Editing Face block (platform)

{{item infobox
|image=[[File:Platform Blocks NSMB.png|200x200px]]<br>Sprite of an extended face block from ''New Super Mario Bros.''
|first_appearance=''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'' ([[List of games by date#2006|2006]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]'' ([[List of games by date#2011|2011]])
|effect=Expands into a series of blocks when hit
}}
'''Face blocks'''<ref>{{cite|author=von Esmarch, Nick|title=''Super Mario 3D Land: PRIMA Official Game Guide''|page=11|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|date=November 13, 2011|language=en-us|isbn=978-0-307-89386-4}}</ref> (or '''face Blocks''')<ref>{{cite|author=von Esmarch, Nick|title=''Super Mario 3D Land'' PRIMA Official Game Guide|page=164|publisher=Prima Games|date=November 13, 2011|language=en-us|isbn=978-0-307-89386-4}}</ref> are a series of platforming [[block]]s in the ''[[Super Mario (series)|Super Mario]]'' series that first appear in ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'' They start out as a single [[block]] with a face on it. Each time [[Mario]] or [[Luigi]] hits the block, another face block pops out above the previous one, creating up to four face blocks piled on one another. This can help Mario or Luigi reach higher platforms, enter horizontal [[Warp Pipe|pipes]], or block enemies. However, if Mario or Luigi takes too long, the blocks will collapse back into a single face block.

==History==
===''New Super Mario Bros.''===
In ''New Super Mario Bros.'', these blocks first appear as a single faced block. Each time [[Mario]] or [[Luigi]] hits the block, another face block pops out above the previous one, creating up to four face blocks piled on one another. This can help Mario or Luigi reach higher platforms, enter horizontal [[Warp Pipe|pipes]], or block enemies. However, if Mario or Luigi takes too long, the blocks will collapse back into a single face block.

===''Super Mario 3D Land''===
Face blocks return in ''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]'', where they are spawned from red [[! Block]]s. They have the same design, are often spawned in different paths, and allow Mario or Luigi to access out-of-reach locations and collectibles, though they appear for only a period of time before they disappear.

===''Super Mario 3D World'' / ''Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury''===
The same blocks appear in ''[[Super Mario 3D World]]'' and [[Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury|its port]], but they resemble [[Empty Block]]s and lack faces in this game. The struck block in most appearances resembles a [[Mega ? Block]] and their dimensions are the same as the face blocks from ''Super Mario 3D Land''. The only exception is the one in [[Double Cherry Pass]], which resembles and is the same size as a normal [[? Block]]. 

The larger blocks are encountered in [[Bowser's Bob-omb Brigade]] and [[Super Block Land]]. Hitting the block makes several rows of blocks extend out of it, allowing the player character to reach otherwise unreachable areas. In the [[Prima Games]] guidebook, this is referred to as a '''? Block tower'''.<ref>{{cite|author=Musa, Alexander, and Geson Hatchett|date=2013|title=''Super Mario 3D World: PRIMA Official Game Guide''|format=eGuide|location=Roseville|publisher=Prima Games|page=76}}</ref> In the port's ''[[Bowser's Fury]]'' mode, these blocks are used to scale [[Clawswipe Colosseum]] after defeating Cat [[Boom Boom|Cat Boom Boom]] and [[Pom Pom|Cat Pom Pom]] once.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
! Block and face blocks scene SM3DL.png|''[[Super Mario 3D Land]]''
Super Block Land.jpg|''[[Super Mario 3D World]]''
SM3DWBF Mega Question Block.png|''[[Bowser's Fury]]''
</gallery>

==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jpn=伸び縮みブロック
|JpnR=Nobichijimi Burokku
|JpnM=[[Stretch Block]]
|JpnN=''New Super Mario Bros.''
|JpnC=<ref>{{cite|author=Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors|date=2015|title="New Super Mario Bros." in 『スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック』|language=ja|location=Tokyo|publisher=Shogakukan|isbn=978-4-09-106569-8|page=119}}</ref>
|Jpn2=伸びるブロック
|Jpn2R=Nobiru Burokku
|Jpn2M=^
|Jpn2N=''Super Mario 3D World''
|Jpn2C=<ref>{{cite|author=Sakai, Kazuya (Ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors|date=2015|title="Super Mario 3D World" in 『スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック』|language=ja|location=Tokyo|publisher=Shogakukan|isbn=978-4-09-106569-8|page=233}}</ref>
|Jpn3=ビックリブロックス
|Jpn3R=Bikkuri Burokkusu
|Jpn3M=Surprise Blocks; compare with [[! Block#Names in other languages|! Block]]
|Jpn3N=''Super Mario 3D Land''
|Jpn3C=<ref>{{cite|author=Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors|date=2015|title="Super Mario 3D Land" in 『スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック』|language=ja|location=Tokyo|publisher=Shogakukan|isbn=978-4-09-106569-8|page=186}}</ref>
|Ita=Blocco fisarmonica
|ItaM=[[Stretch Block]]
|ItaN=''New Super Mario Bros.''
|ItaC=<ref>{{cite|date=November 15, 2018|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''|publisher=Magazzini Salani|language=it|isbn=889367436X|page=119}}</ref>
|Ita2=Cassa !
|Ita2M=! Crate
|Ita2N=''Super Mario 3D Land''
|Ita2C=<ref>{{cite|date=November 15, 2018|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''|publisher=Magazzini Salani|language=it|isbn=889367436X|page=186}}</ref>
|Spa=Bloque Amarillo
|SpaM=Yellow Block
}}

==References==
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{{Blocks}}
{{NSMB}}
{{SM3DL}}
{{SM3DW}}
[[Category:Blocks]]
[[Category:Bowser's Fury objects]]
[[Category:New Super Mario Bros. objects]]
[[Category:Super Mario 3D Land objects]]
[[Category:Super Mario 3D World objects]]
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