{"id":772902,"date":"2025-11-29T20:51:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T20:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/super-mario-bros-movie-concept-art-shows-daisy-birdo-toadsworth?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed"},"modified":"2025-11-29T20:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T20:51:54","slug":"super-mario-bros-movie-concept-art-shows-daisy-birdo-toadsworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/super-mario-bros-movie-concept-art-shows-daisy-birdo-toadsworth\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Mario Bros. Movie concept art shows Daisy, Birdo, Toadsworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/super-mario-bros-movie-concept-art-shows-daisy-birdo-toadsworth.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nProduction artwork for the Super Mario Bros. Movie shows a number Mushroom Kingdom characters who didn&#8217;t make it into the final film &#8211; including Princess Daisy, Toadette, Eurogamer favourite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/who-is-birdo\">Birdo<\/a>, and the loyal Toadsworth.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe artwork, created by freelance veteran Jed Diffenderfer, was recently spotted after being uploaded to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeddiffenderfer.com\/film\">website<\/a> (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2024\/03\/new-mario-movie-concept-art-shows-princess-daisy-in-action\">Nintendo Life<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>\nDiffenderfer states he worked as a story artist on the Super Mario Bros. Movie project from 2018 to 2020 &#8211; so it&#8217;s likely that some of the artwork he created dates from early on in the project, before certain narrative choices were made.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/super-mario-bros-movie-concept-art-shows-daisy-birdo-toadsworth?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/super-mario-bros-movie-concept-art-shows-daisy-birdo-toadsworth?utm_source=feed&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=feed\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Production artwork for the Super Mario Bros. Movie shows a number Mushroom Kingdom characters who didn&#8217;t make it into the final film &#8211; including Princess Daisy, Toadette, Eurogamer favourite Birdo, and the loyal Toadsworth. The artwork, created by freelance veteran Jed Diffenderfer, was recently spotted after being uploaded to his website (thanks, Nintendo Life). Diffenderfer states he worked as a story artist on the Super Mario Bros. Movie project from 2018 to 2020 &#8211; so it&#8217;s likely that some of the artwork he created dates from early on in the project, before certain narrative choices were made. Read more Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":772903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[230],"tags":[21,10767],"class_list":["post-772902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurogamer","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-the-super-mario-bros-movie-2023"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Super Mario Bros. Movie concept art shows Daisy, Birdo, Toadsworth | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Production artwork for the Super Mario Bros. 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