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Image: Lush Cosmetics/BoxLunch/NintendoThe nostalgia for Nintendo’s games which inspired The Super Mario Bros. Movie is catering to grown-up fans in a big way just in time for the Chris Pratt-starring film’s release. BoxLunch, Lush Cosmetics, and Truff have fantastic retro collections that invoke the Mushroom Kingdom in creative ways. There’s Mario Bros. gear, of course, but also hot sauce, objects from the game with practical uses (like a coin-shaped soap), Princess Peach scented goods, and more.Check them all out in…

Ahead of the release of the Super Mario Bros Movie in April, Nintendo has teamed up with UK retailer Lush to launch a new range of bathing products. In one of the most bizarre collaborations yet, the Lush X Super Mario Bros. Movie range includes bath bombs, shower gels and body sprays based on everybody's favourite fictional plumber. Available to purchase in store, online and via the Lush app from today (March 24), the Super Mario Bros. Movie range features a grand total of eight different items.Priced at £30, the…

Image: LegoWith the final trailer for The Super Mario Bros. Movie debuting yesterday, and the film hitting theaters on April 5, many Lego fans expected the company to reveal some movie tie-in sets today—the most hallowed day in the Mushroom Kingdom calendar. Instead, for Mar10 day, Lego has revealed another expansion to its interactive Lego Super Mario collection: Dry Bowser and his castle.In years past, Lego has actually struggled to sell kids and kidult collectors on sets featuring an extra level of interactive play…

After three years, Lego’s is still going strong, finally adding Princess Peach to its roster of starter sets last summer and continuing to release new expansions ever since. The , available now, is a blast from the more-recent past, showcasing an enemy from 2012’s New Super Mario Bros. U. With the International Toy Fair being on ice for the past few years, chances to check these sets in person out have been few and far between, but we got to take a peep at them at a recent industry event in New York. The was announced…

Image: JAKKS PacificWe’re just a few months out from The Super Mario Bros. Movie hitting theaters on April 7, which means it’s time for the hype train to officially leave the station and get up to speed. Following an amusing teaser released over the weekend reviving the Mario Rap from the live-action Super Mario Bros. Super Show, we’re now getting our first good look at the first batch of Mario movie toys.JAKKS Pacific has actually been the licensee making the majority of the Super Mario toys for quite a few years now,…

Ever since he showed up as Oberyn Martell in Game of Thrones, Pedro Pascal’s rise to stardom has been pretty fun to see, because he’s just good in basically everything he’s in, even if that thing itself is a hot mess. And as the star of both The Mandalorian and HBO’s new prestige hit The Last of Us, it’s clear that folks wanna see Pedro Pascal be a gruff gunslinging mentor, which makes Saturday Night Live’s newest skit kind of perfect.Pascal hosted last night’s episode, and one of the skits had him play Mario in a…

March is Women’s History Month, and what better way to celebrate it than with STAR WARS! Marvel has signed up superstar artist Peach Momoko for 11 variant covers celebrating the spirit of star Wars women throughout history. OK so it’s made up but we love it anyway. Admiral Holdo!  The covers are all for Marvel’s Star Wars series in March and here’s the line-up – some much loved faces but some mostly from the pages of the comics, all from the famed artist. Amilyn Holdo, Resistance leader known for her brave sacrifice in …

Bret Easton Ellis, 58, is the author of nine books, most recently White (2019), a memoir of culture and politics that describes, among other things, the impact of reading Thomas Tryon’s violent 1971 horror classic The Other when he was seven years old. Speaking from home in Los Angeles, where he’s currently at work on a mock true-crime audio show with Irvine Welsh, he calls his new book, The Shards – a high-school mystery first serialised on his podcast – “a Bret Easton Ellis novel for people who don’t like Bret Easton…

Marvel are launching a new Black, White & Red series for Darth Vader, with Jason Aaron, Peach Momoko, Leonard Kirk, Torunn Grønbekk and more. | Marvel will be launching a new Black, White & Red anthology series focusing on Darth Vader, in April, with creators including Jason Aaron, Peach Momoko, Leonard Kirk, Torunn Grønbekk and more. The first time they have used that format for a non-Marvel character. But because it's Star Wars, it's Black, White & Red rather than the usual Black, White & Blood,…

Despite what you may have seen in films like Tron or Jumanji, it’s impossible for humans to jump from their couches into a video game. Or, at least, it was. That’s the experience Universal and Nintendo are hoping to recreate with Super Nintendo World, the brand new themed land that opens at Universal Studios Hollywood in Los Angeles, CA on February 17. It’s the first of its kind in North America and the second in the world.Ahead of the opening, io9 got a walkthrough tour of the new attraction. Located on the lower lot of…