Now it's time to head to the Mario Zone...
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Mario Zone
Just south of Pumpkin Zone is Mario Zone.
Foot
The first level shows off some new obstacles and hazards, such as moving gear platforms, nails that come out of the ground and bounce up and down, buzzsaws that move up and down poles and block your path. Amazingly, Koopa shells can get rid of them.
You can get a 1-up at the end of the fire block segment.
Stomach
We're in the giant Mario's stomach, but it's full of balls. *ba doom tsh*
When you go into the first pipe you can enter, the two sets of four balls in the background hint at blocks. The left one has a Carrot to get Bunny Mario while the right one has a Starman. You'll have to be quick to get back down there and take down all the Goombas to farm lives.
The bears on the beach balls can be taken out so you can steal their rides. Don't worry, you won't be moved around if you stand still on the balls.
Tongue
Why do the toy soldiers look like mushrooms plopped on top of soldier bodies? And why do we have jack-in-the-boxes coming out of ? blocks?
Love the giant mushrooms in the walls.
Anyway, along with actual Bullet Bills, we also have black gears that you can take a ride on to get past the spikes and also ride along the chains with.
If you jump into the crane hooks, they'll carry you across the pits as long as you don't move. You can get the coins at the bottom with these. You'll need to remember this if you want to hit the bonus bell.
I didn't even know about that pipe underneath those platform that leads to a bunch of Bullet Bill cannons and a 1-Up. Thanks, vgmaps.
Boss Level
There's an awful lot of Legos and circular saw blades around here.
One of the blocks says "N&B," by the way. It wasn't until much later that I found out what it means: it was Nintendo's answer to Lego in the late 1960s, which brought out the idea of circular pieces. Lego sued them for basically making their own version of Legos, but Lego lost the lawsuit. Nevertheless, N&B blocks didn't fit properly like Nintendo hoped, and N&B blocks were discontinued by the early 1970s.
To beat the three bosses, anticipate their jumping patterns and jump on them at the appropriate time. It takes three hits to beat each one, and they get progressively faster as you damage them. The first one just rolls around, the second one jumps low and the third one jumps high.
And with that, we have all six coins! Time to head to Wario's Castle at last!
Pumpkin Zone - Secret Level 1
Don't worry, I didn't forget about this.
If you're Bunny Mario, you can press A repeatedly to get as many coins as possible and also fly past the exit door. If you do that and make it all the way to the right without taking out any of the Goombas, you'll find a Starman that you can use to take them all down and farm a few lives with.
When you beat this level, the pumpkin in the Pumpkin Zone world map will have eyes.
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