Dinosaur Land
Template:Location-infobox Dinosaur Land (also known as Dinosaur Island on the remake's official site, and Dinosaur World in the cartoon), is a land in the Mushroom World and the region in which Mario, Luigi and Peach go on vacation in Super Mario World. As usual, Bowser kidnaps Peach, and Mario and Luigi must defeat him to rescue her.
Locations
- Yoshi's Island
- Donut Plains
- Vanilla Dome
- Twin Bridges
- Forest of Illusion
- Chocolate Island
- Valley of Bowser
- Star Road
- Special World
Appearances
Mario Series
Super Mario World
- Dinosaur Land first appear in Super Mario World where Mario, Luigi and Princess Peach go on vacation after the event of Super Mario Bros. 3, like in the others games, Princess Peach is kidnap by Bowser.
Super Mario Kart
- Dinosaur Land reappear in Super Mario Kart where most of the circuit in the game or based from world from Super Mario World. Donut Plains 1, 2 and 3 is based from Donut Plain. Choco Circuit 1 and 2 is based on Chocolate Island. Mario Circuit 1, 2, 3 and 4 can be based from some level from Super Mario World, because of the background. Vanilla Lake can be based from Vanilla Dome.
Mario Kart: Super Circuit
- Dinosaur Land reappear in Mario Kart: Super Circuit where some circuit from Super Mario Kart return in this game.
Mario Kart DS
- Dinosaur Land also appear in Mario Kart DS where the retro track, Donut Plains, which originally came from Super Mario World and Super Mario Kart is based off the level area of the same name in this game.
Mario Kart Wii
- Dinosaur Land reappear in Mario Kart Wii in the retro track. Mario Circuit reappear.
Mario Kart 7
- Dinosaur Land's last appearence is in Mario Kart 7, where some of the circuit in the game Super Mario Kart return in this game.
Yoshi series
- All the games from the Yoshi series is located in Dinosaur Land, because all the games from Yoshi series is located in Yoshi's Island and it his a place from Dinosaur Land
Species in Dinosaur Land
This land has Yoshis living here, especially in Yoshi's Island. Despite the name, Super Mario World features only a few other dinosaur species: Blargg, Dino Rhino and Dino-Torch, Eerie, Rex, and Reznor. All are rarely encountered; Dino Rhino and Dino-Torch are found only in Chocolate Island, Eerie only in Ghost Houses, Blargg in three levels, and Reznor are boss characters. Most of the inhabitants are Koopas, Piranha Plants, and other Mario game staple enemies.
Politics and Culture
In Super Mario World, Dinosaur Land was more or less devoid of culture and even people, although it was known to be at least partially populated by Yoshis (who were known to be able to speak, but had not yet developed a distinctive, established culture). Later, in the Yoshi series (which presumably takes place on Dinosaur Land, although, as stated above, the actual setting is unconfirmed), Dinosaur Land was shown to have more intelligible inhabitants (who were confirmed to be the Yoshis on at least Yoshi's Island) who built tree-like huts and lived together in villages. These games, which gave Dinosaur Land much more culture and limited politics, showed that most of the Yoshis trusted in the main Green Yoshi (for an unknown reason) and had great togetherness, being able to always depend on each other for help.
The Super Mario World television series was one of the earliest forms of media to show an inhabited Dinosaur Land (though here known as Dinosaur World) in-depth, and it revealed that the world was inhabited by cavepeople (oddly, Yoshi himself was the only Yoshi to ever appear in the show). These cavepeople were seen to have limited togetherness and intelligence, and had even built at least one city; they were, however, rather stupid and seemed to care little about culture and organization. Because of this, several Super Mario World show episodes dealt with Mario and Luigi attempting to popularize modern items among the cavepeople and help them in vaguely political things, although their plans most often went wrong. One of the most interesting and one of the few successful of their capers, though, involved Princess Toadstool opening up a school; this episode even revealed that Dinosaur Land had a flag (a red, yellow, and blue one depicting what appears to be a Yoshi) and a pledge to it. This pledge, which largely parodied the United States' Pledge of Allegiance, went like this: "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United Lands of Dinosaur World, and to the repulsiveness for which he stands: one Koopa underground, reprehensible, with lizards and Goombas for all." It is likely that the second half of this pledge, which was awkwardly stated by Hip and Hop Koopa, is the Koopas' answer to the pledge, though, as it deals with the Koopa Troop and evil in addition to the fact that the other students gave Lemmy and Iggy odd looks as they said it, although this could have also been due to the fact that the two Koopa enemies had merely just arrived at their school.
The Super Mario Adventures comic also gave Dinosaur Land a surprising quantity of politics and culture even at the age of the Super Mario World game; it introduced Yoshi Village (a Yoshi-inhabited village eerily similar to the one seen in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time) and even stated that Yoshi was the "Chairman of the Dinosaur Chamber of Commerce"; he presumably earned this title through election or another type of political gathering. A sign in the Nintendo Adventure Book Dinosaur Dilemma mentions a governor named B. Ron Tosaur.
Finally, Dinohattan of the Super Mario Bros. film was inspired by Dinosaur Land, though takes more from the Mushroom Kingdom and Subcon.
References in Later Games
- Super Mario Kart - Many tracks in this game are based on levels here. The cape feather return.
- Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island - The game is located in Yoshi's Island
- Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - The Star Road found here is destroyed by Exor and it is revealed that Geno is from here. Yoshi's Island also returns as Yo'ster Isle.
- Super Mario 64 - The idea of Switch Palaces is, in a way, carried over into this game.
- Super Smash Bros. Melee - There is a Super Mario World themed level called Yoshi's Island. Mario can use his cape as his Side + B move.
- Super Smash Bros. Brawl - A short demo of Super Mario World is playable, and the Yoshi's Island stage returns. Mario's cape move returns from Melee as well. Yoshi's Wings are also apart of Yoshi's Final Smash.
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii - Yoshi reappears in this game, behaving exactly as he did in Super Mario World.
- Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Yoshi reappears, also having different colors (only with power-ups). Yoshi's House also returns in the Sky Station Galaxy.
- New Super Mario Bros. 2 - Reznors returns in this game.
- New Super Mario Bros. U - Similar backgrounds. Baby Yoshis reappear as well.
Names in Other Languages
Trivia
- In issue 4/1992 of the official German Club Nintendo magazine, it is noted that Dinosaur Land is located somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. This implies that Dinosaur Land is a place on Earth, contradicting the common view that it is located in the Mushroom World.
