Happy MAR10 Day 2024

 

(This is a wallpaper image for MAR10 Day. Yes, the little thing at the bottom says 2019, but it still works for every year, I think.) 

 

I completely forgot that it was MAR10 Day until I saw the video that Nintendo of America 🇺🇸 put out earlier today. I also apparently forgot that it was Daylight Savings Time as well, since I ended up sleeping in a full hour after I usually get up 😴. Needless to say, I was completely unprepared for the time change, or for the annual Mario day. So, happy MAR10 Day everyone.

 

(This is a map of the United States 🇺🇸 showing all of the states and territories that observe and practice Daylight Savings time. The ones in green are the ones that do have Daylight Savings time, and the ones in red are the ones that don't. Arizona and Hawaii are only two states in the entire country that don't observe or practice Daylight Savings time, while none of the commonwealths or unincorporated territories like Puerto Rico 🇵🇷, Guam 🇬🇺, American Samoa 🇦🇸, the Northern Mariana Islands 🇲🇵, and the United States Virgin Islands 🇻🇮 observe or practice Daylight Savings time. The only unincorporated territory that does is Washington DC, the nation's capital city, and the nation's one and only federal district. In case you're wondering why parts of Arizona are in green, well that's the Navajo Nation. While, the state of Arizona doesn't observe or practice Daylight Savings time, the Navajo Nation does.)
 


The video message wasn't really anything special or to write home about. The biggest news to come from that video celebration message was that there is indeed a sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie on the way. It's being worked on by Illumination, it's in the early development stages, and it's set to come out on April 3, 2026, so two years away.

The fact that a sequel to The Super Mario Bros. Movie is being made isn't really that big of a surprise. The movie made over a billion dollars 💵 🤑 at the worldwide box office, and was the second highest grossing movie of 2023, just below Greta Gerwig's Barbie. Of course it was going to get a sequel. It would've been shocking if it wasn't.

I would say the biggest mystery surrounding the sequel is what it's actually going to be about. Like, what are they mainly going to base the plot around or take inspiration from. Because the first movie was mainly based on the three original NES and Super NES games, as well as Super Mario 64 kind of. So, will the sequel be mainly based on Super Mario Odyssey, or Super Mario Galaxy, or a little bit of a deeper cut like Super Mario Sunshine ☀️? 

I wouldn't mind it if they based the plot of the second movie mainly around Super Mario Sunshine ☀️, and it was about Mario and the gang going to Isle Delfino, even if not all the fans like that game. I don't understand why, it was an awesome game that had a really cool new setting and a really cool gimmick with FLUDD (Flash Liquidizer Ultra Dousing Device), plus it has some the best CGI water 💦 in any video game ever. The CG water 💦 in Super Mario Sunshine ☀️ looks even better than the water 💦 in some 3D animated movies. Nintendo knows how to make some gorgeous looking water 💦.

Basing the second movie around that game would give them a new opportunity to introduce a new setting with two new races, the Piantas and the Nokis, introduce a new villain with Bowser Jr., and play the formula a bit, instead of rehashing the same stuff they already did in the first movie. If not for the new setting, or the gimmick of having Mario cleaning up graffiti and fighting enemies and platforming with FLUDD, then at least do it to introduce Bowser Jr.. But, maybe they might not do that because they might think it's too soon Bowser Jr., since Bowser was shrunk down at the end of the first movie, and we'd still have to deal with that. Bowser might not even be thinking of having a son just yet.

But, if they don't do Super Mario Sunshine ☀️ and they don't introduce Bowser Jr. in the second movie, then maybe they could save him for the third movie, if there even is a third movie. I'm sure there will be since I'm sure the second movie is going to make a lot of money 💵. If not more than the first movie, then at least about the same as the first one 🤑. Besides, they still haven't introduced some of the other major villains of the franchise, like Iggy and Spike Koopa, or Wario and Waluigi, or Boom Boom and Pom Pom, among others.

So, if not Super Mario Sunshine ☀️, then I'm sure they'll likely base the plot mainly around Super Mario Odyssey since that's the most recent major main-line Super Mario release, they've already shown a couple locations from that game, they've already shown Paulina as the Mayor of New York City just as she was the Mayor of New Donk City in the game, and they could really make Cappy a really lovable and awesome sidekick for Mario, just as he was in the game itself. Or they might base the movie around Super Mario Galaxy, another fan favorite of the series, since they've already teased the idea of them going to other galaxies since Princess Peach said something about there being a whole other galaxy to explore or something like that in the movie.

They might also base the plot around Super Mario World since that was the game introduced Yoshi, and they teased Yoshi in the after credits stinger, or they might base it on Super Mario Land, since that was the game that introduced Princess Daisy, and Princess Daisy is a character that people want to see introduced in one of these 3D animated Mario movies. They might even combine the two together to have the double whammy of introducing Daisy and Yoshi in the same movie.

Or might just do a completely original plot that isn't really directly based on any one game or two games, and kind of just pulls elements from various games in the franchise, but it still mostly it's own thing with its own story unique to it. That's probably be the best route to take. Whatever the plot or story ends up being, I just hope that it's good. If not better than the first one, then at the very least, as good as the first one. 

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Here's Nintendo of America 🇺🇸's celebration message video for MAR10 Day 2024: 

 


 

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