Talk:Arcade Bunny

Split from Sales Bunny, or remove Sales Bunny altogether
There's no evidence that the bunny from StreetPass Mii Plaza and Nintendo Badge Arcade are the same bunny, and saying it changed its appearance just doesn't suffice. Yes, they may look similar and the only thing they changed was the colour, but it's possible they were just designed by the same character designer(s) (They are both from first-party software after all). The term "Sales Bunny" isn't even an official name, whereas the NBA bunny's official name is "Arcade Bunny" as revealed by the recently released Mario Maker costume.

We could split the bunnies into two separate pages, but therein lies another problem. The only things StreetPass Mii Plaza had anything to do with Mario were the costumes and Puzzle Swap panels, which the bunny character was never directly involved with. A Sales Bunny page on its own wouldn't have sufficient info to make it a Mario-related page since it had the Arcade Bunny info to piggyback off of. We don't even have pages for SMP characters like Wentworth or those guys from StreetPass Garden (Flower Power). Therefore, I suggest we keep the Arcade Bunny info (after renaming it) and remove the StreetPass Sales Bunny info altogether, because like I said, they're not the same character.

Proposer: Deadline: January 1, 2016, 23:59 GMT

Rename to Arcade Bunny and remove Sales Bunny info

 * 1) - See comments
 * 2) Per all.
 * 3) Per Arend
 * 4) - Per Mario jc and Arend.
 * 1) - Per Mario jc and Arend.

Oppose

 * 1) Please see my comments. There are multiple, clear reasons these are the same character.

Comments
Wasn't there a line from Sales Bunny about his previous job being the Mii Plaza bunny? I honestly can't remember, because when you fire the game up for the first time Sales Bunny comes with level four diarrhea of the mouth. -- Ghost Jam 06:32, 18 December 2015 (EST)

I can't really find any evidence that the Arcade Bunny and the Sales Bunny are the same person (in fact, I wouldn't think they are due to their appearances being a bit too different, despite obviously being based on it). We can probably have a reference to the Sales Bunny in the Trivia section due to their similarities. Also, we likely have to remove the Real Escape Game info too, since the rabbit in that game is also based on the Sales Bunny, yet not the Arcade Bunny either. Probably the most obvious way to tell they are different is that the Arcade Bunny is male (referred with male pronouns), but the Sales Bunny is female (has a basic white dress. All female Miis in the StreetPass Mii Plaza are identified as such with a dress in their color instead of a shirt like the male Miis are. Same goes for the cats, dogs and rabbits in Find Mii/StreetPass Quest).

You should contact, who started this page and made the connection in the first place. 14:11, 18 December 2015 (EST)

Well, at least I know now why the article is named Sales Bunny in the first place: several image files of this rabbit on the official American site start with char-sales-bunny, so at least you can associate the name with the Arcade Bunny. However, Mario Maker is about the only localized game in which he's directly named, so I believe it should be moved to Arcade Bunny anyway. Also, the files of the other rabbit, found on the American StreetPass Mii Plaza site have her named just "bunny".

"There's no evidence that the bunny from StreetPass Mii Plaza and Nintendo Badge Arcade are the same bunny, and saying it changed its appearance just doesn't suffice" There actually is a lot of evidence! The characters theme in the Music Player of the Mii Plaza is Salesbunny, and as his development section was written to point out, he has an extremely similar role in the games. His dialogue is even written similarly in Mii Plaza, as you can see on the quotes page. He is also actually pink, despite being pretty white, as shown with his speech-bubble in Mii Plaza actually being pink. Additionally, his model in the Badge Arcade is made from the Mii Plaza model, which becomes obvious with some of the statues of him in the Arcade, which as pointed out in the article is a recurring theme taken from his appearance in Mii Plaza where there is a golden statue of him. I recently got the blue-colored bronze statue and it's really obvious they made his model right from his original Mii version. I feel like a lot of people are jumping the gun to try and get rid of the info like this. There's all this evidence to suggest it's the same character. The most telling of which is the name Salesbunny clearly being a mere text discrepancy of Sales Bunny. Arcade Bunny might end up being his common name as of Mario Maker, of course. I hope you guys actually acknowledge all this stuff, cause I feel like it all adds up sensibly. It really is an awful lot to just be a coincidence. The most telling thing being, as mentioned, the names almost exactly matching up. UhHuhAlrightDaisy (talk) 01:23, 19 December 2015 (EST)

I feel like the Arcade Bunny is much too different from the Mii Plaza Bunny in appearance (and possibly gender). The Arcade Bunny being based on the Salesbunny from Mii Plaza is of course true, but them being the same person makes not much sense. If they are the same person, then it's especially weird to first make it white with a white dress for Mii Plaza, then make it pink and put it in a suit in Badge Arcade, then return to its old appearance and add glasses in Real Escape Game, and THEN return back to his Badge Arcade appearance in Mario Maker! And all in the span of, what, two years? It doesn't really make any sense.
 * 1) "The characters theme in the Music Player of the Mii Plaza is Salesbunny" Should take notice that the Arcade Bunny is only called Sales Bunny in the image files on the official site of the Badge Arcade, and that the image files indicates the name being spelled with a space, unlike the Salesbunny from Mii Plaza.
 * 2) "He is also actually pink, despite being pretty white, as shown with his speech-bubble in Mii Plaza actually being pink." I've looked in my own version of the game and the Mii Plaza Bunny's speech bubble is white with a blue border. Anyway, the color of the border doesn't indicate the color of the rabbit. It indicates the gender, as male Miis have blue speech bubble borders while female ones have pink borders. Now this does mean that in my version, the rabbit is male after all, but if your version has the pink border, that solidifies that the Sales Bunny of Mii Plaza is female (which, again, differentiates her from the Arcade Bunny, who has male pronouns).
 * 3) "Additionally, his model in the Badge Arcade is made from the Mii Plaza model, which becomes obvious with some of the statues of him in the Arcade, which as pointed out in the article is a recurring theme taken from his appearance in Mii Plaza where there is a golden statue of him." It's obvious that the Arcade Bunny is based on the Salesbunny from Mii Plaza, but that doesn't mean they're the same thing. It's like saying Luigi is the same person as Mario, and both had a very similar role in Mario Bros.