Glitzville

Glitzville
Glitzville in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
First appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)
Latest appearance	Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024)
Greater location	Rogueport's surrounding areas
Inhabitants	Lakitus, Bob-ombs, Toads, etc.

“Today's weather in Glitzville is sunny with a chance of more sun. It's above the clouds, stupid.”

—Telephone Booth, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Glitzville is a Chinese-style city built on an artificial floating island. It is the setting of Chapter 3 of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and its Nintendo Switch remake. The city has a Hot Dog Stand and souvenir shop on its left and a juice bar on the right, but the main attraction is the Glitz Pit in the middle. Glitzville is popular and gets visitors from all around the world, according to Goombella's Tattle. There is also a pay phone in the left of the foreground. There is also a Hot Dog cut-out next to the Hot Dog Stand.

To reach Glitzville, Mario must take the Cheep Blimp. However, Mario needs a ticket to access the blimp, which can be received from Don Pianta for finding his daughter, Francesca.

Inhabitants

Glitzville attracts a number of different visitors, including many Toads, Lakitus, Doogans, and Bob-ombs.

Main story

• Jolene
• Mr. Hoggle
• Podler
• Glitz Pit Security
• The Ratooey businessman (after Chapter 6)
• Stewart
• A reporter of an unknown species, potentially the same species as Glitz Pit Security
• A Lakitu cameraman
• An orange female Toad who loves traveling
• A green Toad who runs the souvenir shop
• Battle Master (Nintendo Switch remake only)

Glitz Pit fighters

These are the fighters that appear in the Glitz Pit.

• Rawk Hawk
• Prince Mush
• The Goomba Bros.
• The KP Koopas, including King K
• The Koopa Triplets
• Spike Storm
• The Hand-It-Overs, including Bandy Andy
• The Mind-Bogglers
• The Punk Rocks
• The Bob-omb Squad
• The Iron Adonis Twins
• The Tiny Spinies
• The Poker Faces
• The Fuzz
• The Shellshockers
• The Magikoopa Masters
• Craw-Daddy
• Hamma, Bamma, and Flare
• Chomp Country
• The Koopinator
• Wings of Night, including Sir Swoop
• The Destructors

During Chapter 3

• Grubba
• The Great Gonzales Jr.
• Bub
• Goldbob
• Sylvia
• Toodles
• Dupree
• Traveling Sisters Three

Items

Additional items are on sale at the souvenir shop, which is located in the western part of Glitzville.

Item	Location
Hot Dog	Purchasable from the Hot Dog Stand from Mr. Hoggle for 10 coins each.
Hot Sauce	Given and purchasable from the businessman after finishing his trouble.
Inn Coupon	Behind the red poster to the front of the juice bar.
Power Plus P	In the chest box on the roof of the juice bar.
Shine Sprite	In the right of the area near the Glitz Pit. There is a hidden block below to reach it, or it can be reached later with a Spring Jump.
Star Piece (×5)	Behind the telephone booth in the southwest.
	In the far-left corner inside the juicy shop.
	Behind the east plants in front of the entrance to Glitz Pit.
	Under a panel in the middle-south.
	Under the Rawk Hawk poster on top of the juice shop. Requires Tube Mario or Koops.
Storage Key	Behind the telephone booth during one of X's missions.
Super Hammer	Given by Podler in the juice shop during Chapter 3.

Hidden ? Block

Main article: List of hidden blocks in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Item	Description	Image	Image (block revealed)
1 Coin	Outside, near the front-right pillar of the Glitz Pit's entrance is a Shine Sprite. There's a hidden ? Block underneath it that Mario can reveal by hitting it with his Hammer.

Profiles

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• Tattles
  • "Yup, this is Glitzville. It's so exotic; it feels like we're in another country! This is like an entertainment hub that attracts visitors from all over the world. The Glitz Pit is, obviously, the main attraction. That's where fighters duke it out. To the right: the Fresh Juice Shop. The Hot Dog Stand is to the left. Where to first?" (GameCube)
  • "Yup, this is Glitzville. It's so exotic; it feels like we're in another country! This is like an entertainment hub that attracts visitors from all over the world. The Glitz Pit is, obviously, the main attraction. That's where fighters duke it out. There's also the fresh-juice shop. And the souvenir shop. And the hot-dog stand too! Let's visit 'em all!" (Switch)
• Map description: A floating city in the sky known for its exotic atmosphere. Warriors fight daily here in thrilling bouts that take place in the city's arena. It's rumored that the rich and famous bet on the fights here.

Gallery

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  The outside of the Glitz Pit

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  The Glitz Pit

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  The souvenir shop

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  Mr. Hoggle's Hot Dog Stand with Yoshi Kid's egg on its awning

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  The inside of the Fresh Juice Shop

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  Mario and Goombella posing at the Hot Dog cut-out

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  Mario and Yoshi Kid posing at the Hot Dog cut-out

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  Concept art of Glitzville/Glitz Pit characters

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ウーロン街[?] Ūron-gai	Oolong Town
Chinese (simplified)	乌龙街[?] Wūlóng Jiē	Oolong Street
Chinese (traditional)	烏龍街[?] Wūlóng Jiē	Oolong Street
Dutch	Knokwijck[?]	Brawlwich; -wijk ("district") is often used as a suffix for Dutch toponyms, equivalent to the Engish -wich; Wijck is a Dutch surname derived from wijk and resembles Old Dutch spelling, possibly to evoke the Oriental style of Glitzville)
French	Yunnanville[?]	From "Yunnan" and ville ("city")
German	Falkenheim[?]	Hawk's Home
Italian	Oolong[?]	-
Korean	우롱 거리[?] Urong Geori	Oolong Street
Spanish	Ciudad Dojo[?]	Dojo City

Trivia

• The Japanese "Oolongtown" moniker appeared on the Glitz Pit building's label on the official Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door website, although it was referred to as "Glitzville" everywhere else.
• When the camera pans across Glitzville at the start of Chapter 3, a poster of a Moon Cleft can be seen behind the Hot Dog Stand, while no normal Clefts appear anywhere in Glitzville.
• In the model of Glitzville that appears when Mario is being lowered into city, the sign that reads "Glitzville" instead reads "Urontown", a partial romanization of its Japanese name.