Editing Training Course

{{Location infobox
|image=[[File:TrainingCourseLandscape.png|300px]]<br>The Training Course as seen in the movie
|first_appearance=''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]'' (2023)
}}
The '''Training Course'''<ref name=Clip>{{cite|author=Illumination|language=en-us|date=April 3, 2023|url=youtu.be/yP-Qduvw9zY|title=''The Super Mario Bros. Movie'' {{!}} Princess Peach Training Course Clip|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=April 3, 2023}}</ref> is a floating obstacle course located behind [[Peach's Castle]] in ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Movie]]''. Its numerous components, including various kinds of [[block]]s, [[platform]]s, and hazards are arranged in the shape of a giant [[? Block|Question Block]] when the course is not being used, but when it is used all the components spread out and unfurl to form the obstacle course. Some of the hazards are mechanical versions of real hazards, including some species that serve in [[Bowser's Minions|Bowser's army]]. A floating portion of Peach's Castle serves as the starting and ending point of the course, with grabbing the [[Goal Pole]] that extends from the portion of Peach's Castle when the course is active marking the conclusion. Prior to the events of ''The Super Mario Bros. Movie'', [[Princess Peach|Peach]] completed the Training Course in her first attempt, at a point in time prior to her becoming the princess of the [[Mushroom Kingdom]].

When [[Mario]] insists on joining Peach on her quest to recruit the [[Kong|Kong army]] from the [[Jungle Kingdom]] to help stop [[Bowser]], Peach decides to take him to the Training Course. They leave her castle from a back door located lower down the hill the castle rests upon, reaching a small extension of the castle hidden behind the waterfall that has the floating portion of the castle. After reaching this portion, it floats away and stops over the lake behind the hill. This prompts the Question Block model containing most of the course to rise out of the lake and unfurl, and causes the Goal Pole to extend up from the Peach's Castle portion. Peach tells Mario that if he manages to finish the course, he can join her on her journey. She then demonstrates the course by going through it without making any mistakes.<ref name=Clip/> 

Mario questions how he can replicate Peach's maneuvers, leading Peach to introduce him to [[power-up]]s. She gives him a [[Super Mushroom]] from a Question Block at the starting platform. With the resulting boost to his size, strength, and jumping ability, Mario is capable of attempting the Training Course. His first attempt leads to him failing to land following his first jump and falling into the lake below the course, which hurts him and therefore undoes the effects of the Super Mushroom. A Warp Pipe within the lake sucks up Mario and returns him to the starting platform, where Peach explains how powers from power-ups are lost though getting hurt. She gives him another Super Mushroom and tells him to try again.

Mario attempts the course numerous times, across the rest of the day and through the night, as Peach watches him. He fails in various ways, including being knocked out by a dummy [[Fire Bar]], being blasted by a dummy [[Bomber Bill]], and falling after standing on a [[Donut Block]] for too long. Each of these attempts requires Mario to eat a Super Mushroom before starting, which one time causes him to vomit. Sometime after the next day starts, Mario nearly competes the course but gets devoured by a dummy [[Piranha Plant]] just before he  reach the Goal Pole. After this, Mario and Peach discuss the matter while sitting on some [[Brick Block]]s, where Peach decides to allow Mario to accompany her despite not completing the course because of his persistence.

The Training Course reappears during the credits.

==Components==
*[[? Block|Question Block]]
*[[Bill Blaster]]
*[[Brick Block]]
*[[Cloud Block]]
*[[Cloud Lift]]
*[[Donut Block]]
*Dummy [[Bomber Bill]]
*Dummy [[Piranha Plant]]
*Dummy [[Fire Bar]]
*[[Goal Pole]]
*[[Lift]]
*[[Rotating Block]]
*[[Spike Trap]]
*[[Warp Pipe]]
*[[Wooden cutout]] of [[Bowser]]

==Gallery==
<gallery>
TheSMBMovie ObstacleCoursePoster.jpg|A promotional poster featuring [[Mario]] on the Training Course
MarioPeachMovie.png|Mario confident that he can beat the Training Course
MarioMovieTrainingCourse2.png|Mario barely dodging a dummy Fire Bar
MarioMovieBonziBill.png|Mario blasted by a dummy [[Bomber Bill]]
MarioMovieTrainingCourse.png|Mario standing on a Donut Block
TSMBM Training Course Peach Flashback.png|Peach, before she became the princess, completing the Training Course
</gallery>

==Notes==
[[File:SMM2 TSMBM obstacle course.png|300px|thumb|The recreation of the Training Course seen in the video]]
*In a {{wp|YouTube}} video by [[Nintendo]] of Europe promoting [[Nintendo Switch]] ''Super Mario'' games, the footage for ''[[Super Mario Maker 2]]'' shows a recreation of the Training Course in the game, including recreations of scenes of Mario attempting the course.<ref>{{cite|language=en-gb|author=Nintendo UK|date=March 15, 2023|url=www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqOEK1FyUH8|title=Discover the adventures of Mario on Nintendo Switch!|publisher=YouTube|accessdate=March 15, 2023}}</ref>
*A mini pamphlet given at Japanese cinemas showing ''The Super Mario Bros. Movie'' states that the Training Course is a reference to ''[[Super Mario Maker]]''.<ref>{{cite|author=McLain, Kyle|title=You were also handed this mini pamphlet of “Game references in the Movie”, that gives extremely basic explanations of what things from the movie originated in what game.|date=April 29, 2023|url=x.com/FarmboyinJapan/status/1652295768303366144|publisher=X|accessdate=June 26, 2024|language=en}}</ref>
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==References==
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