Tingle Statue

Tingle Statues are hand-crafted gold statues made by Tingle's brother Knuckle. Five statues can be found in, only by connecting a Game Boy Advance to the GameCube and using the Tingle Tuner. A similar sculpture, the Tingle Trophy, is awarded in for making all 100 Kinstone Fusions in the game.

One of five Tingle Statues can be found in each of The Wind Waker's dungeons. They will only be available for collection if the Tingle Tuner is used, as they are located using the Game Boy Advance screen. When a statue is detected, Link must pay Tingle to use a Tingle Bomb to expose the chest to the GameCube screen. In, which saw the Tingle Tuner replaced with the Tingle Bottle, regular Bombs can be used instead. However, players who do not possess previous knowledge of the statues are left with word of mouth as the only means to locate them or even learn of their existence.

After being found, the Statues will automatically appear at a cluster of stone pedestals on Tingle Island. Link is paid 50 Rupees for each one found and 500 Rupees if all five of them are found. The statues can be abused and tossed into the sea at anytime, and no one will ever suspect Link unless the Tingle Tuner is being used at the time of abuse, at which time Tingle will tell Link to stop, and if he continues enough times, Tingle will hit Link with a Tingle bomb. Throwing a statue into the sea will cause Tingle to immediately use a Tingle Bomb on Link, whether or not he has hit one of them already in that visit.

The Tingle Statues serve another purpose, as each contains a hint to the location of a respawning source of 100 Rupees.

In, the TMC: believe fusing Kinstones will help them meet fairies. After Link fuses Kinstones with 100 Kinstone-holding characters in the game, Tingle and his brothers will turn the Kinstone Bag into a Tingle Trophy in the inventory. After obtaining the Tingle Trophy, Kinstone pieces can no longer be gathered. However, the Kinstone pieces already gathered by Link can be still be viewed by selecting the trophy.