


This short begins with various types of Pikmin working about to dismantle an abandoned backhoe for the Hocotate ship. Pikmin hard at work, scavenging an abandoned construction site. Eventually, the Pikmin decide to carry the whole bottle back. The trapped Red Pikmin is rescued, but before it returns to the ground, it looks back at the marble. After spotting the butterfly again and a Purple as well as 3 Blue Pikmin using their weight as a chain to catch the butterfly, all at once they come up with the idea to create a rescue chain of Pikmin held by the Purple. The Pikmin get ideas to fill the bottle with water or blow it up, which are never executed and fail, respectively. It calls for help from a passing group of Blue, Yellow and Red Pikmin, which laugh at the Red's plight and comically distorted appearance the bottle causes the Red Pikmin to have. While trying to retrieve the marble, the Pikmin manages to trap itself inside the bottle. This short starts off with a Red Pikmin chasing after a large white butterfly, eventually coming across a Ramune bottle with a blue marble inside. The 3 Pikmin get an idea to rescue their friend. The latter are the version that has been uploaded to YouTube. The 3DS version of the bundle is in stereoscopic 3D, and is referred to as " Pikmin Short Movies 3D", while the clips on the Wii U are referred to as " Pikmin Short Movies HD", and are rendered in high definition.
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However, those apps have since been deleted, and the videos were moved to Nintendo's official YouTube channels for free watching. The bundle consisting of shorts and bonuses was originally available on the Wii U and the Nintendo 3DS, on each of the respective platform's eShop, for $4.99/£4.49/€4.99. In addition to the shorts, four bonus clips exist. These include the Pikmin being able to open up their leaves or buds into flowers seemingly at will, and White Pikmin being able to spit acid. Some of the actions the Pikmin perform in the shorts contradict what is known to happen in the game's canon, meaning that it is not clear if the shorts take place in the same canon as the games'. These aspects cannot be elaborated on inside the games, due to technical and visual limitations, as well as deviating from the gameplay purposes of the games. They focus more on the Pikmin's interactions with the environment, as well as each individual Pikmin's behaviors and actions. The shorts are all based on the first two Pikmin games. The three shorts are called The Night Juicer, Treasure in a Bottle, and Occupational Hazards. and Nintendo Co., Ltd, and were animated by Dwango Pictures, Inc., with Shigeru Miyamoto as executive producer. These films are drawn using computer generated 3D graphics. The Pikmin Short Movies ( ピクミン短編アニメ集 ?, lit.: "Pikmin Short Film Collection") are a trio of animated films released in 2014, showing Pikmin interacting with the environment of PNF-404 alongside Captain Olimar. The content here is yet to be confirmed to be canon, but features non-canonical aspects. This article or section features debatable canonical information.
