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Mario Chat / Re: Mario Kart 8 toys at McDonald's

« on: July 10, 2014, 10:23:04 AM »

Here's an "unboxing" of them. ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kelQQRtYe1U

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Mario Chat / Re: Is Birdo a boy or girl?

« on: July 05, 2014, 08:07:09 PM »

The exact quote was from this Game Informer interview in 2012:

This was the same interview that told us Mario and Luigi don't have a last name, the Koopalings aren't Bowser's children in "our current story", Mario's hair is naturally brown, and Dr. Mario "was maybe, in some way, not necessarily legitimate."

Thank you! That saved me like, a billion interviews to read through! (I might go back and read them anyway, though. lol)

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Mario Chat / Re: Is Birdo a boy or girl?

« on: July 05, 2014, 03:06:15 PM »

It certainly adds some deeper dynamics on characters. It's less like "oh, another spin off" and more like "ah, we get to see what they do in their off time!" Like Dry Bone's apparent affinity for cart racing and soccer, but (by omission) we can assume he's not too big of a fan of playing tennis. They're like celebrities, rather than placeholders in that respect. An interesting idea, to assume all games are canon.

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Mario Chat / Re: Is Birdo a boy or girl?

« on: July 05, 2014, 11:01:34 AM »

One thing that I think does complicate the question of "Does Birdo really identify as female, or is it an act?" is that all Mario characters are always acting. Miyamoto's vision of the games is like a Popeye cartoon or a Muppet movie, where Mario and Bowser take on the roles of hero and villain for one game, but can change roles for another, while backstage they would exist as their actual selves, as actors.

Sorry to be a bit off topic here, but this point interested me so much I literally just made a profile to ask about it. (I would have posted a new thread, but since I've never posted here before, a-hijacking I will go.) Do you know of any interview where Miyamoto stated this directly? I've waded through years of interviews and haven't found any comments he's made to this sentiment. It's not that I don't believe you (that's totally something he would say), I just would like to have a link handy for all future arguments about X or Y where this would clear things up. (These kinds of discussions do tend to crop up where ever I go.)
It also would make for some interesting discussions as to which kind of theater it's more like. I mean, since Miyamoto's Japanese, we might find some credence in attributing it to Kabuki rather than a more western kind of movie, or theater. Then if we stretch it, there's a small chance Princess Peach is a man and Bowser is just a big mask. Any way, I just was wondering if you have an article link-- it'd save me a lot of searching through interviews. Thanks either way, though. That's a new way of looking at the Mario series for me. (Makes a few things like everyone playing tennis together seem actually in character all the sudden...)