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Stages
Smashville
Hahaha! YES! wasn't I just talking about Animal Crossing? Oh boy, this stage is sure to add that hilarious take on fighting that the Smash Bros franchise is famous for. I mean seariously, just imagine Snake, Kirby, Bowser, and Wario throwin' down in Tom Nooks hood! The Cool thing about this stage is that the time of day cycles in real-time, just like the Animal Crossing games. I think that other stages like Yoshis' Island are going to do quick cycles. This stage also pays attention to time-based events like Saturday Nights 8:00 K.K. Slider preformances! I seriously hope that while he plays, he is actually preforming the stages level music, and not just animated without his own sound. Other characters like Brewster, Nook, Gracie, Sharah and Dr. Shrunk make cameo appearances, at least thats what I can see from the screenshots. What do you guys speculate about it's connectivity with Animal Crossing Wii? DO you think after you get a twon going next year, the stage will be YOUR town and not Smashville? maybee YOUR characters start showing up? Will you battle in front of all YOUR golden flowers? or all of YOUR terrible weeds? My mind is racing!

Items
Pokeball: Deoxys
To be honest, when I checked the official site, I almost pooped my pants. See I just read the headline called Deoxys, and saw the first image. I, for a quick second thought that he was a playable character. Unfortunately that isn't the case. But Deoxys still makes a pretty shweet entry into the Pokeball item list. Deoxys comes from the GBA generation of Pokemon games, and is without a doubt, one of the hardest Pokemon to obtain (without cheating). The National Dex's #386 was givin out as a special promotional Pokemon at Space Center, Houston TX for somthing like a month. Psssh, lame! I want Deoxys! - Anyway when you release Deoxys from his Pokeball in Smash Bros Brawl. he very delicately floats to the top of the stage, where he freaks out and unleashes Hyper Beam directly down into the stage! I suggest that you make like Iron Maiden and "Run to the Hills" when you see this legendary Pokemon. Follow the link to see his Hyper Beam in action!

Moves
Samus Final Smash: Zero Laser
Yep, once again, the first teaser trailer told us exactly what we needed to know and all we could do up till now was speculate. Once Samus gets a hold of the Smash Ball, she can power her arm-cannon up to full power, and release an amazing blast that almost covers half of the stage (on average stages)! This looks like trouble if you are at the wrong end of it's blast, My suggestion would be to try and stay really lofty and float up in the air for a while, or seek lower ground as soon as you see the charging taking place. Oh yeah, and it should be pretty obvious now that Samus' Final Smash, just like the video demoed, is how you transform, mid-battle, into...

Characters
Zero Suit Samus
Told you this update was prettier than the last one! hehe! Even though this update is now official, we still pretty much knew everything about her from the video. She is lighter, faster, less ranged, and prettier. That and we also saw her transform her "Paralyzer" into a beam-whip. And so far, that is still all we know, EXCEPT, that after you preform the Zero Laser, all the remnants of her armor can be picked up and thrown at other players! YES! It only makes sense that Zero Suit Samus would be the first one to pick her pieces up and huck-em', I mean, she IS right where they fell apart, and everyone else IS pretty much blown away. I hope we can throw the items around a few times before they break or vansih, just like regular items. I wonder how effective they are?

Music
Star Fox: Space Armada
Romancing Saga composer Kenji Ito has his shot at re-arranging Hajimes Hirasawas work in the Starfox series with "Starfox: Space Armada" This song (but not arrangment) was heard in the Melee edition of Smash Brothers. It sounds pretty nice, but at 48 seconds worth of playtime it certainly doesn't get you pumpedzorborxx. But still though, that doesn't mean it's not worth a listen! go now and listen!

So, what ARE your speculations on the Animal Crossing stage thus far? what other speculations on any other Smash topics are you trying to figure out? c'mon guys lets get the smash discussion churning!

- Captain Seagull