The Super Mario Bros. Stunt Show (Carwardine Parks show)

The Super Mario Bros. Stunt Show was a stunt show at several Carwardine Parks that lasted from 1991 until 2006. It was billed as a parody of other parks' stunt shows and featured the characters from Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. as they did "stunts" that were mainly projected CGI displays, done with obvious wiring or fail (although intentionally) tremendously.

Show History
Chris Carwardine saw the Indiana Jones stunt show at Disney-MGM Studios five times, and one of the times, an obvious fail happened, which made the show look obviously fake, Carwardine saw the opportunity to make a stunt show that was built on failed stunts rather than successful stunts, and used the Mario license to make it happen.

The first of the shows debuted at Carwardine Colony on June 1st, 1991, Carwardine's Great America on August 3rd, 1991 and Carwardine Corners on November 2nd, 1991. The shows were praised for not just the stunt fails, but parodies of infamous moments in media (Including an act where Bowser (fails to) hop over an animatronic tiger shark with a motorcycle, parodying Happy Days).

In 1992, the set was redesigned at three new park installations to resemble Super Mario World, and Yoshi being added in the finale, but the rest of the show remained the same, the new set was newly installed at Idora Park on January 4th, 1992, Chippewa Lake Park on June 6th, 1992, and Akron Acres on September 5th, 1992.

The original three parks would gain the redesigned set throughout 1993, first Carwardine's Great America on January 9th, 1993, Carwardine Corners on May 8th, 1993, and Carwardine Colony on August 7th, 1993. Three new installations would come that year - Rose Park (April 10), Camp Carwardine (June 12), and Hawaii Luna Park (September 11).

In 1994, six parks would get the show, Carwardine's Adventure Acres, Coney Island, Billings' Wild Kingdom, Boblo Island Amusement Park, Carwardine C-Zone and Centerpoint Park. The six parks that got the new show would have an even larger stage, seating 20% more guests than the other installations, due to high demand.

In 1995, three more parks would get the show - Dylan Park, Goodtimes Amusement Park and Marquette Woods Park, these would be the last three parks to receive the new show, Also, in 1995, the installation at Carwardine's Adventure Acres closed to make way for a restaurant complex, and that show was shipped off to Rose Island.

In 1997, the show received an update to tie the show in with Super Mario 64 and in 2002, the show received an update to tie the show in with Super Mario Sunshine.

In 2006, the show was announced to have it's last performances on Labor Day 2006, with the last performances having an act where instead of the characters dancing awkwardly, Bowser would come in with an axe, and chop the 2D background scenery, thus destroying it in the process, after the final show, the rest of the show was demolished at all parks, although some parks have the seating abandoned, most removed the entire setup - Chippewa Lake Park, for example, replaced the show and it's amphitheater with Launchpads, a relocated Vekoma Giant Inverted Boomerang.