Talk:Mini
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Mini Enemies[edit]
Mini Enemies, while they no longer have distinct pages, should probably still be documented here as their toy forms still exist and would count as Mario Toy Company products under the Mini line, especially since Cursed Toys are counted. GameyFireBro (talk) 19:57, April 7, 2025 (EDT)
- Disagreeing here. While Shy Guy is a wind up automaton, we have no official statement saying the Mario Toy Company produces wind-up Shy Guy toys. We don't have an official statement on every non-Mini-Mario Mini Toy, but a case be made for some of them. Mini Donkey Kong could be because Donkey Kong is inexplicably an employee of Mario Toy Company and he takes one from a crystal ball in the opening cutscene of Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis. Mini Pauline is given out to attendees of Mini Land Theme Park, which is owned by the Mario Toy Company. The Capsule design that Mini Pauline uses in that cutscene is the basis for the Capsule design used for the Mini Toys in the Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem!. Further, the Minis are linked extremely tightly from a gameplay perspective because they are functionally all the same, and this grouping is communicated in all of the manuals. Shy Guy isn't part of this mechanical grouping, being that they don't enter Goal Doors, break after falling, and so on. The most I would put on this article is "enemies in the Mario vs. Donkey Kong series are often mechanical versions of normally organic characters, like the Minis. Some of them, like Shy Guy and Pokey have wind up keys." Salmancer (talk) 02:48, July 26, 2025 (EDT)
- Given this, we should probably note on the page that most of the Minis haven't been explicitly stated to be made by the Mario Toy Company. And remove the ones we can't justify with some amount of reasoning from Category:Mario Toy Company. (Thinking most of the amiibo Challenge ones here, game has no plot and no plot means no Mario Toy Company. Sorry Mini Spek.) Salmancer (talk) 03:29, July 26, 2025 (EDT)
- Correction: the opening cutscene of Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2 confirms Mini Donkey Kong, Mini Peach and Mini Toad as being made by the Mario Toy Company. Doesn't really move the needle on the enemies though.Salmancer (talk) 14:26, July 26, 2025 (EDT)
- Now that I think about it we're missing one pivotal fact that would push the inference from "90% conjecture" to "50% conjecture". We know Donkey Kong works for Mario Toy Company. If we had confirmation that Donkey Kong built either Mini Donkey Kong or the Donkey Kong's robots, an extrapolation to "Donkey Kong may have built the game's other enemies, and as he is an an employee of Mario Toy Company that means they could be Mario Toy Company products" would make sense. Salmancer (talk) 21:48, July 26, 2025 (EDT)
