Trivia / The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach!

• Cross-Dressing Voices: Bowser was voiced by Akiko Wada, famous Japanese female rhythm-and-blues singer. The two Goombas and the Lakitu are also voiced by female actresses.
• Dueling Dubs: Neither of them are official but there are two fan dubs that can be found on YouTube. One features Mario with a more gruff Brooklyn voice sounding similar to how he sounded in the DIC cartoon trilogy, the other features a voice closer to Charles Martinet's voice.
  • The Chad Kyer fan dub is a Gag Dub by changing some lines that weren't in the original Japanese script and fixed a few plot holes, such as the whereabouts of Prince Haru. However, the songs were left in Japanese and the credits of the opening titles are still left in said language.
  • The Real Guy fan dub is more faithful to the original Japanese script, but lacked the fix of plot holes that were present in the Kyer dub. The songs were also dubbed in English for the first time, in contrast with the Kyer dub retaining the original Japanese vocals.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes:
  • Likely because it was intended to be little more than a hour long commercial to promote Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels and Mario-branded foods that Japanese food company Nagatanien was selling at the time, the film only received a very limited theatrical run (It was only shown in Sochiku-owned theaters for one) and an equally limited rental VHS release by VAP Video in Japan, after which it was brushed aside and ignored, with no further reprints and releases since then. This unsurprisingly, makes the film extremely rare with very few surviving copies left, with the few copies that go on sale fetching prices as high as $600 dollars. It is so rare in fact that for over three decades, it was considered to be lost entirely until a copy was found and then subsequently uploaded to YouTube in 2007, saving and preserving the film.
  • The vinyl album soundtrack only had a run of fifty copies, making the few secondhand copies of it nearly as rare and expensive to obtain as the film proper.
• No Export for You: The film was never released outside of a very limited run in Japan, which only adds to the film's extreme rarity.
• Word of Dante: This movie started the idea of the Mario Bros originating on Earth and the Mushroom Kingdom being Another Dimension that most of Mario's cartoons and movies adopted. The games were originally set on Earth with the setting getting an Earth Drift to the Mushroom Kingdom from Super Mario Bros. onwards.

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