"Toppins are uhhhhh...
🍍🍅🍗✨🍕🧀 🍕🍅 ✨✨🧀🍍🍗🍕 🍅🧀 🍍🍗 🍍🍅 🍅❓ ✨🧀🍅🍗🍕🍍
🍗🍕🍅🍅✨🍍 🧀🍗❗️"
— Toppinbot.
Toppins are characters and collectibles in Pizza Tower.
Description[]
Toppins are small pizza topping-shaped creatures. 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 Cheese Toppin has a mouth which can be seen by taunting.
- 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 black sunglasses and white shoes. It is also one of the Toppins which have a mouth, which can only be seen while taunting (Same as cheese toppin).
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 follow behind the player until the end of the level. 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.
- The Cheese Toppin, while not based on an enemy, has a taunt based on the Cheeseslime.
- The Mushroom Toppin, while not based on an enemy, seems to be based on the Big Mushrooms from Gnome Forest.
- In earlier drafts of the redesign, Cheese still had legs, Sausage had a hat, and Pineapple had a visible 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.
- All of the Pineapple Toppin's taunts are based off of scrapped ideas or concept art.
- It's taunt where is wears purple, star-shaped sunglasses is a reference to concept art in which a Pineacool can be seen wearing these same shades.
- It's taunt where it is riding a jetsurf is another reference to concept art of the Pineacool, this time it is riding on the same jetsurf.
- It's taunt where it looks at the camera and gives a large, menacing grin is a reference to a cut mechanic where the Pineapple Toppin would become the Pineapple Toppin Monster. This animation would play shortly before it does just that.
Gallery[]
Mushroom Toppin animations[]
Mushroom Toppin being collected. Also seen when performing a Super Taunt.
Mushroom Toppin's idle animation.
Mushroom Toppin's running animation.
Mushroom Toppin's panic animation. Used when Pizza Time is activated.
Mushroom Toppin's first taunt, where it is happy.
Mushroom Toppin's second taunt, where its bottom half is extended.
Mushroom Toppin's third taunt, referencing its old design.
Mushroom Toppin on the rank screen.
Cheese Toppin animations[]
Cheese Toppin being collected. Also seen when performing a Super Taunt.
Cheese Toppin's idle animation.
Cheese Toppin's running animation.
Cheese Toppin's panic animation. Used when Pizza Time is activated.
Cheese Toppin's first taunt, where it appears to be gasping.
Cheese Toppin's second taunt, in which it looks like a Cheeseslime.
Cheese Toppin's third taunt, where it looks as if it has been squished, or turned into a slice of cheese.
Cheese Toppin on the rank screen.
Tomato Toppin animations[]
Tomato Toppin being collected. Also seen when performing a Super Taunt.
Tomato Toppin's idle animation.
Tomato Toppin's running animation, in which it rolls forward.
Tomato Toppin's panic animation. Used when Pizza Time is activated.
Tomato Toppin's first taunt, where it is dressed as a clown.
Tomato Toppin's second taunt, where it is sleeping.
Tomato Toppin's third taunt, where its nose is squished in.
Tomato Toppin on the rank screen.
Sausage Toppin animations[]
Sausage Toppin being collected. Also seen when performing a Super Taunt.
Sausage Toppin's idle animation.
Sausage Toppin's running animation.
Sausage Toppin's panic animation. Used when Pizza Time is activated.
Sausage Toppin's first taunt, in which it looks like a Smoked Weenie.
Sausage Toppin's second taunt, where it looks like a sausage link.
Sausage Toppin's third taunt, where it becomes tall.
Sausage Toppin on the rank screen.
Pineapple Toppin animations[]
Pineapple Toppin being collected. Also seen when performing a Super Taunt.
Pineapple Toppin's idle animation.
Pineapple Toppin's running animation, in which it rotates counterclockwise.
Pineapple Toppin's panic animation. Used when Pizza Time is activated.
Pineapple Toppin's first taunt. A reference to a concept for Pineacool, where it had a variant with different sunglasses.
Pineapple Toppin's second taunt. A reference to a concept art of Pineacool riding a jetsurf.
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.
Pineapple Toppin on the rank screen.
In-game miscellaneous[]
The cash the Toppins give on the rank screen when collected for the first time.
Toppins icon on the Pizza Granny sign.
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.
Mushroom Toppin with Peppino.
Mushroom and Tomato Toppins with Peppino during Pizza Time.
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.
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Toppin Cage is a level asset in Pizza Tower.
Description[]
Toppin Cage is a small metallic cage with four bars and a set of eyes peeking out, presumably belonging to one of the Toppins.
Behavior[]
Once touched by the player, the player collects the Toppin that was inside, as well as receiving 1000 points.
Trivia[]
- Despite the widespread belief, it is not required that the player collect every Toppin throughout the level in order to P-Rank it.
- Originally, one of the ways to activate Pizza Time was to collect a Pizza Box that contained a Noise Bomb inside of it, however this was scrapped.
- Before the October 2022 Build, It was a Pizza Box instead of a cage.
Gallery[]
Regular Animations[]
Toppin Cage idle animation.
The 'Help!' message that appears over the Toppin Cage.
Scrapped Animations[]
Pizza Box idle animation.
Pizza Box being collected.