Distant Planet (SSS)

:This article is strictly about how the Distant Planet appeared in Super Smash Stadium. For information about it in general, see its articles on the Pikmin Wiki.
The Distant Planet is a retired stage on Super Smash Stadium. Debuting halfway through Season 30, it's one of the longer-lived retired stages, as it was active for about 12 and a half years. It was the 94th stage to debut and saw 80 playings in its lifetime.
==Stage overview==
The centerpiece of the stage was a tree branch with three leaves above it. This was NOT a "Battlefield Layout" stage, as the leaves were arranged like stairs. Either way, the leaves were soft platforms, and they gave slightly whenever anyone stepped on them. Pellet Posies appeared on the leaves occasionally, which you could attack for a Pellet. The Pellets were useful because every now and then, an Onion dropped from the sky. If you threw a Pellet at an Onion, it would drop items, and if the colors matched, you got extra items. Conversely, attacking the Onion would make it flee faster.
On the right side of the stage, a Bulborb would appear. You could use it as an extra platform, but if you jumped in its mouth or stayed on its back for too long, it would chomp you down and drag you to the right kill zone unless you button mashed hard enough. You could only escape at low percents, and even then, recovering was difficult unless you were Kirby or someone similar.
The left side of the stage featured a slope with a walk-off left kill zone. Every now and then, a thunderstorm would happen that would cause this slope to have rushing water, making standing on it nearly impossible.
Unlike in the actual Smash Bros. games, this stage's background wasn't an obviously static JPEG. The background was fully modeled and would feature the Bulborbs walking, as well as other life such as a Swooping Snitchbug, Breadbug, and Sheargrubs/wigs, as well as an occasional appearance by Emperor Bulblax.
==Changes==
None.
==Why it was retired==
It was allegedly disliked by the staff, apparently due to the Bulborb being seen as "jank" and them feeling that the Onions and Pellets didn't quite work like they should.
==In its own universe==
This stage is based on the Forest of Hope from Pikmin 1, which later became the Awakening Wood in Pikmin 2.
Bulborbs are one of the main "races" of species found in the Pikmin universe, alongside the Pikmin themselves and Sheargrubs/wigs.
Onions are the things Pikmin live in, while Pellets are one of the primary ways in which you give yourself more Pikmin (the other and more commonly-used way being enemy carcasses).