Mar10 Day kicked off slightly early this 12 months (Get it? It is March 10, nevertheless it’s additionally Mario Day), giving us a primary peek into three new LEGO units — The Bowser Categorical Practice Set, King Boo’s Haunted Mansion Set, and the Battle With Roy At Peach’s Fort Set. Whereas these all appear to be they’d make for simply as a lot nice household enjoyable time tasks as they might on a collector’s shelf, the most important information of all got here in an exceedingly quick trailer on the finish of the presentation: LEGO Mario Kart is coming.
If the 3-2-1 countdown overlaid with basic Mario Kart race beginning sounds weren’t sufficient of a teaser, the final 20 seconds of the presentation (which is viewable in its entirety beneath) was devoted to selling the upcoming launch of LEGO Mario Kart in 2025.
The trailer may be very transient, and it is cautious to not give us an excessive amount of of a sign of precisely what LEGO Mario Kart goes to appear to be when it debuts subsequent 12 months. As an alternative, the display screen stays virtually totally black, whereas a light-weight within the background reveals the silhouetted contours of a familiar-looking kart, and a Lego-style Mario figurine (which matches the model of the collectible figurines proven beforehand within the video) pops onto the display screen for just a few seconds, blinking on the digicam.
It is truthfully an ideal teaser technique, exhibiting followers simply sufficient to get them puffed up whereas delaying the precise reveal, which ought to preserve folks speaking till Nintendo inevitably offers us extra of the knowledge we’re hungry for. However on this specific occasion, I believe the partnership between Nintendo and LEGO could also be slightly bit too obscure. Specifically, after watching it, I am nonetheless unsure if LEGO Mario Kart will likely be a online game, a collection of constructing units, or each.
What May LEGO Mario Kart Reveal?
In fact, if I had to decide on between one or the opposite, I might take the sport, hands-down. Mario Kart has come a great distance from what it was after I was a child parked in entrance of my Tremendous Nintendo. Not solely are you able to select your experience, however the collection has seen loads of peripherals to make for a extra immersive expertise, from the basic steering wheel for the Wii to the collection’ most up-to-date entry, Mario Kart Dwell: House Circuit, which options precise, bodily toy vehicles with cameras connected that zoom round your own home, managed by and displayed on the Change (a lot to the dismay of cats in every single place).
Retaining that in thoughts, a crossover with LEGO may present a equally enjoyable expertise that stretches the boundaries between video video games and the bodily world. However even when the 2 are saved fully separate, a easy Mario-themed racing sport that permits you to construct and customise your karts (which does not sound totally dissimilar to 2023’s Lego2K Drive) may give a easy however appreciated new twist to some good-ol’ nostalgia.
Simply The Enhance Mario Kart Wants?
However other than House Circuit, a cell phone sport, and an arcade sport, Mario Kart hasn’t seen an actual main-series entry since 2017, when Mario Kart 8 Deluxe launched, and that sport was actually only a re-release of the 2014 sport with all DLC included. Which means we have not had a brand new, classic-style Mario Kart sport in a full decade as of this coming Might, and the final actual launch of such a sport got here on the Wii U. Looks like LEGO could possibly be giving Nintendo the chance to rectify that.
Whereas I am left perplexed over what the factor they’re teasing even is, I’ve nonetheless gotta admit, it is a intelligent advertising and marketing transfer. Say it was supposed to simply be a bunch of precise brick units, however then a fervor begins rising within the fan group for a playable online game the place you get to construct customizable karts and bikes for Mario and his crew. That is a reasonably good indicator that it’s best to do this, then!
For now, I will be watching and ready all by Mar10 Day, and perhaps slightly extra info will floor. But when it does not, I will simply sit patiently with my theories and my hopes for 2025.
