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The Scribblenauts series revolves around summoning entities by typing in words. The only words that summon a plumber are "Plumber" and "Weegee", a reference to Luigi. In Scribblenauts Unlimited, the plumber summoned with "Weegee" has Luigi's color scheme, further confirming this.
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One issue of the Spanish Hobby Consolas magazine contained a holographic Super Mario Bros. 3 sticker. Unfortunately, the printing method used to achieve the holographic effect did not lend itself to being scanned, resulting in all known scans of the sticker appearing like this.
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A batch of officially licensed 1997 Donkey Kong plushes was manufactured that erroneously labeled Donkey Kong as "Yoshi".
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In the Super Mario All-Stars version of Super Mario Bros., the "Bowser defeated" scene can be played at any time by setting a single byte of memory. However, manually playing it outside of castle levels only prints half of the message, reading
"THANK YO
BUT OUR PRI
ANOTHER CAS".
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An officially licensed 2012 minifigure of Bowser from Japan has a production fault whereby Bowser's eyes are not aligned correctly, causing the figures to appear walleyed.
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The Toad Shop in Super Princess Peach includes a small "description box" on the bottom of the screen (left). However, it seems to serve no purpose as the description of each of the 33 items sold in the shop is "[name of item], that's what that is!"
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In Paper Mario: The Origami King, Bowser Jr. can actually briefly join Mario in battle. Mario must say "no" when he offers to give him a lift, then enter a battle in Shangri-Spa. Despite being completely skippable, Bowser Jr. is tied for the strongest companion alongside Bowser.
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The Lego Super Mario series introduces a new type of enemy not seen in any Mario games: the Boomer Bill, seen in the Boomer Bill Barrage set (left). Note that this is not simply a renaming of Bullet Bill, as it still appears under that name in the Character Packs (right).
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In Super Mario Odyssey, the Glasses Bridge is so named due to looking like the top of a pair of glasses. However, the Art of Super Mario Odyssey book reveals that it originated when the kingdom was supposed to be filled with water, making the reflection complete the glasses.
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Super Mario 64 uses an inventive camera trick to hide a rendering limitation in Big Boo's Haunt. In this room, the default camera is fixed to perfectly align the bars on the window with the door behind it. Only by entering first-person view can we see that the door is missing.
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In Super Mario Galaxy, if the player falls off the ray surfing track after finishing and hits the death barrier on the same frame as the minigame ends, the character will be transported to the winners' podium. However, he will then immediately fall through the ground and die.
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Super Dragon, Yoshi's Final Smash in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, makes him grow wings but otherwise retains his model (left). However, the Super Dragon trophy (right) shows him also losing his saddle. This is the only existing in-game depiction of an adult Yoshi without his saddle.
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In Super Mario Maker, a variety of hands and animal paws can be chosen as a cursor. The white cat paw has an Easter egg: during the Gnat Attack minigame, its claws will extend when tapping flies. No other large cursor, including the grey cat paw, has such an alternate form.
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Official art of Mario used to advertise a Nintendo game development seminar in Japan. Why Mario looks uncertain or uncomfortable is not explained.
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During the World S introductory cutscene in Super Mario Galaxy 2, Mario can be seen as a tiny speck near the edge of the screen, floating in space. Details in image.
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In the data of Version 2.0 of Super Mario Maker 2, the Ninjis have accurate sprites for riding all ridable objects, except Yoshi, who is depicted as a generic wagon. Alongside a previous hint from the Russian text of the game, this suggests more ridable characters coming later.
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In Super Mario Bros. 3, Statue Mario dies when touching a level boundary, which is possible by sliding into it from a slope. This happens in every version of the game except Super Mario Advance 4.
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A 1994 Super Mario Land 2 manga adds context to the hippo statue found in that game's overworld (left). The reason the hippo statue is the access point to the Space Zone is because it was created to honor a hippo astronaut (right).
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In 1984, Hudson Soft was licensed to create a version of the Donkey Kong 3 arcade for the Sharp X1 home computer system. This version includes an info screen detailing point values for defeating enemies that states that Donkey Kong is "impossible to kill".
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Mainline Mario platformers have a history of obstacles based on mines being designed for the games, but ultimately going unused.
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Group photo of the development team of the PC version of Mario's Time Machine, found in the game's files. Don Lloyd, the project manager, is in the middle of the bottom row, holding a sprite of Mario.
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The textures on Waluigi's model in Mario Kart DS are so low-quality that the compression results in the yellow color bleeding out of the "Γ" symbol on his hat and staining part of the white circle surrounding it.
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Normally, answering "No" to a confirmation prompt in the Mario Party series results in simply repeating the selection without any extra animations. However, in Mario Party 2, answering "No" after preparing a game causes the screen to tilt and all characters to fall off.
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In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, if a character wearing a Penguin Suit knocks another character wearing a Penguin Suit off a Yoshi in mid-air using a Ground Pound, for one frame, both of the characters' heads will detach from their bodies.
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