Your Guide to Mario Odyssey’s Captured Hammer Bro Figure

Captured Hammer Bro Choco Egg Topper from Super Mario Odyssey

Mario’s Classic Enemy Through Odyssey’s Capture Mechanic

The Hammer Bro has been a fixture of the Mario series since the original Super Mario Bros. in 1985 — a bipedal, armor-wearing member of the Koopa family that hurls hammers at Mario and has remained one of the franchise’s most recognizable recurring enemies across four decades of games. For Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo Switch, October 2017), the character gained an entirely new dimension through the game’s central mechanic: Capture.

Capture is what defines Odyssey as its own thing. Using Cappy, his sentient hat companion, Mario can possess enemies and objects throughout the game’s worlds, temporarily taking on their abilities. When Mario captures a Hammer Bro, the visual result is immediately striking: the enemy keeps its shell and overall build, but now wears Mario’s red “M” cap and sports his black mustache. It reads as both characters at once, and it’s a design that exists nowhere outside of Odyssey. This figure accurately recreates that captured state — the red cap, the mustache, a raised left hand. The figure also holds a microphone, though the specific in-game context for that pose is uncertain; it may reflect a design choice by Furuta, or connect to one of the game’s music-themed environments.

Furuta’s Choco Egg and Japan’s Food Toy Tradition

This figure is part of Furuta Confectionery’s Choco Egg line, made by Furuta Seika, an Osaka-based candy company. Choco Egg is one of the best-known examples of shokugan — Japan’s food toy category, where small collectible figures are bundled with confections like chocolate, gum, or candy. What sets Japan’s shokugan market apart from similar products elsewhere is its substantial adult collector following. Furuta’s Mario Choco Egg series, which has run across multiple lineups since the early 2000s, built a strong reputation among collectors for the quality of its sculpts relative to the food toy format.

The standard Choco Egg encloses a capsule figure inside an egg-shaped chocolate shell. This figure uses the “topper” variation: instead of being sealed inside, it attaches to the outside top of the container. The Odyssey-specific topper series would have appeared after the game’s October 2017 launch — likely through late 2017 into 2018, though the exact release month isn’t documented. All figures in the line carry an official Nintendo license. They sold through convenience stores and supermarkets across Japan, typically in individual packages or multi-piece box sets.

Why the Odyssey Connection Draws International Attention

Super Mario Odyssey scored a 97 on Metacritic and went on to sell more than 20 million copies worldwide, making it one of the Nintendo Switch’s defining early titles. Its global reach was unusually broad, and the Capture mechanic was among the most discussed elements of the game — which means figures depicting characters in their captured state carry a clear Odyssey identity that standard Mario enemy merchandise doesn’t share.

Because Furuta’s food toy lines distribute through Japan’s domestic confectionery market, they don’t reach international buyers through conventional retail. Figures from these series tend to arrive abroad through individual export channels. The full character lineup of this specific Odyssey topper series hasn’t been comprehensively documented in publicly available sources, so individual pieces from the line typically circulate on their own rather than as organized complete sets.