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Officially licensed 2024 Piranha Plant, Blooper, Bob-omb, Boo and Goomba lip balm from Japan.
Note that this is not the first time a Goomba lip balm has been produced, as seen with this limited edition officially licensed 2017 Goomba lip balm I posted about previously.
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Diddy Kong Racing artwork by Rare character designer and Diddy Kong creator Kevin Bayliss, featuring Banjo and Kazooie, Tiptup and Bumper in the background. Note that while Banjo did appear in Diddy Kong Racing, Kazooie did not, and was added specifically for the artwork.
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Top: Super Mario 64 contains an unused “small Chill Bully” enemy (middle of the image), which appears as a smaller version of the regular Chill Bully boss (left).
Bottom: the small Chill Bully is programmed to automatically die if it touches the ground lower than a certain point in a level, having what is essentially its own death barrier. In this footage, the player uses debug functionality to continuously spawn small Chill Bullies around Mario only to have all of them immediately die due to this property.
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Officially licensed holographic Super Mario Bros. stickers from Japan.
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In Mario Party 5, the players’ reflections are faintly seen in the ice in the Ice Hockey minigame. However, looking closely reveals that the reflections are not done the same way they were usually accomplished during that console generation (by putting a copy of the model upside-down below the ice), but with low-resolution 2D sprites instead.
This results in the reflections being highly inaccurate, as the sprites are only available for 16 directions while the character can rotate freely and look in any direction. In addition, the sprites have no skates or hockey sticks, appearing to be miming holding the sticks instead. Note Mario merely pretending to hold a stick in the reflection.
It is unknown why this approach was taken as the game has only 6 players on the field simultaneously, and the GameCube is more than capable of rendering 12 characters at once, so that the regular approach with doubling the models and turning them upside-down should have worked without issues. Mr. Blizzard’s Brigade, a Mario Party 4 minigame, has an icy surface implemented in that manner, which Mario Party 5 should have been able to reuse since it was programmed in the same engine and used many of the same assets.
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In Super Mario Sunshine, there are ten peppers floating in the void outside the King Boo boss battle arena in Casino Delfino. While it might be logical to assume that this is where the peppers are stored before they are spawned during the battle, as this is a common behind-the-scenes way of implementing spawning objects, this is in fact not the case.
The peppers have nothing to do with the peppers that spawn during the battle, and do not seem to have any in-game purpose. For this reason, dataminers refer to these as King Boo’s “personal supply”.
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Officially licensed Bob-omb/Bob-omb Buddy handbag from Japan. The reversible sequins can be pushed up to create a red Bob-omb Buddy, down to create a black regular Bob-omb, or a combination of the two as seen in the photo.
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Segment from a commercial for action figures for the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie, featuring a boy thwarting a Goomba from the movie by jamming its hands in a window.
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Unused Iron Goomba found in the files of Super Mario Galaxy.
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Officially licensed metallic Peach’s Castle puzzle from Japan.
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