Unreleased Super Mario 64 Merchandise

The Unreleased Super Mario 64 Merchandise is a series of merchandise related to Super Mario 64 that were never released to be bought. This may be due to companies going bankrupt, content being scrapped, or other reasons. Most of the Unreleased Super Mario 64 Merchandise has reportedly never been found, and only located in small references throughout 1996-1999, though some have been located in abandoned Nintendo buildings and/or houses, similarly to some other noteworthy objects such as the Special 64.

Unused Enemy Plushies
A series of plushies of Motos, Blargg and a Hopper were put on eBay by a former employee of a bankrupt Japanese company named Deter Inc. who appear to have developed most of the Unreleased Super Mario 64 Merchandise. The Blargg and Hopper plushies appear to depict a finished version of them, with the Blargg notably being cut off where the body would enter the lava. It is not currently known who bought the plushies.

Beta Character Figurines
A series of figurines of a Thwomp, Whomp, Piranha Plant and Bomp similar to those seen in the Whomp's Fortress of the Shosinkai 1995 build of Super Mario 64 were referenced in a now cancelled magazine named the Mario Month Magazine. They would supposedly also come with a model of Whomp's Fortress to put them on, though this is unconfirmed. No known screenshots of these figurines exist.

Put-Together Course Models
According to some claiming to have originally worked at the Deter Inc. company behind the unused enemy plushies, there was a cancelled series of models of courses that can be put together similarly to Lego, potentially later inspiring the Lego Mario set created in 2021. Some figurines would have come with these models that could be placed on the models, with one notable set potentially being the beta character figurines noted above.

Coincidental Wario Apparition Plushie
Supposedly found in a dumpster near a Nintendo building according to an anonymous explorer was an unfinished plushie of Wario that is only a head, with a partial neck having been created and the W on the cap being missing. Some have connected this to the Wario Apparition, though this appears to be a coincidence, unless it is a reference to the supposed Wario Land 64 game's power-up that made Wario into a large head, explaining the Wario Apparition.

Mario's Pinball Adventure
Mario's Pinball Adventure is the unofficial name given to a series of maps from Super Mario 64 that appear to be very similar to the final game that have to be traversed by using a ball and various mechanisms throughout the levels operated by the player, similarly to the Mario's 4 Area toy. There appears to have been a Power Star in each level that could be knocked down to make them fall into a central chamber containing all of the power stars. Not much else is known about the game, though it supposedly ends with a Bowser level.

Enemy Discoloring Goomba Plushie Set
A set of plushies depicting a Goomba, and potentially other characters, alongside various other colors were reportedly found in a Japanese store in 1997 and documented on the internet when the Enemy Discoloring anomaly was first officially documented and confirmed. The only confirmed colors are red, blue and green, though other colors in this set may exist.

Related In-Game Anomalies
Several in-game anomalies have been reported to be tied to the Unreleased Super Mario 64 Merchandise. Most of these are due to design, such as the Enemy Discoloring Goomba Plushie Set being depicting Enemy Discoloring, and the unused enemy plushies depicting Motos, Blarggs and Hoppers. These will be excluded from this list.

Super Mario 64 Toy Codes
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Several Super Mario 64 Toy Codes are believed to be tied to the Unreleased Super Mario 64 Merchandise, potentially due to most of the merchandise appearing to depict early content of Super Mario 64. The 3 codes attached appear to be tied to the unused enemy plushies, beta character figurines, and Enemy Discoloring Goomba plushie set respectively. These codes appear to cause Motos, Blarggs and/or Hoppers appear, cause the enemies in Whomp's Fortress appear more similar to those in the Shosinkai 1995 Build, and the last code supposedly causes the Enemy Discoloring anomaly to become more prevalent.

Theorizing
Most of the Unreleased Super Mario 64 Merchandise appears to have been scrapped and unreleased due to depicting unused content from Super Mario 64, as well as the Deter Inc. corporation that is tied to some of the merchandise going bankrupt. Some have theorized that Deter Inc. was forced to go into bankruptcy by Nintendo due to the merchandise, though this is unconfirmed.