Big Paint Star

The Big Paint Stars are the source of color that appear in Paper Mario: Color Splash and are housed at Prisma Fountain. They are larger versions of the Mini Paint Stars. There are six of them in the game, each one being a different color: red, yellow, blue, purple, orange, and green. Each one is guarded by a Koopaling (except for Roy). Collecting all six restores color to Prism Island and allows Mario and Huey to go to Rainbow Road to face Black Bowser and rescue Princess Peach at Black Bowser's Castle.

Bowser, possessed by the black paint, threw them far away from Port Prisma. Each Big Paint Star, when rescued from the Koopalings, repaints big areas which can't be painted by Mario's hammer normally and tells a little part of the game's story, although disordered. Finally, when the last one is obtained, it reveals what actually happened to Bowser. The red star repaints the Scarlet Gate in Sunglow Ridge, the yellow star repaints a giant coin in Mondo Woods, the blue star repaints the entire sea in Violet Passage, the purple star repaints the gigantic sinkhole in Mustard Cafe along with the entire rest of the world map's sea, the orange star repaints the Draggadon fossil in Marmalade Valley, which results in it transforming into the real monster, and the green star repaints Luigi's kart somewhere else on Prism Island.

Memories

 * Red Big Paint Star.png: Bowser is seen throwing each Big Paint Star out of Port Prisma.
 * Yellow Big Paint Star.png:Shy Guys starts to drain Toads from thieir colors. A Toad is then sent to Peach by Kamek and the little bridge is destroyed by Bob-ombs.
 * Blue Big Paint Star.png: Shy Guys are seen srealing paint of their respective colors and pour it in giant buckets attached to airships.
 * Purple Big Paint Star.png: Bowser's armies start to invade Port Prisma and steal the paint from the environment and its inhabitants.
 * Orange Big Paint Star v2.png: Scared Toads witness Bowser being absorbed by Black Paint. Meanwhile, airships arrive and Shy Guys falls from them, starting the invasion.
 * Green Big Paint Star.png: Bowser watches Toad having fun with paint. After watching the fountain, Bowser then have the idea of having a multicolored shell. After jumping in it, he mixes all the paint to his shell, unaware of the process of creating Black Paint. Bowser then starts being possessed by Black Paint; meaning Bowser is not evil at all.

Trivia

 * The Big Paint Stars resemble the Grand Stars from Super Mario Galaxy and Shine Sprites from Super Mario Sunshine.
 * The jingle played when collecting a Big Paint Star consists of the opening theme of Paper Mario, followed by a portion of Paper Mario: Color Splash's title theme.
 * The Big Paint Stars match the color of the wand of the Koopaling that guards it.

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