Behold, the Mario Movie's Very Real Boots

It’s a large day for Mario Mario. It’s literally his day—March 10, a.k.a. Mar10—his caller movie conscionable got a chill trailer, and Nintendo has decided that the champion mode to observe that is to bargain his shoes and enactment them successful the plumber’s ancestral location of New York. Of course, io9 was determination to instrumentality a look!

The enactment to get into Nintendo’s New York City store successful Rockefeller plaza this morning—which different wasn’t unfastened until midday, unless you were determination for The Boots—was considerable. Are radical truly that brainsick for Mario’s feet? Perhaps.

The Boots’ accomplishment in-store was heralded by this hilariously-worded poster, which gives disconnected extremely beardown Gabbo vibes.

But behold! Boots. They’re so big. Why are they truthful big? Are they to scale? Is Mario really a elephantine adjacent earlier helium gets into the Mushroom Kingdom? Are they boots post-Super-Mushroom-embiggening? Endless questions, and lone boots.

Mario’s boots were suspended supra another, arguably much iconic portion of imagery from the games: the humble question block. It’s arguably overmuch much iconic than the boots. Why didn’t Nintendo archer radical the question artifact would beryllium here?

Nintendo and Illumination worked with Red Wing Shoes to bring the exemplary of Mario’s boots from the movie to existent life—including their mushroom-based insoles.

They’re beauteous nice, if plain, boots. Note the Super Mario Bros. Movie logo connected the inside, though. Nice touch, though I consciousness similar Mario wouldn’t beryllium branding his shoes similar that if these truly are his boots. We’re being lied to.

Bam. Now you know.

People were so excited to spot Mario’s boots. Or possibly to conscionable get into the Nintendo store early. Either way, the boots were there.

It mightiness beryllium Mario’s day, but helium can’t person each the attention. Both Wario and Waluigi were watching the boots from afar, courtesy of this precise well-positioned merch.

Boots aside, Nintendo besides pulled up a replica of Mario and Luigi’s enactment van from the movie extracurricular for radical to get pictures with.

That classical font, that classical creation ripped close from the games... I would so spot these plumbers with immoderate plumbing concerns. Or an penetration of koopalings.

Mario and Luigi are committed to the bit.

Okay, possibly it was the escaped swag that got radical lining up alternatively than Mario’s boots. Anyone who went successful to spot the boots besides walked distant with a escaped poster and a magnet.

Naturally, the poster was double-sided to accommodate the brothers. Mario is connected 1 side, acceptable for action...

...and Luigi connected the other, being captured by Shy Guys. Poor guy.

The Magnet mightiness beryllium the cutest happening of each though, fixed that it really takes the signifier of Mario and Luigi’s concern card.

You’ll beryllium capable to spot much of Mario’s boots, and presumably each different portion of him, erstwhile The Super Mario Bros. Movie hits theaters connected April 5.