"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 , 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."
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie remains months away with only a brief teaser showing a butterfly gliding through the Mushroom Kingdom into space. Nintendo and Illumination are partnering with brands to promote the film, resulting in early consumer products featuring characters. Pillsbury is producing ready-to-bake cookie dough shaped like Yoshi eggs and the packaging includes new renders of Mario and Yoshi. Yoshi was briefly teased in a post-credits egg-hatching shot. Prior promotional leaks have exposed character designs unexpectedly. Voice casting for Yoshi is uncertain, with speculation between high-profile stunt casting and retaining Kazumi Totaka's game vocalizations.
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