
Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto expected pushback from Nintendo when Illumination asked to include Star Fox's Fox McCloud in The Super Mario Galaxy Movie – but he was pleasantly surprised that the idea was positively received.
“When I got the proposal from Chris [Meledandri, producer and Illumination CEO] about including Star Fox, in general, from Nintendo's perspective, we tend to avoid mixing IPs, except for the Pikmin cameo," Miyamoto told Forbes, referring to the plant-like critter which made a surprise appearance in the movie.