Collection of small Yoshi figurines hidden at random within officially licensed Mario bath bombs from Japan.

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Mario Party contains a curious set of textures for a Dice Block that only has six sides. This might appear completely normal to players only familiar with some of the more recent installments of the series, but until Mario Party 9, Dice Blocks did not act like regular six-sided dice.

Instead, they merely had a six-sided shape, but their surface would cycle through the numbers 1 through 10, acting like a 10-sided die in practice. The inclusion of this die implies that during the development of the first Mario Party, it was considered that the Dice Block should only have 6 numbers that it can roll (as it would in reality). The idea was ultimately discarded in favor of the physics-defying six-sided die that can roll 10 numbers, only to be picked back up 14 years later in Mario Party 9.

Interestingly, Super Mario Party would later introduce special Dice Blocks very similar to this one, with six possible numbers that are not sequential from 1 to 6, but rather customized, e.g. 1, 3, 3, 3, 5, 6.

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In Super Mario Advance 4, there is a room that causes Koopa Troopas to assume glitched graphics, almost certainly due to the developers assuming that no Koopas will appear in that room, and thus not loading their graphics into memory.

In the World-e level “The ol’ Switcheroo”, if a P-Wing is used to take a Koopa Troopa all the way from the beginning into the room with the third Advance Coin, which requires careful maneuvering and was as such likely never expected by the developers, the Koopa Troopa’s sprites will appear as a jumble of other graphics.

Top: how the Koopa Troopa’s shell appears.
Bottom: how the Koopa Troopa itself appears after being left idle for long enough to emerge from its shell.

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Officially licensed 2011 Bob-omb T-shirt.

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The 1990 Dr. Mario commercial for Dr. Mario had different variations. One variation that ended with a brief mention of the Game Boy version (airing a few months after the original NES commercial) ended with this original animation of pill bottles dancing.

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Yoshi-themed sample of the 2001 Mario Awards, commemorative glass statues given out by Nintendo of America to merchandisers who were able to sell the most Nintendo merchandise in 2001.

This particular sample is particularly rare as it comes from a point during the manufacturing process before its outside was engraved with the name of the award and honoree, allowing an unobscured look at the 3D Yoshi inside.

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In Paper Mario: Color Splash, the Fire Extinguisher is a Thing that must be used in the boss battle against Morton to progress. The side of it contains a warning/instruction label common for such extinguishers, and it is too far away during gameplay to be able to read the text.

Extracting the texture for the label from the game’s files, however, reveals that the label is written in what is clearly Lorem Ipsum-style gibberish.

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In Super Mario Odyssey, there is a glitch that can be performed in the rematch against Mollusque-Lanceur in the Mushroom Kingdom. If Mario uncaptures a Gushen right above Mollusque-Lanceur’s head and then recaptures it immediately after it bounces off the head once, Mario/the Gushen will be stuck in a state of eternal ascension.

The player will be unable to do anything except moving the camera while Mario perpetually rises by performing short bounces in mid-air. Eventually, the area will disappear and only Mario will remain. In addition, due to the coordinates of Mario’s position steadily increasing, if the game is left on for several years in this state, it will crash.

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Rare officially licensed Mario Party plush of Bowser from Japan. The eyebrows on this plush are notoriously flimsily attached and have a tendency to fall off over time, as seen on the plush in the image.

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In the Mini-Game Island mode of Mario Party, the final challenge is playing a special version of the Slot Car Derby minigame against Toad, who normally never directly takes part in any minigames.

If Toad wins against the player, the screen simply fades out. However, if the code is modified to prevent the fade-out and treat this as a regular minigame, the winning text for Toad can be seen, which is “ALL WINS!”

This suggests that the developers planned at one point to include a message for all players winning, but the string was unused and its internal ID happened to match up with Toad’s player ID, which is also normally unreachable except for within the challenge.

An alternative humorous explanation would be that this particular Toad’s name is “All”.

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