Nintendo has teased its next LEGO Super Mario set for adults, and it looks like it’s going to involve Yoshi in some capacity – but the real question is, are we done with Mario Kart?
The previous two LEGO Super Mario 18+ sets for the first half of the year have both served up giant Mario Kart racers in 72037 Mario & Standard Kart and 72050 Luigi & Mach 8, but a tease for the theme’s next set for adults in the Nintendo Today app features a giant brick-built Yoshi, with a nose formed of 4x4 quarter dome elements.
That puts him on a bigger scale than any Yoshi we’ve seen before (at least in three dimensions), but it’s not clear at this stage whether we’re looking at a standalone Yoshi set or a third Mario Kart model. Certainly there’s no mention or tease of Mario Kart in the app, although it’s fair to say that this version of Yoshi could scale reasonably well with both Mario and Luigi, so the jury’s out.
If this is a Yoshi Kart set, it would be a surprising addition to the line-up only in terms of the order of release: we’d have expected Peach to follow Mario and Luigi, as she did on a smaller scale with the theme’s interactive figures.
We’ll hopefully find out more about next year’s f...