Castletastrophe

Castletastrophe is K41's 54th blooper. Development started in June 2023, and it will be released in early 2024.

Plot: K41 gathers all of his Youtube friends to celebrate the Star Festival at Peach's Castle, only to realize that they were decades too late. Opting to play board games instead, a chill day turns into a hot mess when Herobrine attacks, and it's going to take everything to stop him.

Characters:

K41 (Main)

Mario (Main)

Thatwaspointless (Main)

Tanto64 (Main)

GVTheRedStar (Main)

ObbyMB (Main)

K4747 (Main)

Ruff64 (Main)

Herobrine (Antagonist)

Toad (Supporting)

Peach (Supporting)

Yoshi (Supporting)

Luigi (Supporting)

K42 (Supporting)

Bowser (Supporting)

Steve (Supporting)

Fire Toad (Supporting)

Wallet Inspector (Secondary Antagonist)

Red (Secondary Antagonist)

The Gingerbread Man (Minor)

Toad Cruise (Minor)

The Real Life K41 (Minor)

Richard (Cameo)

LetsGame2Day (Mentioned)

Jess/Violet64 (Mentioned)

Trivia:

This blooper was created so that K41 could replace the setting for Peach's Castle. From the beginning of Super Mario Knex Bloopers up until this point, Peach's Castle was represented by New Super Mario Bros 2 Thwomps K'nex set. Going forward, however, Peach's Castle is represented by the Peach's Castle Lego set for the remainder of the series.

This blooper was a combination of 2 bloopers, Castletastrophe and Return of the Craft, and neither were going to have multiple parts. Castletastrophe, which was originally going to be named Castle Calamity, was only going to feature K41, Mario, Luigi, Fire Toad, Toad, Yoshi, and Peach as main characters, with the synopsis being about Peach's Castle becoming a portal that led to different dimensions, leading to instability that destroyed the castle. Return of the Craft was only going to feature K41, Mario, the Youtubers, Steve, and Herobrine as main characters, with the synopsis being about Herobrine returning and the gang needing to fight him. K41 decided to combine these 2 bloopers into one to make it more epic.

While this blooper was in early development, one potential way of Herobrine returning was that he would somehow be summoned as a contestant per universe laws through the scrapped blooper Fight of the Fat Italian Minifigures: ULTIMATE TOURNAMENT, with him getting loose at the end of that video, which would lead into Return of the Craft. Fight of the Fat Italians: ULTIMATE TOURNAMENT ended up getting replaced with the previous blooper Saltybet, though, so K41 decided to change this.

The original title Castle Calamity was a reference to the old animated skits "Mario's Castle Calamity".

The final title Castletastrophe is a combination of "Castle" and "Catastrophe".

The events of this blooper led to a blooper that would have come out not long after this one, Hacked?!, getting scrapped. Hacked?! was originally came up with in Fall 2021, and would have involved Steve going to the bin where Herobrine was banished, and willingly freeing him and letting his soul take refuge in his body. Everyone would have been ok with this decision and accepts Steve except for K41, who would have stopped being Steve's friend, but struggled with it. This blooper got scrapped when the ending to Castletastrophe was written.

This is the first knex blooper to feature (almost) the entire main Youtuber cast since Sleepless Sorrow, and the first blooper to feature them as main characters since Awakening. The only main Youtubers missing are LetsGame2Day and Jess/Violet64, who are both mentioned.

LetsGame2Day and Jess/Violet64 don't appear due to K41 not being in contact with them anymore, and he thought it would be weird to include them.

Fire Toad has appeared as a cameo in Peach's Castle before, and it was implied he was a guard, but this is the first blooper where it explicitly states that he's one of their guards, as well as his first major role.

This is the first blooper where the Mushroom Kingdom Army is directly referenced since Obby for K42.

The Star Festival is a reference to the Super Mario Galaxy games. In fact, when Toad says that the gang is 14 years too late, he is directly referencing Super Mario Galaxy 2's release date, which was 2010, 14 years before Castletastrophe was released.

The opening sequence of K41 waking up, going downstairs, and getting breakfast is actually based on what little footage of the Super Mario Knex Movie was filmed.

When K41 exclaims that his video went viral, this is a reference to K41's The Super Mario K'nex Iceberg video, which did go semi-viral and gained 4,000 views (making it by far his most viewed video at the time), however K41 wrote that line before the release of that video, so it wasn't originally meant to be a reference.

Teleporting bread is a reference to the famous Team Fortress 2 movie "Expiration Date", and the fact that Tanto64 is doing it is a reference to it being one of Tanto64's favorite games.

Ruff64 not being able to drive is a reference to Ruff64 not being able to drive in real life at the time this blooper was released.

The joke involving K41 mixing up his contacts is a reference to K41's friends frequently jokingly telling each other to kill themselves.

GV mentioning that LetsGame2Day is busy beating The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom with his feet is a reference to him beating The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild with his feet during a stream.

The manner in which Steve dies when he says he failed in his Minecraft hardcore mode is a reference to K41's Minecraft Singleplayer Hardcore Mode stream from July 2023, where he died because he teleported to the bottom of the ocean after swimming back up to the top.

Red vowing revenge is a reference to the events of The Race and Demolition Derpy.

Herobrine still being exiled in the bin is a reference to the ending of Awakening.

Peach in a cat suit is an indirect reference to Nekopara.

Mario mentioning "Luigi's boyfriend" is a reference to Plant Charmers, implying that Luigi and Richard are dating, as well as a reference to Luigi's Autograph, showing that Richard also appears in Toad Cruise Adventures.

The Wallet Inspector is a reference to the wallet inspector from Fight of the Fat Italian Minifiigures 2019; he even has the same color code.

Toad not being able to tell the Youtubers apart is a reference to K41 not being able to tell who's who with all of his few dozen figures.

Toad asking Steve to kill him instead is a reference to Steve dying all the time in early bloopers.

ObbyMB saying he missed truck month is a reference to a Fortnite video he uploaded in 2022.

K4747 mentioning that Ruff64 collects Megadeth albums is a reference to Megadeth being one of Ruff64's favorite bands.

K4747 not knowing what GVTheRedStar does is a reference to GV making more varied videos sporadicly.

The gang playing Settlers of Catan is a reference to The Real Life K41 playing Settlers of Catan with his real life friends.

Blue Eyes White Dragon is a reference to Yu-Gi-Oh!

The Pikachu cards are of Detective Pikachu.

Thatwaspointless rolling a natural 20 dice is a reference to the perception check in Dungeons and Dragons, and his Full House, Ace High hand is a reference to poker.

K42's Draw 4 card is a reference to Uno.

K42 saying that his truce ends with K41 today is a reference to The Last Wormhole, when in that one they initially made the temporary truce.

ObbyMB not being aware of the dangers of Herobrine is a reference to the fact that his character was introduced after the events of Awakening took place.