#torkdrift

Played Mario Odyssey and beat it today. Decided that the mini bosses deserve some love too. Starting with the UFO alien looking thing that started it all, Torkdrift. I like to call her Teevee

Name: UFO? Little UFO? Baby UFO? I will call it Baby UFO

Debut: Super Mario Odyssey

Whoever decided these should be called Baby UFOs, they were right! This thing is an absolute baby that I’d like to cradle in my arms and protect. Yes, these may have previously been mentioned in our Yoofoe post, but I have decided they deserve an entire post. I love them!

Baby UFO is a little baby version of Torkdrift, the boss of Steam Gardens, but I must say, quite a bit cuter. A smaler, more compact design is bound to be cuter than the alternative, and WOW! ONE eyestalk! You NEVER see just one eyestalk! It’s phenomenal! Innovative! It inspires us all to be better people.

What are you looking at, Baby UFO? Examining the world with an intact sense of childhood wonder? Probably. Another neat thing about Baby UFO is that they contain flowers, which Torkdrift seeks to collect above all else... maybe they’re powered by the flowers, and Torkdrift is just trying to help its babies! Or... make babies. Not like THAT! The way a robot would! By assembling a baby from baby blueprints.

Oh! Now it’s looking at me! I need to make a good impression! Not so good that it thinks I’m its mother, since I am unfit, being a biped, but good enough that it would not feel threatened. To avoid threatening the baby, I will reassure it that I will NOT make any attempt to throw my hat at it in hopes of getting a Power Moon, like a certain someone might. That someone shall remain nameless for anonymity.

Name: Spindrift

Debut: Super Mario 64

Hey! Remember that post about Choppa(h) that we made a couple months ago? Well, I sure hope you liked it! And I hope you like the concept of “non-distinct plant creature with vertical helicopter blades” because... there’s a whole bunch of them! Starting with Spindrift here.

Spindrift is... An orb? With a flower head? If you bounce on them you get to do a spin-jump, which is... pretty cool, I guess. Spindrifts never reappeared beyond the DS remake, but they were in a beta screenshot for New Super Mario Bros., not to mention...

Name: Torkdrift

Debut: Super Mario Odyssey

Hey! Did you know that Torkdrift is a mechanical Spindrift?! I sure didn’t, until I was researching this post! Its Japanese name is Mekafuwafuwa-san, with  Fuwafuwa-san being Spindrift’s name... so, Mecha Spindrift! 

Really though, can you blame me? It doesn’t look like a Spindrift at all! Even so, it’s quite weird in its own right... Like, some kind of flower-based UFO? And do my eyes deceive me... are those eyestalks? Hooray! You just can’t go wrong by giving anything eyestalks.  Anyway, you find Torkdrift in the Steam Gardens area, where he’s sucking up all the flowers for Bowser’s wedding. Their whole boss fight is based around smashing their glass container with an Uproot... once you confront them, they’ll get mad and say, in classic robot all-caps:

“FLOWERS FLOWERS FLOWERS. MUST HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS. DO NOT MESS WITH ME, BIPED.”  

im an absolute sucker for this character but i dont know any japanese at fucking all (i know im uncultured) so i was wondering if anyone could help me out--i really want to know what the designer’s note and all the info on the right side says, and im too lazy to wait for the book to be translated. the original image was grainy as hell so i tried to upscale it if it helps

if anyone actually sees this then thank you so much id die for you

tumblr a shit so here’s the full image: