What new things should Nintendo add in Mariokart 9 (Next Mariokart)

I just realized that the Spiny Shell should be colored red for the next game, because I'm getting rather irritated with how people are calling that specific item a Blue Shell (a completely different kind of shell).

In fact, an actual Blue Shell item should be considered, where it operates exactly like a Green Shell, except for that it temporarily freezes anyone that it touches (like in the Mario Strikers series).

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Blue shell is not the item's official name, but people are more used to call it like that. I don't see the problem in calling it a blue shell, because it's basically a shell with blue coloration, and otherwise unlisted wings and spikes on it.

Nintendo, make that straight-line racetrack someday.
 
Koopd Guy said:
Blue shell is not the item's official name, but people are more used to call it like that. I don't see the problem in calling it a blue shell, because it's basically a shell with blue coloration, and otherwise unlisted wings and spikes on it.
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Still, if you're well familiar with the Super Mario franchise, you'd think that people could tell the differences, since your typical Blue Shell does not have spikes.
 
Just make the Blue Shell a new item that freezes races, bam, you got idiots confused and therefore, forced to make people refer to Spiny Shell as the correct name :)
 
Fawful & Cackletta said:
it's a shell

it's blue

the others are called by their colors, i think calling it a blue shell is fine
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The Green Shell and Red Shell are basically normal shells though. While the Mario Kart series Spiny Shell is colored blue, it shouldn't be confused with the actual Blue Shell that's in Super Mario World, New Super Mario Bros., and the Mario Strikers series.
 
The thing is that some people's scope of the Mario Series is limited to Mario Kart. There is no other Blue shell to them besides the Spiny Shell.
Blue Shell is easier to say and it rolls off the tongue better anyway.

I'm aware of the actual Blue Shell in the Mario Series, but I still refer to the spiny shell as blue shell when I talk about Mario Kart because people will still understand me anyway.


Of course if a real Blue Shell is added, people will adapt. but at this moment it doesn't matter.
 
It's just kinda pedantic tbh. If someone calls Donkey Kong a gorilla, I'm not gonna be like, "no thats not a gorilla, thats donkey kong".
 
DIDDY KONG IS NOT A CHIMP STOP REFERRING TO HIM AS ONE MOTHER OF MERCY