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If you’ve ever played Mario Kart before, then you know the pain a Blue Shell can cause. If you somehow don’t know, this item will charge towards the player in first place and smash into them with a ...

A fully functional Mario Kart blue shell brings one of the game’s most iconic items into the real world through engineering ...

Dodging blue shells in Mario Kart has long been a tricky, albeit perfectly doable skill that players have been executing for years at this point. The good news, then, is it looks like you can still do ...

Well, don’t hold your breath. Eurogamer recently asked Kosuke Yabuki, director of Mario Kart 7 and 8, whether they’d ever consider ditching the blue shell, and he basically told players to suck it up.

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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on Nintendo Switch is no exception to the one and only rule of blue shells: first is the worst. When a blue-colored spiny shell is launched in Mario Kart, it instantly seeks out ...

One of the most iconic weapons in all of gaming is the Blue Turtle Shell from the Mario Kart series. The weapon is just so devastating and frustrating when you're in first place, but probably the most ...

Heck, thanks to the new video editor in Mario Kart 8, you can even dodge blue shells with extreme style now. See this epic moment captured by Thomas Puttick? https ...

For nearly three decades, it has been gaming’s most ruthless foe: the blue shell. First introduced in 1996’s Mario Kart 64, I’d wager that the dreaded homing missile has been the cause of more broken ...

The Lego Mario Kart Blue Shell kit is a smaller one, as it only uses 234 bricks. Once fully built, it is 10cm (4in) tall and 10cm (4in) wide. This means it is about the right size to pair with the ...

Mario Kart 7 and 8 director, Kosuke Yabuki has revealed that Nintendo has tested the popular kart racer without the controversial Spiny (read: Blue) Shell item but concluded that the game didn't feel ...