Poshley Heights

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Poshley Heights
A view of Poshley Heights shown when visiting for the first time.
First appearance Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (2004)
Latest appearance Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) (2024)
Greater location Rogueport's surrounding areas
Inhabitants Bumpties, Toads, Bob-ombs
“...Poshley Heights? Only filthy-rich folks live there, right? Not that I've ever been...”
An orange Toad in Rogueport, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

Poshley Heights is a posh village that Mario visits to acquire the Garnet Star in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. The Excess Express stops at the Poshley Heights Station, the main form of transportation into the village, though a pipe later opens through which Mario can access the village. It is the home of many affluent individuals, including Goldbob, Sylvia, and Bub, as well as several Penguins and Toads. Toodles owns a summer home here, and Lady Bow and Bootler also vacation here after Mario and company defeat the Shadow Queen. Sir Grodus, Lord Crump and the X-Nauts are also shown to have ended up in Poshley Heights after the Shadow Queen's defeat; however, when Mario goes to the place where they can be seen in Goombella's email, they cannot be found there. The town's main attraction is the Poshley Sanctum, home of the Garnet Star, where Pennington serves as manager when he is not performing detective work.

Along with Rogueport, Poshley Heights has the only inn, Royal Poshley Park Tower, in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door that has more than one room, though it is the most expensive at 30 coins per stay as opposed to the average 5-10 coins. Royal Poshley Park Tower's suite, the only room in which Mario and his party can stay, is similar to the Marrymore suite from Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. The morning after Mario rests at the Royal Poshley Park Tower, the staff serves him an Omelette Meal prepared by Zess T.

Inhabitants

Cutscene showing the chapter 6 characters giving support to Mario through the Garnet Star in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)
The residents of Poshley Heights and staff from the Excess Express gather to lend support to Mario and his party in their battle against the Shadow Queen in the Switch remake
Main story
Chapter 6 only
Post-game

Items

Item Location
Chocolate Cake Choco Cake Given by Toadia after finishing her trouble.
Fresh Pasta Fresh Pasta In the second area, it can be bought for 50 coins from the shop in the left.
Icon of an item from Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch) Goldbob's Pass Given by Goldbob during the General White hunt in Chapter 7.
Inn Coupon Inn Coupon In the second area; behind the pasta-selling little shop in the left.
HP Drain P HP Drain P In the first area; in a chest in the back room of Goldbob's house. Accessible using Paper Mode.
Omelette Meal Omelette Meal In the second area, it appears in the desk to the left of the inn counter after sleeping at the inn.
Package (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door) Package Given by Goldbob during his trouble.
Platinum Card Platinum Card Given by Toodles after finishing her trouble.
Present (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door) Present Given by Bub while doing his trouble.
Shine Sprite Shine Sprite In the third scene; high to the left of Poshley Sanctum.
Star Piece (Paper Mario series) Star Piece (×4) In the first scene; under a panel in the red floor at the center.
In the first scene; behind the chair to the left of Goldbob's house.
In the first scene; inside the hedge to the right of Toodles's house.
In the second scene; in the corner of the hedge to the northwest of the penguin's house.

Profiles

RogueportPetalburgPetal MeadowsHooktail CastleThe Great TreeBoggly WoodsPirate's GrottoKeelhaul KeyTwilight TownTwilight TrailFahr OutpostCreepy SteepleMoonX-Naut FortressGlitzvillePoshley SanctumRiverside StationPoshley HeightsA map of Rogueport and the surrounding areas visited during Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.
Click an area to open the relevant article.
  • Tattles
    • "This is the Poshley Heights Station. The Excess Express to Rogueport is here. This place is sooooo upscale. It's like, the polar opposite of Rogueport. You can tell that movie stars and millionaires live here. It just REEKS of cash."
      • In the Switch version, the word "like" also has a comma before it.
    • "This is Poshley Heights. It's a relaxed town that positively reeks of money. There's a very nice hotel here, too. Wouldn't it be nice to stay there sometime?"
      • In the Switch version, the comma after "here" is removed.
    • "That's Poshley Sanctum. I guess the sanctum grounds are used as a public square. That fountain out front is unique, huh? Yeah, but that water... I bet Nibbles would still chomp your tush if you fell in..."
  • Map description
    • A town famous for all of the rich and famous people living in it. There are plenty of extravagant vacation homes and hotels in town. (GCN)
    • A town famous for all of the wealthy people living in it. There are plenty of extravagant vacation homes and hotels in town. (Switch)

Gallery

Media

Audio.svg Poshley Heights - Poshley Heights' music in the original GameCube version.
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Audio.svg Poshley Heights - Poshley Heights' music in the Nintendo Switch remake.
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Names in other languages

Language Name Meaning Notes
Japanese ピカリーヒルズ[?]
Pikarī Hiruzu
Diminutive of「ピカり」(pikari, a Japanese term for "dazzling") + "hills"; a play on Beverly Hills (「ビバリーヒルズ」)
Chinese (simplified) 比亮丽山庄[?]
Bǐ liànglì shān zhuāng
From「比弗利山庄」("Beverly Hills") and「亮丽」("bright")
Chinese (traditional) 比亮麗山莊[?]
Bǐ liànglì shān zhuāng
From「比弗利山庄」("Beverly Hills") and「亮丽」("bright")
Dutch Praalstede[?] From praal (meaning splendor) + stede (old word for town)
French Picaly Hills[?] From the Japanese name
German Bad Glimmerich[?] From bad- (meaning "bath", a prefix in German place names indicating a spa town) + glimmer ("to gleam") and possibly -ich (a German suffix for place names)
Italian Sfoggy Hills[?] Diminutive of sfoggiare ("to flaunt") + "hills"
Korean 트윙클 힐즈[?]
Teuwingkeul Hiljeu
Twinkle Hills
Spanish Villa Preciosa[?] Valuable Village

Trivia

  • In the house adjacent to the hotel, the Penguin at the far end of the room references Shiver City from Paper Mario. While tattling the Penguin near the front door reveals that he bought the house because of the sales of Herringway's novels, as the Penguin is a relative of Herringway.