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[[Image:Outer_Limits.jpg|thumb|[[Mario]] next to '''Twinkle Mart'''.]]
[[File:SPM Twinkle Mart.png|thumb|[[Mario]] next to Twinkle Mart]]
{{quote|Welcome to Twinkle Mart! If we're not closed, we're open!|Howzit|Super Paper Mario}}
{{quote|Welcome to Twinkle Mart! If we're not closed, we're open!|Howzit|Super Paper Mario}}


'''Twinkle Mart''' is a shop located in the [[Outer Limits]] of space, in ''[[Super Paper Mario]]''. This oddly-placed store is run by [[Howzit]], who seems to have very few customers; according to the shopkeeper himself, [[Mario]] is the first customer since the "grand opening". Twinkle Mart is actually a chocolate store, where only three [[items]] can be bought:
'''Twinkle Mart''' is a shop located in the [[Outer Limits]] of space in ''[[Super Paper Mario]]''. This store is run by a pink version of [[Howzit]], who seems to have very few customers; according to the shopkeeper himself, [[Mario]] is the first customer since the "grand opening". Twinkle Mart is a chocolate store, where only three [[List of items|items]] can be bought. Below is a table that displays the three items that can be bought at the shop.
*[[Sweet Choco-bar]]s, for five coins
*[[Shroom Choco-bar]]s, for ten coins
*[[Golden Choco-bar]]s, for one-hundred coins


After placing [[Squirps]] in a [[Space Gate]] socket, Mario had to give him one of the chocolate bars he bought at Twinkle Mart, allowing the young alien to briefly split in two and thus fit in both sockets.
{| class="wikitable"
!Item
!Price
|-
![[File:Sweet Choco-bar SPM.png]]<br>[[Sweet Choco-bar]]
|10 [[Coin]]s
|-
![[File:Shroom Choco-bar SPM.png]]<br>[[Shroom Choco-bar]]
|50 Coins
|-
![[File:Golden Choco-bar SPM.png]]<br>[[Golden Choco-bar]]
|100 Coins
|}
 
Twinkle Mart is the only regularly accessible shop whose products can otherwise be obtained through cooking - this is due to the fact that a Choco-bar is required in order to open the gate, yet the player does not yet have access to either [[Dyllis]] in order to prepare it or a source of the ingredients required to make it ([[Mild Cocoa Bean]]s, which are first obtainable in Chapter 5).
 
==Names in other languages==
{{foreign names
|Jap=ティンクル☆マート
|JapR=Tinkuru Māto
|JapM=Twinkle☆Mart
|Fre=Blobumarché
|FreM=Portmanteau of "[[Blobule]]" and ''marché'' ("market")
|Ita=Negozio Orbitante
|ItaM=Orbiting Shop
}}


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*The verb "twinkle" often refers to the stars. Since the shop is located in space, the name "Twinkle Mart" is therefore quite suitable.
*The German version states that [[Notso]], rather than Howzit, runs Twinkle Mart. The English localization merely notes that the version of him in Twinkle Mart seems to have a different personality than normal. In the Japanese version, it is simply stated that Howzit runs Twinkle Mart.
 
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Latest revision as of 13:16, May 17, 2024

Twinkle Mart
Mario next to Twinkle Mart
“Welcome to Twinkle Mart! If we're not closed, we're open!”
Howzit, Super Paper Mario

Twinkle Mart is a shop located in the Outer Limits of space in Super Paper Mario. This store is run by a pink version of Howzit, who seems to have very few customers; according to the shopkeeper himself, Mario is the first customer since the "grand opening". Twinkle Mart is a chocolate store, where only three items can be bought. Below is a table that displays the three items that can be bought at the shop.

Item Price
Sweet Choco-bar SPM.png
Sweet Choco-bar
10 Coins
Shroom Choco-bar SPM.png
Shroom Choco-bar
50 Coins
Golden Choco-bar SPM.png
Golden Choco-bar
100 Coins

Twinkle Mart is the only regularly accessible shop whose products can otherwise be obtained through cooking - this is due to the fact that a Choco-bar is required in order to open the gate, yet the player does not yet have access to either Dyllis in order to prepare it or a source of the ingredients required to make it (Mild Cocoa Beans, which are first obtainable in Chapter 5).

Names in other languages[edit]

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ティンクル☆マート[?]
Tinkuru Māto
Twinkle☆Mart
French Blobumarché[?] Portmanteau of "Blobule" and marché ("market")
Italian Negozio Orbitante[?] Orbiting Shop

Trivia[edit]

  • The German version states that Notso, rather than Howzit, runs Twinkle Mart. The English localization merely notes that the version of him in Twinkle Mart seems to have a different personality than normal. In the Japanese version, it is simply stated that Howzit runs Twinkle Mart.