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TMK Stuff => Game Blog => Topic started by: David on August 07, 2012, 07:50:04 AM
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This is a fun little tidbit of news, but it appears that someone at Nintendo was very interested in keeping Bowser's portrayal authentic during his cameo in the upcoming Disney film Wreck-It Ralph:
"We did have kind of a check-in process, where we would show them the footage and say, 'What do you think? Is it good?' At one point, (Nintendo) said, 'Bowser's much bigger than that. He's way bigger than Zangief.' We were like, 'Okay, we'll make him bigger. How's that?' They'd say, 'Yes, that's good -- but he wouldn't drink his coffee like that. He wouldn't make that mouth.' (Laughs) Of course, then people from Sega said, 'Well, Doctor Robotnik is bigger.' (Laughs) They wanted their characters bigger and bigger. We were going to end up with these giants in a room, with Ralph as this little guy... But I think that stuff really helped. I looked back on our original animation before the Nintendo notes, and it was like, 'You know, he does look more like Bowser now.'"
-- Director Ralph Moore
Additional information is sprinkled throughout the IGN interview with Moore and producer Clark Spencer. Go take a look!
Source: IGN: Wreck-It Ralph Creators on Using Actual Video Game Characters (http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/08/06/wreck-it-ralph-creators-on-using-actual-video-game-characters)
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Licensing all those characters probably accounts for half the cost of the film's production.
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Yet they only make up less than a quarter of the cast.
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Gee. What DID these clowns know about video games?
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Seriously. Any Nintendo fan worth his salt would know how Bowser drinks his coffee.
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"No, you got it all wrong! Bowser is, like, fifty feet tall!"
"Yeah? Well Eggman is A HUNDRED feet tall!"
"Nah ah!"
"Yuh huh!"
"Then Bowser is INFINITY FEET TALL!"
"Infinity's not a number, Iwata!"
"Infinity's not a number, Iwata!"
"Stop copying me!"
"Stop copying me!"
"I'm a poophead!"
"You're a poophead!"
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(Seriously, though, how could Eggman be taller than Bowser? Eggman is a human.)
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I don't recall Bowser ever drinking coffee in-game (in any game).
I hope the real video game characters play a bigger part in the movie and just aren't there because "This is a movie for gamers LOL" I know nobody said it, but you get my drift..
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^ They don't.
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Okay, but what are the odds we’ll actually here the Patron Saint of Awesome Video Game Villains that is King Bowser Koopa say something?
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RALPH HOW DARE YOU RUIN MY FAMILY VACATION
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Scott Burns FTW!