[Existence Unconfirmed] Super Mario RPG Plushes

One word can have multiple definitions.

videogamemm.com/main/content/auction-crawler-i-told-you-mallow-exists Mallow is proven to exist. Geno is still unknown, I have heard only 2 Mallow plushes exist.. But why? My theory is that since Mario RPG was such a different game, The company was afraid he would not sell so to save materials they stopped production.

I searched "Squaresoft" on Google and Twitter and had no luck, Google says square soft is now square Enix, but i cannot find any info on whether they have created plushes before. Please Help Me Search




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Yeah, me and Radiant are members of the VGMM; we held our own little search there, to no avail.

The sad thing is, the person who sold the second one on Yahoo Japan listed a little blurb on the auction which roughly translated to "Thing was fished at the time UFO catcher (Japan's claw machine)"; if only we contacted him at the time we could've asked if there were more characters in the set, but the auction is gone; the link leads to an empty page, so that lead is dead.

There is a theory this plush was a lottery prize (something auctioned at convenience stores in Japan at the time), explaining its rarity, but that is just as speculative as anything else.

Well Square made the game with Nintendo; Tomy made the actual plushes. 

I'm actually not the most well-versed in this stuff, but I'm pretty sure the company we actually want to contact is Takara Tomy. The only thing I was ever able to do was email them (which they didn't have any information); I believe I also PM'd their YouTube channel. The final frontier is their Facebook page.

The sad thing is, this is a step further than Clock Man which was a step further than Cracks, but people don't give two f***s about it because it isn't media. Like this is actually something that would benefit from digital "Have you seen me?" pictures because of the language barrier. If we actually wanted to take this on, it would involve somehow crossing over into the Japanese world. All we can do is reflect on the failed chance to contact the Yahoo Japan seller.

Essentially the two battles are "Who were all the characters in the set?" and "What is up with Mallow? Why is he so rare/is he a custom?"; I would completely dispel the theory of Mallow being a custom since he had the golden loop on his head (so the plushes were easier to hook), though in the two different pictures it looks like his pants were made out of a different material or something, but once again, I don't think we should go into this search assuming he is a custom.

Is it possible to use the wayback machine to get to the auction and find the seller?

The first post claims the plushies were made by Banpresto (now part of Bandai Namco). Then someone claims it was Squaresoft (now Square Enix), who also developed the game. Now we're onto Takara Tomy. Which is it? Those are three very separate companies. FWIW, Takara Tomy as an entity didn't exist until like 2006. Before then, they were separate companies: Takara and Tomy. Both made toys. I have no idea which made plush.

I also don't think you're going to get a lot of answers from these companies. These plushies were made 20+ years ago. How many people do you think are still around from those days and would answer a customer support message?



How would "lost" physical objects qualify to be found? Say I bought these plushies, how does that change the fact that you and everyone else won't have access to them? If a video game museum filled with Mario tchotchkes bought them, how does that change the fact that you won't touch them and unless you live close, wouldn't see them in person? It doesn't. To you, they'd be as "lost" as they currently are, i.e. limited to photos and descriptions. Books, movies, music, songs, video games, etc. can be duplicated and distributed to people with relative ease. To share a physical object, like a toy or a plush, would require them to be recreated. Few individuals have the resources to do something like that, nevermind the fact that any recreation wouldn't be the original "lost" object in question and be subject to litigation.

Feel free to make an "Obscure Objects" Wiki or something, but these kinds of things aren't lost media.

In the case of Geno, we don't actually know if he's real. So the "search" is to actually find proof that he was created as a physical item, which I would group into the existence unconfirmed category because we're looking for a picture which is media. Whether or not people want to accept that is their thing.



As for the lead...wow, I'm shocked that actually worked! Though I doubt he'll be able to tell us much more, this is definitely better than nothing.

Also we did have the link for that right? Cause I was hoping to locate the O'Hare listing in the same way....but that link is long gone.