Today's Super Mario 35th Anniversary Direct threw up quite the number of plumber-themed announcements, several of them long-anticipated, others complete surprises. Nestled amongst the bigger news items were a few smaller nuggets; one particular inter-series mingling that caught our eye was the 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons X Super Mario' crossover that showed up about halfway though.
In honour of Super Mario's 35th birthday, themed furniture from the series will appear in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and they're coming in March 2021 (which will incidentally mark the first anniversary of New Horizons on Switch).
Hopefully, this will mean the return of several Nintendo-themed items which featured in Animal Crossing: New Leaf on 3DS but are missing from the Switch iteration at present, although there's no information on what form this furniture will take just yet. New Leaf featured a number of Nintendo-themed items including hardware-based furniture (remember those giant DS benches?) and other goodies from various franchises, including The Legend of Zelda and Metroid.
Here's a shot of some of the items we collected in New Leaf:
March is a little way off, but we're hardly wanting for Mario-themed content right now! In the meantime, we'll be dreaming of decorating out islands with Fire Flowers, Red Shells and Starmen.
Let us know below what Mario-themed items you'd like to see in Animal Crossing.
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I hope it's actual furniture with a Super Mario theme and not just the blocks and other items again...
Very awesome, can't wait to get these items.
Ugh, it's about time... can't wait for 2022 where they add the OTHER Nintendo reference items too... @_@
I loved the items in New Leaf, it was a baffling step backwards in this game to omit them. That’s Nintendo though, two step forwards and one step backwards at every opportunity.
Would be nice if 1 of the Mario amiibo let him visit the campsite. Shouldn't be too hard, they don't even leave the tent, and there are plenty of 3D Mario models to borrow from.
The cat Mario amiibo could give us the catsuit to wear.
Sorry, I have 9 AC amiibo and NONE of them will visit the campsite. And another 30 or so amiibo. If they aren't going to leave the tent and walk around the island - stupid campers - then almost any amiibo should be able to visit with minimal work l.
I hope it's some new items as well. If a whole year after release the updates still feel like catching up to New Leaf, that's not good.
In hindsight this explains why any Nintendo series themed items were absent from ACNH, they were holding them back for an event such as this.
All previous AC series titles had Nintendo items available from the start.
I have to wait until March to get furniture that we have probably seen before? Why not add it today with the announcement?
...it's not like September is going to be a thrilling month, there's only so many salmon and acorns out there
@nessisonett
Like most things "emitted" from New Leaf, they were likely always planned to be added into to game, just in a different way.
@lighteningbolt79 I think you mean omit. Emit means it would have been radiated outwards from the game, X-Ray style.
I liked the Nintendo themes in New Leaf so I hope to see more.
AC being doomed to games as a service is depressing, they don’t need till March to give us items that were a mainstay 🤦♂️.
@jimtendog March is the end of the financial year in Japan.
It's not Animal Crossing until I can have a room full of Nintendo trinkets.
I'm not sure this enough to make me jump back onto my island again. I really enjoyed AC through Spring, but grew bored with the game right around when the first Summer update came out.
Hopefully some new Mario items will be added. I feel like we've had the same Nintendo furniture items for the majority of the Animal Crossing series.
Mario Trophies please?
Aaaaaah, March 2021. We’ll all be sitting there with our Mario furniture and the covid vaccine coursing through our veins, awaiting the Tokyo summer onlympics reading about the latest news from the Biden White House.
soooooo far away....but i guess its coming so thats ok
One of my few issues with ACNH is the lack of items related to other Nintendo IP. One of my favorite things in ACNL were the Mario, Zelda and Splatoon theme stuff.
I wanted to see them use Amiibo on ACNH to let you get items from other franchises for your island.
Oh yeah!!! I hate to wait too much however ;o
FINALLY! I loved collecting Nintendo stuff in New Leaf.
yay Nintendo themed Furniture and itens expanded with the latest games of this series is returning to Animal Crossing New Horizons.
will Nintendo also add Metroid and Legend of Zelda itens for the the 35th anniversary of both franchise in 2021?just like they are doing with the 35th anniversary of the Mario Franchise in Animal Crossing New Horizons?
Nintendo themed Furniture and itens specially the Mario themed Furniture and itens expanded with the latest games of this series, will problaby come in Mario Day in march 10th.
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