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Kirby's Return to Dream Land/Unused Animations

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Playable Characters

Kirby and Bandana Waddle Dee

Both Kirby and Bandana Waddle Dee have a weird animation included in their model files. These animations make Kirby and Bandana Waddle Dee rapidly cycle through their face expressions. Strangely, Bandana Waddle Dee's lasts significantly longer than Kirby's, even if he has less expressions overall. Both of the animations are named "Model" and are also stored in the characters' base folder rather than their motion files.

  • Kirby

  • Bandana Waddle Dee

Normal Kirby

Kirby has a ton of unused animations in the motion files. Some of which were used in later games such as the "StandReady" animations. DanceT3 is an unused dance move, which may have been for when Kirby gets a 7 in a goal game. Balance and its few other variations all go unused as well. Kirby's "Slope" animations don't have start animations unlike the slope aniamtions of the enemies, which said animations also go unused for the enemies.

  • StandReadyRStart

  • StandReadyR

  • StandReadyREnd

  • StandReadyLStart

  • StandReadyL

  • StandReadyLEnd

  • DanceT3

  • Balance (click to animate)

  • EatBalance

  • HaveBalance

  • Struggle

  • RopeWait

  • SlopeBack

  • SlopeBackEnd

  • SlopeFront

  • SlopeFrontEnd

Beam

Beam also has a lot of unused animations as well for moves that are not in RtDL or any other game. These might be eariler verisons of moves or GCN animations. Deafult20 seems to be a complete version of another unused set of animations called "BeamPutOut" While BeamAttackAir seems to another GCN animation or an early version of Revolution Beam.

  • Deafult20 (click to animate)

  • BeamAttackAir

Stone

Stone only has one unused animation being Ability get which is likely a GCN animation. Where kirby gets the ability and turns invisible probably because of turning into stone in GCN. Click to Animate it.

  • StoneAbilityGetRtDL.gif

Meta Knight

Meta Knight's animation files contain an early version of one of his idle animations called Wait5OLD.

  • He sits...

Meta Knight also has 5 other animations called SodoryAttackAir, SodoryAttackAirEnd, SodoryAttackAirStart SodoryAttackEnd and SodoryAttackStart. These animations have him performing really strange motions, such as doing Galacta Knight's "freed" animation repeatedly, or not moving for absurdly long times until repeating Galacta Knight's animation once again. These animations have extremely long durations, with one even lasting a whopping 1283 frames. It's also worth noting that Sodory is a sword-like enemy in the game, but it's unknown why these animations all have Sodory in their names.

King Dedede

The king himself has 2 unused animations. The first animation is called WheelHammerSwing and it consists of him doing an Underwater Wheel attack that is otherwise impossible to perform in the final game due to him simply attacking by swinging his hammer in front of him. The second one is named TopL and it's a modified copy of his animation when riding Landia, but with extra frames of doing absolutely nothing!

  • Underwater Wheel

  • TopL

Enemies

Como

  • Attack

  • Reset

Como has a few unused animations, which being an attacking animation and an animation with a single frame, named "Reset" where it detaches from its spinnerets.

Dubior Jr.

  • Damage

  • DamageEtc

Dubior Jr. has damage animations in its files that due to Dubior Jr. immediately perishing when attacked, all go unused.

Kabu

  • Warp1

  • Warp2

Kabu has animations for warping, which it doesn't do in this game, but does do in some other games.

Needlous

  • Wait

Needlous has an idle animation which goes unused in-game. This is because Needlous is always in nonstop motion, which therefore results in the animation being unused.

Noddy

  • Move

Noddy has a walking animation found in their files that goes unused as Noddy doesn’t walk in-game at all. The last time they have walked was in Kirby Super Star Ultra before this.

Sir Kibble

  • Walk

Sir Kibble has a walking animation found in his files which goes unused in-game. Since he doesn’t walk in any game as an enemy and combined with the fact that the only times Sir Kibble walks is when they're controlled (in the case for Ghost Kirby in Kirby Squeak Squad) or as a helper, this animation was most likely a leftover for when he was a helper in Kirby for Nintendo GameCube.

Scarfy

  • JumpStart

  • Jump

  • Fall

  • Landing

Strangely, Scarfy has unused jumping and falling animations in its files, but it's unknown why they exist since those animations would be redundant for obvious reasons.

Tick

  • Move

Tick has a moving animation, which along with the expression used for it, all go unused as Tick doesn't move in this game, but does in games like Kirby's Dream Land 3 and Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards.

Totenga

  • Attack

Totenga has an attacking antimation, which goes unused as this is something it doesn't do at all in-game.

Walky

  • Jamp

Walky has an unused jumping animation, which funny enough has a misspelt name of "Jamp" instead of "Jump" being its name.

Bosses

Traitor Magolor

  • TackleStart

  • TackleLoop

Magolor's first form as a boss, officially known as Traitor Magolor has 2 animations for a tackle attack, which go unused as said tackle attack doesn't appear in-game.

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