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Officially licensed Super Mario 64 sunglasses.

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Yoshi's Story-themed cover of a 1998 issue of the Italian Club Nintendo magazine.

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Cover of the official 1990 Japanese "Super Mario Bros. Special" Super Mario Bros. arrangement album. Note the two Bowsers with a nonstandard coloration.

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Officially licensed 2025 Daisy toy sold at Super Nintendo World in Japan.

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In Mario Party 8, Bowser's car that he appears riding in on the Koopa's Tycoon Town board is driven by a Toady (the small flying Magikoopa-like characters usually seen helping Kamek).

However, an unused animation of Koopa Kid as the driver can be found in the files. Koopa Kid does not appear in the finished game in any capacity.

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Unused room transition animation found in the data of Donkey Kong 64 where the screen would shrink down and then grow back out from a central point. It was likely cut due to being more lengthy than the other animations that were used in the game.

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Officially licensed 2018 Mario rolling pin.

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In Paper Mario: Sticker Star, when applying the "Mountain Boulder" scrap in the Rugged Road area in World 5, if Up is held on the Control Stick immediately after the Paperization is finished, Mario will clip into the boulder in such a way that his head will not be visible.

As seen at the end of the footage, Mario will appear to be headless for as long as the player does not let go of the Control Stick.

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In Super Mario Odyssey, there is a peculiarity with the Neon filter in Snapshot Mode whereby it is not correctly applied to objects whenever they are affected by the pixel-dithering filter that applies to them when they are too close to the camera.

Instead of becoming an outline like everything else, the object in question becomes a silhouette through which the background behind it is visible. This can be used to create unique effects such as the one seen in the screenshot, where water is seen behind Mario as the camera is rapidly zoomed out, so for a few frames while the dithering is still being applied, Mario appears to be a silhouette made out of water.

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1994 concept art sketches for Expresso the Ostrich from Donkey Kong Country.

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Comparison between the Yoshi scene from the 2005 North American commercial for Mario Party 7 (top) and an unused version of the scene found in the archives of KCL Productions, the company that provided the mascot costumes for the commercial (bottom).

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Officially licensed 1996 Yoshi's Island bath towels from Japan.

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Unused version of the New Super Mario Bros. U Castle theme background found in the data of Super Mario Maker 2.

Unlike the finished game's version, which has dark red lighting from the lava and shows a purplish sky through the windows, this version has relatively bright blue columns and shows a bright blue sky through the windows. It is unknown what the intended use for this background could have been.

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In Paper Mario, a small Easter egg interaction occurs if Peach goes back to her room after transforming into a guard using the Sneaky Parasol during the Chapter 6/7 interlude, and checks the mirror.

Peach will remark that she looks frightful and Twink will agree with her. Note that the interaction is the same regardless of whether Peach is in a Koopatrol, Hammer Bro or Clubba form.

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Officially licensed pin for the 1993 Super Mario Bros. movie.

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In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, the player characters' different forms have a surprising interaction with the Shova enemies.

Any form that is not the Elephant form defeats Shovas in three jumps. The Elephant form defeats them in a single jump. However, all forms defeat them with two Spin Jumps.

This makes it appear as though performing a Spin Jump makes regular forms stronger, but the Elephant form weaker.

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Officially licensed Super Mario Advance 2 beach ball from Japan.

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