Mario And Friends Have Turned Into Cars
“it’s-a me! Cario!”
Nintendo and Hot Wheels are teaming up to produce a line of plastic cars based on the Mario characters. Here’s the weird part: they aren’t Mario characters riding IN cars. This isn’t a Mario Kart kind of thing. These are Mario characters turned INTO cars.
Mario has become a racer, Bowser a monster truck. Toad is a Beetle and Yoshi became a tow truck, while Peach is that car Penelope Pitstop drove. I don’t know what type Luigi is supposed to be, but his entire schnoz being the hood is kind of funny.
What you see here isn’t based on any game. But given all the other crazy transformations that occur in the Mushroom Kingdom on a daily basis, it’s not out of the realm of possibility there exists a power-up that turns you into a car. Fortunately, they’re always temporary. If Mario ever decides he’s tired of being a car, he can just let himself get hit by a Goomba.
The Mario Hot Wheels line will start appearing soon, wherever dinky cars are sold.