Poshley Heights
Poshley Heights | |
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First appearance | Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004) |
Greater location | Rogueport's surrounding areas |
Inhabitants | Bumpties, Toads, Bob-ombs |
Poshley Heights is a posh village that Mario travels to by riding the Excess Express to get the Garnet Star, in the game Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. It is also the home of many wealthy celebrities, including Goldbob and Toodles. It also has very expensive items. Many Bumpties live here as well. Lady Bow and Bootler vacation here after Mario and company defeat the Shadow Queen. Sir Grodus, Lord Crump and the X-Nauts are also shown to have ended up in Poshley Heights after the Shadow Queen's defeat, however, when Mario goes to the place where they can be seen in Goombella's e-mail, they can't be found there.
Poshley Heights has the only inn in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door that has more than one room (not counting Rogueport). This inn is similar to the Marrymore suite from Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars.
Characters Found
- A Toad worker in black and blue uniform checks train tickets.
- The Ratooey businessman
- Toodles
- Goldbob
- Sylvia
- Bub
- Bumpty residents
- Dupree
- A green Toad girl who sells Fresh Pasta in her stand
- Traveling Sisters 3
- An orange Toad, who is the receptionist of the Royal Poshley Park Tower. When Mario rests here, the staff will prepare an Omelette Meal for him for the next day.
- Toadia
- Pennington
- Lady Bow and Bootler (after completing the game)
Items
Item | Icon | Location |
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Choco Cake | Given by Toadia after finishing her trouble. | |
Fresh Pasta | In the second area, it can be bought for 50 coins from the shop in the left. | |
Goldbob Guide | Given by Goldbob during the General White hunt in Chapter 7. | |
HP Drain P | In the first area, it's in a chest in the back room of Goldbob's house. Accessible using Paper Mode. | |
Inn Coupon | In the second area, it's behind the pasta-selling little shop in the left. | |
Omelette Meal | In the second area, it appears in the desk to the left of the inn counter after sleeping at the inn. | |
Package | Given by Goldbob during his trouble. | |
Platinum Card | Given by Toodles after finishing her trouble. | |
Present | Given by Bub while doing his trouble. | |
Shine Sprite | In the third scene, it's high to the right of Poshley Sanctum. | |
Star Piece | In the first scene, it's under a panel in the red floor at the center. | |
In the first scene, it's behind the chair to the left of Goldbob's house. | ||
In the first scene, it's inside the hedge to the right of Toodles's house. | ||
In the second scene, it's in the corner of the hedge to the northwest of the penguin's house. |
Area Tattles
- "This is the Poshley Heights Station. The Excess Express to Rogueport is here. This place is sooooo upscale. It's like, the polar opposite of Rogueport. You can tell that movie stars and millionaires live here. It just REEKS of cash."
- "This is Poshley Heights. It's a relaxed town that positively reeks of money. There's a very nice hotel here, too. Wouldn't it be nice to stay there sometime?"
- "That's Poshley Sanctum. I guess the sanctum grounds are used as a public square. That fountain out front is unique, huh? Yeah, but that water... I bet Nibbles would still chomp your tush if you fell in..."
In-game map description
- A town famous for all of the rich and famous people living in it. There are plenty of extravagant vacation homes and hotels in town.
Names in other languages
Language | Name | Meaning | Notes |
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Japanese | ピカリーヒルズ[?] Pikarī Hiruzu |
Diminutive of「ピカり」(pikari, a Japanese term for "dazzlingly") + "hills" | |
German | Bad Glimmerich[?] | From "bad-" (meaning "bath", a prefix in German place names indicating a spa town) and the derivation of "glimmer" (gleam) | |
Italian | Sfoggy Hills[?] | From "sfoggiare" (to show off) | |
Spanish | Villa Preciosa[?] | Valuable Village |
Trivia
- In Goldbob's pool and the water fountain, there are Nibbles.
- In the house adjacent to the hotel, the Bumpty at the far end of the room references Shiver City from Paper Mario, while tattling the Bumpty near the front door reveals that he bought the house because of the sales of Herringway's novels, as the Bumpty is a relative of Herringway.