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Island of
Rejected Toys

Horribly Twisted Gifts... Like Baby's First
Table Saw

Grand Theft OTTO: Springfield

Snake... Wiggum... Homer... They're all here!

Episode 134

Lifeguard Opportunity at Bayview Beach

Rastafarian Homer

Pass the Dutchie on the left side, mon.

Episode 131

Dexter & Marley...
Forever borowing stuff that ain't theirs.

Star Whores

Looks like Han is sleeping solo tonight

Episode 128

Dexter takes a cheap shot at Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney

Episode 127

Mary & Dexter discuss the American flag

Episode 126

Dexter & Marley go shopping for female hygiene products

Episode 124

Marley goes Easter shopping

Bill Gates
Goes to Hell

Dexter's rant about
Windows Vista

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February 5, 2007

Smash Bros Mail-ee...
Welcome to the first Mailbag of 2007. During the move to the new server, some of my mail was lost. Instead of getting pissed off, I'm just gonna pretend that it was spam. (New Years' Resolution: To live in a constant state of denial)

This Mailbag is full of surprises, most of which center around Super Smash Bros Melee.
To share something of interest (or to order a virtual pizza), send your messages to:

Hi!
Firstly, I'd like to tell you that I love your sites. They're very interesting, with all those secret things you can check once you've finished a game or if you are bored. I personally like that kind of stuff, so needless to say that I went and checked many of the Super Smash Bros. Melee, GoldenEye and Zelda The Wind Waker 'interesting stuff'!

On page 4 of the interesting stuff section (Super Smash Bros. Melee), you talk about how there are many different faces when you use Peach's vegetables attack. You listed 6 there, but I found two more, after doing the attack a hundred times, if it's not more. (not joking here!)

The first face I found looks like this: -.- It has closed eyes (like the one with stitches, without the eyebrows), and its mouth is just a dot. I threw it at an enemy, and it did about 6% damage. It appears often.

The second face I found looks a little like this: '_' Its eyes are only dots, and it's smiling. It did about 16% damage. Oddly though, it appears rarely. It always takes me some times before getting it, which is weird, because it appears less often than the one with stitches, but makes less damage.

Another thing I found when doing the vegetables attack: after many, many attacks, you can even pick up items. I've picked up a bob-omb, a beam sword
and a Mr. Saturn. I don't know if you knew about this (probably), but I didn't see anything about that on the site and it happened to me rarely, so I thought maybe you ignored that...

Oh, and the Baby Mario zoom in thing and Daisy's third eye made me check some of the trophies' back, hoping to find more interesting stuff. Just to say that when I checked the Andross trophy (the one with the hand, not 'pixeled') from behind, you can see his mouth and tongue but also his eyeballs, without the skin and all... Funny face. lol

Anyway, thought it would be a great addition to the section, making it more
complete maybe. Keep up the good work at your sites! They just rock!! :)

Glad you enjoy the website. I've always loved finding these neat little details inside games, and I've made a hobby of posting these things for other players.

When I was taking screenshots of those new veggies, it was the first time I've seen Peach pull a Mr. Saturn out of the ground. Her ability to occasionally be able to pull items is mentioned on the site somewhere, but even I can't find it...

Thanks for sending these entertaining little tidbits... The Andross face is pretty neat.

Hey Det! I saw the ideas for a new Bond game and I say how about Moonraker. That would be awesome. From should in zero gravity in space to plainly shooting people on land/earth. Also Roger Moore is my favorite Bond actor and he needs a game. Another plus is fighting side by side with jaws and of course awesome multiplayer.

A very interesting choice... Largely taking place in outer space, Moonraker was the James Bond franchise's answer to Star Wars. But somehow in the eyes of most Bond fans, Moonraker is one of the least popular Bond films. It's hard to turn a popular movie into a good game... Which is why Moonraker might be an interesting candidate.

Hey Det,

I'm probably as exited for SSBB as the next but I found some info that made me a bit more exited. While looking for Wii availability on BestBuy.com, I stumbled across a SSBB release date (3/15/07). Do you know if its real or just an educated guess?

That's news to me.... Last I heard, BRAWL was to be released within the first seven months of 2007. A March release date sounds a bit soon, and I don't think an official release date has been announced yet...

An early summer release seems much more realistic... The Amazon UK website lists June 30, 2007 as the release date. I'm not sure if that date's official, especially because there's no release date posted on the Amazon U.S. website. Still though, I expect it to be released in North America early in June.

Note to self: Book some summer vacation time away from work to enjoy BRAWL.

Hi!

Will Waluigi appear in Super Smash Bros Brawl?

Although there's no official word on Waluigi's status, I'd be surprised if he wasn't included. He's good buddies with Wario, who's already been announced as a new character. And because there are so many expected characters, I can't see Waluigi being left off the list.

Hey Det, awesome site. Anyway, there's alot of fake character screens that you put in the Submitted Screen section of the SSBM section. I was just wondering, which one is your favorite? And which one do you think is the most well done? Thanks alot, man.

Tons of memorable select screens have been sent in since the dawn of Melee... (The John Stewart one comes to mind). Although this "classic" select screen is obviously fake, it's one of my favorites because of its' unique style.

But the screenshot created by DewLuigi 2002 is definitely one of the most convincing... Aside from having 8 players, there are over 100 characters here... Which should make the screenshot an obvious fake... But dozens of people were convinced that they could actually unlock fighters like WizPig, Darth Vader and The Hulk.

I guess it just proves the words of some old philosopher: People are more likely to believe a big lie than a small lie.

I don't know if you know this already, but (in Super Smash Bros Melee) you can have Peach with a giant or extremely small radish by making the items only giant mushrooms or only poison mushrooms or both to make a really cool effect. All you do is you put it on giant tiny melee, get a poison mushroom and then get a radish. Then you get big, and get a giant mushroom and you'll still have the tiny radish. This works vice versa too.

Hey, that's a pretty cool trick... It makes for some really interesting visuals... I think the gigantic turnip is my favorite.

Hi, I found this video of Super Smash bros. Brawl, the guy who created this trailer even said it was fake. My question is, will at least SOME of the characters shown here MIGHT be in Super Smash Bros. Brawl?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8QCL7MHSNs

ps, I love this site, I REALLY do

That video boasts quite a large selection of characters... It even "confirms" the return of several existing characters, like Bowser, Falco, Captain Falcon, Ness, Luigi, Mewtwo and Ganondorf... It even shows new characters like Diddy Kong . (The Ganon clip was taken from a GameCUBE demo, while DK and Diddy footage was borrowed from Donkey Kong Racing).

As for the new characters, here's my own breakdown of their chances of appearing in Super Smash Bros BRAWL:

Possible:
Diddy Kong
Krystal Fox
Waluigi
Bowser Jr.

Doubtful:
Ridley
Black Shadow
Sonic the Hedgehog

Long shots:
Shadow Mario
King Dedede
Viewtiful Joe
Rayman
Meowth
Lucario
Wolf

First off, thanks for providing us with such a great site over the years.

Second, will we ever find the real reason why Goldeneye 007 features two Bonds that look different? One only has a SLIGHT resemblance to Pierce, while the other looks identical to him. Who do you think the nonidentical is suppose to be in your opinion? Why are there two versions of Bond in the game? I feel it is one of the most underrated Goldeneye mysteries. Thanks.

I don't think this mystery has ever been completely solved...
Bond has the lighter face for 18 missions, but takes on a darker face with slick hair for the final 2 secret missions... Despite the darker face being used in only two missions, this is the face that Bond wears for Multiplayer.

The darker one, in my opinion, looks a bit like Sean Connery... However, this face doesn't match the "Connery Face" from beta preview videos. Even stranger, is that those bonus stages were based on films starring Roger Moore. (Moonraker, Live and Let Die, The Man With The Golden Gun).

Well I noticed on one of your interesting pages (for Super Smash Bros Melee) that there was a platform in the special movie that is not in the game. Well I'm not sure if you already noticed it but when it gets to Link's part in the special movie, that platform is seen again. He is using his UP-B from the platform. Also, at the end of Zelda's part you can see it in the upper right corner of the screen.

Actually I hadn't noticed, so I recorded a video and played it back. That mysterious platform is definitely hovering there. Maybe it was decided that the platform would get in the way of the action. That ledge and gap is one of the more awkward areas for setting up attacks.

Hi detstar,

I just thought you might want to know in case you didn’t that your speculation about zero suit samus in Super Smash Bros Brawl was right on. The official site, www.smashbros.com said so. Just thought I’d bring this to your attention.

Samus is one of my favorite fighters, so I was interested to learn about this neat twist... The Zelda/Sheik combo allows for a more interesting character, as will Samus' ability to morph mid-game. The ability to slip out of the spacesuit for some faster action will be a great asset.

Hello, I must begin like all others by rambling about just how awesome you are. Seriously, you have got the best SSBM coverage ever...Which is why I'm writing to your mailbag here; although I must admit I've been dying to see my letter on your site! In the Special Movie (Data> Archives > Special Movie), if you watch the video long enough and look closely at the part near the end where there are a bunch of weapons and stuff you can see Ganondorf at the tip of the screen firing off a super scope. Just thought I'd point that out as it is a rather confusing thing to see one secret character amongst all the standards... Anyways, I guess that's all. I have plenty of other things to say abort my own Melee findings but unless you found this helpful I'll just keep quiet. Thanks for listening, and you rule Det!!!

That huge firing squad is one of my favorite scenes from the movie. It does look like Ganondorf up there, but it's hard to be 100% sure. The king of evil would seem a bit out of place, because that would make him the only hidden character shown in this movie. My first guess was Captain Falcon, but he looks to be wearing darker clothing, like Ganondorf... It's hard to tell for sure if the character is wearing a cape.