As we get closer to Mario's 35th anniversary in September, more and more Super Mario themed products are being released.
Earlier this week, PowerA and HORI announced some new Nintendo Switch controllers, and now, Nintendo is teaming up with the German manufacturer UHU to release Mario-themed adhesive products. As you can see in the commercial below, there are handy items like glue sticks, white tack, correction tape, and more.
If you're not interested in glue, perhaps you would prefer Mario's new LEGO line or the upcoming Mario-themed Monopoly and Jenga board games. If that's still not enough, it might be worth waiting until September to see if these rumours about the 35th-anniversary remasters come true.
[source gonintendo.com]
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Alright, I'm going to need all of the adhesive Mario puns you guys can throw at me.
Mario trades in F.L.U.D.D. for a glue gun.
Ah, yes, because I can't imagine using glue that doesn't have Mario on it.
Are they sniffable at least?
And yet not a single thing in the commercial actually says that this is specifically for Mario's 35th anniversary. You guys do anything for clicks, huh
Edit: Lmao you guys really changed the title of the article. Wow. Eh, at least it's slightly less clickbaity. For those who want to know, the original clickbait was something along the lines of "UHU Celebrates Mario's 35th Anniversary with Mario themed adhesive products"
Can i lick a little bit of the glue stick ?
Maybe some 1Up or Power up if i lick them... 🤣
Screw the Mario Collection, this is all I need
Well, I wouldn't mind sniffing it...
I've never heard of UHU brand glue, so I misread this as HULU. At first I thought it had something to do with the Mario cartoon being on the platform, and then I was extremely baffled why the popular streaming service decided to branch out into the glue market. So then I thought Mario was somehow a key figure in this weird company restructuring. I now understand, but my brain still hurts.
@Doofenshmirtz moans about glue!
(Yes I'm seriously doing something like this for every comment he has)
Odd remasters but ok
@Kalmaro Nintendo has a product placement deal with UHU. In Luigi's Mansion 4, they introduce a new character named Glooigi.
Any pre-order bonus?
Umm????.....Okay?
@Kalmaro Be careful, they might stick to you like glue
@Kalmaro Gluper Mario Bros. is a game where must fight Bowser and his army of Gloopas.
Also, the water levels are full of Gloopers.
@Kalmaro Glue puns? Not to sound like a hardened and crusty sort, but adhering to that request is going to be a sticky situation. Wouldn't take long to run the list of associated words bone dry. But, I'm attached to puns, so I'd definitely get plastered if it'd help squeeze out as many concrete puns as possible and cement "glue" as a worthy pun-off topic.
I haven't heard the brand UHU, since I was in primary school. The stickiest and most annoying substance I've ever come across. Well that's what I used to think, whenever I put together anything
Yes, this is the quality posts I come here for, thanks guys 👍
So since this is a completely natural product, does that mean it's a bone/hoof-based product?
Can they pretend it's made from Exor from Super Mario RPG? He was a bone sword, right?
You'd have to be a serious collector for this, unless you have small children.
Maybe this is why you are stuck to Mario meaning you love the games but maybe this is why, ADHESIVE STICK!!
@nessisonett No, they changed their formula circa early 2000s. Not that I'd know that or anything.
Also, it doesn't say anything about the 35th anniversary (which isn't a milestone year to normal people).
Hmm... Glue? Paper? Mario?
Nope, I’ve got nothing.
Missed opportunity to make them double as amiibo.
UHU must be desperate to increase their market share now that schoolchildren are using significantly less paper than generations past.
@Kalmaro Alright, enough homophonic puns for the moment. Let's try a homographic one.
UHU's new glue stick line came as a result of a strong bond that they formed with Nintendo.
the end of all that is good is near! all that we love will be reduced to brands!
Ok....fine.
Can we have the games now?
I haven't a glue why they have released these things.
Doh #facepalm
Wuuhuuuu!
C'mon guys, work with me.
Well that's uncommon for a merch item...i feel even toilet paper would have been more likely (there was Minions toilet paper, wasn't there), but glue sticks?
I also heard there are available Kinder eggs with Super Mario toys. I can't wait to see more mario themed merchandise with the same treatment as Pokemon.
Where is my boy Waluigi though?
One random drunk night...
Marketeer 1: "If you throw enough random Mario merchandise at a wall, some of it will stick."
Marketeer 2: "Glue sticks stick."
Marketeer 1: "U-huh, so does your mo- WAIT A MINUTE!"
A little later on Delphino Airstrip:
Toad A: "What's this sticky merch-like glue?"
Toad B: "It's smelly!"
Toadsworth: "Now now boys don't sniff that stuff!"
It COULD have made sense with PAPER Mario though. A paper craft set with some Amiibo-card-like stands for some origami Mario themed stuff. A downloadable "labo" manual Switch app to accompany it. The more I think about it, the more I think I'd even get it.
@Shambo
Ah ah! You're right! They should have specifically tied this in with The Origami King. That would have made much more sense.
When a 'games producing company' does not release games it leaves a big hole in the journalist media, to fill.
It happened to Nintendo magazine journalists back in the day, when Nintendo's games dried up, waiting for an announcement for a new console.
So today's big Nintendo news is, a brand of glue stick has a cartoon image of Nintendo characters on them.
Looks like an exciting anniversary ahead.
I am sorely tempted to make a drugs reference right now but I think I'll hold off.
I am already imagining Nintendo using this as inspiration for another Paper Mario game where the Lego Movie plot is recycled and you get a companion character called "Stick".
Ok but where's Waluigi.
Wow. I was just looking at my UHU brand glue stick last night thinking I needed to buy a new one - this timing is perfect for me. Probably the best announcement of the year! Thanks Nintendo, thanks UHU GmbH!
Im gonna stiff the Mario glue and dream of a new f-zero game.
Adhesive products, third-party controllers... What else could any Mario fan dream of in the year of the 35th anniversary? Thank you, Nintendo.
Huffing glue!
When you don't have access to super mushrooms. :3
That's okay, I guess, but with schools not having classes all over the world I suppose at least half their target market has no use for glue sticks now?
If only there was a paper like design of Mario and friends to use for the images.... And a recent game to cross promote with.... Darn.....
When it comes to merch, Nintendo are throwing everything at a wall and seeing what sticks.
..... Nintendo has sucked post March.
A game announcement would be nice.
Not £1 glue.
I never needed to know this, but it's still great! Keep it up NL!
"Do the walk of life"
Yeah I can’t see possibly myself using glue without wario on it! Thanks UHU 😁
"If you're not interested in glue"
How could one be not interested in glue? I'm baffled.
@Kalmaro In Mario Kart, I was playing Luigi against my brother and I got a Bullet Bill from an item box. It would had gotten me out of 10th place during the first lap but my brother summoned a Gloo and the stupid ghost took my Bullet Bill away.
Somehow, I managed to turn the tables around by the final lap and I was nearing the finish line in 1st place but it ended with me getting 6th place because my freaking brother got a Glue Turtle Shell at the last second and it glue up the entire area around me.
Glue.
Hahahahaha, I'm done! I freaking over this!
@John_Koshiro Thanks, I needed that laugh.
This must be what he keeps his toupee on with
These are sort of cool, but the design looks very basic. If these come to Australia and I also happen to need some glue I might get one of them. I kind of like getting random cheap merchandise like this. I believe that UHU is good quality.
@KingBowser86 I was trying to think of some glue puns to combat yours, but I cant. I'm stuck. (That's the best you're gonna get from me lol)
@Benhop07 Ha ha, no worries here! It took a lot of practice for this skill to set and firm up. Tacky puns, lumpy puns, just stick to your guns!
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