Blonde Impostor

Blonde Impostor
Juice amount	Whole fruit: 1.5 (0.75 in Ultra-Spicy mode) Each part: 0.75 (0.375 in Ultra-Spicy mode)
Mission Mode value	Whole fruit:  × 200 Each part:  × 100
Weight	Whole fruit: 10 Each part: 5
Max. carriers	Whole fruit: 20 (normally) Each part: 10 (normally)
Locations	Twilight River
Mission Mode locations	None
Bingo Battle locations	None
Side Stories locations	None

Blonde Impostor Pikmin 4 treasure
Series	Autumn Harvest Series
Value	× 40
Weight	5
Maximum carriers	10
Locations	Secluded Courtyard, Cavern for a King
Dandori Challenge stages	None
Dandori Battle stages	None
Total amount	2

The Blonde Impostor (ミカケヒトシ^?, lit.: "Similar Appearance") is a fruit in Pikmin 3 and a treasure in Pikmin 4. This is a golden kiwifruit, and like the Disguised Delicacy, which is also a kiwi, it splits into two pieces when discovered whole. Each half produces only three-fourths of a cup of juice, so for the full cup and a half, both pieces must be recovered (this is limited to three-eighths and three-fourths respectively in Ultra-Spicy mode). This fruit does not appear in either Mission Mode or Bingo Battle. In Pikmin 4, it can be found in the Secluded Courtyard and Cavern for a King.

Collecting the fruit

File:Twilight River minimap.png

Location of the Blonde Impostor.

The following article or section contains guides. The strategies shown are just suggestions.

First, you must obtain the Winged Pikmin and order them to lift the dam in order to open the second half of the area. Ride the lily pad until near the Bouncy Mushroom, and throw at least one leader as well as some Rock Pikmin and Winged Pikmin onto the Bouncy Mushroom. The fruit is inside the crystal. Any type of Pikmin can carry it back, but using the Winged Pikmin is much easier as they can carry it over water. Just make sure to defeat the nearby Arachnode so they do not get stuck in its web. If you use grounded Pikmin, the electric gate must be destroyed or the Pikmin will take the Burrowing Snagret path, which will make it emerge from the ground and eat the carrying Pikmin.

Collecting the treasure

The following article or section contains guides. The strategies shown are just suggestions.

Secluded Courtyard

There is a Blonde Impostor hanging from a high-up cobweb on the far west of sublevel 3 of the Secluded Courtyard. To collect this treasure, you must throw 5 Yellow Pikmin at it.

Cavern for a King

There is a Blonde Impostor lying in a pond along the left edge of sublevel 19 of the Cavern for a King, next to three Cupid’s Grenades and a Zest Bomb. To collect this treasure, you must throw 5 Blue or Winged Pikmin at it.

Notes

Brittany's notes

US version

“Aha! This furry little fruit tried to hide itself under a veil of camouflage and fuzz, but I won't be fooled. Tell me, Ms. Fauna, if you are indeed animal and not vegetable, WHERE ARE YOUR LEGS?!

Checkmate, fruit.”

European version

“Aha! This fuzzy fruit obviously wanted to camouflage itself as a wild beast, but I wasn't fooled for a minute. The lack of legs was a dead give-away. In any case, it's so delicious-looking, and so full of Piktamin U, that I doubt the odd limb or two would put me off...”

Schnauz's notes

“"Is the Blonde Impostor simply a Disguised Delicacy in...disguise?" you might ask. Not at all! It's very much its own fruit! It's juicy and sweet, and it has even more of the beautifying vitamin, Piktamin U, than its green cousin. Imposter? Psh. It's as real as it gets!”

Olimar's notes

“My wife went through a phase where all she talked about was Piktamin and its nutritious value. She charted Piktamin U percentages, and then there was A and P... I never really understood what she was talking about, but she was so passionate about it I couldn't help but listen. I bet she'd really like to try this fruit.”

Louie's notes

“It has fewer seeds and tastes a hint sweeter than its green counterpart.”

Technical information

Pikmin 3 technical information (?)
Internal name	kiwigold
Juice	1.5 (0.75 per piece)
Juice color	(255, 255, 0, 255)
Mission Mode points	200
"Size"?	3

Gallery

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  The Blonde Impostor in the Twilight River.

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  The two halves of the Blonde Impostor.

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  The icon in the Fruit File.

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  Analysis of a Blonde Impostor.

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  A real world golden kiwi.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ミカケヒトシ? Mikake Hitoshi	Similar Appearance
Chinese (traditional)	黃色毛毛皮 Huángsè Máomáopí	Yellow Furry Pelt
Chinese (simplified)	黄色毛毛皮 Huángsè Máomáopí	Yellow Furry Pelt
Dutch	Blonde bedrieger	Blonde impostor
French	Imposteur poilu (Pikmin 3) Imposteur doré (Pikmin 4)	Hairy impostor Golden impostor
German	Goldene Delikatesse	Golden delicacy
Italian	Squisitezza dorata	Golden delicacy (name recalls the Disguised Delicacy)
Portuguese	Iguaria áurea	Golden delicacy
Spanish (NoE)	Rubio de incógnito	Disguised blond

See also

• Disguised Delicacy