Editing Bowser's bogus items

'''Bowser's bogus items''' are useless items forcibly sold to partiers by [[Bowser]] in ''[[Mario Party]]'' when they pass him on a [[Board (Mario Party series)|board]]. On [[Luigi's Engine Room]] and [[Wario's Battle Canyon]], he does not sell the player an item, but instead provides them with some worthless "service."

 

In ''[[Mario Party Superstars]]'', Bowser will sell either the relevant item for the board he is encountered on, or a [[Creepy Dice Block|Cursed Dice Block]] for 11-20 coins instead. If the player is in last place without any coins, Bowser may instead give coins.

|Bowser sells this item to players for 10 coins. It looks like a miniature version of the Koopa King, and is completely worthless. A version of this statue also appears in ''[[Mario Party 6]]'' and ''[[Mario Party 7]]''. It is the cheapest of all the bogus items.

|[[File:MP1 Bowser Cake.png|200px]]

[[File:Bowser Cake (Superstars).png|200px]]<br>'''Bowser Cake'''{{anchor|Bowser Cake}}

|When a player gets a flower with Bowser's face on it in the [[Goomba]] lottery, they are sent to Bowser, and he forcibly gives the player this item for 20 coins. It is just a spiked [[shell]] with a candle and frosting, and cannot be eaten. In ''Mario Party Superstars'', Bowser states that the cake is made out of rocks.

|[[File:Bowser Tube.PNG|200px]]

[[File:Bowser Tube (Superstars).png|200px]]<br>'''Bowser Tube'''{{anchor|Bowser Tube}}

|[[File:WariosBattleCanyonBowserClaw.png|200px]]<br>'''Bowser's Claws/Bowser Cannon'''{{anchor|Bowser's Claws}}

|Bowser says he will shoot the player from his Bowser Cannon, but instead uses his claws to blast the player to a random area of the board (ironically, the cannon itself is never fired until the end of the game, where the last place player is launched out of it). The player will pay 20 coins (or all their coins if they have 20 or less) for the ride, though Bowser will give it to them for free if they have zero coins.

|Bowser activates this machine in order to create a coin for the player at the cost of 20 coins, thus meaning the player loses 19 coins, due to the one coin they get from the machine. Unlike other bogus items, the player character is shown to be glad over the turn of events, mostly because they at least got a coin back.

|Bowser forces the player to buy a Ztar. Unlike Ztars later in the ''Mario Party'' series, this one does not count as a negative star. However, the Ztar costs 40 [[coin]]s as opposed to a regular [[Star (Mario Party series)|Star]] costing 20, making it the most expensive of the bogus items. However, immediately after "buying" the Ztar, the player will pass [[Koopa Troopa]] and earn back 10 coins (20 in the last 5 turns or if it is the 10th time someone has passed Koopa Troopa; 30 for the 20th time; 40 for the 30th time; etc.). In ''[[Super Mario Party Jamboree]]'', Ztars are sold by [[Impostor Bowser]] for 20 coins.<ref>{{cite|author=Turners064|date=October 11, 2024|url=x.com/turners064/status/1844613340447883305|title=2: The Ztars are back from Mario Party 1. But it only takes 20 coins, instead of 40. But the cutscene is really good|publisher=X|accessdate=October 11, 2024}}</ref>