Mario Kart World: How To Unlock All Characters

Baby Rosalina also looks to be there in the trailer. Some also say Lakitu but abit hard to notice.
Another thing is that we have returning character sponsor signboards. A "Morton Construction" signboard is seen near Yoshi's Burger Stand and you can also spot a Nabbit signboard just as the console is placed in the Switch 2 dock.
Could indicate that all the koopalings plus Nabbit will be playable too.

I think you missed Lakitu and Baby Rosalina

I just thought of something, since some people couldn't tell who one racer was....what if they brought back ROB?

King Bob-omb was also spotted

I hope this game takes the best notes from Tour i.e the character roster, the character-exclusive items and all the vehicles it introduced of course. No live service needed, I guess...

Why am I seeing Seth Rogen in a new Mario Kart game for Nintendo Switch 2?

i don't actually know what I hate more: All of the hundreds of articles that have come out over the last 6 years supporting "rumors" and "leaks", 75%+ of which are now confirmed false (but of course no one will remember that and anybody who randomly got the release date right this time around will probably be hailed as some kind of soothsayer/genius going forward), or all the articles flooding out this week about all the "confirmed information" which is actually just the writer going frame by frame through the release teaser we all watched and picking out details. Articles like this reek of desperation. Why can't anybody be satisfied to wait until we get official word anymore? There's lots more to do outside of digging for every shred of "information" on an upcoming console, people. Get a (second) hobby.

Edit: i just noticed the "Mario Kart 9 Guide" link, which i'm not going to click on, and... Wow. i can only imagine the in-depth advice given within. "Mario Kart 9 (assuming that's the name) will likely be some kind of racing game with at least one track. Dirt is involved, and it comes in at least one shade of tan. It will probably slow you down if you drive off the pavement, we assume. There might be items but that's just a guess."

@WaxxyOne you know what's worse than analyzing trailers and being excited for a new game? being so sad and miserable that you feel the need to write all that just to make other people feel bad. maybe you should get a second hobby if you have all that time on your hands.

Meanwhile it still hasn’t been confirmed if there will be more non-Mario characters added or they’re just going back to only having Mario characters.

If they’re still adding non-Mario characters I wanna see them add characters from Kirby or Metroid, maybe even the idols from Splatoon, cuz I wanna switch between playing as Yoshi and Pearl in this game.

@MrCarlos46 But Kirby has his own racer to headline.

@GinMiguel At one point I was thinking Kirby before Kirby Air Riders was announced, so I guess now I can cross Kirby out of my list of wanted characters in Mario Kart World.

Shy Guy is a miss.

Fingers crossed for the return of Funky Kong. And hey, if minor enemies can get in, then why not Cranky? Or Chunky? Or even... Swanky Kong??

Can't believe they're targeting me personally by putting in every Mario character imaginable (or unimaginable) but still not, so far, Diddy Kong. Starting to give up hope for my boy.
But still excited!

For DLC they could easily add these characters:

• Iggy Koopa
• Roy Koopa
• Lemmy Koopa
• Wendy O. Koopa
• Ludwig von Koopa
• Morton Koopa, Jr.
• Larry Koopa
• Boom Boom
• Big Bertha
• Mouser
• Triclyde
• Tatanga
• Snifit
• Albatoss
• Bullet Bill
• Ninji
• Phanto
• Subcon
• Fryguy
• Wart
• Sledge Brother
• Fire Brother
• Boomerang Brother
• Rex
• Buzzy Beetle
• Raphael the Raven
• Diddy Kong
• Dixie Kong
• Kiddy Kong
• Funky Kong
• Krash the Kremlin
• King K. Rool
• Cranky Kong
• Candy Kong
• Thwomp
• Poochy
• Gargantua Blargg
• The Angry Sun
• Mallow
• Geno
• Smithy
• Cackletta
• Fawful
• The Origami King

i hope NL sticks with these pics. way cooler than just having the character selection screen

So many unlocked by transform via kamek, could take forever to get those ones?

@YoshiTails
Where even is Kamek?