Nintendo Drops $35 USD Talking Flower Toy From ‘Super Mario Bros. Wonder’

The desk gadget chats, plays game music, and tracks time and temperature without any smart features or connectivity.

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  • Nintendo’s newly dropped $35 Talking Flower toy pulls the chatty flora from Super Mario Bros. Wonder into the real world, equipped with random quips and basic clock features
  • Stripped of high-tech gimmicks like AI or microphones, the novelty desk companion thrives on its quirky charm, tracking time and room temperature
  • Proving Nintendo hasn’t lost its eccentric edge, this bizarre gadget lands just as the culture gears up for the looming Nintendo Switch 2 rollout

Nintendo just dropped the Talking Flower, a $35 USD interactive desk accessory pulled straight from the whimsical landscapes of 2023’s Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Officially launched this March, this potted plastic sidekick brings the game’s iconic, chatty flora into your physical space, ready to drop spontaneous words of encouragement, random observations, and a healthy dose of snark. Rejecting the modern obsession with smart tech, the flower ditches internet connectivity, AI integration, and built-in microphones. Instead, it relies on a nostalgic internal clock and a temperature sensor, allowing the eccentric botanical to announce the time, function as a baseline alarm, and critique your room’s climate.

Dropping roughly a year after the brand’s highly debated Alarmo clock, this novelty release doubles down on Nintendo’s latest run of left-field home gadgets. Owners can coax out phrases via a single button on the soil base or trigger a dedicated music mode that bumps classic tunes from the Switch title, prompting the flower to vibe and chatter to the beat. For those needing to tune out the noise, a two-second hold activates a quiet mode, temporarily silencing the outspoken plant.

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