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|image = [[File:Widgets 3DS.png|200px]]

|caption = Artwork from ''Rhythm Heaven Megamix''

|gender = Genderless

|appearance = [[Rhythm Tengoku]],<br>[[Rhythm Heaven]],<br>[[Rhythm Heaven Fever]],<br>[[Rhythm Heaven Megamix]]}}

{{Nihongo|'''Widgets'''|組み立てキット|Kumitate Kitto}} are recurring objects in the [[Rhythm Heaven Series|Rhythm Heaven series]]. Their purpose is mentioned to be unknown. A widget is composed of a rod and one or two square nuts.

{{clear}}==''Rhythm Tengoku''==

{{Eigo|section=section}}[[File:Widget_rods.png|thumb|left]]While Widgets do not appear in ''[[Rhythm Tengoku]],'' rods known as {{Nihongo|'''Akai Mono'''|赤いモノ|Red Things}} do appear in the [[Rhythm Game]] [[Polyrhythm]]. They are industry products whose details are kept a trade secret. They are considered hazardous because they explode when colliding with walls.<ref>https://www.nintendo.co.jp/n08/brij/chara/stage04.html</ref> In the game, the rods roll along two raised paths, and the player must press the corresponding button to raise the blocks when they reach a gap.

 

[[File:Widget_DS.png|thumb|70px|left]]

Widgets first appear in ''[[Rhythm Heaven]]'', in the first Rhythm Game, [[Built to Scale (DS)|Built to Scale]], where they are portrayed as a white rod and nuts. The player must wait for the nuts to roll into place, then launch the rod into them to form the Widget. They later appear in [[Built to Scale 2 (DS)|Built to Scale 2]], this time colored red. Workers are instructed to follow the rhythm while producing the Widgets, but they get paid the same regardless<ref>"Slogan for March: Turns out you get paid the same whether you're on the beat or not." ~ ''[[Reading Material (Rhythm Heaven)#Assembly Line Slogans|Assembly Line Slogans]], ''Rhythm Heaven''<nowiki/>''</ref>.

[[File:Widget.png|thumb|left|60px]]

The square mass''‐''produced objects appear again in ''[[Rhythm Heaven Fever]]'' and ''[[Rhythm Heaven Megamix]]'', first appearing in [[Built to Scale (Wii)|Built to Scale]], where the player must balance a rod while waiting for two nuts to come into place, after which the player must launch the rod into them to form the complete Widget. The company sometimes makes defective products, and a worker in product testing accidentally sold the bad parts to collectors for a lot of money<ref>"I work in product testing. My company doesn't make a lot of defective products, but when we do, I'm NOT supposed to sell the bad parts to collectors for a lot of money. Oops." ~ Rhythm Item description for [[Built to Scale (Wii)|Built to Scale]], ''Rhythm Heaven Megamix''</ref>.

*Although rods and Widgets are considered to be the face of the Rhythm Games they appear in, there are actual human characters depicted in the epilogues of each game. In ''[[Rhythm Tengoku]]'', the factory is depicted, with what may be the owner standing outside. In ''[[Rhythm Heaven]]'', a man is depicted inspecting the completed Widgets. In ''[[Rhythm Heaven Fever]]'' and ''[[Rhythm Heaven Megamix]]'', the worker behind the building process is depicted standing outside the Widget Factory.

===Rods===

rod.png|Sprite from ''Rhythm Tengoku (Arcade)''

Widgets-0.png|Sprite from ''Rhythm Heaven''

White thing.png|A square from an unfinished Widget

Widget.png|Sprite from ''Rhythm Heaven Fever''

Defective Widget.png|Defective Widget

|jp = 組み立てキット

|rojp = Kumitate Kitto

|mnjp = Assembly Kit

|fr = Le bidule

|mnfr = The contraption

|du = Herr Utensil

|mndu = Mr. Utensil

|it = Mr. Congegno

|mnit = Mr. Device

|es = Cachirulo

|mnes =  

|kr = 조립 키트

|mnkr = Assembly Kit

|us = Widget}}