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Through level editing, it is possible to add an Ice Copy Essence to Point of Arrival in the Forgotten Land demo.
Doing so allows interactions Ice and Frosty Ice have with bodies of water, such as skating and creating snow Mr. Frosty on top of it.
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November 2004 VS May 2005. It took them a couple of months to add goggles.
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Early releases of the English dub of Kirby Right Back At Ya accidentally credit Game Freak and Creatures. This is present from the Kirby Comes to Cappy Town DVD release.
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The Japanese version of Kirby's Dream Course has a special intro that the other versions unfortunately don't include.
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In Kirby's Dream Land 3, the title screen of the Boss Butch subgame (the equivalent of The Arena) features all the main bosses of the game.
In Kirby: Triple Deluxe, Zero is absent from the Boss Butch keychain. The reason for this is unknown.
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Banpresto Kirby keychains from the early 2000s
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This is a process Sakurai still uses for Smash Bros. He utilizes figures to pose out key frames for fighter moves:
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High Quality rip of some of the Magolors Epiloge ending cards.
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Two Face concept art from Kirby Star Allies
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Bonker animations from Kirby GCN found within the animations of Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe.
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Japanese commercial for Super Smash Bros. which features numerous animated models of characters in the game including Kirby.
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If anyone was wondering, the Boss titles are fully modeled in Kirby and the Forgotten Land.
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Milde from Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island strongly resembles Kirby with their pink color and red shoes and rosy cheeks. It is unclear if this is a full on reference to Kirby but Nintendo is known for sneaking easter eggs like this in other games.
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Kirby GCN Levels get a full-blown remodeling as well. (The GCN level is the background)
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Images of HAL's level design and development tool and workflow for Kirby and the Forgotten Land, made as an editor extension for Unity as shown at CEDEC 2022.
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Early Kirby 64 screenshots appear to have King Dedede, Adeleine and Waddle Dee as playable characters at one point during development but was unfortunately cut from the final release.
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For the 星のカービィ(Kirby Right Back at Ya) Anime series. Some of the songs made for the series were used in Kirby's Air Ride but always looped and never had an end. Luckily, the OST for the anime was released, and we have endings for each song used.
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Unused stage gimmick in Kirby's Adventure.
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