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JURASSIC WORLD EVOLUTION Trailer Unleashes the Dinosaurs

This summer, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom will bring moviegoers back to the Jurassic Park universe for a new adventure. But for video game fans, Jurassic World Evolution offers an even more tantalizing prize: control over Jurassic World itself. Evolution will let players build and design their own theme parks across the five islands of the Las Cinco Muertes Archipelago. A newly released trailer shows off some of these features as the park is constructed before our eyes. But it just wouldn’t be a Jurassic Park if something didn’t go wrong along the way. When a tornado hits the island, the dinosaurs make a break for it.

At this point, we have to question why anyone would keep cloning the velociraptors. Someone always ends up as dino food when the big lizards inevitably break free. But from a business standpoint, you need to have dinosaurs in your Jurassic World in order to bring in visitors. And the Tyrannosaurus rex may simply be too popular to leave out of the mix.

Additionally, Frontier Developments released a gameplay demo video for Jurassic World Evolution, which offers a deeper dive into the options and secrets of the game. There will even be detailed information about the archaeological sites within this title, for anyone who wants to brush up on their dinosaur knowledge when they aren’t playing god.



Jurassic World Evolution will be available for Playstation 4, Xbox One, and PC on June 12, which is also the day Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom hits theaters.

What your first impressions of the Jurassic World Evolution gameplay? Life finds a way and so will you in the comment section below!

Images: Frontier Developments

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This Super Cute ADVENTURE TIME Pie Would Make Tree Trunks Proud

Who doesn’t love a delicious cherry pie? We certainly do, we know Agent Dale Cooper does, and now we can all combine our love of delectable baked goods with our passion for Pendleton Ward’s awesome cartoon caper Adventure Time. The incredibly talented Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin from Pies Are Awesome has blessed us with this incredible Adventure Time inspired sweet treat starring the show’s BFFs Finn and Jake giving each other a lovely hug. Aww!



Adventure Time is full of delicious food, from Finn and Jake’s everything burrito to Tree Trunks’ world famous apple pie, so it makes sense that Adventure Time themed food always looks so incredible. This sweet AF video is the cutest, and the design work is charmingly simple, making this the perfect pie to try and recreate at home to celebrate everyone’s favorite adopted brothers/famous adventurers/hungry and loving bros. We can’t get enough of this delightful food stuff, and if this cheerful video is up your alley, then the Pies Are Awesome home page has plenty more incredible baked artwork to feast your eyes on.

It’s a perfect time to celebrate the kooky cultural phenomenon that is Adventure Time as the show is sadly coming to an end later this year with season nine. And how better to honor it than making something delightful to eat and share with our friends whilst we listen to Rebecca Sugar songs and remember our favorite moments from the cult classic show?

Are you a prize baker? Devastated that Adventure Time is coming to an end this year? Just can’t wait to eat some very delicious pie? Put on your best apron and let us know in the comments below!

Images: Cartoon Network

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DEADPOOL 2 Trailer Gets an Animated Makeover

Thanks to “creative differences,” the highly anticipated Deadpool animated series created by by Donald Glover isn’t going forward. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have a little R-rated fun with a cartoon Deadpool! A new fan edit has recreated the second trailer for Deadpool 2 by using clips from Marvel’s various animated series. Fair warning, this has all of the NSFW language from the red band trailer, which are somehow even funnier in this context.



Via ComicBook.com, this mash-up trailer was put together by YouTube user Darth Blender. For the record, Darth Blender used clips from Ultimate Spider-Man, Hulk vs. Wolverine, Wolverine and the X-Men, and the original X-Men animated series. It doesn’t perfectly match up with the live-action footage, but it does cleverly use Spidey to fill two roles: hapless cab driver Dopinder and the unnamed mutant child hunted by Cable. White Tiger subs in for Deadpool’s girlfriend, Vanessa, which is fitting. In the comics, Vanessa’s codename is “Copycat.”

All of the Cable footage comes from X-Men: The Animated Series, and it just illustrates the fact that he hasn’t had many cartoon appearances since his debut in the ’90s. Conversely, Deadpool only had cameo appearances in that X-Men series, and it’s only been within the last decade or so that he’s made the leap to animation as well. We’re still hopeful a Deadpool animated series will come together, as this trailer serves as a reminder of just how much fun it could be.

What did you think about this Deadpool 2 animated trailer? Let us know in the comment section below!

Images: Marvel TV

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LEGO MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 Set is Close to Getting Movie Sign

Mystery Science Theater 3000 fans are used to waiting a long time to get what they want. After all, there was an 18 year gap between the last episode of the original series and the first season of the MST3K revival on Netflix. Similarly, it’s been almost two years since we profiled the LEGO Mystery Science Theater 3000 custom build that was submitted to LEGO Ideas. Now, the LEGO MST3K idea has finally picked up the 10,000 supporters it needs to get LEGO to officially consider it.

LEGO builder Jmaster recently returned to his MST3K creation after nearly a year between updates, and he posted a few new pictures of the modifications he’s made in that time. For example, the models for Crow, Tom Servo, and Gypsy have been completely reworked to make them a better fit for the LEGO aesthetic. The new models are in the front row of this pic, while the originals are behind them.

Jmaster’s build includes figures for all of the main bots as well as the show’s three hosts: Joel, Mike, and Jonah. He also unveiled his take on the Satellite of Love, the rickety space station where the hosts and their robot friends were subjected to some of the worst movies of all time.

We’ll be following this story closely as LEGO makes its decision about whether to make it an official set. If it happens, we’ll be the first ones in line for it!

What do you think about the LEGO MST3K idea? Share a few riffs in the comment section below!

Images: Jmaster 

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A Complete Guide to the Cinematic References and Inspirations of STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI

No film series has such a clear love for cinema of the past like Star Wars. From A New Hope‘s ode to Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress to The Force Awakens‘ western feel, the franchise lovingly celebrates film history. Director Rian Johnson packs so many film references into Star Wars: The Last Jedi that it demands multiple viewings to spot them all. Some sequences are direct homages while others are more subtle, resonating thematically or tonally. If you’re looking to turn kids or teenagers into full blown movie nerds, we can’t think of a better place to start than Episode VIII. Not only does a knowledge of cinema foster a deeper love and appreciation, it allows audiences to think more critically about the art of the world. We’ve compiled a cinematic cheat sheet of the films The Last Jedi draws from to highlight how this film brings something new to Star Wars while simultaneously honoring the past:

Twin Peaks

The deep red of Snoke’s throne room recalls a variety of different images, including Twin Peaks‘ famous red room. According to The Last Jedi‘s production designer Rick Heinrichs, the visual comparison is intentional. “It’s funny you mentioned Twin Peaks because we definitely had a picture of [the red room] on our mood board in the art department,” Heinrichs told Nerdist. “Mood boards are there for reference and inspiration. They’re really just for me and Rian to have a discussion over in the early stages. Then we print them out and put them up throughout the room. The set designers and illustrators will sometimes just be walking around and their eyes will light up when they see an image on there. It will engage them in a new path that they hadn’t thought of before.”

The Apartment

In The Art of The Last Jedi book, VFX director James Clyne cites the opening of Billy Wilder’s 1960 film as a reference point in designing the look of the common area onboard the Mega Destroyer. “There’s a scene in that film where its’s just rows and rows of desks… so again, not reinventing the wheel but paying homage and playing off of that.”

Casablanca

In the film, a member of the underground resistance contacts refugees looking to flee the city to America by pretending to show them a ring for sale. He opens up the ring, revealing the cross of Lorraine, a symbol of the Free French. Similarly, Rose Tico reveals her allegiance to the child laborers on Canto Bight by opening up her ring, revealing the rebel insignia.

Black Narcissus

One of the greatest Technicolor films of all-time, the 1947 psychological drama centers around a group of nuns who live in an isolated valley in the Himalayas. The Last Jedi‘s costume designer Michael Kaplan revealed in The Art of the Last Jedi that he wanted concept artists to draw on the look of the nuns for the caretakers on Ahch-To.

Brazil

More of a fun easter egg than reference: listen closely when the police officers arrest Finn and Rose on Canto Bight for parking violation “27 B stroke six.” In Terry Gilliams’ 1980’s sci-fi flick Brazil, two vigilante handymen show up to fix the air ducts in main character Sam Lowry’s apartment. He asks them if they have filled out a 27B/6 form first, pointing out repairs can’t be done without proper paperwork.

Citizen Kane

At first glance, it would appear the trippy mind sequence that takes place in the cave on Ahch-To must have involved lots of CGI, but think again. Heinrichs explained, “At the end of the day we needed such a significant amount of replayability in terms of the way they had to do the multiple versions of Rey. If you study it, it’s actually pretty clever. They’re not mirror images of each other, they couldn’t be because the perspective changes on each of the elements. They were photographed. There were essentially multiple cameras on Rey (Daisy Ridley) as she acted the scenes, so that is really her in all of those images.” The mirror image of Rey’s recalls a sequence in a hall of mirrors from the classic Citizen Kane, wherein Orson Welles‘ character memorably walks down a hallway with multiple reflections of himself in the background.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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The fighting style of the Praetorian guards during the big throne room duel draws influence from one of the best martial arts scenes ever put on film. “A key scene Rian asked us to reference was the dojo fight in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. So there was certainly a Chinese influence in there,” says prop concept designer Matthew Savage in The Art of The Last Jedi.

Fargo

Heinrichs was the production designer for numerous films before The Last Jedi, including the Coen brothers’ Fargo. When designing the visual look of the battle on Crait, he drew inspiration for the blasts of deep red from a darkly comic moment from the 1998 film. “[The battle of Crait] is obviously a very graphic depiction of a violent battle that happens, the red on white and the rooster tail. I was actually thinking of telling Rian that I was inspired by the end of the movie Fargo which I had actually done, the wood chipper scene.”

Goldfinger

The Master Codebreaker’s attire on Canto Bight, a white tux with red plom bloom lapel, may recall Indiana Jones’ look in the opening Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom for most. But, the look goes back even further, to the spy movie era of the 1960s. Sean Connery’s James Bond famously sports the accessory in Goldfinger. Justin Theroux’s codebreaker gets his fashion inspiration from the best.

Gunga Din

A major source of inspiration for the Indiana Jones trilogy, Johnson selected this as one of six films to screen at Lucasfilm prior to starting work on The Last Jedi. He told Uproxx‘s Mike Ryan, “It’s the closest of all the things we watched that has, I think, that sense of kind of poppy adventure.” The 1939 adventure film follows three British sergeants and their water bearer, who are captured and must escape the Thuggee, an Indian cult in colonia’l British India. Finn and Rose’s Canto Bight mission then Imperial capture mirror the lighter, pulpier tones of Gunga Din.

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Another film chosen by Johnson to screen for the Lucasfilm Story Group, The Bridge on the River Kwai is widely considered to be one of the greatest war films of all-time. Tonally, the film’s relationship between the two main characters (played by Alec Guinness and William Holden) mirrors an officer and soldier duo in The Last Jedi. Speaking to Uproxx, Johnson remarked, “You can see it reflected a little in the Admiral Holdo and Poe thing, the uneasy kind of tension between them. You know, William Holden is kind of the hotshot American–versus Alec Guinness, the sort of stiff upper lip commander. And it’s something that is a common thing in war movies.”

Jurassic Park

The ripples of the water as the fathiers approached during the Canto Bight sequence invokes the same visual used in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 blockbuster to visualize the giant Tyrannosaurus rex’s approach.

Kagemusha and Ran

Akira Kurosawa‘s 1980 samurai epic (which was partially funded thanks to George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola) has a vibrant color palette throughout the film, particularly the blood red used in battle scenes. (The vibrant color of the armies also makes an appearance in his final film, Ran.) The art department looked to Kurosawa’s samurai films as a source of inspiration for Snoke’s throne room. “We used this concept of the red as a kind of regal quality, as a bit of a surprise and mystery. That’s what happens when you withhold a color like that in a movie. All of a sudden, a new environment is both a surprise and frankly kind of a delight. The red puts across this sense of Snoke as a regal being and also that this is a throne room. This is not where the little people go about doing their business, this is essentially where he projects his power to the universe,” Heinrichs recalled.

Letter Never Sent

At first glance, this 1960 Soviet adventure drama seems like an odd choice for one of Johnson’s six movies screened in preparation for filming The Last Jedi. In the movie, a group of geologists embark on a quest to find diamonds in the forests of central Siberia. They succeed in finding the diamonds, but a raging forest fire traps and cuts off the scientists from their food and supplies. The group must battle the harsh elements in a fight to survive. In like fashion, The Last Jedi places its actors in the natural world in key settings, most notably Luke Skywalker on Ahch-To.

Rashomon

Another Kurosawa-helmed classic, Rashomon revolves around three characters who provide subjective, contradicting accounts of the same incident. This same plot device is mirrored in The Last Jedi when Luke and Kylo Ren recall the fight resulting in the destruction of Skywalker’s new Jedi Order.

Sahara

Another war film screened by Johnson, this 1943 drama starring Humphrey Bogart focuses on a group of American soldiers in the Libyan desert. Forced to retreat, they find refuge at an abandoned fortress but must defend it from a large German detachment making their way there. The battle of Crait sequence has a similar visual and tonal feel, depicting soldiers keeping watch in their trenches as the looming First Order army approaches.

Three Outlaw Samurai

In lieu of picking a Kurosawa film, Johnson chose Hideo Gosha’s 1964 samurai flick as part of his screening series. The uneasy camaraderie between the three samurai mirrors the unlikely team up between Rey and Kylo Ren in the throne room duel sequence.

To Catch a Thief

Canto Bight’s Monte Carlo casino vibe draws heavy inspiration from Alfred Hitchcock‘s 1955 caper film set in the equally decadent French Riviera.

Twelve O’Clock High

In the climactic final sequence of this 1949 WWII classic, members of the U.S. Army’s Eighth Air Force go on a dangerous bombing mission to Berlin. Parts of the scene include actual combat footage shot by Allied cameras. This footage was a source of inspiration when filming the Resistance bombing sequence in the opening of The Last Jedi.

Vertigo

Hitchcock’s masterpiece uses a familiar technique (also seen most notably in Jaws) to highlight Jimmy Stewart’s characters fear of heights: the dolly zoom. The same technique is employed at the very end of the Canto Bight chase with Rose and Finn by a cliff.

The Wild Bunch

Poe Dameron’s dialogue during the mutiny sequence should sound familiar to movie buffs: it’s a riff on a very famous line spoken by William Holden’s character in the Sam Peckinpah directed 1969 Western epic.

Wings

Last, but certainly not least, The Last Jedi‘s most direct homage appropriately celebrates at film that was the Star Wars of its day. The highest grossing film of 1927, the American silent era film Wings includes a scene at a Paris nightclub with a now famous long tracking shot over the club’s patrons. Johnson pays loving homage with his own long tracking shot in the Canto Bight Casino.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi is now available for purchase on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital everywhere. What was your favorite moment from the film? Let us know in the comments below!

Images: Disney, MGM, The Criterion Collection, Warner Brothers, Sony Pictures Classics, Universal Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Paramount, Fox

Michelle Buchman is the social media manager at Nerdist Industries. She’s also a huge cinephile. Feel free to follow and chat movies with her on Twitter, @michelledeidre.

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Will BEETLEJUICE THE MUSICAL Be Broadway’s Next Big Hit?

Forget saying Beetlejuice three times, if you want the bio-exorcist to appear try singing his name, because the Ghost With the Most is getting his own musical. On today’s Nerdist News Talks Back we discussed his arrival to the stage, along with Donald Glover exiting the Deadpool animated series, and teenage Groot‘s new scene in Infinity War.

Today’s guest host Amy Vorpahl was joined by Nerdist managing editor Alicia Lutes, Nerdist News writer Aliza Pearl, and producer Jason Nguyen. They started with the disappointing announcement Donald Glover is no longer involved with FX’s animated Deadpool series. They said it was creative differences, but he took to Twitter to say he wasn’t too busy to do it before tweeting out 14 pages of a script. How bummed out are we he’s not with the show anymore? Would the series have lined up well with the network’s other shows like Archer? Is the project dead without Glover? And since there was a joke about it in the script, who do we think bit Beyonce?

With a month to go before Infinity War we also got a new spot featuring a very funny scene with teenage Groot and Quill. Do we like this version of our favorite talking tree, or do we already miss Baby Groot? Should they have saved this moment for the movie? And do we think Star-Lord will be a helicopter parent or a “cool dad?”

Finally, Beetlejuice is coming to the stage as a musical next year. Is this the best way to revive the franchise, or would a sequel or remake be a better option? How much do we love the original? Where does it rank among the best Tim Burton movies? Do we think it will work or feel trite? And what do we make of the presidential movie Dave also getting a musical?

Nerdist News Talks Back airs on our YouTube and Alpha channels live every Monday through Thursday at 1 p.m. PT, and Nerdist News What the Fridays ends our week at 1 p.m. PT, only at Alpha. Tune in with us so you can be a part of the conversation too. But if you do don’t say–or sing–Beetlejuice’s name three times. Just in case.

What did you think of today’s show? Talk back to us in the comments below with your thoughts.

Images: Warner Bros.

GAME OF THRONES’ Pedro Pascal Joins WONDER WOMAN 2

If you’re near a bunch of shattering glass and thinking to yourself, “Hmm, how did this happen?”, it’s likely due to the collective screams of a million Game of Thrones and Wonder Woman fans losing their minds because fan favorite Pedro “The Viper” Pascal has joined the main cast of the Wonder Woman sequel.

It is a “key role” according to Variety—who was the first to report on the matter—one that has nary a single detail available to us common plebes. But just this information alone is enough for us: Pedro Pascal is an incredible actor (hello: Thrones and Narcos and Kingsman 2, much?), and to see him re-team with Patty Jenkins (who is returning to write and direct, and worked with Pascal in TV in the past), opposite two incredibly capable women like Gal Gadot and her sequel adversary, Cheetah, played by Kristen Wiig, is nothing short of squee-inducing. We’re already ready for all of the witty retorts, badass action, and merch. (And considering this film is slated to take place in the ’80s? Oh, are we ready for the merch.)

Of course the biggest question is: who, then, do you think Pedro Pascal will play? An easy guess would be Dr. Tom Leavens, but there are bigger options, too: a messenger of Circe? A leader of Checkmate? Total normie Snapper Carr? What about Hunter Zolomon or Zoom? The questions are as unending as the possibilities!

But what do you think of this casting decision? Let us know in the comments below.

Image: HBO

Alicia Lutes is the Managing Editor, creator/host of Fangirling, and resident Khaleesi of House Nerdist. Find her on Twitter

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Stop Worrying So Much About SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY

By some accounts, Solo: A Star Wars Story has had a difficult production. It’s rare for a studio to ditch its directors so late in production, but that’s exactly what happened when Chris Miller and Phil Lord exited the film. Ron Howard was brought in to finish the movie and complete reshoots. Fan anxiety was already high when new reports suggested Solo is in even worse shape than originally thought. But before you get too worked up, today’s Nerdist News is going to explain why the internet may be overreacting…again.

Join guest host Amy “Nerf Herder” Vorpahl as she runs down Vulture‘s recent piece on Solo, which relied on a first-hand account from an anonymous actor who was present for both Miller and Lord’s time on the film and for Howard’s reshoots.  According to said source, Miller and Lord’s style of directing was simply too chaotic, while Howard’s presence on the set greatly increased morale among the cast and crew.

That certainly lines up with everything we’ve heard so far. But we have to address the actor’s closing comment: “They have to make [Solo] good after The Last Jedi didn’t make as much money as expected. If they want to keep making Star Wars movies, it has to be good.” That’s simply not true. The director switch happened months before The Last Jedi hit theaters, so it had nothing to do with the decision to reshoot this movie. Also, there’s this weird perception that The Last Jedi somehow failed because it couldn’t reach The Force Awakens‘ stratospheric success. But The Last Jedi is still the ninth highest grossing film of all-time, which is about as far from a failure as it gets. Disney certainly isn’t going to give up on Star Wars after that.

Additionally, there are unverified rumors about Solo‘s script being “unworkable.” Considering Howard’s reshoots were made using the original script, we doubt Lucasfilm saw it as a problem. Longtime Star Wars screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan and his son, Jon Kasdan, wrote Solo‘s script together. We have faith in their ability to deliver a solid story.

Do you think the internet is overreacting about Solo‘s production woes? Let’s discuss in the comment section below!

Images: Lucasfilm

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Deluxe Hot Toys Obi-Wan Kenobi is Cradling Baby Luke

Star Wars saga hero Obi-Wan Kenobi poses quite the dilemma for toy companies, in that he never changes his clothes in the movies. Seriously, what old man do you know that has exactly the same fashion sense as he did in his twenties, wearing a religious warrior outfit even though the order that requires it has long since been destroyed? It’s not like he’s just hanging on to his old duds–they’d be super-ratty by the time of A New Hope. He’s had to have been actively making or buying clothes that look the same for many decades. And that suggests he’s never been married in canon.

Anyway, for toy companies, this often means you make one Obi-Ewan, and you’ve basically made every version. But not Hot Toys. Their latest deluxe Revenge of the Sith Obi-Wan comes insanely loaded with specific, super-detailed accessories. For one, there’s a freshly severed Battle Droid torso…

 

Then there’s this elaborate light-up hologram showing the official Sith-knighting of Darth Vader…

And of course, baby Luke! Oh, how swiftly the innocence fades into an angry old man who can’t even smile about Porgs. Maybe they remind him too much of his baby blankie. (For those asking “Where’s Leia?” that’ll have to wait till Hot Toys does Bail Organa, if they ever do.)

Like most Hot Toys figures, he comes with a base, but you can swap out the visual overlay from sci-fi corridor to…the high ground!

Oh yeah, and that lightsaber does actually light up.

Now you’ll be able to reenact the “He killed younglings” scene again and again. And make it look really cool

Bonus points, though, for every time a random guest thinks that this is a Bethlehem shepherd holding the baby Jesus, apparently from the most expensive holiday-themed toy line ever. Or, you know, if you’ve ever wanted to make a deluxe Star Wars themed Nativity, you know have the crucial piece.

Expect Obi-Wan to arrive around this time next year–you can preorder him now at most online stores for approximately $275. Credits…will be fine.

Will it take a Jedi mind trick, or are you already sold on this figure? Comment below and tell us.

Images: Hot Toys

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Race to Buy Rainbow Road in MARIO KART MONOPOLY

Have you ever played a game of Monopoly and wished you could fire a Mario Kart-style blue shell at a player before they land on Broadway? Well, you’re in luck. Hasbro Games and Nintendo have joined forces for a Mario Kart themed edition of Monopoly. And the famous power-ups are incorporated into the game.

Like the previously released Super Mario edition, Monopoly Gamer: Mario Kart Edition gives the classic board a makeover mashing the two titles together. For example, the properties are now called Rainbow Road, Bower’s Castle, and other iconic Mario Kart locations. Certain spots on the board can give players a boost or a star of invincibility. Players will also have to contend with banana peels and Koopa Shells, which can take out the leader in the race around the board.

At the moment, the playable characters only include Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, and Toad. However,  Bowser, Rosalina, Shy Guy, Metal Mario, Donkey Kong, and Yoshi will be available for purchase later this fall alongside “Power Pack” tokens that will enhance the gameplay. Each player character has their own special abilities that will be triggered throughout the game. Unlike other editions of Monopoly, the currency in this game consists only of gold coins.

Monopoly Gamer: Mario Kart Edition is available now through Gamestop, and it will be released by other retailers in June.

What do you think about the mash up of Mario Kart and Monopoly? Send out the shells and share your thoughts in the comment section below!

Images: Hasbro Games/Gamestop

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