Ticket Stub

The Ticket Stub is an item in EarthBound Beginnings found in the Yucca Desert. A war veteran lives here, and he will allow Ninten and his friends to ride his plane. He offers three different flight plans, A, B, and C, priced at $5, $10, and $15 per party member. For each party member that attends any Flightplan, one Ticket Stub is earned, with a maximum of 3 per flight. Earning ten stubs will allow them to drive his tank. Using one of the ticket stub items with at least 10 will prompt him to take 10 of them and give Ninten permission to ride the tank. Note that after giving the stubs, both the stubs and the airplane will be off-limits, and any additional stubs will be unobtainable. While in the tank, the optional boss R7037 can be fought.
If the player's inventory is not spacious enough, it is very easy for Ninten and co. to not have enough slots for all 10 required Ticket Stubs. The veteran will also stop Ninten from flying at all if he can’t give it to him due to Ninten and his friends’ full inventory. Once Ninten gets the tank, the 10 ticket stubs will be taken from the player’s inventory.
== Trivia ==
* Hitting B on the controller when being asked to pick a flight plan will still make the player buy it unless they don’t have enough money or not enough inventory space for the ticket stub.
* Although the sprint button speeds up everything in the game, it does not speed up the airplane cutscene.
* The minimum amount of trips on the airplane is 4 as there is a maximum of 3 members each being given 1 stub, adding up to 12 in all 4 trips.
* The amount of ticket stubs given is infinite as long as Ninten doesn’t take the tank.
* If one party member is full in inventory, their ticket stub will transfer to another member if possible.
** If there is only 1 empty slot for a stub, the veteran will still not let Ninten ride the plane if there is a second member, or 2 empty slots with a third member.
* If the ticket stub is used on the veteran without having at least 10 of them he will say "No, that’s not quite enough.".
* If any remaining ticket stubs are available after the 10 are given, they will stay in the player’s inventory, although they will serve no purpose.
** Interestingly, the same dialogue will occur if the player uses any ticket stubs on the veteran after giving him 10 ticket stubs, repeating the line, "No, that’s not quite enough.". If the player happens to have 10 more ticket stubs, he will take those stubs again and repeat to Ninten that he can ride the tank. This is most likely an oversight by the developers, making this a glitch.
* Once the tank breaks after the boss fight, the veteran will disappear until he returns just before the Live House.
* In the companion guide, it is called "Ticket Stub" in all versions of the game.
** Its description reads, "Enjoy a sightseeing flight in Advent Desert and you can get one stub per person. You're told that if you collect ten of these, you can even ride a tank. Feels kind of like an amusement park.".
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