Trivia / Kirby's Dream Land 2

• B-Team Sequel: This is the first mainline entry to not be directed by Masahiro Sakurai (as he was working on Kirby Super Star at the time). Rather, it is directed by Shinichi Shimomura, who would go on to direct Kirby's Dream Land 3 and Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards.
• Cut Song: Has one accessible through the sound test as FGM #94. It's unknown as to where the theme would have played in the game. The track would be heavily rearranged in Kirby: Triple Deluxe as "The Cave in the Sky".
• First Appearance: Of Rick, Kine and Coo. It's also the first appearance of Dark Matter and Gooey.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Like several Game Boy titles in the 1990s, the game was built around the Super Game Boy peripheral, and thus features various visual and audio enhancements such as color graphics, a custom border, and PCM sound effects. Despite this, both of the game's official re-releases in 2012 (as part of the Compilation Re-release Kirby's Dream Collection: Special Edition and on the 3DS Virtual Console) run the game in vanilla Game Boy mode, while the 2023 Nintendo Switch Online release has a toggle for Game Boy Color mode, but not Super Game Boy. Consequently, the only way to play the game with its Super Game Boy enhancements is to either play it on original hardware or emulate it (and even then, most emulators leave out the PCM sound effects).
• Pop-Culture Urban Legends: There tends to be a rumor that the game was planned to receive a Game Boy Color Updated Re-release titled Kirby Dream Land 2 DX that was cancelled. There are no sources that point to the port actually being a thing.
• What Could Have Been: The game was originally going to feature vehicle transformations^note which may have inspired the tranformations later seen in Kirby's Epic Yarn and Kirby and the Rainbow Curse — rocket, submarine, U.F.O., a digging Heavy Mole-like machine, tank, and scooter. These were replaced with the animal buddies due to feedback suggesting them over the vehicles.

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