#fiery bulblax pikmin

[rxg1nald]

glass balloon

[pikpiksoup]

I love drawing grub dogs lol

[terriblyjadedgamer]

~Brush Fire~

[flamefireflower]

[Day 11 - Lumiknoll]

That Glow Sap must really be something special for the whole local ecosystem to go crazy for it, huh. I think the Night Expeditions were a great feature. Even if it was - at its core - basically a minigame, I found it to be very enjoyable. Almost felt like a weird tower defense hybrid mode, which is the last thing I expected to show up in a Pikmin game

[literallyjustabulborb]

RATING EVERY THING I'VE SEEN DAY THIRTY SEVEN: FIERY BULBLAX

LIKE ME, BUT ON FIRE! NOW ONLY THE RED ONES CAN HURT THEM. WELL, EXCEPT THAT IF THEY STEP EVEN A SINGLE TOE IN WATER THEIR FIRE GOES OUT, I DON'T QUITE UNDERSTAND WHY. THEY'RE ALSO KIND OF UGLY, BUT I VALUE FUNCTION OVER ASTHETICS! ALSO WHY IS IT THAT THEY'RE CALLED "BULBLAX" AND NOT "BULBORB"?

9/10

[louivi]

Fiery Bulblax

[pikmoms]

I NEVER POSTED THE OTHER BORBS!!!

From left to right:

Bulbear

Whiptongue Bulborb

Orange Bulborb

Fiery Bulblax

[brosif40]

got pikmin 2 recently and .. i love how you can just take naps in the game.. letting the lil guys go eep REAL! getting a good rest before the horrors continue <3

[starrieskies]

going back to pikmin 2 from 4 was a mistake. my brain can't turn off baby mode and i suddenly cannot aim

[cartographers-office]

The PNF-404 Phylogenetic Tree

A bit of a different post from the usual, as I have been very hyped for Pikmin 4! Here's my speculative phylogenetic tree for most of the creatures in the Pikmin series. It is a bit more cautious than an actual phylogenetic tree, so there are a lot of soft polytomies (ideally every branch split should only have two children), but I digress.

Edit

It seems that Tumblr's compression did some nasty work on my post, so I'm gonna leave here a link to my phylogenetic tree in case anyone would like to see it in its full glory.

Here are also all the notes on the image in case anyone needs those too:

Author's Notes

Updated as of the Pikmin 4 Demo.

Icons taken from the Pikipedia and Pikmin games.

Fonts used are “Pikmin Font” by TheAdorableOshawott and “Dimbo” by Jayvee Enaguas.

Species with multiple scientific names

The Red Bulborb, Empress Bulblax and Bulborb Larvae are all explicitly different forms of the same species, as is the case in their Japanese technical name.

The Spotty Bulbear and Dwarf Bulbear are both explicitly different forms of the same species, as is the case in their Japanese technical name.

The Baldy Long Legs and Hairy Long Legs are explicitly stated to be the same species.

The Centipare and adult Centipare have completely different scientific name and family.

Incorrect scientific name (according to Japanese family name)

Despite being in the Breadbug family, the Fiery Dwarf Bulblax, has the Oculus genus instead of Pansarus. This is corrected here.

Despite not being in the Blowhog family, the Tusked Blowhog shares its Sus genus.

Despite not being in the Mandiblards family, the Shooting Spiner shares its Himeagea genus.

Despite not being in the Flint Beetle family, the Glint Beetle shares its Pilli genus.

The Floaterbie family is supposed to be the same family as the Flutterbie family in the original Japanese.

The Crysanthemum family is considered the same as the Dandelion family in the original Japanese.

Changes due to assumed consistency

All Wollyhop names have been updated to match the Wolpole's European name, which was standardized in Pikmin 4.

Similarly, All mentions of the “frodendum" specific name have been updated to match Wolpole's frondiferorum name in Pikmin 4.

The Red Spectralid has a different genus (Fenestrati) than every other Spectralid. This is likely a mistake is corrected here.

Despite not all Candypop Buds being present in the Pikmin 4 Demo, it is assumed they are all now considered the same species in the Piklopedia.

Scientific name in the wrong order

The Fiery Young Yellow Wollyhop has its “volcanus" subspecies name incorrectly placed in front of its scientific name. This is corrected here.

The Queen Shearwig, Speargrub and Sheargrub all have their genus incorrectly placed as their specific name. This is corrected here.

Incorrect use of real taxonomy terms

The genus Chilopoda of the Centipare is actually the real world class of the centipedes.

The genus Stauromedusae of the Medusal Slurker is actually a real world order of cnidarians.

The specific name phytohabitans of the Leech Hydroe is actually a real world genus of bacteria.

The genus of the Common Glowcap is actually the real world kingdom of fungi.

Inconsistencies within English localizations

The Coppeler has the Scarpanica genus added in the American localization.

The Armurk has different scientific names: Tegoparastacoidea reptantia (US) and Scalobita rotunda (EU).

Other Notes

The Caustic Dweevil was renamed to Hydro Dweevil and its scientific name to Mandarachnia aquadis in the Switch port of Pikmin 2.

Although the Puffstool has no confirmed family, it shares a genus with the Puffstalk, implying they are likely related.

Missing creatures: Mamuta, Smoky Progg, Blubbug, Puffy Blubbug, Electric Cottonade, Red Blubblimp, Seedbagger, Stuffed Bellbloom.

Unplaceable creatures (extradimensional and/or possibly entirely artificial life forms): Waterwraith, Plasm Wraith.

[snapinatorarts]

Yesterday - Tomorrow

Inktober Day 12: SPICY

I like its design, but when I was little I always hated the fiery bulblax. I was just such a wimp and anything I couldn't cheese with purple pikmin was enormously stressful.

I should really revisit Pikmin 2!

[big-mareep-fan-mmhmm-yeah]

Aight my turn to make one of those ‘which of these didn’t happen in media’ polls, so letsa go, but with a lil twist

[intergalacticfloralexplorers]

Intergalactic Floral Explorers AU: The Full Story

-The rest of Event 1 and first intermission-

Event 1(cont.):

-After Brittany gathers some pikmin from the onion (which only contained blues, rocks ,and winged pikmin) she would encounter a bomb wall. The bomb wall blocks the section to where the ‘courage reactor’ was originally found, which is also where Olimar is. Olimar and Brit realize this, and at this point the ship contacts them. Olimar attempts to contact Louie and Brittany contacts Alph.

- Cut to Alph waking up on top of the snowman, having no memory of how the ship crashed. He finds the yellow onion and some yellow pikmin digging up bomb rocks. After calling them over, he walks in the direction where the Fiery Bulblax is and lo and behold, Charlie is being attacked by it. A yellow pikmin (Rigol) saves him by throwing a bomb rock at the Bulblax. Charlie was over there because he was retrieving Alph’s koppad (C’s broke during the crash) and after getting it back, A and C retrieve the call from Brittany.

- A and C are on their way to their location, Brit tells Oli and the ship the good news (Oli was unable to contact Louie) and so they opt to wait. The ship is making minor repairs to the Drake at this same time too. But then the Smoky Progg appears behind a distracted Olimar, killing 2 red pikmin. Olimar flees holding the last remaining red pikmin, Brit comms Alph and Charlie to hurry!

- The Progg corners Olimar, and Oli braces himself for a fight, but then Louie comes seemingly out of nowhere and strikes one of its eyes with his butcher knife. 

-The Progg flees, O and L stare at each other awkwardly for a moment before Olimar begins to express his relief, for Louie is ok, and also concern, for Louie’s nose is bleeding. Lou tells him he’s fine, and the nosebleed was from the crash and that it's nothing. 

- Distant explosions are heard, A B and C have destroyed the wall. O and L reunite with the koppaites just before dusk, and they head back into the Drake, ending the day.

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An “Intermission” period would occur to answer asks, explore characters and areas, introduce the leading piks, Blue returns to our universe, etc. y'know, a little break before the story continues :]

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[parmesanman2]

I want to go through all of the Pikmin creatures, giving my thoughts on them and go a little into my headcanons on their biology and behavior. While I won’t be going in any real order, I think the best place to start is with. Them.

The common bulborb, Oculus Kageyamii Russus, is a nocturnal predator common in PNF-404’s forests. They sleep for most of the day, but start to get active around dusk and hunt throughout the rest of the night. They hunt small animals trying to return to their nests at night. Based on their size and habitat, I assume their usual prey items to be sheargrubs, skitterleaves, potentially flint beetles, young or weak fiery blow hogs, and of course Pikmin. Bulborbs live in small packs of 3-5, which hunt together and communally raise offspring. Pregnant bulborbs form egg sacs within their abdomens, through which they give live birth. These young larvae are buried in a small mound shortly after being born.

Bulborb larvae are born limbless and lacking the distinctive coloring of their parents. Despite this, bulborbs are born fully capable of hunting and eating small prey (some would say too capable). At this age they are already nocturnal, leaving their burrows at night in large swarms. At some point in their development, they will molt into…

Albino dwarf bulborbs, which I will be calling true dwarf bulborbs because the canon name sucks. This stage is much faster than the last on account of the legs, and so are able to leave their birth nest and explore on their own. They will still, however, stay burrowed during the day. They do this because of an interesting quirk of bulborb behavior. Bulborbs identify members of their own species by the coloration and spot patterns on their back. Larval bulborbs lack this coloration and as such are often preyed upon by adults. To avoid this, they only hunt at night, where their coloration is harder to see.

All terrestrial grub dogs share these first two life stages. It is only after the second molt that they gain their species unique characteristics. Second molt larva are basically miniature adults, usually rejoining their parents for protection as they grow.

An interesting quirk of the common bulborb is that in response to environmental changes, usually a shortage of resources, they go through monumental behavioral changes. The largest female in the area asserts dominance over her pack and potentially others, and her egg sac begins to swell to titanic proportions.

The resulting creature is an empress bulblax, which will soon begin to give birth en mass. The rest of her pack are split into castes. The remaining females become workers whose job is to dig out and maintain the new colony’s burrow, to care for the larva, and to protect the colony from predators. The largest males will become drones that keep the empress pregnant. Males not involved in reproduction undergo natural sex changes and become extra workers (bulborbs say trans rights).

I’m not entirely sure why bulborbs respond to having less food by making more mouths to feed, but I assume that they’re trying to bunker down and weather the storm. They’re basically pooling their efforts together to outbreed the problem until it blows over.

Special shoutouts to jumbo bulborbs. Ecologically they’re not very interesting, they’re just bulborbs with a chromosomal disorder, but their piklopedia entry is the only instance sperm has ever been mentioned in a Nintendo game.

Overall, I like bulborbs. They’re very friend shaped, I feel like they would be good pets.

[eldritch-muppetshow]

reading the (english) creature logs for hey pikmin and istg this iteration of olimar classifies animals like how diogenes determined humans.

this quadrupedal animal is purple, uses rocks as tools, but is clearly a crustacean? that’s a wraith.

this animal can roll up into a ball and has some pillbug-like traits, but is almost certainly a gastropod? that’s a creep-crab.

this animal has eyestalks and kind of acts like a fiery bulblax if you look at it right, but otherwise looks almost nothing like a bulborb? that’s a bulborb.

[propertyofkylar]

kylar is a poison Pikmin

Robin is a breadbug

Eden is a man-at-legs

Great Hawk is a pileated snagret

Whitney is a fiery bulblax

Black wolf is ancient sirehound

Ivory Wraith is Plasm Wraith

Sydney is greater jellyfloat

Alex is mamuta

Avery is segment Crawbster

Night Monster is Smokey progg

i love the thought that went into this but again i have never played pikmin none of this makes sense to me