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World's first photograph of both of the extremely rare Big Ol' Mario and Big Ol' Donkey Kong plushes in the same place at the same time.

The two 3-foot-tall Big Ol' plushies were featured in a 1997 Nintendo Power catalog and retailed for $100 (ca. $200 adjusted for inflation); however, so few units were produced that for decades it was assumed that none of them actually existed. Over time, the few of them that were purchased began surfacing from private collections, so that it was finally possible for a collector to obtain both of them at the same time in 2026.

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Top: artwork used on a rare officially licensed 1986 Famicom game case, depicting the cast of Super Mario Bros. riding a car.

Bottom left: this artwork would later be used for the album cover of a 1986 Super Mario Bros. Japan-only vinyl record.

Bottom right: the place this artwork was most famously used was the cover of All Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros., a limited-edition retool of Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels for the Famicom Disk System that replaced some characters with caricatures of Japanese radio personalities.

With the bottom two in mind, looking at the top image reveals that due to their format, they have been cropping out details of the original drawing all along. In particular, the smiling sun on the left, the full fortress on the right, and most notably the Spiny riding a Lakitu's Cloud in the top right can not be seen in any of the later versions.

Spinies have never actually been able to ride Lakitu's Clouds until Super Mario Maker in 2015, 29 years after this image was drawn.

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