I like Jim Croce a lot. I guess he looks a bit like Mario. I had a go at the old school Mario design to see if I could pick up anything about simple but successful character design. I didn't really pay attention while I was doing it though so I'll have to go back and have a look later on. Here's hoping I've picked some things up subconciously haha.
Impressively the design uses only 3 colours: red, yellow and shitty. Despite only 3 colours being used over 143 (I think) pixels on a 16x12 grid we can still distinguish Mario's face, hat, hair, eyes, moustache, shirt, dungarees, hands, buttons and shoes. Clever stuff.
I've never really been a fan of Mario. Probably because we've never had a Nintendo home console. My Mum's got a Wii on the way though. Wario is cool. I prefer Crash Bandicoot :)
The poisonous coral snake minion, that will be riding the pelican, in a very unsnakey pose. Not to be confused with the harmless king/milk snake. You can tell by the arrangement of their stripes.
The pole supporting Melvin's house that Hooded Figure is trying to saw through. 
Melvin's all important fountain pen.
Inside the robot baddie.
Hooded figure with its big saw.
