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Post by boodestroyer on May 11, 2011 12:55:33 GMT -5
We'd already figure that it was but a decoy of King Boo's.
But it's still not even specified what exactly it was.
Puppet?
Robot?
Animated statue?
But my guess is one of those False Bowsers in SMB1 (NES) in Worlds 1-7.
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Post by Vent on May 11, 2011 13:32:08 GMT -5
It looks like a giant mascot costume.  |
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Post by Sarisa on May 11, 2011 14:03:33 GMT -5
Isn't that pretty much what the False Bowsers were, Bowser suits with some basic powers for lesser creatures?
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Post by boodestroyer on May 11, 2011 14:20:01 GMT -5
Exactly. That's what I said there.
Say if you have SMB1 remade with revamped graphics, I'm sure that's what it would be as you see the baddy jump out.
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Post by kingkoopa on May 11, 2011 15:33:42 GMT -5
I always figured it was some supernatural Bowser costume that King Boo had charmed.
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Post by cheat-master30 on May 11, 2011 16:38:00 GMT -5
It's definitely magical in some way, that head floats around trying to kill you while Luigi attempts to capture King Boo with the poltergust.
My best guess is 'magical robot'.
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Post by Sarisa on May 11, 2011 16:48:38 GMT -5
Remember how much magitek the Koopa Troop has around? A magically animated completely enclosing suit would look like a mascot outfit, grant some powers characteristic of Bowser (the ability to breathe fire, at a minimum), have some sort of magical control scheme to compensate for the wearers' varying anatomy, and even work when not entirely connected thanks to the magic powering it. Like a giant robot, but only Bowser-sized. It must be really expensive since it shows up so rarely.
We don't see the head fly off or anything because no character in SMB has the needed tools to do so.
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Post by kingkoopa on May 11, 2011 20:54:45 GMT -5
Something tells me that it was King Boo's magic that was powering the suit though. Becuase when you capture King Boo, the Bowser Head falls to the ground
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Post by Koopalmier on May 12, 2011 6:24:53 GMT -5
My theory is that Bowser was indeed killed by Mario, as Madame Clairvoya claims. And King Boo revived him.
But I think that, to thank King Boo for reviving him, Bowser allowed him to make a suit based on his body.
I think that the suit can move by itself because King Boo partially possessed it. After you vacuum up King Boo, the suit stops moving, and it appears inside the painting with King Boo because the ghost king kept some of his power in it. You only see the suit on the painting in Mario Kart: Double Dash and Mario Kart DS, further proving it is ghostly (as King Boo kept some of his power in it).
Man, that sounds confused. I don't feel like thinking, right now.
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Post by boodestroyer on May 12, 2011 13:08:46 GMT -5
(I still maintain it as the SMB1 False Bowsers, as those minions would have disguised themselves very similarly, except without the power that King Boo had.) Remember, there have been several instances of Bowser decoys before and even after this. The Koopa Bros. certainly had their thing too, but then it was poorly built. And to a certain degree, there was Bowser Jr.'s Mecha-Bowser, which at least could breathe fire, unlike the Trojan Bowser.
Okay, time to break this down, Scooby Doo-style:
King Boo's Bowser mech seems to be an animatronic type robot in which King Boo had retooled into a battle-built mecha, showing off his trickery to Luigi. There would be a cockpit inside, in which King Boo would fire it up with an ignition key and use the controls from within to keep it going. The monitor in front of it can be viewed through the eyes with the proper wiring.
Buttons for materializing explosives, vacuum and fire through the head (with flamethrower and some kind of Poltergust technology installed in the mouth part).
In the event of Luigi setting off the weakness to expose King Boo (in which he had to eject immediately), the body and head both had hidden transmission antennae which send radio waves to each other, to keep the head - with hidden propulsion systems - moving (similar to Quadraxis from Metroid Prime 2: Echoes), and putting to use the extra ice shooter in the mouth, and then the body and head reconnect as King Boo returns to pilot the robot some more (reversed head due to failing transmission as well as King Boo getting weaker over time).
Ultimately, King Boo's ploy failed when the head part came loose, and he didn't know of this beforehand as all its systems shut down in the end, when he was done in. A crafty one, I'll give him that, but he actually sure is kind of stupid. Can't handle a fight on his very own, so he has to pilot a mecha, and he's even too stupid to tell that he's piloting a mecha.
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