admin The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is still months away, and all we’ve really seen of it is a brief teaser trailer featuring a butterfly gliding through the Mushroom Kingdom and into space. However, though the movie isn’t coming out until next year, Nintendo and Illumination are partnering with a bunch of brands to promote the film, as is pretty standard for a big animated movie. As such, companies like Pillsbury are already manufacturing and advertising products with Mario characters on them, including one whose movie incarnation we haven’t actually seen yet: Yoshi.
Pillsbury is making ready-to-bake dough for cookies shaped and styled to look like Yoshi eggs as a Super Mario Galaxy Movie tie-in, and the front and back of the box have new renders of both Mario and Yoshi that we haven’t seen before. And Yoshi certainly looks…like Yoshi! Mario’s dinosaur mount didn’t appear in the first Super Mario Movie back in 2023, but was teased in the film’s post-credits scene with a quick shot of his egg hatching. This was probably not how Nintendo and Illumination hoped to reveal the good boy’s movie design, but this sort of thing happens when you’re collaborating with a bunch of third-party companies. The same thing happened last year with Sonic the Hedgehog 3, when a leaked popcorn bucket showed the film’s take on Shadow the Hedgehog for the first time, a month before the first trailer was released.
While we now know what he looks like, we still don’t know if Yoshi is getting the stunt casting treatment like everyone else in the film. Yoshi doesn’t typically talk much in the Mario games, but neither does Mario himself, and Chris Pratt yaps up a storm in the first movie, much to our chagrin. So Yoshi might get a big-name actor voicing his “Yoshiiiii!” as he happily jumps around. Or, god willing, they could just let Kazumi Totaka reprise his role from the games instead. I have a hard time envisioning how these movies would hope to characterize Yoshi with an active speaking role, so it would be nice if The Super Mario Galaxy Movie played this one straight.
