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Trivia: Nintendo originally started out in the late 1800's as a company that produced a style of playing cards called "hanafuda." In the scenes taking place in Brooklyn, you can see a billboard for hanafuda playing cards as a reference to Nintendo's more humble beginning.

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Trivia: When Mario briefly walks by the antique store, a Toad asks if the gizmo he is holding works, and the shopkeeper in the background can just barely be heard saying the Toad might have to blow into it to make it work. This is a cute callback to the popular theory that blowing into Nintendo cartridges makes them work better, since it helps get rid of dust that could block the connectors... although it's not unanimously agreed that this actually works.

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Trivia: The movie came about partially thanks to the "Super Nintendo World" theme parks. As the Nintendo World parks were to be situated in Universal Studios theme parks, Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto met many Universal executives, including Illumination CEO Chris Meledandri, to discuss the park's creation. Miyamoto felt Meledandri was a kindred spirit due to their similar creative processes and began talking with him about making a new Mario movie. Within a few years, the project was greenlit.

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Trivia: Will be released almost exactly thirty years after the original live-action "Super Mario Bros." movie. This movie is set to be released in April, 2023, while the original movie was released in May, 1993.

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