Today's 'Mr. Sakurai Presents' video contained plenty of great news for fans of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – including the release date for newest fighter duo Pyra/Mythra, of course – but the series director also slipped in a quick anecdote about upcoming fighters.
Towards the end of the video, Sakurai took a moment to show off a collection of 3D figures that he's gathered as part of the Smash team's development process. While not always 100% accurate to the in-game models, Sakurai notes that the figures can be useful for the team to get a grasp on how a character might look from all angles, such as the bottom of their feet – something that needs to be included, but isn't necessarily seen in original material.
There were some pretty cool looking figures on display, including models of both Pyra and Mythra, but just as we were being treated to a look at the collection, Sakurai revealed that he has figures of upcoming, unrevealed fighters sitting in the office, tucked away inside a locked drawer.
"I have a lot of figures at my desk in the office. I actually hide figures of unreleased fighters in a locked drawer. Not that we can go into the office right now."
There's something rather comical about a single drawer containing all the answers to one of the Nintendo community's biggest topics of discussion – can you imagine how tempting it must be to just tell everyone what's coming next?
How many hours until 'leakers' start taking blurry photos of random figures in a cupboard they have at home?
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WHY WOULD YOU TELL US THAT SAKURAI???
@FixMadden21 NOW WE WILL HAVE TO RAID THE OFFICE
How many of them are coming? I thought it is done soon.
Where on earth does he get figures of some fairly obscure characters?!
@Yanina 2 MORE FIGHTERS AFTER PAYRA AND MITHRA
At least they are in a drawer, and NOT a jar.
His Alan Partridge drawer.
Is that a Prinny from the Disgaea games on the left side below Pit or something else? Might be a hint ...
@FixMadden21 Area 51 raiding noises
I would hate to have my life under such a microscope that people are interested in where I store figurines! Yeesh.
@FixMadden21 GOOD LUCK JUST FLYING TO JAPAN DURING THE PANDEMIC AND BEFORE THE FIGHTER PASS HAS FINSHED
Fun fact about his figurine comment: Bottoms of the feet is actually codeword for up the skirt
I was kinda cringing throughout the presentation when he made these comments, doesn't he have a wife?
Surely there’s more than two characters in that drawer, right? RIGHT?
me when i break into sakurai's office to see the upcoming smash characters but there's only a mirror in the drawer
@PBandSmelly His wife should be really angry of him watching under the skirt of PVC figurines
@PikaPhantom The New Challenger was you all along, and the friends you made on the way
@LuigibrineTheGreat Am I missing something ? Why would they be in a jar?
That Ness one :’(
Right now, im training to become a ninja! Just to get a peek in that drawer 😎
Wish I could afford the Pyra figure hi had, but good sculptures are expensive :/
@Rohanrocks88 I think Waluigi was in the fourth lineup of a series of small Mario figures.
@ChakraWarrior Oh man, after reading your comment I immediately saw it xD. For some reason I kept thinking the side of the helmet looked like an eye and it drove me crazy. Thanks for the clarification!
@PBandSmelly If only your pervy conspiracy was true.
Alas, you can't actually see anything under their skirt in the game.
Which is why many Smash Bros players became Genshin Impact players instead.
Hope he's got a Crash Bandicoot locked away in that draw!
Hatsune Miku confirmed for Smash
Remember before the game launched he had a figure on his desk of a popular retro motorcycle game character and people were speculating if it meant he was being included? I can't remember his name now.
@MajinSoul That's mega man
@SpaceboyScreams The guy from Excitebike?
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@Beolleika You know why... figure it out. But you have been warned: It's disgusting.
@redpanda0310 No not that one.
Sakurai: do not touch my toys. I play with them when my switch is charging
I guess he keeps Waluigi's figure somewhere in the basement then
He comes down there once in a while, stays in front of figure for a few minutes, just looking at it. Then says a short "No" and returns upstairs
@SpaceboyScreams Wdym
@SpaceboyScreams Oh i see which one then
Anybody else see Morgana down there in the corner?
And just like that I feel better about the money spent on my collection. Some of the figures in that pic are expensive.
Mario is so huge in that picture xD
I have that Corrin, Morgana, and Bayonetta one actually. Very nice figures I must say and very detailed. And I'm sure that is the same Yoshi figure that I have. I would like to see his big collection all together
@redpanda0310 Yes and I can tell that's the one that comes with Joker
@FixMadden21 YES WE MUST
@Mr_Persona Yeah
Please, Hollow Knight... Please, Hollow Knight... Please, please... Hollow Knight... 🥺
See, now I just want a Smash Ultimate action figure line.
Surely Sakurai is temped to tweet a pic and remove it a few secs later... nobody will notice! 😁
At least they are in a drawer, and NOT a jar.
@LuigibrineTheGreat I'm not sure that's a blessing.
Clown, hobo, ballet dancer, bagpiper, and an army major—a collection of question marks. Five improbable entities stuck together into a pit of darkness. No logic, no reason, no explanation; just a prolonged nightmare in which fear, loneliness, and the unexplainable walk hand in hand through the shadows. In a moment, we'll start collecting clues as to the whys, the whats, and the wheres. We will not end the nightmare, we'll only explain it—because this is the Twilight Zone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Characters_in_Search_of_an_Exit
@PBandSmelly I think you're reading too much into it. Yes you could be right, but remember Sakurai places too much details on fighters, like when Kyo Kusanago appears in the KOF stage, he sun mark is on his back, you can't see it but it is there. Far all we know, Mythra has some type of emblem on her shoes. Just saying
@Shiro28 @GC-161
No really, it's an actual saying. It's been around for a while.
@PBandSmelly Yes I know, I'm just saying that in this case he really does mean the bottom of their feet.
@BloodNinja
You’re right as always! That would be crazy. Microscopes and x-ray diffraction spectrometers are no use- way too zoomed in.
I’d have 10x size max on my ninja pictures on the lab wall next to the glove box so i can dream of heroic exploits while doing spin epitaxy for organic electronics... Err i mean. Thats what some crazy fan would do... umm.
Free smash! More FE sword peeps!
I have got to get out of the lab.
@Dr_G_Lemaitre Hahahah!! Thoroughly entertaining, even to a laymen ninja. Good, good!
If you need a lab escape try Nintendo LABO HAHAHA
I'll see myself out, thoroughly, this time.
NINJA APPROVED
Tbh, since smash has the largest official fighting game roster on record, and are sooo close to 100 playable fighters. I would not be suprised if they go for it just to grab another record.
Hmm.. Wonder what Crash Bandicoot and Waluigi's Figures look like?
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