2/29/2024 0 Comments Super mario 64 koopa submarine art![]() ![]() ![]() Mario lets him out with some pliers, and the reunited band find that Fryguy is guarding the stolen money. I believe this is the first time anyone on this show other than Koopa has used a potion to make a door, and here it takes them to the dungeon where Hooded Robin is being kept in a cage. You’d think Koopa would do a better job of protecting that stuff, but then, that kind of IS how items generally appear in the games, albeit not in a block or under grass. Oh, so NOW you recognize them, but not when they were in the net and not even pretending to be anyone else? Inside the castle, the Princess finds a bottle of potion just sitting around on a shelf. A Troopa falls off the drawbridge when he imagines a better moat, but then jumps back on somehow when he recognizes the Marios. The Mario Men (including the one woman) go on to Koopingham Castle to rescue Robin and get back the money, with a bit where Mario and Luigi disguise themselves as moat salesmen. Then Koopa somehow sets up a cage inside his coach, which Robin flies into without noticing, despite his flight looking pretty slow. ![]() Another animation…well, not error, but strange-looking shortcut, appears when we see the same footage of Robin flying from several different angles. It’s particularly confusing because this is an episode where one of the characters impersonating other ones is part of the plot. I guess the animators figured that, if there was dialogue, we had to see the one speaking it. Errors like that are pretty common in this series, but they seem to occur especially frequently when the character talking is off-screen. There’s also a bit where Koopa speaks with Toad’s voice. Toad shows up in front of Koopa’s coach to insist that the road they’re on is now charging a toll (he must have seen Blazing Saddles recently), but the Sheriff doesn’t fall for it, so instead there’s a fight. This episode seems to owe a lot to the Disney Robin Hood, not in that it’s a direct rip-off, but that Robin and friends are portrayed as tricksters who wear a lot of disguises. While Robin has an English accent (if not a particularly good one), the Toad kid doesn’t. The village is inhabited by a few Toads, only one of whom talks, in the same tinny, distorted voice as many of the others on this show. Did he even pretend he was taxing them, or just take it? From King to Sheriff sounds like a significant demotion, but hey, he plays the role that’s appropriate for the setting. The usual heroes go with Robin to Sharewood Village, where they find out that the Sheriff of Koopingham, as he’s called this time, has taken all their money. He’s an expert at imitating voices, which he refers to as “human calls,” a decent play on words but I don’t think Koopa is human. The Troopas hear Koopa’s voice telling them to go into the woods and pick daisies, which they do but the voice is actually that of Hooded Robin, who is indeed a bird (although he doesn’t look much like a robin) in a hat. Several Koopa Troopas, who have bows with plunger arrows (I thought the Marios were the only ones who used plumbing tools as weapons), come up and assume they’re Hooded Robin.Įven when they talk and they’re clearly King Koopa’s arch-nemeses, the Troopas still insist they must be Robin, which apparently means that their leader presently views Robin as a bigger threat than his main antagonists. Hooded Robin and His Mario Men – Mario and his entourage are in Sharewood Forest on their way to Sharewood Village for some reason, and are pretty much immediately caught in a net. Another week (well, more or less), another set of Super Mario Bros. ![]()
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