Super Mario Bros Wii Deluxe Enemy Danglers

This Gashapon device by Tomy gave out Super Mario Wii Enemy character danglers. The text says the danglers are "Deluxe" enemy danglers.

The price is quite high: 2 euros per item. The machine was spotted at Wuppertal Zoo, in Germany.

I didn't have coins, so I couldn't buy any...

Marco, Mario's and Luigi's brother?

I noticed this package on the shelf of our local supermarket.

With a little googling, I found out that I am not the first one to notice the resemblance between Marco, the character from pasta bag and Mario, the game character from Nintendo games.

Super Mario capsule toys

June 2008, when I was visiting Hong Kong, I found from Toys'r'us a wall with capsule toy vending machines. Some of the machines contained toys I had searched with no luck already from Taipei's huge malls and toy stores; Super Mario toys!

I had just spent my coins to other toys, so I had to change bills to HK dollars. The young female behind counter already knew what I wanted, and changed my bills to coins with a smile, without asking.

After I got my coins, I rather quickly bought 5 Super Mario items, one keychain toy (which was actually a mistake) and 4 bouncy balls.







Read more about capsule toys: Capsule toys at Wikipedia
Read more about bouncy balls: Bouncy balls at Wikipedia

EDIT: added images

Note: I wish I had more time to take better pictures. These images were taken in a hurry, on the living room floor. My kids drawings were on the other side of the white background papers...