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In 2013, Nintendo of America hired hand shadow performer Drew Colby to create a shadow-based commercial for Super Mario 3D World. Alongside the commercial, Nintendo published a guide on how to produce shadows of objects from the game.
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The officially licensed Mario Party 5 plush of Luigi is of notoriously low build quality, causing the mustaches of many of the plushes to fall off over time.
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Charles Martinet during a recording session for Mario Party 4. Each photo was taken when he was voicing a different character: 1. Wario, 2. Luigi, 3. Waluigi, 4. Mario.
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In 2009, a team of nanobiology researchers from Osaka University in Japan genetically engineered three types of bacteria to generate fluorescent proteins in order to arrange them to replicate the Small Mario sprite from Super Mario Bros. as a demonstration.
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Nintendo VIP 24:7 was a mid-2000s Nintendo of Europe rewards program, similar to the later Club Nintendo. One premium downloadable wallpaper from that service featured a hallway with a Toad eating the wallpaper, for an unknown reason.
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Last year, I posted about an extremely rare artwork of Toad and Yoshi holding hands, which was only available in low quality. I was finally able to track down a high-resolution version of the artwork in a Japanese magazine.
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In Super Mario Galaxy 2, the Wigglers on the slide in Tall Trunk Galaxy are actually a special "Adjustable-Length Wiggler" object. While the game never gives them more than 4 body segments, the object actually supports a maximum of 400. Below is a Wiggler of maximum length.
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The Wii BIOS contains this extremely small picture of Mario in its files. As such, Mario can technically be said to have been on every Wii console ever made, regardless of whether the owner has ever played a Mario game on it.
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The red coin mission of Ricco Harbor in Super Mario Sunshine is notorious for not letting Mario dismount the Blooper, making it unnecessarily hard to collect the Shine Sprite. However, there is a secret way to dismount the Blooper: by ramming it into the pool float Pianta.
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In Mario Kart Wii, each vehicle has seven stats (speed, acceleration, drift etc.), which are each modified depending on the chosen driver. By analyzing all driver-vehicle combinations, it is revealed that the one with the highest stat total is Baby Peach riding the Quacker.
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If an online player in Mario Kart Wii is using a heavy male Mii wearing the Outfit A, while riding either the Wario Bike, Shooting Star or Phantom vehicles, the Mii will be displayed as stuck in a T-pose. No other character/outfit/vehicle combinations will result in this glitch.
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Plum is a golfer from the N64 Mario Golf whose trophy appears in Super Smash Bros. Melee. For an unknown reason, whenever Plum's trophy is displayed, this pixel art of a gun is loaded into the game's memory. It only appears here and is not used by the game in any other context.
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Official artwork depicting an unused scene from the "Nintendo Switch Parental Controls" video featuring Bowser and Bowser Jr. While the original video was published in January 2017, this image was uploaded to the official Nintendo of Japan website only in November 2018.
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Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour was the last Mario game to have received the Official Nintendo Seal of Quality from Nintendo of America, as later, the seal was changed to no longer promise any quality. Nintendo of Europe still guarantees quality by using the old seal to this day.
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In the September 1999 kiosk demo for Donkey Kong 64, only three specific events could be played; however, other areas remain in the code. If Jungle Japes is accessed and Diddy Kong is approached on that map, he will keep repeating "HELP ME! I'M TRAPPED" in the manner depicted.
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Between the releases of the original Japanese version of Super Smash Bros. and the international versions, Mario and Luigi have been made slightly taller, while Kirby has been made slightly shorter. These are the only characters whose sizes are location-dependent.
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The Art of Super Mario Odyssey book contains three rejected designs for the game's box art. I have created mock-ups of what the box for the game would look like if they were used.
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Inspirational Mario wall decals sold by Walmart that consist of seemingly randomly chosen Mario artwork paired with unrelated quotes.
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In 2016, Nintendo trademarked the Super Mario Bros. coin sound. Below is the trademark application document, which provides official sheet music for the sound.
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A 2005 issue of Nintendo Power featured a comedy section that included a "new look for Mario based on feedback from focus groups", using this illustration. Here is the Mario artwork used, isolated from the background.
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Due to the plot of WarioWare: Get It Together involving multiple nested games within games, it is possible at one point during its story mode to play a game within a game within a game within a game within a game. Details in image.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, Mario has drastically different expressions when climbing up a pole compared to climbing down. When climbing up, Mario is visibly happy. However, when climbing down, his joy suddenly turns to anger.
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Illustration of enemies being terrified of Mario using a Fire Flower, from the Japanese 64 Dream magazine.
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A 1995 Yoshi's Island manga explains that the reason Yoshi cannot swallow Bumpties in-game, unlike most other enemies, is because his mother used to feed him Bumpties as a child and he never liked the taste, leading to an aversion to eating them in adulthood.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, Princess Peach is seen in every kingdom after the end of the game, going on a trip with Tiara. The Art of Super Mario Odyssey book reveals there was a concept for Bowser to take such a trip as well, to ease his heartbreak after being rejected by Peach.
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