Mario's World Cancelled CGI Animated Series 1999-2001

ok, i gonna search for see sothing

i feel like this tracks because nelvana produced the donkey kong country series, nintendo (especially nintendo of japan) is a Lot less overprotective of their non-mario/zelda ips and they seemed satisfied with that series, it possibly could've been animated with mocap like that series 

I'm sorry, but I think I have some second thoughts about this...

First things first, do you have actual proof you worked at BDA? Your name (or at least username) is Richard, and I found two Richards that worked for the company online, but both joined the company in 2013-14. Like anybody could say they work for a company without giving proof. Oh yeah, did you guys know that my dad is the president of Nintendo? I don't have anything to prove that but come on, it's still believable right?

Also, you said there has been pictures of this thing online. I've found some plush toys dated around 1997 but they aren't labeled with "Mario's World", they were part of a plush line themed after the Nintendo 64 (there were even Banjo-Kazooie plushies).

Then we gotta talk about the apparent brand. For the record, I can't see how NOA thought Mario was "stagnant" in the late 90s. Super Mario 64 was very popular when it came out because of how revolutionary it was, and there was Mario Party which got three games on the 64. There was even Mario Kart 64 and hell, Mario Golf. On a lesser note, Mario was even featured in Got Milk? campaigns. Anyway, if this were actually possible, I doubt NOJ would've shut it down. Frankly, they didn't do anything with the amount of Mario TV shows from the early 90's, including the likely not approved, locally produced King Koopa's Kool Kartoons (which is actually lost, funny enough).

One final thing, why would they call it Mario's World? Not only is it pretty generic but it sounds too similar to Super Mario World, it would cause confusion.

So yeah, I feel this is likely fake. Not hard to make up a story like this, and there's literally no evidence this exists (considering how big Mario is, SOMETHING would've surfaced whether it was cancelled or not). Safe to say, I kind of figured this was fake before I even clicked on the post.

I've done extensive research on BD&A and ToySite throughout my years of collecting video game merchandise and I've never heard about this CGI series so I'm calling it fake.

The Mario's World line existed alongside the Ocarina of Time and Donkey Kong 64 sets at Toy Fair 2000 which were created to expand upon the previous Nintendo Collectibles line from BD&A. The figures were met with a lot of praise and were so close to being produced, some prototype figures still exist in their plastic bubbles.

However it's been stated that around the time things were set to move forward, ToySite's parent company BD&A lost faith in the toy industry and canceled everything which led to the closure of ToySite altogether. These figures were meant to promote the games and nothing more.

Not only that but we've uncovered large archives of concept art for the Mario's World line and there's nothing in it that's similar to what's being described in the original post, besides the figures themselves. I've also talked to BD&A employees before about this line and none of them ever mentioned a series.

It's pretty hard informing people about the importance of physical lost media and threads like these don't help.