Toppins

"Toppins are uhhhhh...

🍍🍅🍗✨🍕🧀 🍕🍅 ✨✨🧀🍍🍗🍕 🍅🧀 🍍🍗 🍍🍅 🍅❓ ✨🧀🍅🍗🍕🍍

🍗🍕🍅🍅✨🍍 🧀🍗❗️"
— Toppinbot.

Toppins are characters and collectibles in Pizza Tower.

Description

Toppins are small pizza topping-shaped creatures. Each of them have unique designs. There are five different kinds of Toppins, each being based off of a different pizza topping; Mushroom Toppins, Cheese Toppins, Tomato Toppins, Sausage Toppins, and Pineapple Toppins. They each have unique designs, as well:

• The Mushroom Toppin is a brown mushroom with exaggerated, googly eyes.
• The Cheese Toppin is a block of cheese with eyes on top and no legs, unlike the others.
• The Tomato Toppin is a tomato with a big red nose (akin to that of a clown), tired eyes and green shoes.
• The Sausage Toppin is a brown sausage with a resting grumpy face and a unibrow.
• The Pineapple Toppin is a pineapple with sunglasses and white shoes. It is also the only a Toppin with a mouth, which can only be seen while taunting.

Behavior

Toppins can be found trapped in cages throughout the levels. Upon saving a Toppin, the player is given 1000 points. After being saved, they will constantly follow the player. Each Toppin will taunt alongside Peppino.

Toppins are counted as a collectible, and will run around the level's gate if the player beats the level with them. They will also be seen during the rank screen. When collected for the first time, each Toppin contributes 10 dollars to the player's savings. This money needs to be paid to Mr. Stick to enter boss fights. There are 95 Toppins in total, but only 86 of them are needed to beat the game.

Pre-release

For early appearances and scrapped ideas, see the pre-release page here: Toppins/Pre-release

Trivia

• The Sausage, Tomato and Pineapple Toppins are based on enemies' designs - Peasanto, Smoked Weenie and Pineacool.
  • The Mushroom Toppin, while not based on an enemy, seems to be based on the Big Mushrooms from Gnome Forest.
    • It also resembles the Mushroom Ghost.
• In earlier drafts of the redesign, Cheese still had legs, Sausage had a hat, and Pineapple had a mouth.
• Their internal filename is "pizzakin", referencing their prototype name.
• The Cheese Toppin had two holes and legs in older versions.
• The Pineapple Toppin lacked sunglasses in older versions.
• The Toppins are most likely inspired by the Spritelings from Wario World.

Gallery

Mushroom Toppin animations

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  Mushroom Toppin being collected. Also seen when performing a Super Taunt.

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  Mushroom Toppin's idle animation.

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  Mushroom Toppin's running animation.

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  Mushroom Toppin's panic animation. Used when Pizza Time is activated.

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  Mushroom Toppin's first taunt, where it is happy.

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  Mushroom Toppin's second taunt, where its lower area is extended.

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  Mushroom Toppin's third taunt, referencing its old design.

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  Mushroom Toppin on the rank screen.

Cheese Toppin animations

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  Cheese Toppin being collected. Also seen when performing a Super Taunt.

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  Cheese Toppin's idle animation.

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  Cheese Toppin's running animation.

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  Cheese Toppin's panic animation. Used when Pizza Time is activated.

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  Cheese Toppin's first taunt, where it appears to be gasping.

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  Cheese Toppin's second taunt, in which it looks like a Cheeseslime.

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  Cheese Toppin's third taunt, where it looks as if it has been squished, or looks like a Cheese Slice.

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  Cheese Toppin on the rank screen.

Tomato Toppin animations

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  Tomato Toppin being collected. Also seen when performing a Super Taunt.

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  Tomato Toppin's idle animation.

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  Tomato Toppin's running animation.

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  Tomato Toppin's panic animation. Used when Pizza Time is activated.

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  Tomato Toppin's first taunt, where it is dressed as a clown.

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  Tomato Toppin's second taunt, where it is sleeping.

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  Tomato Toppin's third taunt, where its nose is squished in.

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  Tomato Toppin on the rank screen.

Sausage Toppin animations

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  Sausage Toppin being collected. Also seen when performing a Super Taunt.

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  Sausage Toppin's idle animation.

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  Sausage Toppin's running animation.

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  Sausage Toppin's panic animation. Used when Pizza Time is activated.

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  Sausage Toppin's first taunt, in which it looks like a Smoked Weenie.

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  Sausage Toppin's second taunt, where it looks like a sausage link.

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  Sausage Toppin's third taunt, where it becomes tall, like the sausages in real life.

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  Sausage Toppin on the rank screen.

Pineapple Toppin animations

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  Pineapple Toppin being collected. Also seen when performing a Super Taunt.

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  Pineapple Toppin's idle animation.

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  Pineapple Toppin's running animation.

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  Pineapple Toppin's panic animation. Used when Pizza Time is activated.

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  Pineapple Toppin's first taunt. A reference to a concept for Pineacool, where it had a variant with different sunglasses.

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  Pineapple Toppin's second taunt. A reference to a concept art of Pineacool riding a jetsurf.

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  Pineapple Toppin's third taunt. Uses a frame from an animation intended for an older version of Don't Make A Sound before transforming into Pineapple Monster.

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  Pineapple Toppin on the rank screen.

In-game miscellaneous

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  The cage.

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  Toppins' call for help message.

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  The cash the Toppins give on the rank screen when collected for the first time.

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  Toppins icon on the Pizza Granny sign.

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  Mushroom & Pineapple Toppins having some target practice with The Vigilante. Appears in the ending.

Miscellaneous

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  Toppinbot's description of Toppins on the Pizza Tower Discord. Note how the Tomato & Cheese Toppins use their old designs.

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  Toppins and Secret Eyes surrounding Peppino and Gerome on the Steam page.

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  Mushroom Toppin with Peppino.

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  Mushroom and Tomato Toppins with Peppino during Pizza Time.

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  Mushroom and Pineapple Toppins in the cast for a potential game idea. Note the rocket launcher the Mushroom is carrying, with the Pineapple used as ammunition.

Sound effects

The sound heard after collecting a toppin.