Super Happy Tree

Yoshi's Story Yoshi's Island Super Happy Tree
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Universe	Yoshi
Appears in	SSB Melee Ultimate
Availability	Starter (SSB and Ultimate) Unlockable (Melee)
Unlock criteria	Hit the Sandbag 1,312.4 ft (400m) in the Home Run Contest.
Crate type	Presents
Maximum players	4 (SSB, Melee) 8 (Ultimate)
Music Bolded tracks must be unlocked Super Smash Bros. Yoshi's Island Stage Melee Yoshi's Island N64 Ultimate Yoshi series music Main: Yoshi's Story (64) Alternate: Yoshi's Story (Melee)
Tournament legality Super Smash Bros. Singles: Banned Doubles: Banned(sometimes legal for cloudless variant) Melee Singles: Banned Doubles: Banned Ultimate Singles: Banned Doubles: Banned
Article on Super Mario Wiki	Super Happy Tree

“	You can land on the clouds that float on either side of the stage, but if you do, they won't hold up for long.	”
—Super Smash Bros.'s instruction manual

Super Happy Tree (スーパーしあわせのツリー, Super Happy Tree), previously referred to as Yoshi's Island (ヨッシーアイランド, Yoshi Island), is a stage in Super Smash Bros., Super Smash Bros. Melee, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

In Ultimate, it is renamed to distinguish it from the similarly-named Melee and Brawl stages.

Stage overview

Visually, the stage looks like it's made of cardboard. The main platform is an open book, and as such it has a V shape instead of being completely flat. Over the main platform hover three soft platforms; the bottom two slightly slope inwards, while the top one is flat.

In the sky surrounding the main stage float three clouds, one on the left side and two on the right. After standing on a cloud for about four seconds it will disappear; this can be prevented by repeatedly jumping instead of standing continuously on it. Disappeared clouds reappear after seven more seconds. Message Blocks hover in the background above the clouds, but they have no gameplay effect.

Goonies and Fly Guys occasionally fly in the background, but do not interact with the players.

The version of this stage in Super Smash Bros.'s 1P Game is slightly smaller and lacks the clouds.

When the player fights False Yoshi in The Great Maze, the stage resembles Yoshi’s Island (SSB), except the main platform is not shaped like an open book, and the colors and background are different.

In Ultimate, the side blast zones, especially the right blast zone, are moved inwards when the camera is set to "fixed". This includes Training Mode, where it is possible to position players close to the right blast zone, and set the camera to fixed, resulting in that player being KOd immediately upon closing the menu.

Ω form and Battlefield form

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the main platform of the Ω form and Battlefield form is a completely flat version of the main platform of the normal form and is resized and reshaped to match Final Destination and Battlefield, respectively. The three soft platforms of the Battlefield form resemble the ones in the normal form.

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  Ω form in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

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  Battlefield form in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Hazards Off

If hazards are turned off in Ultimate, the clouds will never disappear.

Origin

The Super Happy Tree in Yoshi's Story.

This stage is loosely based on Yoshi's Story, in which Baby Bowser turns Yoshi's Island into a storybook and steals the Super Happy Tree. This causes the environment to be turned into various materials such as cardboard, yarn, and fabric. This stage is an amalgamation of the cardboard theme of the first level (Treasure Hunt), and the fabric and cloth theme of the second and third levels (Surprise!! and Rail Lift, respectively); however, the sky was colored blue in those levels, whereas, in this stage, the sky is light orange. The Super Happy Tree is also in the background of the main platform. Yoshi's Story also features clouds that can be used as platforms, some of which have to be activated by pressing a switch and disappear when the switch's timer runs out; however, their design is different from the ones in this stage.

Message Blocks appear in some Mario and Yoshi games, and give hints to the player when hit. Also from the Yoshi games are Goonies and Fly Guys where they appear as flying enemies. The aforementioned elements are also based on their designs from Yoshi's Story and are seen in the background.

The Super Happy Tree itself appears in the final level, Magma Castle during the fight with Baby Bowser.

Tournament legality

Super Happy Tree is banned in every appearance, primarily because the clouds can promote camping. In particular, the rightmost cloud is very far from the stage and is a very powerful camping spot; additionally, some characters such as Link in Smash 64 are unable to make it back to the stage from said cloud. The cloudless variant from Smash 64's single player is sometimes legal in doubles, but as it requires modifying the game, it is rarely seen outside of specialized rulesets (such as GENESIS 6).

Spirit

No.	Image	Name	Type	Class	Cost	Ability	Series
313		Super Happy Tree		★★★★	2	Invincibility after Eating	Yoshi Series

Gallery

Super Smash Bros.

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  Yoshi standing on the rightmost cloud in Super Smash Bros.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

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  Kirby using his neutral aerial on the stage.

Names in other languages

Smash 64

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ヨッシーアイランド	Yoshi Island
French	Île Yoshi	Yoshi Island
German	Yoshi-Insel	Yoshi Island
Chinese (Simplified)	耀西岛	Yoshi Island

Melee

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ヨッシーアイランド	Yoshi Island
French	Île des Yoshi N64	Yoshis' Island N64
German	Yoshi's Island	—
Spanish	Isla de Yoshi N64	Yoshi's Island N64

Ultimate

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	スーパーしあわせのツリー	Super Happy Tree
English	Super Happy Tree	—
French	Arbre Magique du Bonheur	Magic Tree of Happiness
German	Happy-Baum	Happy Tree
Spanish (PAL)	Árbol de la superfelicidad	Tree of Super-Happiness
Spanish (NTSC)	Árbol superfeliz	Super Happy Tree
Italian	Grande Albero della Felicità	Big Tree of Happiness
Chinese (Simplified)	超级快乐树	Super Happy Tree
Chinese (Traditional)	Super Happy Tree	—
Korean	슈퍼 해피 트리, Super Happy Tree	—
Dutch	Bijzonder Blije Boom	Special Happy Tree
Russian	Супердерево счастья	Super Tree of Happiness

Trivia

• In Ultimate, this stage is referred within game files with the term "yoshi_cartboard" [sic], referring to its arts-and-crafts nature.
• In Smash 64 the background with the sun, clouds, and ocean remains still no matter which direction the camera faced, giving the appearance of a Green screen, but in Melee and Ultimate the background is rendered in 3D.
• In Smash 64, eggs spawn on this stage instead of capsules.
• This is the only stage in Smash 64 to have an orange background in Training mode.
  • Interestingly, the game's Stage Select screen is arranged in a checkerboard fashion regarding stage background colors, with all other stages featuring sky blue (with a lighter blue smash logo) or black (with a red smash logo) backgrounds. The Yoshi's Island icon lines up symmetrically with the Random Stage button, presumably for aesthetic purposes.
• Yoshi's Island is the only Smash 64 stage to return in Melee, but not in either version of Super Smash Bros. 4.
  • Its theme, however, does appear on Melee's Yoshi's Island stage in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
• Yoshi's Island is the only content from the Yoshi series to have been unlockable, as it was unlockable in Melee.
• Oddly, on or before November 10, 2018, the "Stages" portion of the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Official Site in the U.S. updated this stage's name to "Árbol de la superfelicidad", its Spanish name. This error has since been fixed.
• This stage and Halberd are the only stages to have spirits based off of them.
• Oddly in Ultimate, when a character puts up their shield while standing on one of the clouds and facing right, they will transition into their tumbling state once the cloud disappears.
• In Ultimate, the Moon cannot be summoned here due to it interfering with the cardboard-style background. Also, Shadow the Hedgehog cannot be summoned, so that fighters will not be unfairly trapped on the disappearing clouds during his time freeze. Additionally, Lunala and Marshadow cannot be summoned here.

External links

• N64 Yoshi's Island - History Behind Super Smash Bros. Melee