Stop-Motion 'Mario Bros.' Will Blow You Away (VIDEO)

Wondering what else you can use that large stack of post-its sitting on your desk for? Perhaps you can use them to reincarnate one of the great super heroes in video game history. That's what these students did, and the result is a frenzied journey through this Japanese middle school. It's a wild ride with Goombas and Mushrooms abound. It's also flat-out impressive. (via Boing Boing)

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[captainhatterax]

02:08 PM on 06/15/2010

If only he had taken that last mushroom... poor Mario.

[starrynights]

03:20 PM on 06/13/2010

I loved it, great idea kids.

[Hirnlego]

02:53 PM on 06/13/2010

Another awesome ... Mario again, gif animated:
http://thedailywh.at/post/687566455/animated-gif-of-the-day-retro-mario-in-3d

[Kaththee]

11:55 AM on 06/13/2010

Very clever but ironic because this is the distraction kids see at school when they play too many hours of video games at home.

[bolivare]

11:49 PM on 06/13/2010

Awesome...a mind reader...yea....awesome

[Cowoak]

09:29 AM on 06/13/2010

I guess Bowser was in the Principles office with the Princess captive.

[Pax Romano]

07:27 AM on 06/13/2010

Very clever!

[Henry Coe]

10:57 PM on 06/12/2010

Sweet! Nice job.

[Diskatopia]

06:35 PM on 06/12/2010

Nice, but all that effort then chalk on a blackboard for "Game Over"?

B+

[imayes]

05:56 PM on 06/12/2010

Nice!

[Politisizer]

05:21 PM on 06/12/2010

Pretty cool. Kudos.

[buckethead 22]

05:13 PM on 06/12/2010

HE keeps forgetting to get the mushroom.

[StonedAtheist]

07:11 PM on 06/13/2010

I know I wanted to see big mario.

Still awesome.

[mathme]

04:43 PM on 06/12/2010

This probably didn't take quite as long as we think (notice that the light coming in through the window didn't change much (at all?) in some of the naturally lighted scenes). Because of the older sprite-based, low rez NES graphics they were immitating, they only needed 3 states for mario to be in (standing still, Left foot, right foot). That is NOT to say that this isn't awesome, it seems like a really efficiently done and excellent piece of stop animation. I loved it!

[ricardus99]

02:46 PM on 06/12/2010

that must of taken forever to do that...

[darth geekboy]

03:04 PM on 06/12/2010

yes.....that must HAVE taken forever to do that...

[KeyWestDan]

01:21 PM on 06/12/2010

Very rad.

[tanya1111]

01:13 PM on 06/12/2010

Where were these kids when I was in school? I mean all they could do with paper was spit balls at my school.

[Taj Sandhu]

02:10 PM on 06/12/2010

lol...

[edified]

02:18 PM on 06/12/2010

We've come a long way baby!
That was cool and very creative! Probably a lot of fun too!

[darth geekboy]

03:06 PM on 06/12/2010

it must have been fun coming up with the idea. fun at the beginning too.

but this is all tedious work, and i bet it wasn't fun for those kids by the end of it.