Super Mario Maker (artbook)

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The book’s front cover.

The Super Mario Maker idea booklet was released alongside the Super Mario Maker game as a pre-order bonus to promote the game. It contains many different designs to copy or get inspiration from and codes to enter in the game's digital manual.

The front cover shows a ? Block and Brick Block while the back includes a Hard Block.

Page list

These are all of the pages in the idea book:

1. Mario running into the first section of World 1-1 from Super Mario Bros..
2. A music sheet of the Super Mario Bros. ground theme, with Mario's trail from the previous page.
3. A custom course expanding off Page 2.
4. This page and the next one is a recreation of the Nintendo logo in the Super Mario Bros. game style.
5. See above.
6. Mario, and a Junior Clown Car, empty Goomba Shoe, Buzzy Beetle Helmet, Spiny Helmet, winged Goomba Stiletto, two Fire Flowers, two Super Mushrooms, and a big winged Thwomp with a cannon stacked on top in an iris view.
7. Two picture frames; Fire Mario with a Goomba Shoe and a Buzzy Helmet riding a Junior Clown Car in one, and Fire Mario in a Spiny Helmet wearing a Goomba Stiletto while riding the Thwomp on Page 6 in the other. Codes can be seen underneath.
8. A blank yellow page.
9. Builder Mario running with a wheeltray with 8-bit ? Block, Brick Block, Empty Block, Note Block and Super Mushroom on.
10. The first of the 'The Basics' page, showing codes with previews of the video its attached to.
11. Same as Page 10.
12. A transparent hand dragging a Brick Block with a Wii U stylus.
13. A backwards-C-shaped structure with a 1-Up Mushroom, Brick Blocks, and one ? Block. Two hand drawn birds can be seen sitting on top.
14. A continued Basics page with two previews with codes, Mario jumping, a Fire Flower atop an Empty Block, and hand-drawn blocks and a Pipe.
15. More previews with codes, but also a Paragoomba, green Koopa Troopa, Bullet Bill, Bill Blaster and a hand-drawn Semi-Solid Platform.
16. Pictures of supposedly in-game footage and mock-ups. One of the containing Mario climbing a vine with a Knat from the Knat Attack minigame.
17. More custom images and in-game footage.
18. A hand-drawn fortress on a yellow background.
19. A cat paw grabbing a worried-looking Mario.
20. Sprites of several types of blocks from Super Mario Bros.
21. Page 20 continued.
22. A 'Jumps' page, featuring codes and sketches of how to reach a high-up platform.
23. See above.
24. Several winged blocks and enemies, including a ? Block, Piranha Plant, Paragoomba, Super Mushroom and a Buzzy Beetle.
25. The same as page 24, but with a Blooper, Coin, Trampoline and Koopa Paratroopa. Hand-drawn Paratroopas can also be seen.
26. Weird Mario depecited in several different poses.
27. More Weird Mario poses, but also includes a Super Mushroom and a Weird Mushroom.
28. A page lablled 'Coins', showing different ways to allow the player to collect coins.
29. See above.
30. Mario standing next to a Goal Pole, with a fake fortress (made up of Spinies, Bob-ombs, Goombas and a Bill Blaster) on the left, and the real one on the right.
31. A Course Maker screen filled with Baby SFXs.
32. Mario surround by two big Bowsers with Magikoopas stacked on top of them in the New Super Mario Bros. U game style.
33. A structure resembling a women's legs made up of a Semi-Solid Platform, Pipes and Stilettos.
34. The 'Shells' page, with different scenarios with Koopa Troopas and using their shell to clear obsticales.
35. See above.
36. Another Shells page.
37. The fourth Shells page with Super Mario skidding on the right.
38. A Blooper hiding in a Pipe.
39. A transparent hand reaching over to the Blooper on Page 38, with the Super Mario Maker logo on the right.
40. A maze made of ? Blocks with Coins filling each path.
41. Mario running through a level with three Bowsers breathing fire at him, with hand-drawn Super Mushroom and Undodog.
42. Two Stiletto Goombas waitng at the goal in the Super Mario Bros. 3 game style.
43. Mario standing on a capsule with Wigglers, Buzzy Beetles, Goombas, Koopa Troopas, and Rocky Wrenches trapped inside that can be freed with a P-Switch.
44. Showcases of the Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario World game styles.
45. Showcases of the Super Mario Bros. 3 and New Super Mario Bros. U game styles.
46. This page shows solid objects such as a Brick Block, ? Block, Hard Block, Note Block and Ground Block that Mario can interact with.
47. This page shows jump-through platforms such as a Lift, Bridge, Mushroom Platform, Donut Block and Semi-Solid Platform.
48. A Goomba sticking out of a long Pipe.
49. Page 48 continued, but its feet are sticking out the other side.
50. This page shows how certain enemies behave, with a code in the top left.
51. Page 50 continued, but with more enemies.
52. Even more enemy behaviours.
53. A fourth page of enemy behaviours.
54. Super Mario wearing a Buzzy Beetle Helmet.
55. The Super Mario Maker in the bottom left, with Mario riding Lakitu's Cloud.
56. Many different enemy combinations and scenarios in the Super Mario Bros. game style.
57. Page 56 continued.
58. Big winged Bloopers fill the sky, with a code in the bottom left.
59. Weird Mario, underwater, standing on a structure resembling a stage.
60. A contraption with Koopa Troopas and Conveyor Belts.
61. A car-looking pattern with Fire Piranha Plants in the seat. A code is in the bottom right.
62. Two scenarios; one with Mario riding a Lift through an onslaught of winged Bob-ombs, and another with Spike Tops covering a big Thwomp.
63. A pattern resembling a face.
64. This page appears to include concept art, featuring stick figures resembling Mario and Luigi playing baseball. A drawing of what appears to be Mario wearing a Blue Shell from New Super Mario Bros.
65. Concept art of how Mario would wear a Spiny Helmet.
66. Four codes with previews of their videos.
67. A pattern in the Super Mario Bros. 3 game style resembling a head.
68. Bowser with a Bill Blaster, filled with coins, stacked on his head chasing Mario in the Super Mario World game style.
69. A superhero-shaped pattern with a Thwomp for a head.
70. Goombas jumping up from underneath a Bridge attacking Mario.
71. More scenarios with codes.
72. 2D designs with Toad carrying a wheelbarrow with Yoshi eggs and a hatched Yoshi inside, and Mario and a group of enemies carrying course elements. A post-it note with three codes, two of them crossed out, is on the top left.
73. Builder Mario with his hard hat off (similar to the artwork shown when Club Nintendo was shut down) and hand drawn art of the bottom right of the Course Maker.
74. A Junior Clown Car holding a tower of Piranha Plants, Buzzy Beetles, Thwomps and Spinies.
75. Three rows filled items and enemies in the castle course theme and New Super Mario Bros. U game style.
76. Mario in a Ghost House with Boos holding cannons on their heads.
77. Four codes and previews.
78. Mario dodging a hallway of Fire Bars.
79. Fire Mario riding a Lift on a long maze-like Track.
80. A drawing of a Koopa Troopa attatching a flag to a Goal Pole, while Goombas hold up its ladder.
81. Four Koopa Troopas pulling a Thwomp using a rope.
82. The first page of the "Super Mario Bros. Course Flashback" pages, showing the original planning sheets used during development of Super Mario Bros.
83. The planning sheet for the title screen of Super Mario Bros. Things such as the HUD and Mario are noticeably missing and the default highscore is 50000 instead of 0.
84. The planning sheet for World 1-1.
85. See above.
86. The planning sheet for World 1-2. Interestingly, the secret area near the end of the level goes above ground and has an opening to the End Stairs and Goal Pole.
87. Page 86 continued. Also, the left and right Pipes in the Warp Zone are covered up by Hard Blocks.
88. The planning sheet for World 2-2.
89. See above.
90. The planning sheet for World 1-4. Two interesting details include the staircase at the beginning being made of Brick Blocks, and Bowser having a completely different design.
91. Page 90 continued. This page also shows original designs of enemies, including an unknown enemy holding a pitchfork.
92. This page depicts Mario running with a Koopa Troopa Shell on a set with cardboard boxes of blocks and enemies from Super Mario Bros.
93. The Super Mario Maker logo in several different alternate artstyles, with several depictions of Builder Mario such as him with a red hard hat, blue shirt and yellow overalls.
94. More of what appears to be concept art or drawings of different characters, featuring storyboards of the 100 Mario Challenge cutscene.
95. Same as Page 94.
96. 8-Bit Mario's head with signatures from Takashi Tezuka and Shigeru Miyamoto.

The other pages are blank yellow pages.