Star Fox's OG marketing materials were dominated by real-life puppet versions of heroes Fox, Slippy, Falco, and Peppy, but the origins – and ultimate fates – of those puppets have always been shrouded in mystery. Finally, we have an answer, but it's something of a dark, tragic twist that I'll go ahead and spoil right now: those puppets were destroyed by Godzilla Minus One studio Shirogumi.
At least, that's what happened to one set of the Star Fox puppets, according to a report from Time Extension. There were at least two different sets, one created for the SNES game's original box art, and one built for a bizarre promo video shown in Japanese stores. The latter was actually made for proper puppeteering – the Fox we see in the video is animated – but apparently it wasn't built to last.
