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Dream art from 2018! Featuring a "new" mario enemy, Baby Trike, and a new power-up.

The dream was about a AR horror game featuring Mario characters. The goal of the game was to sneak around this Unity Asset Store-looking house (that's supposed to generate based on your own house's layout) and avoid being caught by monsters. A new Mario enemy was introduced called the "Baby Trike", a Reznor-like dino that would charge at you if it saw you. It could only be defeated by a special power-up called the "Point Hammer", which looked like a tapered red and blue plank/bat with a spike on one side.

Full dream journal below the cut:

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lowk kinda locked in for this lil thing but I drew piranha plant on miiverse for whatever reason

why? not sure

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Name: Maizō

Debut: Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3

This crab... oh, what do I think of this crab? I think it's well past time I talk about this crab! I always adore the Super Mario Land 2/3 enemy artwork style, and at this point it's become nostalgic to me! I love those little vertical oval pupils. How darling. And I love how many gloves are present in these depictions! Everyone's wearing them! No one wants their hands dirty, least of all this crab who spends most of its time buried underground!

It's obvious what they were going for with Maizō. Whenever you encounter one, it's holding a big ol' coin, worth 10 coins! Clearly, they were trying to evoke Mr. Krabs with this enemy. They thought that if they could bring to mind such an iconic character, the game would be even more popular! Unfortunately, they hit an unexpected issue. It turns out Wario Land released in 1994, five years before the first SpongeBob episode aired. Nobody knew who Mr. Krabs was yet, not even any of the game designers! What a bummer!

While it's clearly a coin, I have just never been able to stop thinking that Maizō looks like it's holding a communion wafer. A real Katholic Krab. It must hide its treasured Jesus Snack, because it's just so delicious, that any other critter would want to eat it right away! Spread some Mary Marmalade on it, and you've got quite a divine delicacy!

I really like how many different limb types Maizō has. Big claws for... well, I would think they're for fighting, but it's using them for clutching. Little hands for manipulating objects, such as the steering wheel of the bus it drives for a living. And on the bottom, little feets, for operating the pedals of the bus it drives for a living.

Yep, that's what happens when a Mario enemy isn't in games anymore. It needs to make money somehow! And they all turn to public transport jobs. Every last one of them. We don't know why. They keep becoming bus drivers or subway workers or railroad conductors without ever consulting any other enemies first. And they always get surprised when they see their fellow obscure enemies on the job. It's been happening for like, 37 years now. It shows no sign of stopping. What an interesting world we live in!

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I know Sonic's not considered a 'weird' Mario enemy by any means–ever since his debut in Super Mario Land 4: Eight Golden Coins, he's stayed a staple enemy of the masked menace for quite a while, and even got to have his racing debut recently in Mario Kart World!

So, what's the point of covering him, you may ask? Well, something that is obscure about Sonic–or at least, something I never hear the Mario fandom talk about–is that he has his own spinoff series, centered around himself! And within that spinoff series is...

Name: Small Sonic

Debut: Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)

We all know what happens when Mario takes damage, right? Yup–he scatters all the coins he's collected over the course of the level. It's iconic! It's memorable! It's been a staple since his debut! But Sonic is different. Sonic is weird. When Sonic gets hit, rather than scattering rings, he becomes a smaller version of himself!

In fact, rather than being the normal size that we all know and love–actually known as 'Super Sonic'' in the games with Small Sonic in them–Sonic starts out each level as Small Sonic, and needs to break open a Grow monitor to get any bigger!

When asked about this, series designer Yuji Naka said that it was a 'necessary feature' due to the 'hardware limitations of the Genesis software' (or the Mega Drive as it's known in the US). Indeed, once the Sonic series stopped making games for the Genesis and moved on to 3D platformers, Small Sonic was seemingly abandoned for good, with levels ALWAYS having 'Super Sonic' as the default.

This was how it went for decades, but it didn't last forever. After years of abandoning the 2D platformer formula, Sega decided to pander to the nostalgic crowd and start releasing 2D platforming games that played 'just like the good old days'; Small Sonic included!

While Small Sonic looked identical to Super Sonic back in the day, the only difference being their size, in modern years they've taken multiple measures to distinguish the two (as you see above!) since Small Sonic is no longer the 'default'.

Small Sonic is now lighter blue, has no soles on his shoes, has black eyes (just like the classic games, before they had enough cartridge space to add the 'color' 'green') and is even cute and chubby! Other Small versions of characters, such as Tails & Knuckles, follow in a similar formula, though Small Amy on the other hand looks way different...but that will be covered in our next post!

Till then, traw-dee-lah, and I want Lanolin the Sheep to spit into my mouth.

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Name: Blooey

Debut: Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door

Wow. So this is it? This is that show that kids and adults alike have fallen in love with? The show that's getting an entire section in the Animal Kingdom at Disney World? I can't say I expected the show to end up being a golden-brown squid who appears in one game. But it's nice to know that so many people can interpret such profound meaning out of this fellow!

Blooey is one of Luigi's Partners That Hate Him For His Bumbling Antics. Luigi's lack of dexterity led him to throw Blooey into lava, but don't worry! This is fictional lava, so it's just a minor inconvenience! Blooey probably just bounced up with a flaming butt (?) crying "wahahahahaha". And he is now a crisp golden brown. Even his eyeballs! Me-ouch! (that would be a good joke if he was a cat)

I wouldn't eat him, and I apologize to him if that's insulting. I just don't want to eat squid! His Japanese name brings "cookie" to mind, and I do love to eat "cookie". Could Blooey be like a mythical gingerbread man, a living cookie with an attitude all its own? Hell no he can't! He's a squid who fell into lava. We just went over that!

Blooey rather resembles Dried Blooper from Bowser's Inside Story, which is probably a coincidence, but it's nifty that two different RPG spinoffs have featured Crispy Bloopers, both in their most acclaimed installments! I know people love Super Mario RPG, but just imagine how much they would love it if there was a Crispy Blooper. Imagine if Geno was replaced with Dried Blooper. Mario's party members just show up and disappear when needed for cutscenes, but if one of these party members was Dried Blooper, then Mario could carry him around neatly in a folder. New and untold levels of immersion. Just consider it. Thank you.

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