defeat it. However, after Landia is defeated, Magolor reveals his true motive was to steal the Master Crown on its head and become all powerful, with the intent of making the entire universe bow before him, beginning with Popstar. Teaming up with Landia, who is revealed to be four individual dragons, Kirby and his friends confront Magolor in a final battle and destroy the Master Crown, banishing unconscious Magolor into the depth of another dimension, trapping him there. With peace restored to the universe, Kirby and friends are returned to Popstar. The Landia dragons take the Lor Starcutter and return home. A non-canon Extra Mode, which replaces Magolor's final form with Magolor Soul, reveals that Magolor may have been used as a puppet by the Master Crown itself. Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe introduces a new game mode: Magolor Epilogue: The Interdimensional Traveler. It stars Magolor after his defeat at the hands of Kirby and his friends. Stranded in the unknown realm of another dimension and without most of his powers, Magolor sets out trying to reclaim them while also collecting fragments of a mysterious fruit called the Gem Apple. He eventually repairs the Gem Apple seed at the Eternal Altar, but it is soon corrupted by the remnants of the Master Crown, becoming the Crowned Doomer. After its defeat, the Master Crown remnants combine with the Gem Apple, transforming into a massive tree-like being. Magolor fights the Master Crown, and eventually slices it in half with a magically enhanced Ultra Sword. Magolor opens a portal, escaping the dimension he was trapped within. The credits sequence reveals that via the portal, Magolor ends up in the village of the Dream Kingdom, the parallel version of Dream Land which is located in an alternate universe, with the Gem Apple seed, now reduced to a sapling, being planted as the village's Gem Apple tree. Having now redeemed himself, Magolor takes up residence as the Dream Kingdom's shopkeeper, leading into the events of Team Kirby Clash Deluxe and Super Kirby Clash. Development Development on a new Kirby game for the GameCube began after the release of Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards for the Nintendo 64 in 2000. The game underwent an 11-year development period, in which three different proposed versions of the game were developed and scrapped. The first version was similar to the graphical and gameplay style of Kirby 64, rendered