Editing Donkey Kong Coconut Crackers

|developer=[[Rare Ltd.]]

|publisher=Unpublished

|release=Canceled<br>{{flag list|USA|(Planned for November 2001)<ref name="ncom">{{cite|deadlink=y|archive=web.archive.org/web/20010623205345/http://www.nintendo.com/games/gamepage/gamepage_main.jsp?gameId=649|title=''Donkey Kong Coconut Crackers''|publisher=Nintendo.com|language=en-us|accessdate=May 25, 2024}}</ref>|UK|(Planned for December 7, 2001)<ref name="gbx">{{cite|url=archive.org/details/GBX-Magazine-Print-Collection/04%20GBX%20October%202001/page/10/mode/2up|title=Game Boy Xtreme issue 4|date=October 2001|page=10}}</ref>|Japan|(Planned for summer 2002)<ref>{{cite|deadlink=y|archive=web.archive.org/web/20011130143421/http://www.zakzak.co.jp/gamezak/nintendo/list|title=でじ端会議室 :: 任天堂新聞|publisher=Zakzak|language=ja|accessdate=May 25, 2024}}</ref>}}

|genre=[[Genre#Puzzle games|Puzzle]]

|modes=Single player, multiplayer

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'''''Donkey Kong Coconut Crackers''''', also called '''''Donkey Kong Puzzle Paint''''' at one point in development,<ref>{{cite|url=x.com/Paul_Mach1/status/1312349471666298880|title=So look what we’ve got here from my newly unearthed archives. IMP went through many incarnations and whilst i recall the 3D version well, I didn’t remember it as DK Puzzle Paint yet here we are. From an undated project redesign document|author=Machacek, Paul|publisher=X|language=en|date=October 3, 2020|accessdate=May 25, 2024}}</ref> was a canceled [[Genre#Puzzle games|puzzle]] game for the [[Game Boy Advance]] and a ''[[Donkey Kong (franchise)|Donkey Kong]]'' spin-off title. The game was developed by [[Rare Ltd.]], was shown off at E3 2001, and was originally planned for release in November 2001 in the United States<ref name="ncom"/> and December 7, 2001, in the United Kingdom.<ref name="gbx"/> It was likely postponed ahead of time due to the forthcoming acquisition from {{wp|Microsoft}} on September 24, 2002.<ref>{{cite|deadlink=y|archive=web.archive.org/web/20100731105039/http://mundorare.com/features/chronicle-of-a-buyout-foretold|title=''Chronicle of a Buyout Foretold''|publisher=MundoRare|accessdate=May 25, 2024}}</ref> Eventually, the game was canceled along with ''[[Donkey Kong Racing]]'' in August 2002,<ref>{{cite|author=Metts, Jonathan|date=August 13, 2002|url=www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/7645/changes-to-rares-website|title=Changes to Rare's Website|publisher=Nintendo World Report|accessdate=May 25, 2024}}</ref> one month before Microsoft's acquisition of Rare. The game went through many different iterations, with and without [[Donkey Kong]] attached to it, including the following working titles: ''Splonge'', ''Nutcracker'', ''Animal Cracker''(''s''),<ref>{{cite|url=x.com/katewillaert/status/1184603553274519560|title=Apparently this Nintendo/Rare game called "Animal Crackers" became 2004's It's Mr. Pants.|date=October 16, 2019|publisher=X|accessdate=May 25, 2024}}</ref> and ''Sunflower''.<ref>Edge staff (October 2010). "Rare Vintage".</ref>{{better source}} After the game was canceled, the ''Donkey Kong'' elements from the game were removed, and Rare considered reworking it into a ''[[jiggywikki:Banjo-Kazooie (series)|Banjo-Kazooie]]'' spin-off titled ''Banjo's Jiggy Juggle'', or a ''{{wp|Sabreman}}'' title.<ref>{{cite|url=www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLJAVWMI1F4|title=Rare Revealed: The Making of It's Mr. Pants|author=Rare Ltd|publisher=YouTube|date=August 5, 2016|accessdate=May 25, 2024}}</ref> The game was eventually converted into ''{{wp|It's Mr. Pants}}'', whose trademark was registered on November 9, 2001,<ref>{{cite|title=[[tcrf:Prerelease:It's Mr. Pants|Prerelease:''It's Mr. Pants'']]|publisher=The Cutting Room Floor|accessdate=January 1, 2023}}</ref> and released in late 2004.

DKCC.jpg|''Donkey Kong Coconut Crackers'' logo, shared by [[Rare Ltd.]] software engineer Paul Machacek on Twitter

[[File:Foodfight! Donkey Kong Coconut Crackers.png|thumb|300px|An unused cameo of ''Coconut Crackers'' artwork in ''Foodfight!'' (top right), as seen in the original trailer.]]

*The main ''Coconut Crackers'' artwork made a [[List of references in film#Foodfight!|cameo appearance]] in the 2000-2003 sizzle reel made for the animated 2012 movie ''{{wp|Foodfight!}}'', as seen in the original trailer. It does not appear in the final film, which opted for a different, more motion-capture animation style.

*[http://web.archive.org/web/20011203190433/http://www.rareware.com/master_frames/frameset7.html Rareware.com page] (Wayback Machine)