Shroob Mother Ship

Mario, Luigi, Baby Mario, and Baby Luigi inside the Shroob Mother Ship.

The Shroob Mother Ship.

The Shroob Mother Ship is a large spacecraft primarily used by Princess Shroob for combat and transportation in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. The ship resembles a large, pink Shroob saucer; subsequent to their invasion of the Mushroom Kingdom, the Shroobs' mother ship usually appears to hamper the bros.' efforts to halt the Shroob invasion. The Shroob Mother Ship is the only full-length area in the game that can no longer be accessed once the four heroes leave.

After Mario, Luigi, Baby Mario, and Baby Luigi defeat Bowser and Baby Bowser in Thwomp Caverns and have seemingly rescued Princess Peach, the Shroob Mother Ship sucks the brothers and "Peach" (a disguised Princess Shroob) into the ship. While searching for Peach inside the mother ship, the Mario Bros. find Princess Shroob, who reveals her disguise and promptly tries to destroy Mario and company. Before she succeeds, however, Kylie Koopa is revealed to be disguised as a Shroob, and she uses a ray gun to save the bros. The heroes then travel to the mother ship's highest floor, and while trying to use a key on that floor, a trapdoor opens beneath them and they fall from the mother ship. The bros. get dropped into the now-wrecked Toad Town, while Kylie gets dropped into Yoshi's Island.

The mother ship itself is largely linear and pseudo-2D, with long, straight sections which wrap around the perimeter of the ship and overlook a vast pool of unknown green liquid (possibly vim from Toads) in which many Shroobs seem to be bathing. Some of the Shroobs in the background also appear to have suction tubes above them with their heads being partially sucked in. Two Guardian Shroobs patrol the area, and they are the only enemies that can be battled for Experience Points and coins.

While in Shroob Castle, the bros. find a large Shroob saucer resembling a smaller version of the Shroob Mother Ship, which they then use to shoot down many normal-sized Shroob saucers. Later, when the bros. finally find the real Peach at the top of the castle, Princess Shroob takes the opportunity to use the mother ship to open fire on her own castle in an attempt to finish off the bros., forcing them to engage the mother ship in battle by using another large saucer, which functions identically to the saucer that the Mario Bros. had used earlier. After its defeat, the Shroob Mother Ship crashes into Shroob Castle, taking out a barrier which had imprisoned Peach before the mother ship's destruction.

Items

Item	Image	Location
Super Mushroom		Two are in the second ? Block in the corridor in the east of the first area.
Max Mushroom		In the red block above the northwest high platform in the entrance scene in the first area.
Super Drop		In the fifth ? Block in the corridor in the east of the first area.
Ultra Drop		Two are in the green block in the north high platform in the east part of the south scene in the first area.
1-Up Super		In the ? Block in the upper scene of the second area.
Copy Flower		Two are in the third ? Block in the corridor in the east of the first area.
Drain Badge A		In the green block at the end of the corridor in the east of the first area.
Bean (x11)		In the southwest of the entrance scene in the first area. In the southeast of the entrance scene in the first area. In the northeast of the entrance scene in the first area. In the west of the east part of the south scene in the first area. In the west of the west part of the south scene in the first area. In the lower area of the corridor in the east of the first area. In the northwest of the east part of the south scene in the first area. To the west of the chair in the lower scene in the second area. To the east of the chair in the lower scene in the second area. In the northwest of the upper scene of the second area. In the east of the upper scene of the second area.

Area maps

Gallery

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  Save screen on the Shroob Mother Ship

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  The Shroobs in the background bathing in what appears to be vim

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  Credits scene of the Shroob Mother Ship leaving the Shroob planet

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  Credits scene of Princess Shroob revealing her disguise on the mother ship

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	マザーシップ[?] Mazāshippu	Mothership
French	Vaisseau mère Xhampi[?]	Shroob mother ship
German	Shroob-Mutterschiff[?]	Shroob Mothership
Italian	Astronave madre shroob[sic][?]	Shroob mother ship
Korean	본부 UFO[?] Bonbu UFO	Headquarter UFO
Spanish (NOE)	Nave Nodriza Shroob[?]	Shroob Mother Ship