The Animal Crossing community creates incredible creations from the Mushroom Kingdom.

The Animal Crossing community creates incredible creations from the Mushroom Kingdom.

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Mario and several of his friends joined Animal Crossing, and the infinite art community has already transformed a relatively simple catalog of Mario’s new furniture items into stunning island designs in a matter of days. If you haven’t seen it yet, Animal Crossing: New Horizons is celebrating Mario’s 35th birthday with a list of new Mario-themed items and costumes added to the game. This includes, along with Mario, Luigi, Peach and Wario clothes, a series of decorative items like nothing the game had before. There are coins that can be “collected” by players, interactive items like stars and mushrooms, floating blocks and giant mushrooms that can have items placed on them, and most exciting of all – a fold tube that can transport you instantly to a second Warp Pipe placed elsewhere on your island.

So, of course, the Animal Crossing community is already doing some amazing creations, including yes, real platform courses:

Mario courses like this don’t appear overnight – literally – in Animal Crossing. All Mario items are available on a separate tab in the Nook Shopping app, but the app limits you to ordering five items a day. Which means that if you want to take elaborate courses like this, you need to travel back in time … a lot.

Some players have used custom patterns on the ground to create a theme on their outer levels in creative ways, like this area that resembles sky levels:

Or this incredible representation of Rainbow Road:

Or even a recreation of Mario Party:

Not only are players taking amazing outdoor courses – there are also some really wonderful indoor settings being made in people’s homes using floor and wallpaper sets along with Mario furniture items.

Some creators went beyond just recreating levels of 2D Mario and used custom-designed prints to bring together recreations of fan-favorite 3D spaces, such as Peach Castle:

Some smart players are not using Mario items specifically to do Mario stages, but are getting smarter with items like Warp Pipes and floating blocks. Warp Pipes, for example, facilitate transit around the island in ways that allow for interesting or beautiful designs that were not possible before, since they only occupy about one “square” of space, while a ramp can occupy several. Others have noted that floating blocks can be used to make tunnels – again, a feature that was not possible with the items and features available in the game previously.

There are many other beautiful creations that incorporate Mario’s items, including several beautiful mushroom forests and this clever use of Warp Pipes that seem to have ended up in the totally wrong video game:

Meanwhile, some people are just using Mario’s fantasies to make “Mario” do stupid things in the Animal Crossing universe:

Finally, several creators have noted that at least one popular Mario character seems to have been left out of the costume options for this update: Waluigi. Some people have tried to give the tennis player antagonist an appearance with custom clothing designs and are using these designs to let his disappointment be known through the meme format, like this:

Sorry, Waluigi. Maybe next time? (Please, Nintendo!)

Rebekah Valentine is an IGN reporter. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.

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