Editing Rotating platform

{{Distinguish|Rotating Block}}
{{item infobox
|image=[[File:SM64 Asset Model Flipping Block 1.png|200x200px]]<br>Model from ''Super Mario 64''
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario 64]]'' ([[List of games by date#1996|1996]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario 3D All-Stars]]'' ([[List of games by date#2020|2020]])
}}
'''Rotating platforms''',<ref>{{cite|author=Loe, Casey|title=''New Super Mario Bros. Official Player's Guide''|date=2006|location=Redmond|publisher=[[Nintendo|Nintendo of America]]|isbn=1-59812-009-3|page=35}}</ref> also known as '''rotating Blocks'''<ref>{{cite|author=Knight, Michael|title=''Nintendo DS Pocket Guide''|date=2010|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|location=Roseville|isbn=978-0-307-46760-7|page=35}}</ref> and originally referred to as '''flipping blocks''',<ref>{{cite|author=Pelland, Scott and Dan Owsen|title=''The Super Mario 64 Player's Guide''|location=Redmond|publisher=[[Nintendo|Nintendo of America]]|date=1996|page=113}}</ref> are blocky [[platform]]s in ''[[Super Mario 64]]'', ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]'', and ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'' They are suspended in the air and rotate around a fixed screw-like pivot point in 90° intervals. In all appearances, multiple rotating platforms of various shapes and sizes must be ascended in order to reach the [[goal]] of their [[level]]s.

==History==
===''Super Mario 64'' / ''Super Mario 64 DS''===
Flipping blocks are one of the shifting footholds found inside [[Tick Tock Clock]] in ''Super Mario 64'' and ''Super Mario 64 DS''. The design of the flipping blocks is comparable to other ones inside the clock, with yellow outer casing and coiled interiors, similar to the interior parts of real clocks. Flipping blocks are of various shapes and sizes, with some being cubes, triangular prisms, or hexagons. While most flipping blocks rotate vertically, some are very broad and rotate horizontally. While most flipping blocks rotate around a pivot in their center, there are horizontal triangular ones where the pivot is at one of their corners, from which they teeter back and forth in set intervals. Flipping blocks are the primary platforms needed to reach different sections of Tick Tock Clock.

Flipping blocks stall before rotating and slightly dip downward before rotating. If the player character is on top of a block as it flips, he falls. In the original [[Nintendo 64]] game, where Tick Tock Clock has no floor, this can cost [[Mario]] a life. The placement of the clock's hands when the player enters its [[Painting|face]] determines the speed with which the flipping blocks rotate. If the minute hand is near "9," for example, the blocks rotate very rapidly. If the minute hand is near "12," the blocks are static.

===''New Super Mario Bros.''===
[[File:NSMB W2-Tower.png|200px|thumb|left|Mario jumping from a rotating platform in {{world|2|towern|}}]]
Rotating platforms appear in two levels in ''New Super Mario Bros.'', a 2D game heavily derived from ''Super Mario 64 DS''. Here, the blocks are red and have hollow centers. Like in ''Super Mario 64'', the rotating platforms are varyingly shaped, with some cubes, rectangular prisms, and triangular prisms. They rotate horizontally in set intervals that can be timed. Their is no mechanism in this game that controls the speed with which they rotate or makes them stop.

The platforms first appear in {{world link|2|towern|World 2-Tower (New Super Mario Bros.)}}, after the level's [[Checkpoint Flag|midway point]]. [[Red-and-yellow block]]s in this area cause rotating platforms to materialize in certain parts when struck, and the platforms disappear when the red-and-yellow blocks are struck again. Mario (or [[Luigi]]) must use the rotating platforms to reach the boss room with [[Bowser Jr.]], as well as one of the level's [[Star Coin]]s. Rotating platforms subsequently appear in {{world link|8|castlen|World 8-Castle}}, where they are required to cross over [[lava]] and reach the level's third Star Coin.

==Gallery==
{{Image|section=y|more=y|Triangular and cubic rotating platforms in New Super Mario Bros.}}
<gallery>
SM64 Asset Model Flipping Block 2.png|''[[Super Mario 64]]''
NsmbRotatingPlatform.png|''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]''
NSMB Credits 095.png|''New Super Mario Bros.''
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=回転足場
|JapR=Kaiten Ashiba
|JapM=Rotating Scaffolding
|JapN=''Super Mario 64''
|JapC=<ref>{{cite|author=Sakai, Kazuya (Ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors|language=ja|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|location=Tokyo|date=2015|title="Super Mario 64" in『[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック]]』|page=91|isbn=978-4-09-106569-8}}</ref>
|Jap2=回転ブロック
|Jap2R=Kaiten Burokku
|Jap2M=Rotating Block
|Jap2N=''New Super Mario Bros.''
|Jap2C=<ref>{{cite|author=----|language=ja|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|location=Tokyo|date=2015|title="New Super Mario Bros." in『[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック]]』|page=118|isbn=978-4-09-106569-8}}</ref>
|Ger=Fatal Quadrat
|GerM=Fatal Square
|GerC=<ref>{{cite|author=Kraft, John D., Thomas Görg, and Marko Hein, editors|title=''Der offizielle Nintendo 64 Spieleberater "Super Mario 64"''|language=de|location=Großostheim|publisher=[[Nintendo|Nintendo of Europe GmbH]]|date=1997|page=91}}</ref>
}}

==References==
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