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Post by shadowgoomba on Jul 17, 2009 1:23:31 GMT -5
Have you ever seen that Mythbusters episode where it takes thousands of balloons to lift a kid up into the air? Well, that's helium, but hydrogen isn't much lighter. It would take quite a bit more than that. I assume there's some propulsion system lifting the Yoshi up, maybe magic.
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Post by Toomai on Jul 17, 2009 12:05:15 GMT -5
Hydrogen is about four times lighter than helium. And it does look like there is propulsion - namely, the Yoshi is pushing the air downwards to rise. And yes, Mythbusters is awesome.
Hm - while I was thinking about another reason to add to the above, I thought of "Yoshis are rather light". And they are, since Yoshi's typically a lightweight in the Mario spinoffs. But Yoshi routinely weighs in the top of the list of Smashers - he's fifth-heaviest in SSB64 and SSBM, while in Brawl he's as heavy as Wario in a tie for 8th. What's up with that?
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Post by thedude3445 on Jul 17, 2009 13:05:19 GMT -5
Well that just makes the spinoffs kinda weird, because how could a lightwieight Yoshi carry Mario through whole SMW stages and it not seem like he's being crushed?
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Post by shadowgoomba on Jul 17, 2009 21:02:59 GMT -5
Yoshi in Mario spin-offs might be a different, younger Yoshi, such as the one that appeared in Yoshi's Story, while Melee and Brawl's is the Yoshi from Yoshi's Island or Super Mario World.
Oh wait...the winning theme is from Yoshi's Story...well, it's still the best I've got.
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Post by kingkoopa on Jul 18, 2009 21:54:46 GMT -5
Maybe Yoshi went on Jenny Craig for Brawl
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Post by shadowgoomba on Jul 19, 2009 0:41:30 GMT -5
Then Jenny Craig must work like crap.
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Post by thedude3445 on Jul 19, 2009 16:17:41 GMT -5
lol kingkoopa, you got that mixed up  Well they also have Yoshi's Island DS theme, so music doesn't really matter. But the yoshi in YI is a different one than YS, because all of the Yoshis in YI were brainwashed at the beginning of Story. Unless YS is a prequel to YI, unlike what most people think. |
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Post by kingkoopa on Jul 19, 2009 18:10:51 GMT -5
When where they Brainwashed I don't remember that
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Post by shadowgoomba on Jul 19, 2009 19:05:10 GMT -5
lol kingkoopa, you got that mixed up Well they also have Yoshi's Island DS theme, so music doesn't really matter. But the yoshi in YI is a different one than YS, because all of the Yoshis in YI were brainwashed at the beginning of Story. Unless YS is a prequel to YI, unlike what most people think. It's not a prequel, because Baby Bowser doesn't know who Mario is in Yoshi's Island (as he shouldn't...he was just born), but he does know who he is in Yoshi's Story. And I know that there are other music tracks, but I thought that because it's specifically his winning theme it might suggest a connection. |
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Post by Toomai on Jul 20, 2009 7:20:03 GMT -5
I don't see why Yoshi has to be heavy to carry Mario; he just needs really strong leg bones, which is very possible considering how they help flutter and prevent fall damage.
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Post by shadowgoomba on Jul 20, 2009 10:48:38 GMT -5
Muscles weigh a lot and the ones in the leg (or very top of the leg...heh) are the strongest and biggest in the body. Not to mention food doesn't always instantly become an egg, like in Super Mario World. In that game, Yoshi's bigger than Mario, making it reasonable that he's heavy, and in most of the spin-offs, he's smaller.
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Post by kingkoopa on Jul 20, 2009 15:19:31 GMT -5
He is a medium sized character yet fast in spin-off games
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Post by shadowgoomba on Jul 20, 2009 15:48:10 GMT -5
Not always. Sometimes he's medium and other times he's light. And in Brawl, he's heavy. Maybe it's his various stages of digestion. |
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Post by Toomai on Jul 22, 2009 11:31:36 GMT -5
The way I see it, there are two reasons why Yoshi is a middleweight in the more recent sports games: - Compared to the increasing number of characters lighter than he is, he's more medium than light.
- The weight classes in Mario Kart nowadays are less based on weight and more based on who fits in what kart.
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Post by kingkoopa on Jul 23, 2009 13:24:53 GMT -5
yeah cause I'm sure Wario and Petey Pirahna shouldn't be in the same weight class
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Post by shadowgoomba on Jul 23, 2009 15:06:42 GMT -5
Well, they're both heavy, even if one is heavier than the other. A better example would be King Boo or Rosalina, who are light but are treated as heavy ones.
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Post by kingkoopa on Jul 23, 2009 21:45:48 GMT -5
Yeah Rosalina is very light but very big
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Post by PDoogan on Jul 24, 2009 15:50:02 GMT -5
I think one you get past a certain weight/size the character is just automatically grouped as heavy. King Boo always confused me the most. I mean sure he's large, but shouldn't he technically weigh nothing?
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Post by shadowgoomba on Jul 24, 2009 18:12:11 GMT -5
As Toomai said, it's more to do with size than weight.
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Post by kingkoopa on Jul 29, 2009 14:07:16 GMT -5
It all makes sense now
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