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Unique artwork of Mario in the Sky Pop plane from Super Mario Land, seen at the beginning of an official Japanese guide for Super Mario Land 2 as the guide recaps the events of the previous game.
The artwork was drawn by Benimaru Itoh, known for being a comic artist for Nintendo Power, character designer/art director for the Mother series and illustrator/modeler for various Pokémon games.
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The Nintendo Switch version of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door features a detail absent from the original GameCube version whereby enemies will laugh at Mario if he is hit by a stage hazard (e.g. a light falling from the ceiling) during battle.
The Shadow Queen has two animations meant to be used for this purpose, which do not appear during the battle against her. It is likely that the developers believed her personality was too serious, or the circumstances of the battle too dramatic, that her laughing at Mario getting hit by a falling bucket would not be tonally appropriate.
The left animation is not used at all, while the one on the right is used for a split second in the game’s credits.
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Officially licensed Super Mario Bros. beach ball from Japan, featuring unique artwork of Peach interacting with some Super Stars.
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Concept art for a unique turtle-themed airship design for the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie. The finished movie contains no such vehicles at all.
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Top: in Super Mario 64, catching the lower Ukiki in Tall, Tall Mountain will cause it to steal Mario’s hat (another way to cause it to have the hat is to let the wind blow it off Mario’s head, then leave and re-enter the course). Normally, it will try to dodge Mario by jumping to make catching it and retrieving the hat difficult.
However, it is possible with very unfortunate positioning to cause it to jump over Mario into the water, as seen here.
Bottom: doing so will cause the Ukiki to become stuck underwater, where Mario’s grabbing will no longer be able to pick it up. This makes the hat irretrievable on that visit to the area, with the player needing to either leave and then re-enter the course or to complete the secret slide to try again.
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Promotional photos for an officially licensed 2014 Wiggler plush.
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The Markup Sticker is a humorous item from Super Mario Party Jamboree that can be used on a player to double the price that player must pay for Stars and items on the next turn, suggesting that shops all collude to gouge that specific player on that turn.
However, the internal name for that item is even more humorous, whereby it is called “inflation”. This suggests that instead of the prices simply being marked up as a malicious sales tactic, that player is hit with a localized instance of economic inflation instead.
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In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, at one point during the plot, Mario, Peach, Toadsworth and Prince Peasley are waiting for Luigi to fall down from the sky in a specific spot. Peasley shows that he has retrieved the Beanstar briefly by holding it in his hand.
However, in the prototype version of the game, Peasley’s “holding an object” sprite has not been implemented yet, and as such, a graphical error occurs where he briefly turns into a shocked green Mario instead.
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Short animation of Bowser gaining a Mario hat and pixelated glasses with the caption “DEAL WITH IT”, posted on Nintendo of America’s official Twitter account for Mar10 Day in 2016.
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Splash illustration from a 1997 Super Mario 64 manga.
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