Super Happy Tree (スーパーしあわせのツリー, Super Happy Tree), previously referred to as Yoshi's Island (ヨッシーアイランド, Yoshi Island), is a stage in Super Smash Bros., Super Smash Bros. Melee, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

In Ultimate, it is renamed to distinguish it from the similarly-named Melee and Brawl stages.

Stage overview[edit]

Visually, the stage looks like it's made of cardboard. The main platform is an open book, and as such it has a V shape instead of being completely flat. Over the main platform hover three soft platforms; the bottom two slightly slope inwards, while the top one is flat.

In the sky surrounding the main stage float three clouds, one on the left side and two on the right. After standing on a cloud for about four seconds it will disappear; this can be prevented by repeatedly jumping instead of standing continuously on it. Disappeared clouds reappear after seven more seconds. Message Blocks hover in the background above the clouds, but they have no gameplay effect.

Goonies and Fly Guys occasionally fly in the background, but do not interact with the players.

The version of this stage in Super Smash Bros.'s 1P Game is slightly smaller and lacks the clouds.

Ω form and Battlefield form[edit]

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the main platform of the Ω form and Battlefield form is a completely flat version of the main platform of the normal form and is resized and reshaped to match Final Destination and Battlefield, respectively. The three soft platforms of the Battlefield form resemble the ones in the normal form.

• Ω form in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

• Battlefield form in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Origin[edit]

This stage is loosely based on Yoshi's Story, in which Baby Bowser turns Yoshi's Island into a storybook and steals the Super Happy Tree. This causes the environment to be turned into various materials such as cardboard, yarn, and fabric. This stage is an amalgamation of the cardboard theme of the first level (Treasure Hunt), and the fabric and cloth theme of the second and third levels (Surprise!! and Rail Lift, respectively); however, the sky was colored blue in those levels, whereas, in this stage, the sky is light orange. The Super Happy Tree is also in the background of the main platform. Yoshi's Story also features clouds that can be used as platforms, some of which have to be activated by pressing a switch and disappear when the switch's timer runs out; however, their design is different from the ones in this stage.

Message Blocks appear in some Mario and Yoshi games, and give hints to the player when hit. Also from the Yoshi games are Goonies and Fly Guys where they appear as flying enemies. The aforementioned elements are also based on their designs from Yoshi's Story and are seen in the background.

The Super Happy Tree itself appears in the final level, Magma Castle during the fight with Baby Bowser.

Tournament legality[edit]

Super Happy Tree is banned in every appearance, primarily because the clouds can promote camping. In particular, the rightmost cloud is very far from the stage and is a very powerful camping spot; additionally, some characters such as Link in Smash 64 are unable to make it back to the stage from said cloud.

Spirit[edit]

Gallery[edit]

Super Smash Bros.[edit]

• Yoshi standing on the rightmost cloud in Super Smash Bros.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]

• Kirby using his neutral aerial on the stage.

Trivia[edit]

• In Smash 64 the background with the sun, clouds, and ocean remains still no matter which direction the camera faced, giving the appearance of a Green screen, but in Melee and Ultimate the background is rendered in 3D.
• In Smash 64, eggs spawn on this stage instead of capsules.
• This is the only stage in Smash 64 to have an orange background in Training mode.
  • Interestingly, the game's Stage Select screen is arranged in a checkerboard fashion regarding stage background colors, with all other stages featuring sky blue (with a lighter blue smash logo) or black (with a red smash logo) backgrounds. The Yoshi's Island icon lines up symmetrically with the Random Stage button, presumably for aesthetic purposes.
• Yoshi's Island is the only Smash 64 stage to return in Melee, but not in either version of Super Smash Bros. 4.
  • Its theme, however, does appear on Melee's Yoshi's Island stage in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
• Yoshi's Island is the only content from the Yoshi series to have been unlockable, as it was unlockable in Melee.
• Oddly, on or before November 10, 2018, the 'Stages' portion of the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Official Site in the U.S. updated this stage's name to 'Árbol de la superfelicidad', its Spanish name. This error has since been fixed.
• This stage and Halberd are the only stages to have spirits based off of them.
• Oddly in Ultimate, when a character puts up their shield while standing on one of the clouds and facing right, they will transition into their tumbling state once the cloud disappears.

External link[edit]

This is a list of pre-release and unused content for the game Yoshi's Island DS.

Early iterations[edit]

When originally announced at E3 2006, Yoshi's Island DS was tentatively titled Yoshi's Island 2. The game's early box art also featured a Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection logo, implying that this game was at one point going to have Wi-Fi features that were scrapped before the final version was released.

• Original box art.

• The original game logo.

Early builds[edit]

In the E3 2006 demo build, players could only defeat enemies while jumping on them with Baby Mario. This was changed by the final version, and the player can defeat enemies regardless of the baby. Baby Peach's cry was also going to sound more adult-like^{[citation needed]}.

An early screenshot showcasing a battle with Big Guy the Stilted seems to suggest that Big Guy was once going to be organic, as he had no patches on him in that picture (although one patch is visible near his right foot, which may merely mean his graphics were incomplete at the time).

One screenshot of an unknown origin shows a Black Yoshi traversing a flowery area with Baby Peach. The particular event illustrated in the picture doesn't seem to be left in the final game. The level 'Donuts and Eggs' also wasn't themed in the mid-west, as shown in an early trailer^{[citation needed]}.

• An early battle with Big Guy the Stilted, who lacks mechanical features here.

• Black Yoshi with Baby Peach.

• Early Mario's Fleet Feet. Red Yoshi is only available in the 7th level of each world. Light Blue Yoshi normally will appear in this level. This looks midday, vs. the final, which looks like sunset.

• Early Gilbert the Gooey's Castle. Purple Yoshi appears instead of a Pink Yoshi.

• Early Gilbert the Gooey fight in Gilbert the Gooey's Castle.

• Early Kangaroo segment in Mario's Fleet Feet.

• Early The Goonie Coast Isn't Clear!

• Early Yoshi on Stilts

• Bouncies in an unknown level.

• Yoshi and Baby Peach floating in the air.

• Yoshi in a subterranean area.

• Yoshi evading a Super Big Tap-Tap. Notice how in the final version of Mario's Fleet Feet, Yoshi can't run that far right on the screen.

• A screenshot featuring a Stork Stop. The nearby coins don't appear like that in the final.

Unused data[edit]

Although never used in the game, graphics for Character Coins of Baby Wario and Baby Bowser exist, but they lack animation.^[1] Similarly, graphics exist for at least two different title screens^[2], and at least one of them was entirely complete when it was scrapped. It's also worth noting that all were static images, unlike the final game's rotating shot. Two of the scrapped title screens have a Yoshi's Island 2 logo.

• The unused Baby Bowser Coin.

• The unused Baby Wario Coin.

• The unused title screen. Notice the resemblance it has to the Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island's title screen.

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