Editing Tox Box

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|image=[[File:Tox Box SMG.png|180px]]<br>A ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''-style '''Tox Box'''.

|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario 64]]'' ([[List of Mario games by date#1996|1996]])

|latest_appearance=''[[Mario Party: Island Tour]]'' ([[List of Mario games by date#2013|2013]])

|related=[[Grumblump]]

 

 

 

[[Shigeru Miyamoto]] regards the Tox Box as one of his best design and a "masterpiece", stating they embody his game design philosophy of making gameplay mechanics clear and quickly understood at a first glance. <ref>"Miyamoto sees the Tox Box, a cube that is constantly moving to crush Mario but has a hole on one side he can safely hide in, as one of his best designs. ''When the hole is on your side, Mario can just get into the cube and you’re safe, but if he doesn’t, you get squashed. And it’s easy to see. It’s very clear and understandable. It’s also easy to predict,'' he says, smiling. ''But once you actually start thinking about it, then it becomes complicated. Once you start trying to put that into action, it becomes complicated. I feel like that is probably one of my masterpieces.''" [http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/06/27/e3-2017-shigeru-miyamoto-and-the-legacy-of-mario Interview with IGN]. Retrieved June 28, 2017</ref>

[[File:Toxboxsides.PNG|thumb|'''Tox Boxes''' roll around to crush [[Mario]] in ''[[Super Mario 64]]''.]]

[[File:Sum64dstoxbox.PNG|thumb|left| A '''Tox Box''' in ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''.]]

Tox Boxes appear in [[Shifting Sand Land]], the 8th course of the game. They attempt to flatten Mario by rolling over him. The path is a small maze of tiles surrounded by darker, faster-moving quicksand that sucks [[Mario]] in instantly. The tiled maze that the Tox Boxes travel on has a few [[Red Coin]]s on it, as well as the course's only [[cannon]]. If Mario gets squished by a Tox Box's side, he loses three wedges of [[Health Meter|health]].

In ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]'', if [[Wario]] is inside one of them and punches (or jumps), the Tox Box will fly somewhere into the sand and sink, unless it falls in the sand that the characters can normally stand in. If this happens, it simply stays in one spot until the player leaves the level. Tox Boxes also appear in the ''Super Mario 64 DS'' [[minigame]] [[Tox Box Shuffle]], where three of them each hide a [[Yoshi (species)|Yoshi]] or a [[Light Blue Yoshi]] and the player must guess which Box the Green or Light Blue Yoshi is in.

[[File:Chain Planets.PNG|thumb|left|Tox Boxes in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''.]]

Tox Boxes reappear in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''. These redesigned boxes usually appear alongside [[Thwomp]]s. They only appear in the [[Beach Bowl Galaxy]] and the [[Toy Time Galaxy]]. In both Galaxies they appear on small pathways, much like they did in Shifting Sand Land.

Unlike the Tox Boxes in ''Super Mario 64'', these ones resemble Thwomps; instead of having the faces spray-painted on, they are carved in a way resembling a Thwomp's face. These Tox Boxes also lack a face on the side opposite the hole. The hole itself has also been expanded quite a bit, and colored in red to resemble a mouth. Also, coming into contact with any of the Tox Box's sides from the outside is considered as being crushed and thus results in an instant death. Their faces resemble the [[Thwack]]'s expressions.

In ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'', Tox Boxes reappear in the [[Stone Cyclone Galaxy]], which is a remake of the Cyclone Stone in ''Super Mario Galaxy'', but they move faster than they did in the previous game. Using the various blue switches found in the galaxy, the Tox Boxes, along with the other obstacles in the galaxy, drastically slow down.

Tox Boxes appear in the minigame [[Hide 'n' Splat]] in ''[[Mario Party: Island Tour]]''. Here they try to squish the players using the same methods as in past games, but get faster as the time limit decreases. They retain their appearance from the ''Super Mario Galaxy'' games.

===''Super Mario-Kun''===

[[File:ToxBoxSuperMarioKun.png|thumb|The Tox Box in the ''Super Mario-Kun''.]]

A Tox Box makes an appearance in volume 16 of the ''[[Super Mario-Kun]]''. It is an obstacle against Mario's path to retrieve his lost hat from [[Klepto]]. Hatless, Mario tries using a [[Exclamation Mark Block]] to combat against the Tox Box; he still ends up getting smashed. In the manga, the Tox Box is able to smash Mario, even on the safe side.

==Names in other languages==

|Jap=オニマスクン (Super Mario 64)<br>オニマスドン (Super Mario Galaxy)

|JapR=Onimasukun, Onimasudon

|JapM=From ''oni'', Japanese "fiends"; ''masu'', meaning "box"; and ''kun'', an honorific suffix. Also interpreted as ''oni-masked guy''. <br>As for the latter, "oni box thwomper" or "oni-masked thwomper".

|Ger=Cubus Hohlicus (only in Super Mario 64)<br>Tox-Box

|GerM= cube and hohl(hollow) in pseudo-latin<br>Tox Box

|ItaM=Don Box

|SpaE=Cajuelo

|SpaEM=From ''caja'' (box) and ''suelo'' (floor)

|SpaA=Don Cajuelo

|SpaAM=Mr. Cajuelo. Cajuelo is from ''caja'' (box) and ''suelo'' (floor)

|KorM=Translation from Japanese name("되" from "升", "도깨비" from "鬼")}}

 

==Trivia==

*Like Thwomps themselves, the carved faces of the new Tox Boxes in ''Super Mario Galaxy'' and ''Super Mario Galaxy 2'' resemble the Japanese [[wikipedia:Oni (folklore)|oni]].

*The English name "Tox Box" was given due to their industrial-like appearance in ''Super Mario 64''. In ''Super Mario Galaxy'', the Tox Boxes lost their industrial look as they were redesigned to better resemble Thwomps. Despite the lost meaning, the name "Tox Box" is still used. However, the Japanese name was changed to reflect the new appearance, suggesting that they are meant to be different but related enemies.

==Reference==

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