The Stolen Statue

Level
The Stolen Statue
Level code	Dashing Thief-2
World	4F
Game	Princess Peach: Showtime!
Primary power-up	Dashing Thief Peach
Music track	Under the Cover of Night
Music sample
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The Stolen Statue is a level in Princess Peach: Showtime!, located in the upper left on the fourth floor of the Sparkle Theater. This stage is unlocked after clearing all of 3F.

Layout

Peach arrives on a street at nighttime, with a Sour Bunch airship stealing a nearby gold statue of the Dashing Thief Sparkla (with a stowaway Theet hanging onto the statue) soon after. Peach hooks onto a propeller airplane right afterwards, from which Peach jumps from plane to plane.

Peach lands on a platform in the rear right middle of the blimp. Making her way through a codelocked door, she turns off the next room's lights, resulting in Laser Patrols searching around.

As Peach gets through, and out on a windy outside platform (she will stand still despite the wind), the planes outside notice her and begin bombing the pipes. Having then got past the pipes, Peach breaks the window into the blimp's control room and jumps inside, where Peach must stun two Keibiin Robos so she can open a codelocked door on the right (which deactivates the robots), and slide down a pipe on the left.

Upon doing so, Peach arrives in the hangar where the gold statue with the Theet are stored. She must make use of the code locks to move the lift down, open the blimp's hatch, then move the lift back up and defeat an invading plane in the process. As she manages to release the statue and drop it out of the blimp while avoiding the Keibiin Robo reinfocements, a self-destruction is initiated, initially with no time limit, but with walls then beginning to clamp down at high enough speed that Peach must use hooks to get out fast enough. As the blimp explodes, Peach flies out into the night with her cape.

Sparkle Gems

Sparkle Gems marked with an asterisk ⁽*⁾ will always be obtained during regular gameplay.

Image	Location
	Under the hook of an airplane immediately after a top-or-bottom path.
	Collect eight Sparkle pieces, by using a hook on the right to reach five gems, and three on the left (two of them requiring opening a door to reach)
	If Peach succeeds at the rapid four-hook chain above three Laser Patrols, the Gem is above the door.
	Down a backstage elevator on the immediate left of the door that has led out to the windy platform. Peach must perform an upwards three-hook combo to reach the Gem.
	On a sideway on the upper left, two-thirds through the airplane bombing section.
	Reaching the blimp control room section.*
	Taking the upper path during the final escape.

Stella ribbon

Ribboner's location

Dashing Thief Ribbon: Ribboner can be found if Peach takes to the left after the first code-locked door of the blimp. He awards the Stella ribbon for Stella.

• Help request: "I'm on the wrong blimp!
• Rescue message: "Time to use my handy parachute!"

Postgame hidden Ninja Theets

The stage has three Ninja Theets when it is played in the postgame:

Image	Location
	Behind the stage's starting platform.
	On the upper left of the section where Peach turns off the lamps.
	On the lower path of the escape section, immediately before the tip of when the paths re-merge. It is also possible to jump down from the upper path to where the ninja is without getting squashed.

Gallery

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  The blimp on its way past the end of the city square area

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  Pictioneer's photo of the stage

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  The poster next to The Stolen Statue's entrance door after 4F has been saved

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  Peach obtaining the Sparkla Spirit

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Note(s)	Ref.
Japanese	怪盗かいとうマスク　〜奪うばわれた黄金像おうごんぞう〜 Kaitō Masuku ~Ubawareta Ōgon Zō~	Masked Phantom Thief ~The Stolen Golden Statue~		[?]
Chinese (Simplified)	蒙面怪盜　〜被抢走的黄金像〜 Méngmiàn Guàidào ~Bèi Qiǎngzǒu De Huángjīn Xiàng~	Masked Phantom Thief ~The Stolen Golden Statue~		[?]
Chinese (Traditional)	蒙面怪盜　〜被搶走的黃金像〜 Méngmiàn Guàidào ~Bèi Qiǎngzǒu De Huángjīn Xiàng~	Masked Phantom Thief ~The Stolen Golden Statue~		[?]
Dutch	Het gestolen standbeeld	The stolen statue		[?]
French	La statue volée	The stolen statue		[?]
German	Die gestohlene Statue	The stolen Statue		[?]
Italian	La statua rubata	The stolen statue		[?]
Korean	괴도 가면 ~빼앗긴 황금상~ Goedo gamyeon ~Ppaeatgin hwanggeumsang~	Masked Phantom Thief ~The Stolen Golden Statue~		[?]
Portuguese	O Furto da Estátua	The Theft of the Statue		[?]
Russian	Похищение статуи Pokhishcheniye statui	The stolen statue		[?]
Spanish	El robo de la estatua	The theft of the statue		[?]

Notes

• Although the chase portions in the first and second sections have auto-scolling camera views, there are no auto-scroller invisible walls that prevent Peach from moving forward, making it possible to do large parts of both sections with Peach way off-screen to the right.
  • The planes in first third of the second portion's chase do however only sweep in at set times, so that particular area can not be done particularly far off-screen.