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Cover of a 1985 Japanese guide for Super Mario Bros., featuring an original design for Princess Peach. Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Small Findings | Source

Covers of the Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2 soundtrack albums offered by Club Nintendo. Note the musical notes mixed in with the stars inside Mario’s and Yoshi’s silhouettes. Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Store | Small Findings | Source: 1, 2

Whenever Mario performs a somersault in Super Mario Bros. 3 (this move replaces the regular jump while using a Super Star) in Raccoon or Tanooki form, his tail disappears for the duration of the jump. This applies to all versions of the game. Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source

Officially licensed 2013 Super Mario 3D World figurines from Japan that feature small hooks that allow them to be attached to objects. Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source

Cover of a 1996 issue of the Japanese Famitsu magazine showing the magazine’s mascot, Necky the Fox, using a Wing Cap while wearing Mario’s outfit, mimicking official art for Super Mario 64. Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source

The manual for the Super Mario Bros. Game & Watch includes a small drawing of Mario being squashed between a wall and the left edge of the screen in an autoscrolling segment. This is the only existing illustration of Mario interacting with an autoscroll directly, as Mario games usually do not acknowledge it as an in-universe element. Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: NA manual for Super Mario Bros. (Game & Watch)

Princess Peach statue on display at the Mario Factory merchandise store in Saitama, Japan in 2008. Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source

1991 animation cel used in the production of the Super Mario World cartoon. Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source

The “Perfect” cutscene from Super Mario Advance 2, shown when every Dragon Coin is collected in every level. As a reward, the Dragon Coins change to depict Peach on that save file instead. Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source

Concept art for a shot from the cutscene of Mario entering the Cascade Kingdom in Super Mario Odyssey for the first time, seen in the Art of Super Mario Odyssey book, and the same shot as seen in the finished game for comparison. Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Source: scan provided by twitter.com users “OtherEhm” and “eientei__”

Officially licensed Super Mario Sunshine Bowser Jr. minifigure from Japan, one of the few pieces of merchandise using his blue bandana seen in this game’s cutscenes as opposed to the white bandana with a mouth design he has had in his other appearances since. Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source

Artwork of Mario saying “Hi!”, drawn by Shigeru Miyamoto in 1992 for the Latin American editions of the Club Nintendo magazine. Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source: Club Nintendo (Chile), Issue 8, 1992

Artwork of Mario and Cappy from Super Mario Odyssey, drawn by Yukio Sawada, the artist of the official Super Mario-kun manga, and used as a prize for a contest in the Japanese Famitsu magazine. Main Blog | Twitter | Patreon | Small Findings | Source

Princess Peach wearing a racing outfit with sponsor logos in a 1993 Mario variety manga. This predates the introduction of actual sponsor logos to the Mario Kart series, as those appeared in Mario Kart 64 in 1996; the first time a character was actually seen wearing them on clothes was in Super Mario Odyssey in 2017. Note also that “Mario Kart” is misspelled as “Mario Cart” on her collar.

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Set of officially licensed Yoshi’s Island figurines from Japan.

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