Big Paint Star

Big Paint Star
Official artwork of the orange Big Paint Star from Paper Mario: Color Splash
First appearance	Paper Mario: Color Splash (2016)

“Port Prisma without Big Paint Stars is like...like...a tuna-fish sandwich without ketchup! *sob*”

—Huey, Paper Mario: Color Splash

The Big Paint Stars are the source of color that appear in Paper Mario: Color Splash and are housed at the Prisma Fountain. They are larger versions of the Mini Paint Stars. There are six of them in the game, each one being a different color: red, yellow, blue, purple, orange, and green. Each one is guarded by one of the Koopalings (except for Roy). Collecting all six restores color to Prism Island and allows Mario and Huey to go to Rainbow Road to face Black Bowser and rescue Princess Peach at Black Bowser's Castle. Big Paint Stars resemble Grand Stars from the Super Mario Galaxy games and Shine Sprites from Super Mario Sunshine.

Bowser, possessed by the black paint, threw them far away from Port Prisma. Each Big Paint Star, when rescued from the Koopalings, repaints big areas which can't be painted by Mario's hammer normally and tells a little part of the game's story, although disordered. Finally, when the last one is obtained, it reveals what actually happened to Bowser. The red star repaints the Scarlet Gate in Sunglow Ridge, the yellow star repaints a giant coin in Mondo Woods, the blue star repaints the entire sea in Violet Passage, the purple star repaints the gigantic sinkhole in Mustard Café along with the entire rest of the world map's sea, the orange star repaints the Draggadon fossil in Marmalade Valley, which results in it transforming into the real monster, and the green star repaints Luigi's kart somewhere else on Prism Island.

List of Big Paint Stars

#	Image	Color	World		Guarded by			Paints	Memory
1		red		The Crimson Tower		Morton Koopa Jr.		Gate in Sunglow Ridge	Black Bowser is seen throwing each Big Paint Star out of Port Prisma.
2		gold		The Golden Coliseum		Iggy Koopa		Coin in Mondo Woods	Slurp Guys start to drain Toads of their colors. A Toad is then sent to Peach by Kamek and the little bridge is destroyed by Bob-ombs.
3		blue		Fort Cobalt		Ludwig von Koopa		Sea in Violet Passage	Shy Guys are seen stealing paint of their true colors and pouring it in giant buckets attached to Bowser's airships.
4		violet		Fortune Island		Wendy O. Koopa		Sinkhole in Mustard Café	Bowser's minions start to invade Port Prisma and steal the paint from the environment and its inhabitants.
5		orange		Sunset Express		Larry Koopa		Draggadon fossil in Marmalade Valley	Scared Toads witness Bowser being possessed by black paint. Meanwhile, airships arrive and Shy Guys fall from them, starting the invasion.
6		green		The Emerald Circus		Lemmy Koopa		Luigi's Standard Kart offscreen	Bowser watches Toads having fun with paint. After watching the fountain, Bowser then has an idea of having a multicolored shell. After jumping in it, he mixes all of the paint to his shell, unaware of the process of creating black paint. Bowser is then possessed by it.

Gallery

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  Mario and Huey getting the red Big Paint Star

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  The Big Paint Stars at Prisma Fountain

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	大ペンキスター[?] Biggu Penki Sutā	Big Paint Star
Dutch	Grote verfster[?]	Big paint star
German	Großer Farbstern[?]	Big Paint Star
Italian	Mega vernistella[?]	"Mega" + a portmanteau of "vernice" (paint) and "stella" (star)
Portuguese (NOE)	Megaestrela de Tinta[?]	Mega Paint Star
Russian	Мегазвезда краски[?] Megazvezda kraski	Mega Paint Star
Spanish (NOA)	Macroestrella cromática[?]	Big chromatic star
Spanish (NOE)	Maxiestrella iris[?]	Grand Rainbow Star

Trivia

• The jingle played when collecting a Big Paint Star consists of the opening theme of Paper Mario, followed by a portion of Paper Mario: Color Splash's title theme.
• The Big Paint Stars match the color of the wand of the Koopaling that guards it.