Brick Block

**Brick Blocks** are destructible blocks that are affected by P switches and can be destroyed in more ways than other types of destructible blocks. In the Super Mario World game style, Brick Blocks are replaced by Rotating Blocks. Other course elements may be placed inside Brick Blocks, at which point they behave like re-skinned ? Blocks rather than displaying the behavior described in this article.

## History

### *Super Mario Maker*

Brick Blocks can be placed anywhere in the level, as well as being placed on tracks.

Dragging Wings onto a Brick Block will cause the block to fly to the left indefinitely in a wave pattern.

Activating a P Switch will turn any stationary Brick Block (which does not contain an item) into a coin, and vice versa. This does not apply to blocks or coins which have wings or are placed on tracks.

Brick Blocks may be destroyed by hitting them with Mario's head from below, in any transformation other than Small Mario (i.e. Mario must have any power-up). However, Small Mario can still destroy Brick Blocks from below when wearing a Shell Helmet.

Brick Blocks will also be destroyed when hit from the side with any regular-sized shell.

#### Style-Specific Mechanics

In the Super Mario Bros. 3 game style, Brick Blocks may be destroyed by Raccoon Mario with a tail swipe from either side.

In the New Super Mario Bros. U game style, Brick Blocks may be destroyed by ground pounding (or drill spinning with Propeller Mario) them from above.

## See Also

• Super Mario Bros. 3
• Super Mario World
• New Super Mario Bros. U
 Game Modes
• Network Play
• Ninji Speedruns
• Story Mode
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• Builder Mario
• Cape Mario
• Cat Mario
• Fire Mario
• Link
• Propeller Mario
• Raccoon Mario
• Small Mario
• Super Mario
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• Brick Block
• Bridge
• Clear Pipe
• Cloud Block
• Conveyor Belt
• Donut Block
• Gentle Slope
• Empty Block
• Ground
• Hard Block
• Hidden Block
• Ice Block
• Jelectro
• Mushroom Platform
• Music Block
• Note Block
• Pipe
• Rotating Block
• Sea Urchin
• Semisolid Platform
• Steep Slope
• Spike Block
• Spike Trap
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• Big Coin
• Big Mushroom
• Cape Feather
• Coin
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• Frozen Coin
• Pink Coin
• Propeller Mushroom
• Master Sword
• Rotten Mushroom
• Shoe Goomba
• Stiletto Goomba
• Super Bell
• Super Hammer
• Super Leaf
• Super Mushroom
• Super Star
• Superball Flower
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• Ant Trooper (Horned)
• Blooper (Nanny)
• Bob-omb
• Boo (Buddies • Stretch)
• Boom Boom (Pom Pom)
• Bowser (Jr. • Meowser)
• Bully
• Buzzy Beetle (Shell)
• Chain Chomp
• Charvaargh
• Cheep Cheep (Blurp • Deep Cheep)
• Dry Bones (Shell)
• Fire Bro (Heavy)
• Fish Bone
• Galoomba (Goombud)
• Goomba (Goombrat)
• Hammer Bro (Sledge Bro)
• Hop-Chop
• Koopa Clown Car (Fire)
• Koopa Troopa (Beach Koopa • Car)
• Lakitu (Cloud)
• Lava Bubble
• Magikoopa
• Moon
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• Muncher
• Piranha Plant (Creeper • Fire • Jumping)
• Peepa
• Pokey (Snow)
• Porcupuffer
• Rocky Wrench
• Skipsqueak (Spiny)
• Spike (Ball • Snowball)
• Spike Top
• Spiny (Egg • Shell)
• Stingby
• Thwomp
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• Arrow Sign
• Banzai Bill
• Bill Blaster
• Blinking Block
• Bumper
• Burner
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• Checkpoint Flag
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• Dash Block
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• Grinder
• Icicle
• Key
• Lift (Cloud • Flimsy • Lava)
• Mushroom Trampoline
• ON/OFF Switch (Dotted-Line Block)
• One-Way Wall
• P Block
• P Switch
• POW Block
• Seesaw
• Snake Block
• Skewer
• Swinging Claw
• Tree
• Track
• Track Block
• Twister
• Vine
• Warp Door
 Other