File talk:KMA Stactus artwork 2.png

Feet

Why does the "larger" upload have feet, when the smaller image does not? Are these two separate versions of the artwork, or was the smaller one edited to remove the feet? As far as I'm aware, the enemy has no feet in the game, so the fact that there is art of it with feet seems rather odd to me.--Vellidragon (talk) 22:19, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

I looked around a bit, and from what I can tell, this feet-sporting version comes from a press kit, and is not used as the final version of the artwork. The original version of this file without feet likely comes from the Japanese 20th anniversary artbook, but someone will have to go recapture that, since the original version we had came from FANDOM, which never sources its files, so we can't be sure. --Samwell (talk) 23:05, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

Sounds like it could be an earlier design. The version without feet should probably be the main image for the enemy, and this press kit art can be placed elsewhere with context of where it came from. The small image seems sourced from the same one I uploaded way back when I made the original Kakusan article, but it looks like both that uploaded image and article are gone (they were probably lost in one of the many database losses the site was suffering back then). Given that I had it, the scan probably came from Rainbow Resort (we never took images from the wikia as a rule).--Vellidragon (talk) 23:46, 6 December 2021 (UTC)

I second that the thing in-game has no feet. I saw an upload of the Japanese 20th anniversary artbook, and the feet-less version is there, as Samwell suggested, on page 109. The upload is here, and the page itself here. I know that that scan isn't in the best quality if we want to grab a scan of the book as the source, but that at least confirms us that a feet-less version of the artwork officially exist, and that said version is the definitive one, because if the one with feets were the definitive one, HAL would have used that version in that book instead. Maybe Kirby Wiki did grab that image from a scan of that book directly.

I haven't encountered a press kit of that game, so if it exist, it isn't so available to the public. Kirby's Rainbow Resort page about images of games lacks a Mass Attack section, so I doubt that they have a version of that artwork there. Though maybe they did once, but was deleted, so I will check with the Wayback Machine later, in any case. -Kirbeat (talk) 00:04, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

That's weird. I really don't remember where I cropped it from, I can only tell by looking that it must be from the same scan as the original upload here, just edited a bit differently. My file is from January 2012, so it's definitely not from the anniversary art book... It was probably a manual scan, but I can't find a source image anywhere on my harddrive.--Vellidragon (talk) 02:38, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

Well, if it was a manual scan, it would not have been the European manual, since that one does not have artwork of Stactus in it. I checked the archived websites for both Japan and North America as well, and didn't see it there either. It could be in either the Japanese or NA Manuals, but I can't find either of those on the internets. I suppose we could just use the piece of artwork you have and mark it as needing a source, which we can find later. --Samwell (talk) 02:47, 7 December 2021 (UTC)