Time Travel Tube
Time Travel Tube
First appearance The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 ("Toddler Terrors of Time Travel") (1990)

The Time Travel Tube (or just Time Tube) is a time machine that appears in the episode "Toddler Terrors of Time Travel" of The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3. It is built by Kooky von Koopa in order to allow travel to the past and prevent Mario and Luigi from finding their way into the Mushroom Kingdom, allowing King Koopa to take over without hindrance. In addition to traveling through time, it is capable of manipulating one's age.

However, the Time Travel Tube malfunctions during its journey to the past, causing Mario, Luigi, Toad, and the Koopas to rejuvenate back into infancy. When the Mario Bros. and Toad escape in their baby forms, Kooky repairs the Time Travel Tube and restores himself and King Koopa to their proper ages so they can carry out their plans. Before they can succeed in preventing the Mario Bros.' arrival, Toad steals the Time Travel Tube and then restores himself and the Mario Bros. back into adulthood. The Mario Bros. are able to open and enter the gate into the Mushroom Kingdom before the timeline becomes permanent, thwarting King Koopa and Kooky's plans.

Names in other languagesEdit

Language Name Meaning Notes
Chinese (simplified) 时空旅行管[1]
Shíkōng Lǚxíng Guǎn
Time Travel Tube
Dutch Tijdreizenbuis[2] Time Travel Tube
French Tube de Voyage dans le Temps[3] Time Travel Tube
German Zeitreiserohr[4] Time Travel Tube
Italian Macchina del tempo[5] Time machine; shared with Prof. E. Gadd's time machine
Norwegian Tidsreiserør[6] Time Travel Tube
Polish Rura do Podróży w Czasie[7] Time Travel Tube
Portuguese Tubo de Viagem no Tempo[8] Time Travel Tube
Spanish Tubo de Viajes por el Tiempo[9] Time Travel Tube

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