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 The '''Tanooki Suit''' is a fairly uncommon item found in ''[[Super Mario Bros. 3]]'' and its subsequent remakes. It transforms [[Mario]] or [[Luigi]] into [[Tanooki Mario|Tanooki Mario or Tanooki Luigi]], respectively. The suit grants the same abilities as the [[Super Leaf]], with the added ability of [[Statue Mario|turning into a statue]] when the player holds down on the {{button|nes|Pad}} and presses {{button|nes|B}} at the same time. The statue ability can be used offensively if the player transforms in midair and drops on enemies. Such a tactic can defeat some normally unbeatable foes. Also, within some e-Reader levels, such as [[A Sky-High Adventure]], the Tanooki Suit is revealed to be able to reveal [[Vanishing Block|certain blocks]] and break [[Gray Brick Block|some others]] when in statue form. It can first be found in [[Giant Land|World 4]]. The Tanooki Suit can be combined with the [[P-Wing]].
-While Tanooki Mario returns in ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]'', the Tanooki Suit doesn't. <ref>http://www.1up.com/news/super-mario-3ds-combines-galaxy-mario-64-e3</ref> Instead, Mario must obtain a Super Leaf to transform into Tanooki Mario. The form is also slightly redesigned, as its ears are on the front of the hood, facing forward (rather than on the sides facing outward), and Mario's cap brim was added. Tanooki Mario is only able to whip enemies with his tail and [[scuttle]] to jump farther. Statue Mario also reappears, but only after Mario or Luigi [[Ground Pound|ground pounds]] after grabbing a [[Statue Leaf]], which is only in the Special Worlds. If the player loses five lives on an uncompleted course (only in the first eight worlds), the [[Invincibility Leaf]] will be introduced, turning Mario into [[White Tanooki Mario]], which adds invincibility that only lasts the entire level, though the player cannot receive 1-Ups.
+While Tanooki Mario returns in ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]'', the Tanooki Suit doesn't. <ref>http://www.1up.com/news/super-mario-3ds-combines-galaxy-mario-64-e3</ref> Instead, Mario must obtain a Super Leaf to transform into Tanooki Mario. The form is also slightly redesigned, as its ears are on the front of the hood, facing forward (rather than on the sides facing outward), and Mario's cap brim was added. Tanooki Mario is only able to whip enemies with his tail and [[scuttle]] to jump farther. Statue Mario also reappears, but only after Mario or Luigi [[Ground Pound|ground pounds]] after grabbing a [[Statue Leaf]], which is only in the Special Worlds. If the player loses five lives on an uncompleted course (only in the first eight worlds), the [[Invincibility Leaf]] will be introduced, turning Mario into [[White Tanooki Mario]], which adds invincibility that only lasts the entire level, though the player cannot receive 1-Ups. According to [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] in the ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' entry of the 25th Anniversary ''Super Mario History Booklet'', he was aware that most players outside Japan would be overall confused with the Tanooki Suit and the transformation, but he left it in anyways because it was cool and he was too excited to remove it.<ref>''Super Mario History Booklet'', page 13.<br />'''Shigeru Miyamoto:''' The Tanooki Suit turns into [[Statue Mario|a statue]]! Even though I knew it wouldn't make sense to some non-Japanese players...I was so excited about it that I left it in.</ref>
 In the ending and Special Worlds of ''Super Mario 3D Land'', Toads use the Super Leaves to become Tanooki Toads, wearing scarves, and in the last letter of the game, Peach was shown wearing a Tanooki Suit for the first time. Presumably, she ended up gaining it completely by accident, due to her and the Toads' (themselves in Tanooki Suits) surprise at her new Tanooki-style dress.