That's what I was thinking since they used Cranky Kong but for some reason Nintendo has tried to distance themselves from Jr. and use Diddy and DIxie instead. Maybe because they don't want people to remember Mario as an antagonist like he was in DK jr. or maybe they don't want a father/son thing going on because then people ask, "well, who's the mother then?". It's weird, but I'm sure they had some board meeting and carefully thought it through.



