Update #3 [Thu 13th Jun, 2024 02:15 BST]:
The fourth and final wave of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door icons are now available. Once again, there are various icons up for grabs (for 10 points each) along with some borders and backgrounds (for 5 points each) This wave will be available until 19th June 2024, so get them while you can.
Update #2 [Thu 6th Jun, 2024 03:25 BST]:
The third wave of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door icons are now available. This time you'll have until 12th July 2024 to redeem these icons. This third run contains characters like Mario, Bowser and Yoshi.
Update #1 [Thu 30th May, 2024 03:55 BST]:
Here's a reminder that the second wave of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door icons are now officially live. You'll have until 5th June 2024 to get this second wave containing characters like Koops, Vivian, Madame Flurrie, and more.
Original story [Thu 23rd May, 2024 02:45 BST]:
Nintendo is going all out with the launch of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door on the Switch, and as part of this, it has added a new batch of icons to its 'Missions and Rewards' scheme for the online service.
The first wave, which runs from now until 29th May 2024, will be followed by three other waves. You can redeem six icons featuring characters like Mario and Peach. As usual, they'll set you back 10 Platinum Points each with borders and backgrounds priced at 5 Platinum Points each. Here's a look:
Nintendo is also offering some items on its My Nintendo Store, including a "retro" style GameCube case. You learn more about this item in our previous post. And if you haven't already got your hands on the game, be sure to check out our guide and review. Here's a snippet:
"This is a fantastic RPG adventure, whether you’re a Mario fan or not, with some best-in-class combat, brilliant writing, and a few little creases ironed out to make this the definitive way to play Thousand-Year Door."
Will you be redeeming any of these icons? Let us know in the comments.
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They look great, already using them! So cool to see TTYD being officially recognized from Nintendo, with a remake, icons, and website rewards!
Bought all of them, not missing out on TTYD icons.
Sweet! I'll be snagging all of these. Got an abundance of my Nintendo points anyways.
There go my platinum points
... Uh. None of... Peach? Particularly, none of... a certain, specific version of Peach? Huh. Well. Those are some very nice icons, but I can't deny my disappointment! Hmpf.
Wave 3 is where it's at.
Were obviously coming but still happy to see them, definitely going to be rocking Goombella and Vivian for awhile.
That Yoshi Kid one is going to be mine once it's available!
@MagicEmperor We won't know all the ones that will be available yet, do we? All the ones shown here won't be all that we're gonna get.
Not sure what version of Peach you're talking about though, but they generally use character renders, and not in game stuff, so.. unless this version of Peach has a render, I think you're probably gonna be out of luck.
Yesss, I've been waiting for these! Will be updating my Switch pfp for sure.
A bit strange that for a game with so many unique characters, we're only getting icons for like 5 characters in the first wave. The ones from the first wave all seem to be from the Prologue, though, so maybe that's how they're going to break them up. Wave 2 has characters from chapters 1 and 2, Wave 3 has characters from chapter 3 and I'm assuming also chapter 4... Wave 4 is an odd one because that Mario render is actually in the first wave, so maybe they decided to change it up or something.
It would be awesome if they went beyond just 4 waves because there's so many great characters that deserve their own pfp: Rawk Hawk, Jolene, King K, Bandy Andy, Grubba, Punio, the Shadow Sirens, [name redacted for spoilers], Grodus, Flavio, Cortez, Pennington, General White, and the final boss, [name also redacted for spoilers].
If we don't at least get Rawk Hawk and Flavio, it will be a crime against humanity.
I stand corrected!
There's no way I'm missing the icons for one of my favorite games of all time, in fact I've already got the Wave 1 ones!
@Not_Soos In Wave 1 there's a similar Mario render, but not exactly that one - still Mario with his hammer, but in a different pose (to be precise, from the box art/title screen of the remake and the title screen of the original respectively).
OH MY GOD WE'RE GOING TO GET A VIVIAN NSO ICON HOLY S*** WAIT
I will absolutely be buying every single one of these the moment they come out and none of you can stop me.
Let's a go! I've been waiting for this day since the last Direct. Koops icon here I come!
Also can we please get a Dupree icon? That would make my day.
@Aerona The icon is available now but it wasn't in the first wave.
Love finally getting TTYD character icons but so far the backgrounds and especially borders they've been going with have been pretty bad. Hope that turns around in the last two sets.
New TTYD icons, you say? They sound like good world-conquering tools! I want 'em!
Vivian, my beloved
Dumb question: How do I spend my points on these things? I've never claimed special icons before on Switch. Thanks in advance!
@Hwatt You just need some platinum points, you can earn them by completing the missions, they're usually really easy to complete. You can view what missions you have for the week on the Missions & Rewards page in the NSO app on the Switch.
Once you have some points, just select the character or background or frame you want on the Missions & Rewards page and then just select redeem. Icon assets range from 5 to 10 platinum points per asset. You can only use the icon assets from the same collection, so you can't use a picture of Link on a Splatoon background.
You can also earn platinum points by logging into the My Nintendo website weekly and you can earn some by completing missions in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, Super Mario Run and Fire Emblem on Android and iOS devices.
@Tourtus
Thanks for all the info. Edit: I wasn’t aware I needed an active Nintendo Switch Online (NSO) subscription. That explains everything, I don’t have one!
@Hwatt You're welcome!
Yes you need an active subscription to redeem and make custom icons, if your subscription expires you'll still be able to use the icon assets you own. They'll be in your collection.
You should be able to get the icon assets you want even if you're using a free trial, sometimes those are offered on My Nintendo or on Nintendo's website. The icon assets are on rotation, so these will only be available for a limited time before they get swapped for a different set.
to the yoshimobile!
@Uncle_Franklin Yoshi for life (b ' ' )b
YOSHI KID, finally!! You're mine now.
Finally, the best Yoshi!
A little disappointed the final wave consists mostly of different poses of previously used characters... More enemy characters would have been appreciated.
These icons are great! Sad this is the final wave, I hope someday we get even more! There’s so many characters in this game, so you can only choose so many.
Finally! I get my kleptomaniac mouse! 🐭
Best horny mouse icon you're likely to find.
Yooo a second Yoshi kid render let's gooooooo
Yeah. I'm here for Vivian. 😤
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