Tox Box

Tox Boxes are huge metal boxes that move along a set path in Shifting Sand Land, the 8th world in Super Mario 64. They attempt to flatten Mario by rolling over him. The path is a small maze of tiles surrounded by darker, faster moving quick sand that sucks Mario in instantly.

All but one of the sides of a Tox Box each have a face spray-painted on. The last side is only a square hole. This hole is for one of the playable characters to stand in as the Tox Box passes over the tile he's standing on, thus letting him survive without being crushed. The tiled maze that Tox Boxes travel on has a few Red Coins on it, as well as the course's only cannon.

In Super Mario 64 DS, if Wario is inside one of them and punches, the Tox Box will fly somewhere into the sand and sink, unless it falls in the sand that the characters can normally stand in. If this happens, it simply stays in one spot unitl the player leaves the level. Tox Boxes also appear in the Super Mario 64 DS mini-game Tox Box Shuffle, where three of them each hide a Yoshi and the player must guess which Box the Yoshi is in.

Tox Boxes reappear in Super Mario Galaxy. These strange new-looking boxes usually appear alongside Thwomps. They only appear in the Beach Bowl Galaxy and the Toy Time Galaxy. In both Galaxies they appear on small pathways, much like they did in Shifting Sand Land.