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The '''''Pikmin'' Short Movies''' ({{j|ピクミン短編アニメ集|Pikumin Tanpen Anime-shū|Pikmin Short Film Collection}}) are a trio of animated films, showing [[Pikmin family|Pikmin]] interacting with the environment of [[PNF-404]] alongside [[Captain Olimar]]. These films are drawn using computer generated 3D graphics. They were produced by TK3 Inc. and Nintendo Co., Ltd, and were animated by Dwango Pictures, Inc., with Shigeru Miyamoto as executive producer. The three shorts are called ''[[The Night Juicer]]'', ''[[Treasure in a Bottle]]'', and ''[[Occupational Hazards]]''.

==Shorts==

This short features Captain Olimar and some [[Pikmin family|Pikmin]] inside an unknown room, with Captain Olimar using a small blender to make a juice-like drink. The three Pikmin become horrified with what appears to be a vivisected Red Pikmin on a cutting board. Olimar slowly chases after the Pikmin, each of them envisioning themselves being turned into a cool refreshment,  until they eventually bump into a box of [[Pikpik carrot]]s, the foodstuff that Olimar was really blending. Still petrified by fear, the Pikmin lay motionless in the pile of carrots as Olimar casually shifts them aside to pick up a couple of the carrots. He then proceeds to chipperly walk off camera, completely unaware of the humorous misunderstanding.

===''Treasure in a Bottle''===

[[File:PikminShort.jpg|thumb|left|300px|The 3 Pikmin get an idea to rescue their friend.]]

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The Pikmin get ideas to fill the bottle with water or blow it up, which are never executed and fail, respectively. After spotting the butterfly again and a [[Purple Pikmin|Purple]] as well as 3 Blue Pikmin using their weight as a chain to catch the butterfly, all at once they come up with the idea to create a rescue chain of Pikmin held by the Purple. The trapped Red Pikmin is rescued, but before it returns to the ground, it looks back at the marble. Eventually, the Pikmin decide to carry the whole bottle back.

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[[File:OccupationalHazardsSC.png|300px|right|thumb|Pikmin hard at work, scavenging an abandoned construction site.]]

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Meanwhile, a group of Pikmin run off to rummage through some metal pipes and accidentally wake up a sleeping [[Fiery Blowhog]], who then stampedes after them. A few Red Pikmin subdue it in a pile of mud, and the Pikmin nearby start frolicking. While playing, a Yellow Pikmin wanders off into a nearby sewer entry after noticing a shiny golden colored bolt on the floor. It eventually finds and awakens an angered and incidentally hungry [[Red Bulborb]].

The Bulborb chases the Pikmin, stopping a few times because of a hypnotizing glove, and later, a tire rim serving as shelter for the Pikmin. Meanwhile, the Yellow Pikmin who were playing with the battery, manage to inadvertently activate the backhoe by completing a full electrical circuit between its battery and its machinery, and an accidental lever activation causes the bucket to lift, where the Pikmin and Bulborb were. The Bulborb crashes to the ground and becomes unconscious, and the Pikmin, their leaves changed to flowers, float safely to the ground. After some Pikmin swarm it, the arm and bucket of the machine fall apart and land on the Bulborb; the Pikmin escape just in time. The whole backhoe collapses, and the Research Pod, that just returned, discovers that the whole pile including the Bulborb is worth 1 quadrillion and seven Pokos. Olimar is both astounded and overjoyed by this most profitable find and strikes a triumphant pose.

===Bonuses===

[[File:TIABStoryboard.jpg|thumb|100px|right|A portion of the storyboard from ''Treasure in a Bottle''.]]

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====TOHO CINEMAS 2012 Logo====

Length: 00:31

====TOHO CINEMAS 2013 Logo====

Length: 00:37

====''Treasure in a Bottle'': Storyboard by Shigeru Miyamoto====

====''Occupational Hazards'': Storyboard by Shigeru Miyamoto====

==The app==