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Well, about that… the Italian Nintendo site states that New Super Mario Bros.U was produced and developed by Nintendo: but Wonder? Only produced by Nintendo now, that means nothing because the game isn’t out yet and the information is preliminary, but the Arzest meme really writes itself at...

Meanwhile, this game too was developed by Arzest and Naoto Ohshima is on a roll this year

A few thoughts: 1) it seems based on the “Runized” version of New Super Mario Bros., with playable Peach and Daisy (and colored Yoshis too, apparently) 2) but boy, is it much more lively in both the animations and the atmosphere! Those loudspeakers seem to be the new “defining trait” of the...

And now, another Mario Kart Tour based Hot Wheels spotted in the wild! this one is pretty obvious actually, as the Bumble V can’t be used at all in Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the only console games with Tanooki Mario. Intriguingly, Tanooki Mario was introduced in the 2021 Autumn...

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And now, the oddity: this game is getting merchandise. No, seriously, it is, but it’s as subtle as it gets: EXHIBIT A Well, just Diddy Kong on a Pipe Frame, nothing strange about it… if the pipe frame didn’t disappear in Double Dash only to return later in Mario Kart 7, where Diddy had...

The first driver I keep maxed out when new levels and points caps are unlocked! It helps that he has an enormous amount of favorite courses, but I started investing in him way before he revealed his amazing coverage, just because he is a boxer Yoshi with a frikkin’ kangaroo hat (and an...

FINALLY!!! After 19 years, Noshi got a full body artwork! And a surprise appearance on Riverside Park T and R/T, too!

Hey, since we didn’t talk about it yet, wellllll… yeah, you can’t buy pipe pulls with rubies any longer. Only Mii Racing Suits, Drivers, Karts, Gliders and Coins. The prices are basically the highest they could put: 150 rubies for a High-End driver, 100 rubies for a High-End kart or glider and...

Honestly, the only correct language for the movie will be this one:

Thankfully, Mario looks off simply because at Illumination they love to superdeform things to emphasize actions and emotions, he looks better in the movie (but in that artwork he’s pretty unwatchable to be honest). Very good that they gave the penguins spotlight getting a few hints from Super...

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That the likelihood that Plessie will be in is about the same that Wart will be in, perhaps not even that, since Wart is at least a 8-bit era character…

Mario thinking (dang! 15 years ago it was easier to get there, looks like Mario gonna have to find a new job, where’s Isle Delfino?) The good thing about the biddybuds is that Plessie has a non-zeahahahahaha sorry I can’t finish the sentence with a straight face. That Cheep Cheep tho.

Big news, paid gacha is starting to be phased out: No, it won’t become a f2p friendly game - Mario Kart Tour is the purest form of pay2win - but if they really will remove paid gacha I’ll applaud them (and the European countries who made the investigation on loot boxes whose outcome is so...

Another city being introduced, which means… another hand-drawn artwork! Not hard to guess which city is being introduced (and admittedly tulips fit the spring season very well!). By the way, I won’t be around a lot in the next days, so for those who celebrate it I wish you a happy Easter...

Today I received this notification: “A golden Yoshi with the Coin Box has come to celebrate the 2 1/2 years together! A new tour begins, and it brings with it the N64 Yoshi Valley course!” Do you have the text of the notification in other languages?

A ‘lil heads up: The new Yoshi in gold egg hunt outfit is again a yellow Yoshi with the yellow Yoshi emblem and the orange/brown shoes (the same ones as Yoshi, and the ones yellow Yoshis wore in Super Mario World). Just like Yoshi (Kangaroo). I doubt that’s a coincidence, I rather suspect...

Miis are free, in the sense that you’re given the red suit for free to use them, the Miis on Mii suit are High-End drivers but with only 3 unlockable courses instead of 5, you get the suits as rewards or by directly paying rubies in the shop (70 rubies for the first copy, 100 rubies for the...

If for a moment you thought that Chargin’ Chuck having voice acted clips in Mario Golf: Super Rush might have a role in this… I guess you might be right: King Bob-omb too has in the Super Rush the same voice acting he has in Tour. I’m intrigued by that mushroom house in Sky Garden, the Mario...

And now it’s weirdness time: Nintendo of Europe just released a poster set of Nintendo 64 games. I mean, it’s tied of course to Nintendo Switch Online, but still… By the way, we get to see the upper side of the Mario Kart 64 artwork,

About time they released the Singapore artwork: Every city, when first introduced, has its artwork, thankfully this means that we get more artwork from our mysterious new illustrator!

“Meowser debuts! Is he a cat? Or maybe a tiger, or a turtle? Who knows, what matters is using the Coin Box to reach a [higher] record” Imagine revealing the design origin of Meowser in a notification that disappears as soon as you tap on it…

Now that’s interesting: It’s not just an English thing, in Japanese too they’re a light-blue Toad: Now, while light-blue Toads aren’t unheard of (I think they were featured in the early spin-offs, like the first two Paper Marios), from what I remember currently the main Toad colors in the...

Oh? Oh! looks like we did get a full body Plessie figure, after just 8 years!

…which is pretty bad as it’s the color of Yoshi, but also pretty good as it’s the color of Baby Luigi… …I dunno, if we want to discuss this color change I guess we can do it here; who knows, maybe the word “congratulations” is allowed too…

As pointed out by others, there’s something fishy about the trailer of the Holiday Tour: this looks like RMX Vanilla Lake 1R/T, but let’s have a look at the actual RMX Vanilla Lake 1R: in the first turn near the lake the wall is way too close to the track and is not continuous, ditto for...

Honestly, props! That was certainly a good call on your part, and you surely showed how good is this new Toad! I like it when you conquer the leaderboards with Supers (your last Blue Yoshi run was also pretty insane!). I like Giant Banana a lot too, especially when after the Frenzy you see the...

Well, good luck, you’re almost there! By the way, now that you are at it, you can also talk about this ;-) You literally just got him lol

Well, that’s the most straightforward and effective way to invest tickets. I too mostly invest tickets in what is currently in the top shelves of ranked cup courses. I personally have favorite drivers, but I mostly invest in them when their favorite courses are in a ranked cup or when the...

I think they come from the new artist they hired a few years ago: I hope to see more from them, they can give a lot of personality to the characters!

Seriously though, where is that Black Turbo Yoshi? The Blue one was eventually added, but the black one is still MIA even though Black Yoshi was added more than a year ago… the Birdos are more careful about the fashion of a fully-matched kart, as they always were released with a color-matched...

Thing is, in that artwork Eddi is Orange Yoshi, not Brown Yoshi, but there’s more to it, another official artwork showed Orange Yoshi in Yoshi’s Island: And Orange Yoshi wasn’t in Yoshi’s Island, Brown Yoshi was. A quick look at the games revealed that in Paper Mario there was Brown Yoshi, but...

To be fully fair though, I still think those two Mario Karts are the best looking, considering when they came out. It’s the artstyle that wins in them: Double Dash has that “everything has eyes” style and a very consistent style also thanks to its courses being connected, in that you can see...

Tanooki Mario and the Tanooki Buggy will obviously be featured, very likely as regular as every item has at least a regular driver. The real question at this point is who will be the second Super Leaf driver? We can guess someone from SM3DW, as they’re relatively easy to port and they don’t...

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The controls are hilariously bad, and often I find myself losing a combo because I accidentally use a defensive item and then get hit or even just because it’s so difficult to recenter the finger after a Mini-Turbo. Sure, you can actually slide a second finger in the direction of the turn to...

Good luck! The badge surely is beautiful ;-) By the way, in what kind of crazy ranked tiering are you in? 95k points and not even 1st!

Your guess is as good as mine - the names of the people involved make it seem like the Smart Devices Division is part of the EPD, but its name make it look as if it’s a separate division. About SRD, yes, we are definitely missing its coverage. Maybe there was the impression that it was a...

Found two more sources on who developed the game and who is running it: This post by a Nintendo employee reveals that the game is currently run by Nintendo Smart Devices Division, while Mario Kart Tour was found among the games developed by SRD. This, along with the list of the game’s producer...

Those were soecial pipes without spotlight. Spotlight pipes must give you the spotlight items if you empty them. The developers must fully refund you if you don’t get the spotlight items with a pipe with 0 items left, as it’s in the legal terms. If you have direct proof of spotlight pipes not...

Well, cuteness won’t be lacking since Cat Toad returns too, and the alt is based on a kangaroo this time:

The Legend of Waluigi Time: Breath of the Wahdmin Well, congratulations for the well deserved promotion!

That kart is actually Paratroopa’s kart in Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, while the Freerunning Red Koopa is one of the Roving Racers of Super Mario Odyssey.

Well, better late than never (and a new course set in the main rotation where Pirate Bowser Jr. has a chance to shine is always welcome)

A little note to the wiki editors here: since the Gold Pass now gives you an additional pull from the All-Clear Pipe every three months of continuous subscription, the content of the All-Clear Pipe is now published, it can be accessed from the description of the Gold Pass: In this case, we...

First we had this banner on the left in the Los Angeles Tour of Mario Kart Tour at the end of July: Now we have Foreman Spike in the movie… did Nintendo rediscover Wrecking Crew all of a sudden? EDIT: In any case, it’s always good when they bring up obscure characters in the universe...

Yoshi is tired. Time for him to be the one riding!

Yes, you saw it right: a tour with a RMX course set and Penguin Mario. Funnily enough, this is the 5th course set of this year in the main rotation, we had plenty of tours that either introduced city courses, or new courses like Ninja Hideaway, or new R/T courses or, well, no new courses at...