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When plucking a Seedling or when a Pikmin receives its Decor, a short discovery animation will play, based on the Pikmin's type and the decor it's wearing. You can replay the animation by going into the Pikmin viewer menu, selecting a Pikmin to see its information, and tapping on the Pikmin.

Standard Pikmin

Standard Pikmin
             
  • Red Pikmin: Jumps and waves its left hand.
  • Yellow Pikmin: Leans forward and stretches backward with its eyes closed.
  • Blue Pikmin: Does a quick upward stretch with its eyes closed.
  • White Pikmin: Leans forward and shakes its head from side to side.
  • Purple Pikmin: Stamps its right foot on the ground.
  • Rock Pikmin: Stamps its right foot on the ground, faster than the Purple Pikmin.
  • Winged Pikmin: Flies in a vertical loop and shakes its head.

Restaurant

Chef Hat
             
Chef Hat (Rare)
     

Looks up at its chef hat and holds its head.

Cafe

Coffee Cup
             

Quickly hides in its cup, except Winged that tries to get out the cup.

The designs of the cups are based on enemies from the other Pikmin games.

  • The Red Pikmin has a white cup with a brown stripe, like a Mamuta.
  • The Yellow Pikmin has a red cup with white spots, like a Bulborb.
  • The Blue Pikmin has a black cup with yellow lines, like a Pyroclasmic Slooch.
  • The White Pikmin has a yellow cup with green spots and a green base, like a Yellow Wollyhop.
  • The Purple Pikmin has a cup with purple and grey stripes and a red handle, like a Fiery Blowhog.
  • The Rock Pikmin has a white cup with brown spots, like a Whiptongue Bulborb.
  • The Winged Pikmin has a cup with purple and blue stripes, like a Puffy Blowhog.

Sweetshop

Macaron
             

Spins around like a ballet dancer.

The designs of the macarons are later referenced in Pikmin 4, where they appear as treasures. Interestingly, these Decor Pikmin existed in the game at launch, even though Pikmin 4 wouldn't release until around 2 years later.

Donut
             

Movie Theater

Popcorn Snack
             

Red, Yellow, Blue, White and Winged: A piece of popcorn falls off and the Pikmin picks it up again.

Purple and Rock: Moves the 3D Glasses

Pharmacy

Toothbrush
             

Swings its tool out as a weapon.

Zoo

Dandelion
             

They roar pretending to be a lion

Forest

Stag Beetle
             

Waves, and then notices that the pinchers of the beetle "wave" as well. The Pikmin then unsuccesfully tries to get the pinchers to "wave" again.

Acorn
             

They take a bow, Red, Yellow, Blue and White falls over because of the weight of the acorn.

Waterside

Fishing Lure
             

Pushes the Lure a little up

There is a bug where the Fishing Lure Decor Hook physics were not working as intended when viewing the Pikmin in its menu. However the preview had the correct physics. Rock Pikmin were unaffected.

Post Office

Stamp
             

They try to peel off the postage stamps (except for the rock pikmin, which simply spins)

Art Gallery

Picture Frame
             

All use the standard animation except for Yellow and Blue that waves like Red

Airport

Toy Airplane
             

Running around like they are Flying.

Station

Paper Train
             

All use the standard animation except for Yellow and Blue that waves like Red

Ticket
             

They pose then ticket falls off and they pick it up.

Beach

Shell
             

All use the standard animation

Burger Place

Burger
             

All use the standard animation except for Yellow and Blue. Yellow close its eyes, to hide in the fries. Blue hides in the cup.

Corner Store

Bottle Cap
             

Shake the caps and their stems.

Snack
             

They jump and a snack falls out, then they pick it up.

Supermarket

Mushroom
             

All use the standard animation except for Yellow and Blue that waves like Red

Banana
             

Red, Yellow, Blue and white: Takes a bow then falls over because at the weight of the banana.

Purple: Sticker falls of, catching it and puts it back on

Rock and Winged: Takes a bow, then look up and begins to shake the head

The sections of banana that each of the banana-wearing Supermarket Decor Pikmin fit together.

The banana Decor are referenced later in Pikmin 4, as the Slapstick Crescent (a banana treasure) in that game has the same sticker on it.

Bakery

Baguette
             

All use the standard animation.

Hair Salon

Scissors
             

All use the standard animation.

Clothes Store

Hair Tie
             

All use the standard animation.

Park

Clover
             

All use the standard animation except for Yellow and Blue that waves like Red

Four-Leaf Clover
             

Seeing the four clover and shake the head except White the turn around to see where the ladybug is going.

When yellow shakes its head the ladybug fall off and crawls back up

Library/Bookstore

Tiny Book
             

Red, yellow Blue and White: Falls over with the book on top

Purple: spins around to look for the book on its back

Rock: Spins the book around on it’s antenna

Winged: Reads the book

Roadside

Green Sticker
             

All use the standard animation except for Yellow and Blue that waves like Red

Blue Sticker
             

All use the standard animation except for Yellow and Blue that waves like Red

Orange Sticker
             

All use the standard animation except for Yellow and Blue that waves like Red

Winter Sticker
             

All use the standard animation except for Yellow and Blue that waves like Red

Coin
             

Red: Spins the coin on it’s antenna

Yellow: Takes the coin and spin it on the ground

Blue: Juggling with the coin

White: shakes it’s head, coins falls down and puts it on the ground and takes the head to the coin to make it stick again

Purple: Coin falls down, takes it head to coin to make it stick


Rock: checks the coin, stamp the ground, coin spin around it and picks it up

Winged: flying around and juggling with the coin

Sushi Restaurant

Sushi
             

Red and Blue: jumps so rice falls down, then picks it up again

Yellow: tyres to assemble the seaweed

White: shakes the antenna and jumps. A caviar falls out and kick it back up

Purple: tries to stamp, falls over on the side. Roll to it’s back and jumps back up

Rock: jumps up and down the cup

Winged: flights up and down like it’s swimming

Mountain

Mountain Pin Badge
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Stadium

Ball Keychain
     

Jumps with the ball

Rainy Day

Leaf Hat
     

Leaf Hat 1: check the hat, then stenches it

Leaf Hat 2: looks up and shakes it’s head

Leaf Hat 3: looks up and bow down to shake it’s antenna

Snowy Day

Snow
   

Blue: Snow falls of the head and melts, the Pikmin is chocked. Then a new snowball fall from the sky and land on it’s head

Withe: Waves with the stick hands

Theme Park

Ferris Wheel
     

Drops the ticket, goes behind it to show it and then goes back to take it on again.

Pirate Ship
     

Drops the ticket, goes behind it to show it and then goes back to take it on again.

Bus Stop

Bus Papercraft
             

Running around like they are driving a Bus

Italian Restaurant

Pizza
             

Ramen Restaurant

Ramen Keychain
             

Bridge

Bridge Pin Badge
     

Hotel

Hotel
             

Makeup Store

Makeup
             

Shrines and Temples

Fortune (Very Lucky)
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Fortune (Lucky)
             
Fortune (Pretty Lucky)
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Fortune (A Little Lucky)
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Fortune (Future Luck)
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Appliances Store

Battery
           

Large Battery: Puts the battery down and jumps up sitting on the top of the battery dancing. Jumps down and takes it on again

Small Battery: One battery falls of, turns around to se it. Jumps on it back to get the battery back up

Fairy Lights
   

Stand still and flickers the light

Curry Restaurant

Curry Bowl
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Mario Hat

Mario Hat
 

Does a Mario Jumps

Lunar New Year Ornaments

Lunar New Year Ornaments: Red
             
Lunar New Year Ornaments: Gold
             

Chess Pieces

Chess Piece (White)
             
Chess Piece (Black)
             

Fingerboard

Fingerboard
             

Flower Card 2023

Flower Card (Red Pikmin)
           
Flower Card (Yellow Pikmin)
           
Flower Card (Blue Pikmin)
           
Flower Card (Purple Pikmin)
           

Flower Card 2024

Flower Card (Red Pikmin)
   
Flower Card (Yellow Pikmin)
   
Flower Card (Blue Pikmin)
   
Flower Card (Purple Pikmin)
   
Flower Card (White Pikmin)
   
Flower Card (Rock Pikmin)
   
Flower Card (Winged Pikmin)
   

Jack-o'-lantern

Jack-o'-lantern
             

Halloween Treat

Halloween Treat
             

First Anniversary Snack

First Anniversary Snack
             

They jump and a snack falls out, then they pick it up.

Koppaite Space Suit

Koppaite Space Suit
     

Trying to get the helmet off

Mitten

Mitten
             

2023 Glasses

2023 Glasses
             

2024 Glasses

2024 Glasses
             

Valentine Sticker

Valentine Sticker
             

Shaking the Sticker

2023 and 2024 have the same animation

Reverse Valentine’s Day Sticker

Reverse Valentine’s Day Sticker
     

Shaking the sticker

Easter Egg

Easter Egg
             

Red: Takes a bow and spins the eggshell on it’s head

Yellow: Rocking around in the eggshell

Blue: Spins the eggshell on it’s head

White: spins around in the eggshell

Purple: Stramps on ground

Rock: jumps so the eggshell cover its eyes. Take the eggshell up again

Winged: Flying around doing spins

  • The Blue Pikmin has an egg with raindrops, which could reference the Leaf Hat decor.
  • The Winged Pikmin has an egg with purple and blue stripes, like the Puffy Blowhog.

Sneaker Keychain

Sneaker Keychain
             

Red, Yellow, Blue and white: jumps around in the shoe

Purple: moves flap from its eyes and makes a pose

Rock: see the shakes it’s head, then spins and shakes it’s head again

Winged: flying around in the shoe

Pikmin 4 Spaceships

Pikmin 4 Spaceship
             

Yellow, White, rock and Winged: runs around and jumps.

Red, Blue and Purple: jumps, Purple jumps so much it falls over

Mahjong Tile

Mahjong Tile 1
             

Drops the tile down to show it and then puts it back on the head

Mahjong Tile 2
             

Drops the tile down to show it and then puts it back on the head

Ice Cream

Ice Cream
             

Red: Shake it’s head take the ice and freezes

Yellow: Freezes, then jump around to get warm

Blue: Tastes the ice, find out it tates good and eat a lot

White: shakes it’s head then falls over because of the weight

Purple: Stramps on the ground, the ice falls down and lifts it back up

Rock: Freezes, jumps so the ice falls down and hides its face. Then shakes the ice away

Winged: Freezes, then make two loops

2021 Fall Memories

 
The loading screen.
Puzzle: 2021 Fall Memories
             

Red, Yellow, blue and White: take the puzzle down to show it off

Purple: juggling whit one of the puzzles

Rock: tries to get the puzzle down, turn around and shows the puzzle on the back

Winged: balancing the puzzle on it’s nose

The puzzle pieces are parts of a previous loading screen.

2022 Summer Memories

 
The loading screen.
Puzzle: 2022 Summer Memories
             

Red, Yellow, blue and White: take the puzzle down to show it off

Purple: juggling whit one of the puzzles

Rock: tries to get the puzzle down, turn around and shows the puzzle on the back

Winged: balancing the puzzle on it’s nose

The puzzle pieces are parts of a previous loading screen.