ThornTail Store

ThornTail Store The interior of ThornTail Store

Details Game(s) Star Fox Adventures Inhabitant(s) ShopKeeper Planet Dinosaur Planet

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The ThornTail Store is a store run by the ShopKeeper at ThornTail Hollow in Star Fox Adventures. Fox McCloud can purchase items from this location with Scarabs.

Layout

The ThornTail Store has a foyer with five pathways, two of which lead to the Scarab Room, and the other three are shopping rooms: the Blue Room, Red Room, and Purple Room. The shopping rooms all have a uniquely-colored lighting, hence their names. The pathway entrances are in the shape of an inequilateral hexagon and are covered by a thin curtain. Their thresholds are also surrounded by a curved, colored stripe. A small sign hangs above every entrance, indicating the contents of each room. A well is located in the center of the main room, where Fox can purchase a Cheat Token.

The Scarab Room can be accessed from both the leftmost and rightmost pathways of the main room. In this room, Scarabs can be gambled with the ShopKeeper. First he asks the amount of Scarabs to be gambled, with the maximum of ten. He then throws the desired number of Green Scarabs into the play area, from where they have to be collected within 30 seconds. The catch is, that he also frees the same amount of Purple Scarabs in the play area, which when collected, result in losing the bet. The amount of Scarabs lost is reduced by the amount of Green ones collected before stumbling into a Purple one. For example, with a 10 Scarab bet, and only four collected Scarabs before getting a Purple one, will result in six Scarab loss. The bet is won if all Green ones are collected. The prize is rather unsurprisingly the amount of Scarabs gambled. Playing the game actually costs nothing unless a bet is lost.

The Blue Room can be entered from the second pathway from the left. This room sells common items such as PukPuk Eggs.

The Red Room can be entered from the center pathway. It sells unique items, most of which Fox is required to purchase at some point of his adventure. The Red Room also sells a few maps.

The Purple Room can be entered from the second pathway from the right. This room only sells maps, aside from the four in the red room.

Prices

Item	Price	Bargain price
Blue Room
DumbleDang Pod	3 Scarabs	2 Scarabs
4 DumbleDang Pods	10 Scarabs	8 Scarabs
PukPuk Egg	6 Scarabs	4 Scarabs
3 PukPuk Eggs	15 Scarabs	10 Scarabs
FireFly	10 Scarabs	7 Scarabs
Fuel Cell	10 Scarabs	8 Scarabs
Bomb Spore	5 Scarabs	3 Scarabs
Blue GrubTub Fungus	12 Scarabs	12 Scarabs
Red Room
BafomDad Holder	20 Scarabs	15 Scarabs
FireFly Lantern	20 Scarabs	17 Scarabs
SnowHorn Artifact	130 Scarabs	110 Scarabs
Tricky's Ball	15 Scarabs	11 Scarabs
Rock Candy	10 Scarabs	7 Scarabs
Hi-Def Display Device	20 Scarabs	17 Scarabs
Krazoa Palace Map	5 Scarabs	3 Scarabs
Dragon Rock Map	5 Scarabs	3 Scarabs
Cape Claw Map	5 Scarabs	3 Scarabs
Ocean Force Point Temple Map	10 Scarabs	7 Scarabs
Purple Room
ThornTail Hollow Map	5 Scarabs	3 Scarabs
SnowHorn Wastes Map	5 Scarabs	3 Scarabs
Moon Mountain Pass Map	5 Scarabs	3 Scarabs
DarkIce Mines Map	5 Scarabs	3 Scarabs
CloudRunner Fortress Map	5 Scarabs	3 Scarabs
LightFoot Village Map	5 Scarabs	3 Scarabs
Walled City Map	5 Scarabs	3 Scarabs
Volcano Force Point Temple Map	10 Scarabs	7 Scarabs

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	シャブンガの店 Shabunga no Mise	Shabunga's Shop
French	Magasin ThornTail	ThornTail Store
German	ThornTail-Basar	ThornTail Bazaar
Italian	Negozio ThornTail	ThornTail Store
Spanish	Tienda ThornTail	ThornTail Store

Trivia

• If Fox talks to the ThornTail in front of the WarpStone area's entrance before leaving for DarkIce Mines, he asks Fox if he has visited the "Warp Stone Shop". This may have been an earlier name for the ThornTail Store.