Beetles Are Us

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The Beetles Are Us store in Seaside Town
“Welcome to "Beetles Are Us"! If this is your first time, you need to pay an initiation fee.”
Snifit, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

Beetles Are Us is a store that buys beetles in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. Its name comes from Toys "R" Us and its spinoff brands. It is seated in Seaside Town and is run by a Snifster. Beetles Are Us is the "biggest beetle market in the known world."[1] Mario cannot buy beetles here; however, he can catch some and sell them to Beetles Are Us. To begin, Mario must first buy a Beetle Box for 50 coins, with an additional 100-coin fee if it is his first time. Mario must then go to Booster Hill and catch beetles while running down the hill in the Beetle Race minigame. After catching beetles, Mario is paid money depending on how many and what kinds of beetles he caught. Regular female beetles are worth one coin, regular male beetles are worth fifty coins, and golden beetles are worth one Frog Coin each.

Once Mario has turned in his beetles, he must rent another Beetle Box to continue catching beetles.

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning
Japanese カブトむしりセンター[2]
Kabutomushi Kaitori Sentā
Beetle Buying Center

Chinese (simplified) 独角仙收购中心
Dú jiǎo xiān shōugòu zhōngxīn
Beetle Buying Center

Chinese (traditional) 獨角仙收購中心
Dú jiǎo xiān shōugòu zhōngxīn
Beetle Buying Center

Dutch keverspeciaalzaak
beetle specialty store
French (NOA) Scarabées en vrac
Beetles in bulk
French (NOE) maison du Scarabée
Beetle house
German Käferbörse
Beetle exchange
Italian Bazaar (Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars)[3]
Casa dello scarabeo (Super Mario RPG)
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Beetle house
Korean 장수풍뎅이 매입 센터
Jangsupungdeng-i Maeib Senteo
Beetle Buying Center

Spanish Bazar del Escarabajo
Beetle Bazaar

Trivia[edit]

  • In the Japanese version, the unnamed Snifit is under the employ of someone only referred to as「社長」(shachō, president), implied to be Booster. This is completely erased from the English version outside of a vague reference to another person in the Snifit's line, "We run a beetle business here." The other languages in the remake restore this mention.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Pelland, Scott, and Kent Miller. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars Player's Guide. Page 63.
  2. ^ Super Mario RPG Japanese instruction booklet, page 19.
  3. ^ Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Italian e-manual, pag. 12