The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (Spring 2026)

Does anyone seem to think that the events in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie will actually be part of a story that Rosalina is reading to the Lumas? It would strongly indicate that the video from the following X post will be the very beginning of the movie, and it would even reference Super Mario Galaxy 2's bonus cutscene after the credits.
https://twitter.com/x/status/1988728550929887649
 
I thought Rosalina would be the movie's framing device too, very looks like that's the beginning scene of the movie.
 
I fully expect this movie to be a bloated mess of stuff where the plot is extremely thin and mostly an excuse for set pieces.

You know like the first one.
 
Mcmadness said:
I fully expect this movie to be a bloated mess of stuff where the plot is extremely thin and mostly an excuse for set pieces.

You know like the first one.
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That and Yoshi is probably the reason I likely won't be seeing this in theaters. The first movie, despite having Baby Luigi in it, had me wanting (plus it had the shock value and the first time Baby Luigi ever appeared in the big screen). I'm better off waiting for a full screen HD release of the film and looking at Baby Luigi there.
 
MnSG said:
Does anyone seem to think that the events in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie will actually be part of a story that Rosalina is reading to the Lumas? It would strongly indicate that the video from the following X post will be the very beginning of the movie, and it would even reference Super Mario Galaxy 2's bonus cutscene after the credits.
https://twitter.com/x/status/1988728550929887649
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Or maybe since there are SMB2 elements in the movie, it's actually just a big dream Mario having.
 
Seeing Mouser is great, but when Keegan Key said there'd be "deep-cuts", my mind mostly went to characters like Oogtar or Uncle Kong. Whereas Mouser is a recurring set piece in a mainline Mario game. A very old mainline Mario game, but still.
 
Mcmadness said:
expect this movie to be a bloated mess of stuff where the plot is extremely thin and mostly an excuse for set pieces.
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Dorayaki said:
the first movie didn't have a real themed sub-title, and this time we have
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Koopa con Carne said:
Whereas Mouser is a recurring set piece in a mainline Mario game
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Absolutely thanks to Super Show he is wellknown, but technically he is still a one-off for Super Mario franchise.

It's especially a big miss he didn't catch up the train of super influential Mario spinoff rosters for him to be further remembered. Taking DK Jr as example, despite of his deletion from the canon, his existence in early rosters still make him known by modern gamers.
 
Keep in mind Keegan Key isn't in cahoots with the Mario series like us here. I can't find a good equivalent, since someone like Mouser did appear in a show as a major antagonist, but it's like a Zelda movie referencing Jermafenser.
 
I think I agree with all of you i'm not going to see the movie and maybe protest against watching it because it looks like he's going to be a very bad movie
 
I don't think the movie will be bad, but I don't think it'll be very good either.
 
It's looking like a safe movie again. More insistent in references to games yet again. Which is... eh. Fine I guess.

My kids will probably like it, given how much they've rewatched the first one they'll probably be happy.
 
We haven't seen any Power Stars or Grand Stars yet. I hope we see those since those are a big part of both Galaxy games.
 
Is there a reason to have both Power Stars and Grand Stars? The film already looks overstuffed, compressing them both into Power Stars is probably very sensible because it saves time.

Considering film one had a Super Star, I feel like doing some flubbing and going with Power Moons probably makes sense. Avoids the possible viewer confusion of Super Stars and Power Stars.
 
Well, final trailer came out and I think it answers everyone's questions about the film from a "what is the structure?" perspective. Yoshi joins the team before the Star Festival, then the two groups (Mario, Luigi, Yoshi | Peach, Toad) are separated when Peach's Castle is abducted. How they get Toad on the Mario team later on is still unknown, but films have their methods. A group battle, a Launch Star misfire...

Anyhow, there are also more details on locations, courtesy of a very fun tie-in website, https://gatewaygalaxy.com/. Gateway Galaxy is being reinterpreted as an airport IN SPACE and the website depicting what a travel guide would be. It's really top of line for one of these, with lots of animations to poke at. Also it confirms Fossil Falls being upgraded to galaxy in this story. (Weird that the Mushroom Kingdom and the Sand Kingdom are being considered comparable to planets as destinations though.)

It was also kind of weird that they just threw in a Honey Queen voice actor announcement without any Honey Queen visual. I guess they were hearing the internet yell about the absence of Super Mario Galaxy characters (it's been a recurring topic on the wiki discord) and figured they should course correct?
 
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The tie-in site also mentions three other inaccessible pipes if you check "Boarding Times".

While on the main screen the final three pipes are grayed out, the three unclickables are Tostarena Town, Drip Drop Galaxy (both of which are delayed), and the Space Junk Galaxy (to which all flights are canceled). The Mushroom Kingdom, Honeyhive Galaxy, Fossil Falls, and the Comet Observatory are all available and now boarding.

I'm guessing this is hinting at three other locations we may see (I know the first one is basically confirmed from another trailer, but the other two are new insight).
 
Salmancer said:
Well, final trailer came out and I think it answers everyone's questions about the film from a "what is the structure?" perspective. Yoshi joins the team before the Star Festival, then the two groups (Mario, Luigi, Yoshi | Peach, Toad) are separated when Peach's Castle is abducted. How they get Toad on the Mario team later on is still unknown, but films have their methods. A group battle, a Launch Star misfire...
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Yeah my question still remain active at this point:
Dorayaki said:
the bigger problem here is how much time the main cast are gonna spend on Earth in a space themed movie? As I said before, if you want to focus on other main cast outside Galaxy, the theme would kinda mess up.
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Honey Queen is confirmed so sure the story will pay her kingdom a visit, that's not bad, but just hope that the main heroes do go to more different planets and meet more aliens, not just go to outerspace for an epic battle with BJr.

Salmancer said:
the internet yell about the absence of Super Mario Galaxy characters
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Among them, I'd say Lubba's absence is the most awkward at this point. If we do have spaceship and travel service, Lubba would be a no brainer pick for pilot and navigator role and her info and voice actor should had been revealed.

------- which is why I'm worried about ROB. Yes, it's a nice easter egg, but not at the price if he'd block out other Galaxy characters' chance to show.

Salmancer said:
without any Honey Queen visual
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Could she appear on the collectible cards?

Wonder if she'd get a big redesign than the original.
 
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Salmancer said:
Anyhow, there are also more details on locations, courtesy of a very fun tie-in website, https://gatewaygalaxy.com/. Gateway Galaxy is being reinterpreted as an airport IN SPACE and the website depicting what a travel guide would be. It's really top of line for one of these, with lots of animations to poke at. Also it confirms Fossil Falls being upgraded to galaxy in this story. (Weird that the Mushroom Kingdom and the Sand Kingdom are being considered comparable to planets as destinations though
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Ooo, I didn't know they had set up a tie in website. It looks cool! Definitely downloaded some wallpapers from there lol
 
Nintendo Today is doing a collectable card promotion, which I can't go into any more detail for because I don't have Nintendo Today. But the descriptions of the cards are being uploaded to the wiki, and I have a quibble with Bullet Bill's.
Sentient, bullet-shaped enemies fired as projectiles at our heroes from a variety of vehicles.
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When has Nintendo ever used the word "sentient" for anything? Actually, since Super Mario WIki stores profiles for all kinds of things, so I can run a search for "sentient" on the wiki. There are zero instances of "sentient" in any Nintendo writing, only writing that the wiki makes. Its just a jargony, sterile, distant term. It's not twee enough for this brand. Its too concerned about the mechanics of this world and not how being in this world feels. This is a lot of words to say I really dislike the word choice there.

I dunno, I would have went with a second sentence saying "They're proud of their jobs" or something to portray the same mechanics without needing to use "sentient".
 
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There goes the Marioverse adaptations i was hoping were on the table down the line i guess 😭

There's genuinely no shortage of Marioverse stuff that's space related but not from the Galaxy games, they did not need to look outside the IP for that. but guess that's gg, this is likely to be the final mario-centric film and the third one will be the first Smash Bros. film trying to be Nintendo's Avengers. RIP basically all the Mario characters i was hoping would get movie appearances one day. Wart had started to give me hope (especially after we had Foreman Spike in the first one) but i guess that's where they're stopping.

Why does Mario have to be the dumping ground for all these other IPs whenever it wants to expand, while it ignores 99% of its own universe. I was cool with the Pikmin because that seems to be a little easter egg and nothing more, but a character getting a whole dedicated poster suggests they have to be major.
 
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