABS website showing what apears to be a development screenshot of the Pop up style Kirby prototype.
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In the Korean version of Kirby Super Star for the Super Nintendo, slight edits were made to the Samurai Kirby minigame. Some of the characters were altered to give them there original designs. This change is unknown.
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A lost Kirby game which used the connection between the gameboy advance and gamecube for gameplay. Demonstrated here by Satoru Iwata, we see how the gameplay shifts between the two platforms.
"Game over? No! Not even close!"
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Kirby GCN Levels get a full-blown remodeling as well. (The GCN level is the background)
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Banpresto Kirby keychains from the early 2000s
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More concept art of Kirby and The Forgotten Land
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Kirby's Adventure has a particularly difficult puzzle room that was cut from the game. It is cleared by doing this:
Hit the stake with stone/hammer -> ditch the ability and inhale Laser Ball to earn laser before it's destroyed -> shoot the laser at the slope -> enter the cannon.
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The new sub-game ガンガンブラスターズ (lit. Gun Gun Blasters) in Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe features a new remix of Machine Passage from Kirby Air Ride.
This is the first time the song has been remixed.
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An unused Waddle Doo animation in Kirby's Block Ball shows that his eye would've popped out of his socket. twitter.com/1bridgeyboo/st…
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Kirby Red Diamond is a bootleg Pocket NES conversion of Kirby's Adventure that was made somewhere around 2004. It was sold on early online auction sites and would be taken down if people were to ask questions about its legitimacy.
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Kirby Right Back at Ya being shown at Space World 2001 to demonstrate the Panasonic Q, which was a Gamecube with the ability to play DVDs. It is also important to note that this was over a month before RBAY officially aired. SW '01 (Aug. 24-26), RBAY's air date in Japan (Oct. 06)
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Hirokazu Ando preforming a live rendition of the Kirby's Epic Yarn version of Green Greens using a Pianica.
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