I don't think that Funky will share a spot with DK because their trick animations and voice clips are different unlike other skins. Further more, we can even see DK in the trailer and 2 of the same character can't be racing at the same time when offline. Therefore, Funky Kong is NOT a skin of DK and his own separate character.

The problem with the 2nd option Is that the other characters that have alternate costumes Is that they are only recolors, not different characters like Funky and Peachette. Plus Peachette being in Peach's spot doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Yes, she Is a Peach clone, but she Is a Toadette esclusive transformation.

I wonder will we get more karts and gliders. I wish we had different variants of those things.

I hope they add a battle mode gamepass with Honey Queen, Dixie Kong, King Bob Omb and Nabbit

If you rewatch the Wave 6 DLC announcement you can see that Diddy Kong,Funky Kong, Pauline and Peachette all have a icon on their bikes and karts so this means that it isn't an alternative and they are all separate characters. We could actually get more characters but I'm not sure about that. Just rewatch the Wave 6 and analyze

All I’m saying is that it’s possible. Unless Peachette and Funky take the slots of existing character alts, they’ll have to add them on an entirely new row, leaving four extra slots. They probably chose the four big characters to use in the trailer and saved the rest as a surprise announcement.

Obviously Funky Kong will be put with DK, but Peachette since she came from New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe as only playable by Toadette, will be a definite alt costume for Toadette.

I noticed something, when they reveal the new characters its like this: Funky Kong (character), why would they need to specify that they are characters, my theory, we're getting costumes for other characters, exemple: Builder Mario (costume) or Captain Toad (costume)

the horizontal lines have 8 slots, besides every horizontal line has its own theme so they will probably just move the dlc character row between de koopalings and cross over characters.

If 👏🏻 they 👏🏻 have 👏🏻 their 👏🏻 own 👏🏻 animations 👏🏻 they 👏🏻 are 👏🏻 unique 👏🏻 characters 👏🏻 No other costume in MK8 changes the animations for tricking. Yoshi and Birdo all have the same animations regardless of color. Metal and Gold Mario both share trick animations, while Tanooki Mario and Cat Peach are unique… this is what determines costume from unique character slot along with stats.

Paratroopa and Hammer Bro 100% need a spot

I think It will look like a mix between option 1 & 3. I wish there would be four remaining slot after the Booster Course Pass, and then we get some dlc for battle mode that adds the other four characters.

Nintendo is definitely not making funky Kong an alt for Dk,Funky and Dk is both different characters and it’s like having Luigi as an alt for Mario because they look similar and have the same face,Funky needs his own slot and so does peachette

funky deserves his own slot!

No chance Nintendo would put any DLC character behind old ones as costumes. They want all the DLC characters advertised front and center on the character screen for non DLC buyers.

Tbh this would be a great way to do unlockables unlock character alts, i would really like it if they make the tour characters unlockables. But if not that alts should be considered.

My personal take on how this could play out (if Nintendo is trying to preserve Tour's legacy): -Tanooki Mario, Metal Mario / Gold Mario, Cat Peach, Pink Gold Peach and Dry Bowser will be reworked to have the same stats as Mario, Peach and Bowser respectively so they can become alts instead of using up character slots (this change may not be used for Dry Bones since there are many different Koopas, so they could still be different). -Peachette could be a Toadette alt (because they are still technically the same character as seen in Mario Bros. U Deluxe). -The Villagers and Inklings could be merged into one slot as well (though it wouldn't make as much sense since they are still different characters, but can be argued for since in Splatoon and Animal Crossing they are made to represent the player, like Miis, who can be changed depending on which ones the player has created in the Mii Maker app) That leaves 8 more character slots available, which allows for more characters: -Nabbit -Hammer Bro (the other Bros would be alts) -King Bob-Omb -Monty Mole -Chargin' Chuck -Donkey Kong Jr. (though he should probably get a 3D model to match the rest of the cast, similar to what he would have gotten in Double Dash were it not for him being replaced by Diddy) -Poochy -Dixie Kong And there could potentially be more characters not from Tour (I'll give every possibility for this slot): -Paratroopa (Double Dash) (would be a different slot for the same reason as Dry Bones) -Toadsworth (Drives the Gold Car in the Award Ceremony in Double Dash) -Pac-Man (Arcade) -Ms. Pac-Man (Arcade) -Blinky (Arcade) -Mametchi (Arcade) -Don-Chan (Arcade) -Robo-Mario (Arcade) -ROB (MKDS) -E. Gadd (was supposed to be in MKDS) -Honey Queen (MK7) -Cranky Kong (Newcomer) The other character costumes and Mii suits could also be added in. It could also be possible that any karts, wheels or gliders from Tour that are not yet in 8DX can be added in this wave, and the reworking of part slots could be the same way as stated for characters (example: Roller and Azure Roller tires could now be in one slot) I still hope they add to Battle Mode and give more items to use (especially with Custom Items being added in wave 3). As for the courses still only in Tour or other games, we'll see if they make a BCP2.

The reason that yoshi, inkling, link, etc have costumes is because they share the same animations and voice clip. In the reveal we see that funky has different animations and voice clips, so i think he'll be his own character. For the same reason, i dont think he'll replace tanooki mario and cat peach due to them having different animations. We DEFINITELY aren't getting more characters, they revealed most of the heavy hitters. Online, I've seen a lot of wishlists and most of them included one of the following: Diddy, Funky, Pauline, and ROB. If they were to add 4 more characters, it would probably be ROB, Hammer, Boomerang, Fire, and Ice Bro (all costumes), DK Jr., and King Bob-Omb. I feel like they're just going to stick with the uneven character select screen. But, in a few months I will probably go back to this comment and see all the replies telling me how poorly this aged and that they're adding 4 more characters, but none of the ones i listed. Very cool

here's an idea. remember back in march when wave 4 dropped and we got a leak saying we'll get 14 characters total for dlc? people didn't believe it then, but if you go by column/row you get 6 in a row, 8 in a column. add the two together and you get 14. what if instead, pauline and peachette get a new row across the bottom with 6 new characters making for 14 total? besides, adding ANOTHER row to the right will start to squish the 3d character select preview.

My only issue with Funky being an alt is that we saw DK in the same race behind Pauline. Two alts can’t race at the same time

Fun Fact, after wave 6 launches, we can play the entirety of the Wii Star Cup in 8 Deluxe, with any mkwii character

It’s going to bother me so much if the Mii icon isn’t the last in the row of characters

I honestly think they may add more stuff from tour to Mario kart , cause tour is being done in October and they can easily add all the alts ( like they have birdo , yoshi and shy guy selection screen) and bring in 4 more characters, but i really want and see all the alts in each character ( cause i really want party Pauline and aurora roselina outfit too )

I only needed Pauline, but having even more would be great. I imagine we could have Dixie, King Bob Omb, Nabbit and Hammer Bro to fill one more row.

There’s a problem with your first two theories, because the last row of the character’s select screen is special in a way that there’s only non-mario-universe related characters in it, so those theories would just completely break this rule.

the 3rd option is unrealistic cuz were getting a new console soon anyway, theyre probably already working on the next mario kart game, not adding more to 8 deluxe. most likely theyll just rearrange the character select screen from an 8*6 to a 5*10 to fit in the two more characters than we thought we'd get.

PIN? The chance of Peachette and Funky Kong being costumes are highly unlikely as you would need to buy DLC for the extra waves but DK and are included without DLC so it would just kinda be weird for Nintendo to do that.

What they could is make Toadette have the option as a costume for Peachette, and then also have Villager Boy and Girl as costumes like they did on Wii U, and then Funky and Pauline would have there two available spots

Well they may rearrange the roster again, just to put the DLC characters in the left and right corner, leaving the first and last rows intact while the left corner is formed by Birdo, Wiggler, Diddy Kong and Pauline, and the right corner is formed by Petey Piranha, Kamek, Funky Kong and Peachette

They should put builder Mario and fire and ice mario as a costume for Mario

peachette should be a skin of toadette

The 4 added characters in the thumbnail are all dreams

Nintendo is running out of room on the character select screen

Nintendo are not doing alts. Villager boy and use to share a slot in the original. In deluxe, they are their own characters. If they are doing alts, it would have to make sense. Other colored Yoshis: yes. Funky being an alt for DK: no.

Why not just merge the Inkling boy and girl and villager boy and girl, would be weird to make Funky a DK skin really.

@SwitchStop What about options 4, 5, and 6? Option 4: A new row instead of a column for an additional 6 characters. Optional 5: A combination of Options 3 and 4 for a new column and a new row. Option 6: Turn the roster 10x5, and don't add more characters at all. There could also be the "Echo Racers" route where each additional character shares a slot wih a character they share traits or stats with (ex: Nabbit and Bowser Jr. both having scarves with teeth), but that sounds off and would make the mini rosters a bit awkward.

It would be amazing if they ended up bringing R.O.B. back from MKDS!

I hope they add more characters, or at least like King Bob-Omb or maybe King boo (luigis mansion) like a skin or something

I really hope this is true. My friends and I loved the Direct, but Dixie Kong being the one Kong in Mario Kart Tour omitted from MK8D was the biggest disappointment for us, so I hope she is added in.

All of this is great but people keep forgetting that Peachette is really Toadette so she would be under Toadette instead. I know she looks like Peach but she’s a power up not peach herself in a new mushroom crown.

I'm pretty sure they will make all of them a seperate character because of all the different "power-up" characters like tenuki mario not being an alt but instead being his own character

I think Nintendo completely filling a new collumn in makes most sense. I doubt they actually revealed all their characters when they just revealed one character for the teaser last wave and then two other characters. It actually makes even more sense because this would mean Nintendo added two characters for each wave. Maybe people can buy single waves once the pass is finished and characters will be evenly distributed for each.

The optimism and excitement here is infectious

I'm predicting ROB, DK Jr, Koopa Paratroopa, and Captain Falcon

I think they're going to put male and female villager/inkling together, clearing up 2 more slots.

The only characters that were in mainline Mario karts that aren’t in 8 deluxe are DK Jr, paratroopa, ROB, and honey queen. If they add 4 more slots to make the select screen balanced they might be the ones added.

If they add an extra column my picks would be: Dixie, Nabbit, Poochy and King Bob Omb. I think they began to add characters too late, up until wave 4, if they added new character since wave 1 we could have more characters

I figured that since they wouldn’t put 2 random slots anywhere 😂

In the UK trailer it clearly states "Wave 6 - 8 courses + 4 characters" Therefore, no, we are _NOT_ getting more characters.

Who cares about characters when they don’t matter. Characters only really mattered in double dash when they got unique items.

I think if we got new characters it would be Kingbomb MontyMole Dk Jr. and Captain Toad

My guess is that they will make the character roster into a 7x7 and then place the Mii slot on the bottom

They’ll probably release the other 4 characters in booster course pass 2 or in free updates post wave 6.

Couldn't they just merge the Villagers like they did on the Wii U version and do the same with inklings to make room??? LMAO

My guess is that Pauline and diddy Kong are new characters, funky Kong is a alternative costume for donkey Kong and peachette is an alternative costume for peach 3:29 oh

Dixie Kong would be nice. The last Mario game that I played that had her in the roster was Mario Hoops 3 on 3.

Im hoping for my guy hammer bro to get a slot, but I aint holding my breathe. Pauline makes this worth it already.

What if they decided to combine the male and female versions of inkling and villager, which would leave 2 empty spots on the character select screen for the final 2 characters. Or maybe add more characters from different Nintendo games like Kirby or something.

Another thing is we will probaly get something similar to the gold Mario and kart set if you get stars and complete mirror tracks for dlc tracks

I can totally see Nintendo throwing a curve ball and adding more characters since it's the last wave! It's Nintendo after all .. they're full of surprises ... just look at the introduction of Peachette. I wasn't particularly wanting her, more wanting characters such as ROB and Paratroopa with em being legacy characters, but it was a nice surprise showing that they could do anything to shock us. Also, with tour coming to an end with content and eventually closing down, it's kinda a waste having all the costumes/characters that haven't been ported to 8DX not being used within the mainline console game and lost forever within pixel space. So, I could defo see them adding new content updates to the game like you said with the content, that or save them for the next mainline game. Oh yeah btw, great vid! lots of good possibilities!

Funky is not an alt character he is an original character so I don’t think he will be altered version of DK

i have researched on mario kart tour and i dont think its getting shut down. there are no new stuff coming, but the service is still intact

Im pretty sure they will adjust the menu. probably cut a row and add a character to column. they did this with smash to adjust to upcoming DLC characters.

That'd Be Hype

It’s hilarious that anyone thought Funky would get in over Pauline if only two spots remained.

Also peachette is not going to be with toadette. They have different weight classes.

I have an idea! Just move the dlc character to the bottom!

I can’t wait to see new characters they will add into the game!

I was expecting to for when I seen forecasters. I was so surprised and I was really like hoping. Maybe we'll see more characters heck. Maybe they'll add new carts or or they're costumes eva add more new characters

both funky and even peachette are just different people it would be weird to merge them when there's alts like cat peach and tandoori mario out there which i doubt they'd wanna merge and make less characters overall, i dont think costumes are necessary tbh another four characters to fill up another column is the best i can hope for

My theory is that the character menu will get redone entirely so that it looks clean

peach will be the character with the most iterations of her when wave 6 comes out, with 5 total versions on mk8d Peach Cat Peach Pink Gold Peach Peachette (i know it’s toadette, but it looks like peach) and Baby Peach

Now that you say it, there are 50 characters So now it's 48 in a 8×6 rectangle But they could do a 7×7 square (=49) and put the miis at the bottom like in wii and 7. It sounds way too possible to me :( Btw, botw link and "normal" link have 2 different symbols as well

Fun fact, Diddy Kong was actually teased Mario kart eight deluxe in a picture

i think they're just gonna put the villagers and inklings into one slot like MK8U

I think everyone forgets the fact that Peachette isn't Peach or a version of Peach. It's literally Toadette. LOL

This would be super cool to happen if it did but I’m a little sceptical of the idea

Funky being a costume isn’t what I like but if it helps save space or gives a chance for Dixie kong, then I’m okay with it

I think if Nintendo went with route 2 it would be insane but…Luigi might get gooigi as a costume

All I want (if they add extra characters) is Professor E. Gadd from Luigi's Mansion. I know it sounds weird, but if you look at the demo version of Mario Kart DS. Professor E. Gadd was originally planned to be a playable character. I really hope he makes it in the game.

that would be cool if they added more

I know for a fact this wont happen but what i would want is a shop. When you open the shop we can use our coins that we collect from races to buy outfits/costumes for different characters [sort of like mario kart tours shop].

Honestly it’d be fine to do a 7x7 grid and make the villager girl an alt for the villager boy.

Just put them in a new row on the bottom, then you get to have Pauline and Peachette down there, then add 6 more. My choices would be Hammer Bro, King Bob-omb, Monty, DK Jr., Chuck, and Nabbit. Poochy honorable mention.

I'm most excited about funky Kong because he has been my favorite mario kart character since I started playing mario kart when I was like 5 or 6 before I knew about tier lists or anything like that

You know what at this point just add a freaking Rainbow Road Cup wherever with GBA, GCN, DS & NES Remix

I consider it a possibility that they may add in the remaining characters from Tour that aren’t variants (aside from DK Jr.) but I will try and not be too hopeful as I don’t want to make myself very disappointed if that doesn’t happen.

inb4 we get more battle mode maps and one of them being the Funky Stadium. This may not happen, but I have a tiny amount of hope still

This is a great potential to get another booster course pack yay more spending money 🤩

I would hate it if they made Funky Kong a costume for DK. He is a original character that desserves his own roster slot unlike Tanooki Mario and Cat Peach.

They could turn Tanooki Mario and Cat Peach into costumes for Mario and Peach respectively, also they should move the Mii slot over one so it is in the bottom right.

Something that would be amazingly surprising is adding Donkey Kong Junior Cranky kongs son

I'm personally hoping that if we do get even more characters/skins, that we get King Bob-omb and Cat Mario, as they are probably my favorite Tour characters that I've unlocked. (Cat Mario could share the same stats as Tanooki Mario. It would make perfect sense if that's the case.)

I think more characters will come with the wave. Proof? Characters weren't being added to the game until like Wave 3, skipping a couple waves, so maybe the new new characters will make up for their absence in the first 2 or so waves?

King Bobomb would so cool

I replayed NSMBU Deluxe recently so I’m genuinely excited for Peachette. I know that *could* be a bit of a hot take to some, but I don’t really care

3:10 honestly this does not look ugly, I actually would prefer this

It is crazy how back in 8 WiiU, we had characters like PINK GOLD PEACH, but not actual characters like Birdo, Dry Bones, King Boo, etc. Might be nintendo's biggest dick move yet. Up there with replacing Waluigi with a bee in Mk7.

What if they added four other characters and had them be amibos. That would be kinda cool I think

Holy BALLS i hope R.O.B returns