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By unloading the spring model from Spring Mario in Super Mario Galaxy, we can see how his body deforms under the spring. Note that his hands are removed from his model while wearing the spring, as they take up too much space and would interfere with the animations.
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"Super Mario Bros. Vol. 3: Mario Corps Sortie", an army-themed 1985 Mario manga/adventure book. The book features military outfits for Mario, Luigi and Princess Peach.
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Textures used for the Thwomps' facial expressions in Mario Kart 64. Note that the caged, seemingly green Thwomp in the Bowser's Castle course actually uses the same blue textures as the other Thwomps, and is merely lit with stark yellow lighting to appear green.
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Unused early Bomp models from Super Mario Galaxy. In the data, these have a different name from Bomps - their name is "ツキダシくん", which translates to "Bomp-kun"; "kun" being a Japanese honorific used to address young males.
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Concept art of Giant Mario and Koop-zilla for the "Mario Meets Koop-zilla" episode of the Super Mario Bros. Super Show, from the DiC Entertainment archives.
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Hidden message found in the code of Super Mario Land 2. Note that no version of the game released around Christmas. Also, the game is one of the few Mario titles where Mario does not save any character, meaning there is no one who could plausibly say "Thank you Mario!" to him.
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The Power Bee is an insect-like creature that can be eaten to restore Yoshi's health in Yoshi's Story (left). However, the enemy information section in a Yoshi's Story manga depicts the Power Bee as a more fairy-like character (right). This was possibly a scrapped earlier design.
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Thanks to Twitter user @GelGelada, a source for the rare Cape Mario artwork was found, being the box art for a European Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World SNES bundle. The original Tweet has been deleted in accordance with my veracity policy.
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Level 5-Airship in New Super Luigi U features a wooden Luigi figurehead on the first ship. Removing that texture reveals that hidden beneath it is another, very slightly darker wooden Luigi figurehead.
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Close-up of Bowser and Peach cake toppers on the wedding cake seen before the final battle in Super Mario Odyssey. Enclosed is a special message from me on the bottom of the image. Thank you to all my readers for your support. I could not have made it without you.
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Beta screenshot of Shifting Sand Land in Super Mario 64 from Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine. In addition to featuring a different pyramid design and course layout, Mario's mustache is a different shape from the final release, taking up more vertical space on Mario's face.
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The cover of "Unjust Desserts", the 11th in the licensed Nintendo Adventure Books choose-your-own-adventure book series, features a small image of Bowser looking from outside at Mario, Luigi, Yoshi and Toad having a party. To the right is a high-resolution close-up of Bowser.
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Drawing of Mario, Yoshi and Toad by Shigeru Miyamoto, from the British Official Nintendo Magazine.
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Earlier today, I have made a post that contained an erroneous translation from Japanese. I have deleted the original Tweet in accordance with my veracity policy. Below is an explanation of the situation. I apologize for the error and will take steps to prevent it in the future.
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Super Mario 64 DS contains a debug map select screen that can be used to access any area in the game, including two test maps. Loading up the first test map reveals that its name is "Course 0: le searching for Power".
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In Mario Party 8, every playable character can turn into Bowser by using a Bowser Candy item. For Boo, an unused version of his Bowser form exists in the game's files. The one used in the game is on the left, the unused one on the right.
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The ending for the Japanese version of Super Mario World lists enemy names in Japanese, transliterated into the Latin alphabet. Some of them are English names and words; Fishin' Boo is "Spook", Mega Mole is "Indy", and Bullet Bill and Banzai Bill are "Killer" and "Magnum Killer".
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Whenever a Burrbo is defeated in Super Mario Odyssey, it flips into the air in a death animation lasting only a few frames. During the entirety of the death animation, the Burrbo displays an annoyed facial expression, instead of a pained or surprised one like other enemies.
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Album cover for the unlockable "Introducing Wario Deluxe" record in WarioWare Gold.
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Top: official artwork for Dr. Mario on the NES, released by Nintendo in a cropped form. Bottom: a manga theorizing what the uncropped version of that artwork could have possibly looked like.
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Unused animations for Luigi found in the data of Luigi's Mansion.
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Reader-submitted artwork from an issue of GamePro magazine.
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Unlicensed figurines of Mario and Luigi in soccer uniforms. Notable is the fact that the Mario figurines use a Luigi head model, and the Luigi figurines a Mario head model. (This could also be interpreted as Mario wearing Luigi's cap and vice versa.)
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Concept art of Bowser in a military-themed outfit for his appearance in Skylanders: SuperChargers. He appears to be wearing a Star Coin from the New Super Mario Bros. games as a medallion.
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Knucklotec, the boss of the Sand Kingdom in Super Mario Odyssey, wears an elaborate crown made of ice (left). In Snapshot Mode, the Coin filter ignores certain objects, like water, fire and ice. With this filter, we can see what Knucklotec looks like without his crown (right).
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