Talk:Rotating Block

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Official name? I heard they were called Flip Blocks. Phoenix Rider

...And I heard they were called Rotating Blocks. Weird... --YellowYoshi398 14:29, 2 April 2007 (EDT)

I thought that it was Turn Block, not Turning Block. Super-Yoshi^{Talk? C???}

Turning Block sounds really unnoficial, especially since not all Turning Blocks turn. Hello, I'm Time Turner.

They received different names, I'm sure they were called "Turning Blocks" somewhere as well, can't find the source now though. In the SMW manual, they are called "Rotating Blocks". Time Questions 07:33, 7 January 2010 (EST)

If we don't have a source yet for "Turning Blocks", but we do for "Rotating Blocks", shouldn't we move it to Rotating Blocks? -- Garlic Man (talk)

Yep. Hello, I'm Time Turner.

Split Rotating Block and Stretch Block

This talk page proposal has already been settled. Please do not edit this section or its subsections. If you wish to discuss the article, please do so in a new section below the proposal.

SPLIT ARTICLES 12-0

I was reading a Mario Mania scan, when I found the name "Stretch Block" in the page with the Yoshi's Island 3 level info. Mario Mania was made by Nintendo, so it's an official source of names and other things. My proposal is this: split Stretch Block info from the Rotating Block, because it's formally counted as a different block. If we create this article, we will improve it. Also, in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Stretch Blocks appear, not Rotating Blocks.

Proposer: Mikiuz (talk)
Deadline: June 4, 2011, 23:59 GMT

Split

1. Mikiuz (talk) - My proposal
2. SWFlash (talk) Per proposal
3. YoshiGo99 (talk) Per Proposal
4. Zero777 (talk) Per proposal
5. Nicke8 (talk) Per anyone who supports.
6. Mario4Ever (talk) Per proposal.
7. Goomba's Shoe15 (talk) Per Proposal
8. Reddragon19k (talk) Per.. you know!
9. yoshiyoshiyoshi (talk) Per Reddragon
10. Mario vs Luigi (talk) Per proposal.
11. UltraMario3000 (talk) Well they are similar, but they have different uses as the stretch block isn't breakable and it... well stretches and is used as a platform.
12. Bowser's luma (talk) Per all.

Comments

What exactly is a Stretch Block? Mario4Ever (talk)

Yeah are they the ones that you ride or are they the regular rotating blocks Goomba's Shoe15 (talk)

Stretch Blocks are the ones that you ride: they constantly extend (horizontally or vertically) in 5 blocks and retract. In SMW they are light yellow, in NSMB Wii they are orange.
— The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mikiuz (talk).

U might be in the wrong one i think those are called snake blocks and they already have a page of course i might be wrong but you might wanna check that page out Goomba's Shoe15 (talk)

I know what are Snake Blocks: they are the group of blocks witch move. Have you ever played Super Mario World? In the third level of the first world, there are some light yellow blocks that extend in 5 blocks and retract. These blocks reappear in New Super Mario Bros. Wii in the second level of the ninth world, near the end with an orange color. Mikiuz (talk)

Yeah now i remember alright i understand Goomba's Shoe15 (talk)

The deadline was wrong: this was proposed on Saturday, May 21, so it ends two weeks later on Saturday, June 4, at 23:59 GMT. Please review the rules to make sure you're formatting your TPP properly next time. - Walkazo 15:52, 22 May 2011 (EDT)

Split invisible block

Currently, on the wiki, we've been viewing having two subjects on one page as an assertion of them being the same subject. This has motivated a great many page splits, such as Fighter Fly and Fly (Super Mario Land) (see here for that.

If this is what having two names on one article means, then Rotating Block is in conflict with itself. It says "Although actual Rotating Blocks do not appear in Mini Mario & Friends: amiibo Challenge, there are blocks that have an identical design..." That means the invisible blocks are a second kind of block according to the article, which means this article is saying they're different when the format of the wiki says they're the same. That's bad, the entire Super Mario Wiki organizationally should agree on what a subject is.

The simplest answer to this specific page is to just give "invisible block" a page separate from Rotating Block. It's not like we don't have pages for identical looking blocks from different series. Like Rotating Block and Yellow Block, and ? Block to Coin Box. They look similar but are distinct, and so separate pages for all. Salmancer (talk) 15:09, July 31, 2025 (EDT)