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'''Scale Lifts'''<ref>''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'' PRIMA Official Game Guide, page 454.</ref>, also called '''Scale Platforms'''<ref>Stratton, Steve. ''New Super Mario Bros. U'' [[Prima Games|PRIMA]] Official Game Guide, page 107.</ref> and '''Lifts'''<ref>Hiroo Tochikubo, ''How to Win at Super Mario Bros.'', Tokuma Shoten, 1987, ISBN 4-19-720003-XC. Page 7.</ref>, are platforms present in the [[Super Mario (series)|''Super Mario'' series]]. When a player lands on one platform, the parallel one rises. If the player lingers too long on one platform, the scale breaks apart.

 

Lifts make their first appearance in ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'', where they are the main gimmick of [[World 3-3 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 3-3]], [[World 4-3 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 4-3]] and [[World 6-3 (Super Mario Bros.)|World 6-3]]. The player is given 1,000 points if they break the lifts. They return in ''[[Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels]]'', where they are more prevalent, being found in eight of the thirteen worlds. This time, they are made of mushrooms instead of metal. However, in the ''[[Super Mario All-Stars]]'' remake, both games feature them in their metallic form.

====''Super Mario World''====

While Lifts themselves do not make an appearance in ''[[Super Mario World]]'', similar platforms named '''Piston Lifts'''<ref>''Mario Mania'', pages 98 and 99.</ref> appear. As other scales, landing on one part of the scale causes the other to rise, though the Piston Lift does not break. They appear in [[Butter Bridge 1]].

''Super Mario Bros.''-styled Lifts appear in ''[[Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', in the [[World-e]] level [[Caped Escape]].

Lifts reappear in ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]'' in [[World 1-5 (New Super Mario Bros.)|World 1-5]] and [[World 3-2 (New Super Mario Bros.)|World 3-2]]. They behave the same way as the Lifts do in ''Super Mario Bros.''

Lifts reappear in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'', where they are the main gimmick of [[World 6-4 (New Super Mario Bros. Wii)|World 6-4]]. Unlike the Lifts in ''Super Mario Bros.'', enemies and other items affect the scales with the player.

Lifts reappear in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. 2]]'', in [[World 4-4 (New Super Mario Bros. 2)|World 4-4]] and {{world-link|star|5|World Star-5 (New Super Mario Bros. 2)}}. Unlike the Lifts in ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'', these Lifts reappear after breaking.

[[File:NSLU Weighty Waddlewings Screenshot.png|thumb|150px|Scale Lifts in ''New Super Luigi U'']]

Scale Platforms appear in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. U]]'', ''[[New Super Luigi U]]'', and [[New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe|their remake]]. They are common objects in [[Above the Cheep Cheep Seas]] and [[Scaling the Mountainside]] in the former, and also appear in [[Weighty Waddlewings]] in the latter. They work as they did in ''New Super Mario Bros. 2''.

Scale Platforms also appear as stage elements in the [[Super Smash Bros. (series)|''Super Smash Bros.'' series]]; they react to fighters' weights and drop or rise at appropriate speeds. They also reappear after breaking. One appears in the [[Mushroom Kingdom (Super Smash Bros.)|Mushroom Kingdom]] stage of ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' and another appears in the [[Mushroom Kingdom (Super Smash Bros. Melee)|Mushroom Kingdom]] stage of ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]''. A Scale Platform also appears in ''[[Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS]]'', as part of the [[Golden Plains]] stage, though it is only available if the stage has scrolled to the right side. Scale Lifts reappear in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'' in Golden Plains and the original Mushroom Kingdom stage, where they act the same as they did in previous games.

|Jap=てんびんリフト<ref>Shogakukan. 2015. ''Sūpā Mario Burazāzu Hyakka: Nintendō Kōshiki Gaido Bukku'', ''New Super Mario Bros.'' section</ref>

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