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Mario Kart World Detail Observations

I'm normal.

There has been more than one instance in which the game's Courses have been shown on the World map. I've only recently learned to count, but it looks like there's 29 of them. An odd number, in more ways than one. But it didn't escape notice that there was no sight or word of Rainbow Road. ...Until the "Direct".

Even so, 30 isn't divisible by 4.

Crown City appears in both the Mushroom Cup and the Shell Cup.

The accompanying thumbnails are different, so they may be different Courses through the same area. The route to Crown City will be different, at least. That said, Crown City may not be the only Course to appear in more than one Cup.

The segment of the Direct hinting at Rainbow Road shows a shot of an object rising into the sky. The position of the camera in this shot seems to be in the opening of the bay south of Peach Stadium, facing south. The rising object in question appears to be a trophy.

In the Support Features segment of the Direct, we get a view of a rather paltry vehicle selection menu. It consists of a single page of 11 vehicles and 1 ? space. Could this be the starting selection? And if so, could the preceding menu be the starting character selection? It seems to consist of 4 pages of 12 characters (at most) and we are only shown the first page. But where are Daisy and Rosalina? Obviously, they could very well be on a subsequent page, but the character order shown here is odd.

This also confirms that vehicles (at the very least) are unlocked by collecting coins again. It's worth mentioning that World features a 20 coin maximum and new coin-focused items.

One thing that has not been very demonstrated is the addition of cosmetic unlockables that have been spotted in gameplay. On the vehicle selection screen, the "+" button can be pressed to, presumably, change this cosmetic. Going forward, I will be referring to these as "decals".

The purpose these serve is unclear, but may simply be a matter of customization. They often appear wherever your character or player information is indicated. Many of the decals seem to be based on the game's diegetic sponsors.

The option to select a decal was not available to those who played a demo of the game. As such, examples of decals other than the default in use are few. In addition, some vehicles do not seem to feature space(s) for a decal (including the Biddybuggy and that blue snowmobile-like vehicle).

When an outfit is obtained via Dash Food for the first time, an accompanying pop-up is displayed. Something similar appears when the player is transformed into a character for the first time via Kamek.

There is a prevailing idea that characters who appear as audience members or course hazards are also likely to become available as playable characters. That said, who might we potentially see join the ranks?

And why stop at Cow? Why not Zebra, Giraffe, Elephant, Ostrich, Camel, Bison, Moose, Armadillo, Dinosaur, etc.?

Miscellaneous

Other little things, some of which I don't have images of, and some of which I have no commentary for:

Binoculars appear, resembling their appearance in Odyssey

The way DK strikes the ? Block item resembles his upward punch in Bananza

Looks like most Yoshi's locations have signage displaying the Dash Food they offer

Tires change visually when driving off-road, increasing in size

The way characters throw Spiny Shells is really funny; Blue Shells are thrown with intent to kill

An item's remaining uses/time is now represented by a "fluid" in your item slot

Landing on another driver grants you a bounce from which you can perform tricks

Getting rear-ended seems to grand you a boost?

Explosions create waves in bodies of water that can tricked off of

The star score/ranking for Cups returns

One aspect of the game I am very excited for is the music, but I wonder how it will work. Courses likely each have their own dedicated music tracks (like in the previous entry), but what about everywhere else? And there's a lot of everywhere else. This might account for the assortment of music heard so far.

I decided against speaking on the Courses others have spotted that have yet to be officially presented (in part 'cuz this post is long enough already). Additional info may be found in image descriptions.

If you have any evidence you'd like to share, please feel free!

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Waluigi is occasionally associated with plants, carrying a rose. He uses thorny vines in his Super Ability and Mega Strike in Mario Strikers Charged as well as his Hyper Strike in Mario Strikers: Battle League.

In Mario Party 3, Waluigi appears to have Piranha Plants as minions.

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Dr Waluigi

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This is unrelated to anything else with the silly “Dire Wolf” controversy but them putting these images in all the articles give me the weirdest uncanny valley discomfort. Like it is hard for me to take these photos seriously. Do you know why?

Wolf pups just do not look like that. Because wolves typically have their pups in underground dens, it is an evolutionary advantage for the vulnerable pups to blend in with the dark earth of the den. If they were born white, they’d be sharply contrasted and easier for predators to spot. Even arctic wolves are born dark and gain their typical white coat a little later (though not all arctic wolves are white either).

Fun fact in Game of Thrones they used domestic dogs to play the dire wolf pups; puppy Ghost is cute but he’s clearly no wolf!

Giving birth to pups that are darkly colored is a pretty basic adaptation in a lot of canids that litter underground. Red foxes and arctic foxes are also born a very nondescript shade of dirt. Exceptions exist, but this is just a thing that a lot of wild canines do. Here are various canids (red fox, Ethiopian wolf, maned wolf, and African wild dog) that do this

I don’t know if we have any proof that dire wolves had their pups in dens but it would be kind of weird if they didn’t. So even if the dire wolf had a light coat as an adult they would likely still be born with a darker color to act as camouflage.

So when I keep getting this image

blasted on all my feeds you can understand why my brain has trouble registering it even as a gray wolf pup. It’s just weird. It looks like what chat gpt would spit out if you requested an arctic wolf pup. That thing would stand out like crazy in an underground den. You can make something look like something else all you want but the evolutionary history of a species is too complicated for us to ever faithfully recreate from scratch.

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WALUIGI TIME!

Saw this snazzy frame from the trailer and I just have to draw him! He's so snazzy :D

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Creature practice

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@askloona A video just about her. :)

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Gonna bring back these bust commissions if anyone is interested! They're 40 USD (50 if they have complicated clothes or details - if you're unsure just ask!). I'm open to any characters, not just dragons, though I'd like to stick to animals rather than humans/machines/etc.

Contact: Holly.o.lucero@gmail.com

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Guanlong could have been your best friend

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Ooga booga aaahh🤯

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DOAI doodles done in jspaint.app

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Wampire 🦇🦇

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ROOOUUUGE!!!

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We Never Measured the Hallways

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He also has this very cool stunt animation with bats!!

I'm not seeing anyone talk about this here so I'll report it myself: Vampire Waluigi is in Mario Kart World!

Unlike Tour however he is not wearing a hat. Source (timestamped):