Super Mario Maker 2 Gummy: English Instructions, Step by Step
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Bandai's Super Mario Maker 2 Gummy is a small pack with an unusual idea: you don't just make the gummies, you mix the colours for them first, then lay the finished blocks, coins and characters out on a printed sheet to build your own stage. Everything on the pack is in Japanese. This is what it says, in order.
What's in the Pack
Mould tray with a built-in spoon
One tray, in one of four designs. The spoon and a small dish for the fizz powder are moulded into it and come off before you start.
One gummy powder, three colour powders
The gummy powder fills the moulds. The three small sachets are blue, red and yellow — they become the coloured water.
Star fizz powder
One sachet of "star shuwa-shuwa powder". It is not part of the gummy — it is a dip for the end that fizzes in your mouth.
Stage sheet
One printed sheet, in one of six designs. The finished gummies are arranged on it to build a course.
The pack states that the tray and the stage sheet are packed at random, so two packs bought together may or may not match. The flavours are strawberry, grape and lemon, and the kit contains no fruit juice.
You need a cup of drinking water, clean hands and a flat table. That is all — this is one of the kits that needs no heat at all. If that is what you are looking for, we keep a list of every water-only kit.
Why the Colours Come First
Most gummy kits give you coloured powders and ask you to pour water on them. This one reverses it. The colour arrives in the water, not in the gummy powder. That is the whole idea of the kit, and it is why the instructions spend two of their six steps on making coloured water before any gummy exists.
It also means the result is yours to decide. The pack prints a small mixing chart: red and yellow make orange, yellow and blue make green, and all three together make brown. A ? block does not have to be yellow.
The details the pictures assume you noticed
- Level the gummy powder. Step 1 shows three little cross-sections of a mould: one with a circle, two with crosses. In Japan a circle means "correct". The correct one is filled flat; the two crosses are the wrong fills.
- The three big wells are for the three colours. They sit along the bottom edge of the tray. One colour powder goes into each, and water goes in up to the line.
- The small wells are your palette. They start empty. You carry coloured water into them with the spoon to mix new colours.
- Wash the tray and spoon, and wipe the stage sheet. Two notes above step 3 say to wash the tray and spoon well and shake the water off before use, and to wipe the sheet with a damp tissue before and after use, checking there is no water left on it.
- The fizz dish has a home. Step 6 shows it sitting in the bottom-right well of the main tray — but only after the coloured water has been used up.
How to Make It
We don't reprint exact water quantities here. This kit measures by the line moulded into the tray, not by a number, and makers change details between production runs. Use the tray in front of you for the amounts. What this guide gives you is what the Japanese says, what order to work in, and where it goes wrong.
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Get ready: take off the spoon and the fizz dish
The green strip above step 1 is the preparation line. Wash your hands, put water in a cup, and take the spoon and the star-fizz-powder dish off the tray. Set the dish aside — it is not used until the end.
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Fill the moulds with gummy powder and level it
Tip the gummy powder into the tray, then use the spoon to flatten it. Flat is the target. If the powder has gone hard in the sachet, the pack says to break it up well before using it.
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Make blue, red and yellow water
Put one colour powder into each of the three large wells at the bottom of the tray. Pour water in up to the line, then stir each one well with the spoon.
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Mix your own colours in the small wells
Use the blue, red and yellow water to make the colours you want in the small wells. The chart printed beside this step gives three examples: red + yellow = orange, yellow + blue = green, red + yellow + blue = brown.
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Spoon the coloured water over the gummy powder, then wait
This is the step that makes the gummy. Use the spoon to pour coloured water onto the gummy powder, colouring each shape as you like. When the gummy has changed colour, that is enough — then wait three minutes. The amount matters in both directions: the pack's tip box says that too much coloured water makes the gummy slow to set, and its warning panel says too little leaves dry powder at the bottom.
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Lift them out, build the stage, and add the fizz
Once the three minutes have passed, take the gummies out gently and place them on the stage sheet to make your course. For the last step, set the fizz dish into the bottom-right well of the main tray once the coloured water is used up, dip the gummies in the star fizz powder and eat — the pack says it goes shuwa-shuwa in your mouth. Eat them soon after making them.
If Yours Went Wrong
What to check
- There is dry powder at the bottom of the mould. The pack names this one itself: if too little water goes on at once, powder can be left at the bottom of the tray. Its fix is to pour a little more water onto the part that is left, and it will turn into gummy.
- The gummy is soft and will not set. Too much coloured water. This is the one tip the pack prints in its own box: pour until the colour changes, and stop.
- The gummy tore when you lifted it. Too early, or too rough. Give it the full three minutes and ease it out — the instructions use the word for "gently" for a reason.
- The colours came out muddy. The spoon carried one colour into the next. Wipe it between colours, and do your mixing in the small wells rather than in the three big ones.
- The gummies slide around on the sheet. Water left on the sheet. Wipe it and check it is dry before you place anything.
- It set, but oddly. Water is the usual cause across every kit, and we have a separate guide to that.
What the Japanese on the Pack Says
These are the words that carry the instructions and the warnings.
The words worth recognising
- つくりかた (tsukurikata) — "how to make it". The heading of the instruction panel.
- グミパウダー — gummy powder. カラーパウダー — colour powder. スターシュワシュワパウダー — star fizz powder; shuwa-shuwa is the sound of fizzing.
- あお・あか・きいろ (ao, aka, kiiro) — blue, red, yellow. 色水 (iromizu) — coloured water. 色のまぜあわせ — the colour-mixing chart.
- 大きなくぼみ／小さなくぼみ (ōkina / chiisana kubomi) — the large wells and the small wells.
- 線まで (sen made) — "up to the line", the water level.
- 平らにならそう (taira ni narasō) — "level it flat".
- 3分たったら (sanpun tattara) — "once three minutes have passed". そっと (sotto) — gently.
- うまくつくるコツ (umaku tsukuru kotsu) — "the trick to making it well", the green tip box under step 5. まちじかん — waiting time.
- ステージシート — the stage sheet. ランダム — random: the note that tray and sheet designs are assorted.
- このままで召し上がらないでください — "do not eat it as it is": the powders are not meant to be eaten dry.
- のどにつまらせないようご注意ください — "take care not to choke", printed in the red band.
Common Questions
Does it need a microwave?
No. Water only, at the table. Nothing is heated at any point.
Can I choose which tray or stage sheet I get?
No. There are four tray designs and six sheet designs, and the pack says they are included at random. We cannot see which is inside a sealed pack either.
How long does it take?
The only waiting is the three minutes the gummies need to set. Most of the time goes on mixing colours, which is the point of the kit.
How old does a child need to be?
The part of the pack we have read does not give an age. It does say that an adult should help small children, to mind the edges of the sachets, and to take care not to choke. We would treat it as a kit to do together.
Are there allergens?
The ingredient list on the pack names none of Japan's designated allergens, and notes that it is made on equipment shared with products containing milk. The sweetener is aspartame, a source of phenylalanine. The printed pack is the definitive source — we have written more on reading these labels.
Is this a Popin' Cookin' kit?
No. Popin' Cookin' is made by Kracie; this kit is sold by Bandai and is an official Nintendo licensed product. If you like the colour-your-own idea, Oekaki Gummy Land is the closest relative, and all of our English instructions are listed here.
PopnCandy Tokyo is an independent shop and is not affiliated with Nintendo or Bandai. Super Mario is a trademark of Nintendo.
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