Nozzle box
- “This is one of my nozzles, the... Oh, you cannot use it yet. It is only a hologram.”
- —F.L.U.D.D., Super Mario Sunshine
Nozzle Boxes are colored boxes found in Super Mario Sunshine. They have Professor E. Gadd's emblem on them, and they contain F.L.U.D.D.'s different Nozzles. Blue Nozzle boxes contain the Hover Nozzle, red ones contain the Rocket Nozzle, and gray ones contain the Turbo Nozzle. F.L.U.D.D. begins each course automatically equipped with the Hover Nozzle. All three types can be found in Delfino Plaza, whereas most other courses feature at least two types. Pinna Park and Sirena Beach are the only two areas in the game that do not contain Nozzle Boxes.
Mario can open the box and equip the Nozzle simply by jumping on the box. F.L.U.D.D. can have only two Nozzles equipped at a time, but one of them must be the standard Squirt Nozzle. This means that if Mario wants to change Nozzles, the Hover Nozzle is replaced. Within a course, blue Nozzle Boxes are accessible from the start, but most of the red and gray ones originally appear as holograms. Mario must find and open the one red of gray Nozzle Box in the course that is solid (and that is usually located in a hard-to-reach place) to make all the other Nozzle Boxes of the same color solid. Whenever Mario switches Nozzles via a Nozzle Box, his water supply is automatically refilled. Throughout Isle Delfino, there are 10 Hover Nozzle Boxes, 11 Turbo Nozzle Boxes, and 12 Rocket Nozzle Boxes.
Trivia
- Although Mario can break open Nozzle Boxes while riding on Yoshi's back, he cannot physically collect whatever nozzle attachment comes out of the Nozzle Box until he dismounts Yoshi.
- If Mario gets on and off Yoshi, F.L.U.D.D. refills and his 2nd nozzle switches to the Hover Nozzle.
