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[[File:Time_Switch.png|thumb|200px|Mario near a '''Time Switch'''.]]
[[File:SMG2 Topmans Tower Blue Switch.png|thumb|200px|Mario near a blue switch in the Space Storm Galaxy]]
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A '''blue switch'''<ref>{{cite|author=Black, Fletcher|title=''Super Mario Galaxy'' PRIMA Official Game Guide|page=131, 156, 157|date=November 9, 2007|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|language=en-us|isbn=978-0-7615-5643-5}}</ref><ref>{{cite|author=Browne, Catherine|title=''Super Mario Galaxy 2: PRIMA Official Game Guide''|location=Roseville|publisher=Random House Inc|date=May 23, 2010|page=92, 180, 221, 257|isbn=978-0-30746-907-6}}</ref> is a [[! Switch]] functioning as a [[Ground-Pound Switch]] that appears in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''. During gameplay, [[Mario]] or [[Luigi]] must [[Ground Pound|ground-pound]] the blue switches. Upon one being pressed, a temporary effect marked with a speeding-up ticking sound occurs, ending with a ding. Two blue switches appear in the [[Beach Bowl Galaxy]], where they briefly spawn wooden [[platform]]s, and they also appear in the [[Bubble Breeze Galaxy]], where they open alternate paths.
A '''Time Switch''' is an item that appears in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]''. During gameplay, [[Mario]] or [[Luigi]] must ground pound them. Once Ground Pounded, the entire screen will turn black and white, and the music will sound sound very slow. The main effect of hitting the switch, however, is that is will slow down all the obstacles around Mario or Luigi. They can allow them to pass under a [[Thwomp]] or jump on a fast-moving platform with ease. The switches only last for a few seconds though, so the bros. must move quickly. Time Switches only appear in three [[galaxy|galaxies]].


Blue switches return with similar roles in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]''. One freezes the [[water]] on a small planetoid in the [[Cosmic Cove Galaxy]], one moves an elevator for a [[Gold Chomp]] in the [[Chompworks Galaxy]], and one briefly changes a field of [[gravity]] in [[Upside Dizzy Galaxy]]. In certain stages with unusually fast obstacles, found in the [[Space Storm Galaxy]], [[Clockwork Ruins Galaxy]], and [[Stone Cyclone Galaxy]], the switches cause the entire screen to turn black and white with a rippling effect and the music to sound compressed. The main effect of hitting one of these switches, however, is that it slows down all the obstacles around Mario or Luigi. The switches can allow him to pass under a [[Thwomp]] or [[jump]] on a fast-moving platform with ease.
==Gallery==
<gallery>
SMG Beach Bowl Grass.png|[[Beach Bowl Galaxy]]
StarBunnyPlanet.png|[[Cosmic Cove Galaxy]]
SMG2 Chompworks Cosmic Clones in the Chompworks.png|[[Chompworks Galaxy]]
SMG2 Upside Dizzy 4.png|[[Upside Dizzy Galaxy]]
Ledge Hammer Trap.png|[[Clockwork Ruins Galaxy]]
SMG2 Stone Cyclone Tox Boxes.png|[[Stone Cyclone Galaxy]]
</gallery>
==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ヒップドロップタイマースイッチ<ref>{{cite|author=Sakai, Kazuya (Ambit) et al.|language=ja|publisher=[[Shogakukan]]|date=October 19, 2015|title=''Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook'', ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'' section|page=171|isbn=978-4-09-106569-8}}</ref>
|JapR=Hippu Doroppu Taimā Suitchi
|JapM=Hip Drop Timer Switch
|Ger=Lahm-Schalter
|GerM=Lame Switch
|Ita=Interruttore Tempo Schianto a Terra<ref>{{cite|date=November 15, 2018|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''|publisher=Magazzini Salani|language=it|isbn=889367436X|page=171}}</ref>
|ItaM=Ground Pound Time Switch
}}
==Trivia==
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*A similarly acting switch appears in the [[Gold Leaf Galaxy]] on the [[Star Bunny]] chase planet, but it instead uses the design of the switches from the [[Dusty Dune Galaxy]].
*In [[List of Super Mario Galaxy 2 pre-release and unused content|a pre-release version]] of ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'', an alternate design of the blue switch was shown as a sort of "side-flipping" switch, as opposed to looking more like a ! Switch.
*[[Spring Vault]]s' lasers, [[Amp]]s' electricity, [[electric rail]]s, [[Water Shooter]]s' bubbles, [[coin]]s, and Mario or Luigi do not turn black and white when a time-slowing blue switch is pressed.
==References==
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