Magic carpet: Difference between revisions

'''Magic carpets'''<ref>''Super Mario Advance'' North American instruction booklet, page 31.</ref> (also spelled '''Magic Carpets'''),<ref>M. Arakawa. ''Super Mario 64'' Player's Guide. Pages 119 and 120.</ref> generally also known as '''flying carpets'''<ref>''Super Mario Bros. 2'' NES instruction booklet, page 25.</ref><ref name=EN>''Wario Land 4'' European instruction booklet, page 8.</ref> or just '''carpets''',<ref name=EN/> are magic flying carpets that have appeared in several games in the [[Mario (franchise)|''Mario'' franchise]].

A flying carpet is used by Princess Toadstool, Mario, Toad, and (depending on which route the reader takes) possibly Luigi to enter [[Iggy Koopa]]'s secret laboratory in [[Water Land]] in ''[[Leaping Lizards]]''. Three weeks later, some flying carpets are used in the first event in the International Mushroom Games, the obstacle course.

In ''[[Koopa Capers]]'', Bowser sends a magic carpet to [[Mario Brothers Plumbing]] to kidnap the Mario Bros., whom he is desperate enough to ask to help in the search for his missing [[Wendy O. Koopa|daughter]]. The carpet captures only Luigi (who had at first assumed the carpet was a gift and "a [[Goomba]] pattern rug") and proceeds to bring him to [[Bowser's Castle]] through the Mario Bros.' personal [[Warp Pipe]].

In ''[[Brain Drain]]'', if Luigi punches the correct code into the KoopaFone in the Koopa Headquarters cafeteria, he will order a pizza from Magic Carpet Pizzas, a business run by Pidgits who deliver pizzas with their magic carpets.

Two different ''Mario''-themed stages featured magic carpets in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''. In [[Mushroom Kingdom II]], 2D Pidgits sometimes briefly fly across the stage, but their red carpets are 3D and can be used as an extra platform. Since they come and leave from the left and right sides of the stage, it is very easy to self-destruct while riding one. They also appear in the Rainbow Ride-themed [[Rainbow Cruise]], working as they do in ''Super Mario 64'', though without the rainbow trails. However, more than one player can stay on a carpet, and as long as one player is on one, it won't vanish prematurely.

|Fra=tapis volant<ref name=FR>''Wario Land 4'' European instruction booklet, page 48.</ref>

|FraM=Flying Carpet

|Ita=Tappeto magico<br>Tappeto volante<ref name=IT>''Wario Land 4'' European instruction booklet, page 108.</ref><br>Tappeto<ref name=IT/>

|ItaM=Magic Carpet<br>Flying Carpet<br>Carpet

*[[Yoichi Kotabe]]'s first assignment as an employee of [[Nintendo]] was to animate the magic carpets ridden by the Pidgits in ''Super Mario Bros. 2''.