Post by Koopalmier on Jun 1, 2014 16:00:43 GMT -5
So, Mario Kart 8. It shows one particular new area, called Toad City, in which Toad's Turnpike takes place, and also likely Mario Kart Stadium, Toad Harbor and 64 Rainbow Road.
This city is American-like if you consider Toad Harbor, which is basically San Francisco with the Statue of... of what? Mushroomy? 1-UP? Anyway.
The game also features a planet below Rainbow Road. It's obviously Earth, as with Mario Kart Wii. But it also shows that the Mario Kart TV satellite orbits that planet.
Do you see where I'm getting at? Mario's planet is Earth. At the very least, MK8 takes place on Earth, but that looks to be Mario's world, so there's no doubts.
So, what if Mario's planet was actually Earth? Or at least some "cartoony" counterpart of it?
Toad City is obviously in the US, and likely in the Mushroom Kingdom since there is a giant Peach statue on the coast.
That would mean the USA are the Mushroom Kingdom, in Mario's depiction of Earth. Earth appears in games such as Mario Party 8 (in mini-games), Luigi's Mansion (as a globe) and WarioWare (the whole series appears to be on Earth). Then we have things like Donkey Kong appearing in Punch-Out, which obviously takes place on Earth. Mario Kart is pretty much the secondary main Mario series, and shows the planet Earth in Mario Kart Wii and 8's Rainbow Road (and in the case of the latter, it also confirms the tracks take place down there too).
Not to forget Mario Party 7's boards are all based on an actual Earth location.
Super Mario Galaxy has a "blue planet" background that seems to be Mario's world, but it's a bunch of complicated landmass that is difficult to map considering the clouds over it, and it likely doesn't try to depict anything in particular (particularly since it's re-used in other levels that shouldn't be taking place close to Mario's world). Super Mario Galaxy 2 depicts Mario's planet, both on the World 1 map and on the greater world map, but the game's low image quality and the location of the planet on the world 1 map makes it difficult to actually see what it looks like. If anyone has a high-quality GIF or a model or something, I'm not against seeing it.
However, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door features a mechanical statue of a solar system in the Shadow Palace, and it doesn't seem to have the same amount of planets as ours. DK: Jungle Beat's final world (Star Fruit Kingdom) doesn't depict the planet as having Earth's continents.
That's still more evidence for than against it. But again, SMG2 is an important title, so if anyone has analyzed what the planet's continents are like in that game, it would add to my research.
So, if Mario's planet really is Earth, we could determinate the actual map of the Mushroom Kingdom, right?
This city is American-like if you consider Toad Harbor, which is basically San Francisco with the Statue of... of what? Mushroomy? 1-UP? Anyway.
The game also features a planet below Rainbow Road. It's obviously Earth, as with Mario Kart Wii. But it also shows that the Mario Kart TV satellite orbits that planet.
Do you see where I'm getting at? Mario's planet is Earth. At the very least, MK8 takes place on Earth, but that looks to be Mario's world, so there's no doubts.
So, what if Mario's planet was actually Earth? Or at least some "cartoony" counterpart of it?
Toad City is obviously in the US, and likely in the Mushroom Kingdom since there is a giant Peach statue on the coast.
That would mean the USA are the Mushroom Kingdom, in Mario's depiction of Earth. Earth appears in games such as Mario Party 8 (in mini-games), Luigi's Mansion (as a globe) and WarioWare (the whole series appears to be on Earth). Then we have things like Donkey Kong appearing in Punch-Out, which obviously takes place on Earth. Mario Kart is pretty much the secondary main Mario series, and shows the planet Earth in Mario Kart Wii and 8's Rainbow Road (and in the case of the latter, it also confirms the tracks take place down there too).
Not to forget Mario Party 7's boards are all based on an actual Earth location.
Super Mario Galaxy has a "blue planet" background that seems to be Mario's world, but it's a bunch of complicated landmass that is difficult to map considering the clouds over it, and it likely doesn't try to depict anything in particular (particularly since it's re-used in other levels that shouldn't be taking place close to Mario's world). Super Mario Galaxy 2 depicts Mario's planet, both on the World 1 map and on the greater world map, but the game's low image quality and the location of the planet on the world 1 map makes it difficult to actually see what it looks like. If anyone has a high-quality GIF or a model or something, I'm not against seeing it.
However, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door features a mechanical statue of a solar system in the Shadow Palace, and it doesn't seem to have the same amount of planets as ours. DK: Jungle Beat's final world (Star Fruit Kingdom) doesn't depict the planet as having Earth's continents.
That's still more evidence for than against it. But again, SMG2 is an important title, so if anyone has analyzed what the planet's continents are like in that game, it would add to my research.
So, if Mario's planet really is Earth, we could determinate the actual map of the Mushroom Kingdom, right?
