KremlingForce

Banjo-Kazooie featured a fairly involved backstory about Gruntilda and Mumbo Jumbo. For the uninitiated, Mumbo was her magic instructor, but she betrayed him and created the skull mask he wears to this day. The story originally said that the mask could only be removed once she was defeated.

Of course, she's never been properly defeated, still hanging on as a skull. There are a few things we can infer, though.

Nosy Crow's Ed Bryan (character designer of Mumbo and others, on the core Banjo team) confirmed that Mumbo was originally a jinjo. We ALSO know by way of Grunty's Revenge that her Lair originally had a giant stone Jinjo head instead of her own.

So was there ever any discussion about continuing this storyline into Tooie, or was it a forgotten-about artifact of B-K's early development?

As you can see, these are VERY important questions!

Chad M (DK Vine)

Exactly the sort of deflective non-answer we should expect from the nefariously shady Mr. Mayles.

#BoysAndTailsGate #WinkyTruther #InsideJob

The recently Betwittered Tim Stamper said he has a copy of B-K's SNES predecessor "Dream" in some form or another. Do you recall if that game ever got to any semblance of a playable state?

Not that we condone ROM dumping or anything. Perish the thought.

Ahem.

(Chad from off of DK Vine)

We've seen what they can do in just three months. Imagine the fully-realized worlds they'll be able to show off after FOUR AND A HALF months!

In fairness, those are Manor Park's guard bees. Without the honey to keep them in check, the place would be ransacked in a week by hordes of aging fans.