Editing Big Paint Star

{{item infobox
|image=[[File:Orange Big Paint Star.png|180px]]<br>Official artwork of the orange Big Paint Star from ''Paper Mario: Color Splash''
|first_appearance=''[[Paper Mario: Color Splash]]'' ([[List of games by date#2016|2016]])
}}
{{quote|Port Prisma without Big Paint Stars is like...like...a tuna-fish sandwich without ketchup! *sob*|Huey|Paper Mario: Color Splash}}
The '''Big Paint Stars''' are the source of [[paint|color]] that appear in ''[[Paper Mario: Color Splash]]'' and are housed at the [[Prisma Fountain]]. They are larger versions of the [[Mini Paint Star]]s. There are six of them in the game, each one being a different color (specifically the primary colors followed by the secondary colors): red, yellow, blue, purple, orange and green. Each one is guarded by one of the [[Koopalings]] (except for [[Roy]]). Collecting all six restores color to [[Prism Island]] and allows Mario and Huey to go to [[Rainbow Road]] to face [[Black Bowser]] and rescue [[Princess Peach]] at [[Black Bowser's Castle]]. Big Paint Stars resemble [[Grand Star]]s from the ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' games and [[Shine Sprite]]s from ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]''. 

[[Bowser]], possessed by the black paint, threw them far away from [[Port Prisma]]. Each Big Paint Star, when rescued from the Koopalings, repaints big areas which cannot be painted by Mario's hammer normally and tells a little part of the game's story, although disordered. Finally, when the last one is obtained, it reveals what actually happened to Bowser. The red star repaints the Scarlet Gate in [[Sunglow Ridge]], the yellow star repaints a giant coin in [[Mondo Woods]], the blue star repaints the entire sea in [[Violet Passage]], the purple star repaints the gigantic sinkhole in [[Mustard Café]] along with the entire rest of the world map's sea, the orange star repaints the [[Draggadon]] fossil in [[Marmalade Valley]], which results in it transforming into the real monster, and the green star repaints [[Luigi]]'s kart somewhere else on Prism Island.

==List of Big Paint Stars==
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!style="background:#0000CC;color:white"|#
!style="background:#0000CC;color:white"|Image
!style="background:#0000CC;color:white"|Color
!colspan="2" style="background:#0000CC;color:white"|World
!colspan="3" style="background:#0000CC;color:white"|Guarded by
!style="background:#0000CC;color:white"|Paints
!style="background:#0000CC;color:white"|Memory
|-
!style="background:#74A5ED"|1
|[[File:Red Big Paint Star.png|50px]]
|'''{{color|red|Red}}'''
|style="border-right:0px"|[[File:PMCS TheCrimsonTowerIcon.png|50px]]
|style="border-left:0px"|[[The Crimson Tower]]
|style="border-right:0px"|[[File:PMCS Morton Idle.png|50px]]
|style="border-left:0px"|[[Morton Koopa Jr.]]
|[[File:PMCS TheCrimsonTower03.png|200px]]
|Gate in [[Sunglow Ridge]]
|[[Black Bowser]] is seen throwing each Big Paint Star out of Port Prisma.
|-
!style="background:#74A5ED"|2
|[[File:Yellow Big Paint Star.png|50px]]
|'''{{color|gold|Yellow}}'''
|style="border-right:0px"|[[File:PMCS TheGoldenColiseumIcon.png|50px]]
|style="border-left:0px"|[[The Golden Coliseum]]
|style="border-right:0px"|[[File:PMCS Iggy Idle.png|50px]]
|style="border-left:0px"|[[Iggy Koopa]]
|[[File:PMCS TheGoldenColiseum01.png|200px]]
|Coin in [[Mondo Woods]]
|[[Slurp Guy]]s start to drain Toads of their colors. A [[Toadmaster General|Toad]] is then sent to Peach by Kamek and the little bridge is destroyed by Bob-ombs.
|-
!style="background:#74A5ED"|3
|[[File:Blue Big Paint Star.png|50px]]
|'''{{color|blue|Blue}}'''
|style="border-right:0px"|[[File:PMCS FortCobaltIconA.png|50px]]
|style="border-left:0px"|[[Fort Cobalt]]
|style="border-right:0px"|[[File:PMCS Ludwig Idle.png|50px]]
|style="border-left:0px"|[[Ludwig von Koopa]]
|[[File:PMCS FortCobalt02.png|200px]]
|Sea in [[Violet Passage]]
|Shy Guys are seen stealing paint of their true colors and pouring it into the giant buckets attached to [[Bowser]]'s airships.
|-
!style="background:#74A5ED"|4
|[[File:Purple Big Paint Star.png|50px]]
|'''{{color|violet|Purple}}'''
|style="border-right:0px"|[[File:PMCS FortuneIslandIcon.png|50px]]
|style="border-left:0px"|[[Fortune Island]]
|style="border-right:0px"|[[File:PMCS Wendy Idle.png|50px]]
|style="border-left:0px"|[[Wendy O. Koopa]]
|[[File:PMCS FortuneIsland02.png|200px]]
|Sinkhole in [[Mustard Café]]
|Bowser's minions start to invade Port Prisma and steal the paint from the environment and its inhabitants.
|-
!style="background:#74A5ED"|5
|[[File:Orange Big Paint Star v2.png|50px]]
|'''{{color|orange|Orange}}'''
|style="border-right:0px"|[[File:PMCS SunsetExpressIcon.png|50px]]
|style="border-left:0px"|[[Sunset Express]]
|style="border-right:0px"|[[File:PMCS Larry Idle.png|50px]]
|style="border-left:0px"|[[Larry Koopa]]
|[[File:PMCS SunsetExpress02.png|200px]]
|[[Draggadon]] fossil in [[Marmalade Valley]]
|Scared Toads witness Bowser being possessed by black paint. Meanwhile, airships arrive and Shy Guys fall from them, starting the invasion.
|-
!style="background:#74A5ED"|6
|[[File:Green Big Paint Star.png|50px]]
|'''{{color|green|Green}}'''
|style="border-right:0px"|[[File:PMCS TheEmeraldCircusIcon.png|50px]]
|style="border-left:0px"|[[The Emerald Circus]]
|style="border-right:0px"|[[File:PMCS Lemmy Idle.png|50px]]
|style="border-left:0px"|[[Lemmy Koopa]]
|[[File:PMCS TheEmeraldCircus01.png|200px]]
|[[Luigi]]'s [[Standard Kart]] offscreen
|Bowser watches Toads having fun with paint. After watching the fountain, Bowser then has an idea of having a multicolored shell. After jumping in it, he mixes all of the paint to his shell, unaware of the process of creating black paint. Bowser is then possessed by it.
|}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
PMCS The Crimson Tower You Got a Big Paint Star.png|Mario and Huey getting the red Big Paint Star
BigPaintStarsPrismaFountain.jpg|The Big Paint Stars at Prisma Fountain
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap={{hover|大|ビッグ}}ペンキスター
|JapR=Biggu Penki Sutā
|JapM=Big Paint Star
|SpaA=Macroestrella cromática
|SpaAM=Big chromatic star
|SpaE=Maxiestrella iris
|SpaEM=Grand Rainbow Star
|FreA=Grande Étoile peinte
|FreAM=Big paint Star
|FreE=Grande étoile de couleur
|FreEM=Big color star
|Dut=Grote verfster
|DutM=Big paint star
|Ger=Großer Farbstern
|GerM=Big Paint Star
|Ita=Mega vernistella
|ItaM="Mega" + a portmanteau of "vernice" (paint) and "stella" (star)
|PorE=Megaestrela de Tinta
|PorEM=Mega Paint Star
|Rus=Мегазвезда краски
|RusR=Megazvezda kraski
|RusM=Mega Paint Star 
}}

==Trivia==
*The jingle played when collecting a Big Paint Star consists of the opening theme of ''[[Paper Mario]]'', followed by a portion of ''Paper Mario: Color Splash'''s title theme.
*The Big Paint Stars match the color of the wand of the [[Koopalings|Koopaling]] that guards it.
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