You know that one superfan who can give you a lecture on every background character in Star Wars or rattle off the names of every Pokemon and their sexual preferences? Most of the time we try to avoid engaging these people in their favorite topics for fear of getting trapped in a three-hour conversation about the bathroom habits of Xaro Xhoan Daxos, but every now and then they undertake so much effort to answer a question so trivial, you can't help but be impressed.

5 How Much Is Princess Peach's Castle Worth?

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Ever wondered exactly how wealthy Princess Peach really is? Of course you haven't -- you were too busy curb-stomping turtles to bother with any of that. But the Movoto real estate group decided to use their expertise and the fact that it was a lazy Friday afternoon, to put a price on Peach's castle in Super Mario 64. The first step was pinning down a location. Since acid hallucinations are freed from the traditional constraints of space and time, they had to settle for a real-world locale that matched the ecological mishmash that is the Mushroom Kingdom. Apparently Oslo comes closest to having a combination of mountains, grasslands, waterfalls, gigantic mushrooms, and racetracks made of doughnuts all within a triple-jump of each other.

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With property rates in hand, Movoto next determined the size of the castle. The average double-doored entrance like Peach has is 72 inches wide. Using the door as a ruler, they determined that Peach's pad is a sprawling 453,060 square feet, and probably has at least one stray Toad entombed within its walls for good luck. That makes Peach's castle about the size of Hogwarts, although it's unclear whether they counted just the grounds or also included the battlefields, docks, and giant clocks Peach's magical paintings hide.

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Making the reasonable assumption that castles are expensive, Movoto looked at the most extravagant houses in Oslo and found an average square foot price of $2,099. That seems a bit much for a neighborhood overrun with killer plants, angry sentient bullets, and endless pools of lava, but we suppose gentrification has to start somewhere.

Put all of that together, and you end up with a value of $950,972,940. And that's just the castle itself -- the figure doesn't include the land it sits on, its dozens of golf courses and tennis courts, or the elaborate lava level in the basement. Then again, maybe the economy works differently in a world where you can punch bricks into gold.