I've actually thought of the Tanooki as a power up before, with creepy images popping up (the likes of Link or Marth with a Tanooki tail, plus the Bunny Hood? The crazy fangirls would be all over that! ) And I can see the 1-Up mushroom giving you an extra life in stock mode, but they'd have to be really rare.

P.S. I've changed the thread title to include all extra aspects.

I think Garboador should come out of a pokeball and throw sludge and crud at the screen like blooper in MK but with Garboador you'll also see trash items like a can of soda or something

This has most likely been said thousands of times but it would be cool if one of the Mario stages was Bowser's Castle. I mean so far we've had: Peach's Castle, Rainbow Ride, Mushroomy Kingdom (1-1 & 1-2), Mario Circuit, and Luigi's Mansion (which is technically a Mario Stage). So let's have a stage for the great Koopa King, it could have classic fireball Podoboos (which damage the fighters obviously) and fighters could activate rotating Fire Bars by jumping on or hitting ? switches. And to stop the stage from becoming predictable, the stage layout could change on occasion (like Mushroomy Kingdom without the autoscrolling).

I'm hoping for team plasmas theme, B/W elite four theme, and Driftvill city themes in the next smash

Me & my big brother were talking about the Screen Pad Controller for Wii U and how it could possibly be implemented for 5 player action. While the 4 players will be fighters, the 5th player with the screen controller can decide where to drop items, move platforms around and even control the direction of the Smash Ball with their finger, sounds kinda goofy to me but I couldnt help but want to share this with the rest of ya'll!

Gaur plains needs to be a stage. Then an ardun charges the stage, instant killing anything in it's path.
Or inside the mechonis' head and make it like zebes. :3

Actually, this sounds like a fun idea that could work if the 5th player couldn't be bothered to fight. The feature would allow for extra hilarity!
I imagine that they'd have to be limited in what and when they can drop stuff though, but control of the Smash Ball would just be begging for 'troll' moments. For some reason, I find something funny about 9-Volt stating this idea.

As fun as such an idea would be, I'm 100% sure it wouldn't fly with the "tournament purists."

On a different note, I would really like to see more Kid Icarus and Pikmin music, such as Dark Pit's theme and the Wistful Wild respectfully.

Being able to throw in your own music while playing.
It could be like, a custom stage thing...I dunno, just put in that feature. xD

the tanooki suit and raccoon suit was the items i was going to say D:

what about a pikmin stage?

Nier stage. With Kaine.

Or at the very least a Chocobo stage.

This.

All I know is, we'd better have some more stuff to play with in the vault, specifically stage builder.

Stage Builder should have a theme for all, or at least most of the series of games involved.

I like the idea about the fifth player on the gamepad. Perhaps the item you drop is random, or maybe you get like 3 items to choose from each time.

I could see there being a game mode that makes it like Bomberman where the first person who dies is no longer in the game but can attack everyone else.

Sounds like an awful fanfic :3

There needs to be more Mario!!

Hmm, I've been thinking more on the Tanooki tail. I can see it working like Mario's cape move, reflecting projectiles and turning the opponent around. And maybe fluttering in midair (but not actual flight) could fit as well. Of course, like I've said before, similar to the Bunny Hood and Lip's Stick, it would make for some hilarious moments! Just imagine Ganondorf with that... He'd never live it down! XD

Hmm... They should consider a Bowser Castle stage, since the new side scroller ones have used the same, if not near exact replica of his castle. Fighting outside or on/around it surrounded by lava.

And maybe a stage from Skyward's Sword's town, it's probably a given.

You know I was thinking they could do a staged based on the Sandship actually, with Tentalus attacking and all that too.

Heh, the concept of a Tanooki Tail (or rather, the Racoon Tail, there's no need for the whole Tanooki Suit) is pretty funny to imagine. When picked up, standard A button attacks would be replaced with the Tail Swipe which could work like Mario's Cape, like you said @WingedFish. Holding down the jump button would allow for fluttering, it could work. Peach would be almost broken with it, though. XD

I'm imagining Viridi with it right now and it is hilarious!