Did you know that the Australian Sand Sculpting Championships existed? I didn\u2019t until just a few minutes ago, and the 2026 battle is officially underway. Why are we talking about that on a Nintendo-related blog? Well, it turns out this year\u2019s competition includes a super-sized tribute to Mario and friends!<\/p>\n
The 2026 Australian Sand Sculpting Championships is playing host to a massive 65-tonne Super Mario sand sculpture as part of the festivities, with this event\u2019s theme being \u201cThe Enchanted Realm.\u201d This whopping tribute took 6 days to build and it measures 7.5 meters long and 3.5 meters high.<\/p>\n
This Mario sand sculpture isn\u2019t an entry in the competition itself, but is instead a set piece created in collaboration with Universal in order to promote The Super Mario Galaxy Movie. It\u2019s one of the most eye-catching bits of promotion yet, and the only bad thing about it is that it\u2019s not a permanent creation! So much work put into something that\u2019ll only last a few weeks, but I guess that makes it all the more beautiful, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did you know that the Australian Sand Sculpting Championships existed? I didn\u2019t until just a few minutes ago,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":["post-551660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}