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{{species infobox
{{Species-infobox
|title=Spindrift
|title=Spindrift
|image=[[File:Spindriftmario64ds.png|200x200px]]<br>Model from ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''
|image=[[File:SpindriftSM64.png]]
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario 64]]'' ([[List of games by date#1996|1996]])
|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario 64]]'' ([[List of games by date#1996|1996]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario 3D All-Stars]]'' ([[List of games by date#2020|2020]])
|latest_appearance=''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]'' ([[List of games by date#2004|2004]])
|comparable=[[Choppah]]<br>[[Flopter]]<br>[[Twirlip]]
|related=[[Choppah]]<br>[[Flopter]]<br>[[Twirlip]]
|notable=[[Torkdrift]]
|notable=[[Torkdrift]]
}}
}}
'''Spindrifts''',<ref>{{cite|author=Pelland, Scott, and Dan Owsen|date=1996|language=en-us|publisher=Nintendo of America|title=''Super Mario 64'' Player's Guide|page=10}}</ref> or '''Flower Heads''',<ref>{{cite|title=Course 4 - Star 6: Wall Kicks Will Work|publisher=Nintendo: Super Mario 64 Strategy|archive=web.archive.org/web/19980610064450/https://www.nintendo.com/n64/super_mario64/4-6.html|deadlink=y|accessdate=May 22, 2024}}</ref> are enemies in ''[[Super Mario 64]]'' and ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''. They have spinning flowers on their heads that allow them to hover around.
A '''Spindrift'''<ref>''Super Mario 64 [[Nintendo Power|Player's Guide]]'', pages 10, 41, 86 & 92</ref>, or '''Flower Head'''<ref>(June 10, 1998). [https://web.archive.org/web/19980610064450/http://www.nintendo.com:80/n64/super_mario64/4-6.html Course 4 - Star 6: Wall Kicks Will Work]. ''Nintendo: Super Mario 64 Strategy'' (Internet Archive: Wayback Machine). Retrieved February 23, 2018.</ref>, is a hovering enemy from ''[[Super Mario 64]]''. Spindrifts have a spinning flower on their heads which allows them to hover around. They also have a yellow cone at the bottom of their heads. A green leaf-like cape tops the first half of the yellow cone. A Spindrift's head is just a white sphere with two eyes and a small mouth. In the [[Super Mario 64 DS|DS remake]] their heads now have a peach-yellow color, their flowers on their heads are somewhat bigger, their mouths and eyes are smaller and their mouths are now colored black instead of red. They can also hover above water in the DS version.


==History==
[[File:Spindriftmario64ds.png|thumb|left|Spindrift in ''Super Mario 64 DS'']]
===''Super Mario 64'' / ''Super Mario 64 DS''===
Spindrifts roam around a small area, heading slowly towards the player character when he is in their proximity. They can hover above [[water]] in the [[Nintendo DS]] version. If the player character [[jump]]s on a Spindrift, it releases three [[coin]]s and the character [[Spin Jump|spin-jump]]s in the air, which can potentially allow him to reach certain higher areas. Spindrifts appear in both snow courses: [[Cool, Cool Mountain]] and [[Snowman's Land]]. In the latter course, several of them make their home inside an igloo, with the Japanese and Korean names for the mission [[Into the Igloo]] translating to "Spindrift's Home."


===''Super Mario Odyssey''===
[[File:Beta9 NSMB.jpg|thumb|A Spindrift in a [[List of New Super Mario Bros. pre-release and unused content|prototype]] version of ''New Super Mario Bros.'']]
While standard Spindrifts do not appear in ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]'', one of the game's bosses, [[Torkdrift]], is a mechanical Spindrift.
If [[Mario]] jumps on the creature, the Spindrift releases three [[coin]]s, and Mario [[Spin Jump]]s in the air. This technique could be used to get to other areas in new ways. Spindrifts appear in both snow worlds, [[Cool, Cool Mountain]] and [[Snowman's Land]].  


===Unused appearances===
Spindrifts were [[List of New Super Mario Bros. pre-release and unused content|supposed to appear]] in ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'', but were taken out of the final version and were replaced by the [[Spin Block (New Super Mario Bros.)|Spin Block]]s allowing [[Mario]] to perform a [[Spin Jump]]{{ref needed}}.
====''New Super Mario Bros.''====
Spindrifts were [[List of New Super Mario Bros. pre-release and unused content|included in pre-release builds]] in ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'' but were removed in the final version, where [[Spin Block (New Super Mario Bros.)|Spin Blocks]] fulfill their function.


==Gallery==
While standard Spindrifts do not appear in ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]'', one of the game's bosses, [[Torkdrift]], is a mechanical Spindrift.
<gallery>
{{br|left}}
SpindriftSM64.png|A Spindrift from ''[[Super Mario 64]]''
SM64 Spindrifts Freezing Water.png|''Super Mario 64''
SM64DS SSS SL.png|''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''
NSMB Prerelease 9.jpg|A Spindrift in a [[List of New Super Mario Bros. pre-release and unused content|prototype]] version of ''New Super Mario Bros.''
</gallery>


==Names in other languages==
==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
{{foreign names
|Jap=フワフワさん
|Jap=フワフワさん<ref>[http://www.hit-japan.com/book7/P1360725.JPG Scan of 「スーパーマリオ64のすべて」 (''Super Mario 64 no Subete'')]</ref>
|JapR=Fuwafuwa-san
|JapR=Fuwafuwa-san
|JapM=Portmanteau of「フワフワ」(''fuwafuwa'', "fluffy") and「さん」(''{{wp|Japanese honorifics#San|san}}'')
|JapM=Mr. Fluffy
|JapC=<ref>{{cite|author=Motomiya, Shusuke (One Up),Yasuhiro Nemoto, Hideki Endo, Yuta Naoi, and Noriko Tsuyuki, editors|title=「キャラクター図鑑」 in 『スーパーマリオ64完全クリアガイド』|date=1996|language=ja|location=Tokyo|publisher=Media Factory|page=12|isbn=4-88991-411-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite|publisher=Shogakukan|date=2015|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Hyakka: Nintendo Kōshiki Guidebook]]'', ''Super Mario 64'' section|page=86}}</ref>
|ChiS=飘飘花 <ref>{{cite|url=bbs.saraba1st.com/2b/thread-80088-1-1.html|title=Guide posted on forums describing how to beat Mission 4 of Snowman's Land|date=February 4, 2004|language=zh-hans|accessdate=July 27, 2018|archive=web.archive.org/web/20170228010109/https://bbs.saraba1st.com/2b/thread-80088-1-1.html|deadlink=yes}}</ref>
|ChiSR=Piāopiāohuā
|ChiSM=Fluttering Flowers
|Fre=Spindrift
|Ger=Propy<ref>{{cite|author=Kraft, John D., Thomas Görg, and Marko Hein, editors|title=''Der offizielle Nintendo 64 Spieleberater "Super Mario 64"''|language=de|location=Großostheim|publisher=[[Nintendo|Nintendo of Europe GmbH]]|date=1997|page=8}}</ref>
|GerM=From "propeller" with diminutive suffix "-y"
|Ita=Spindrift<ref>{{cite|title=''[[Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia|Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia]]''|page=86}}</ref>
|Kor=둥둥이씨
|Kor=둥둥이씨
|KorR=Dungdung-i-ssi
|KorR=Dungdung-i-ssi
|KorM=From "둥둥" (''dungdung'', "floating"); "이" and "씨" are honorific terms
|KorM=Mr. Floating
|Chi=飘飘花 <ref>[https://bbs.saraba1st.com/2b/thread-80088-1-1.html Guide posted on forums describing how to beat Mission 4 of Snowman's Land]</ref>
|ChiR=piāopiāohuā
|ChiM=from 飘飘然 "light and airy" + 花 "flower"
}}
}}


==References==
==References==
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[[Category:Super Mario 64 Enemies]]
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