Uniqlo Is Reviving Items From All Of Its Prior Mario Collections For The Nintendo OG's 40th Birthday

Summary

Uniqlo has teamed up with lots of studios to create official apparel connected to some of the biggest video games ever, and this April, the biggest one of all returns to its stores. To celebrate Mario Day, Uniqlo has revealed it will be pulling designs from all of its prior Mario collections and re-releasing them, just in time for the plumber’s 40th birthday.

Uniqlo shared the good news on its website(thanks,4gamer), displaying a banner reminding Mario fans of the three prior Mario collections it has released - one forMario Kart, another forSuper Mario Bros, and a third five years ago to celebrate Mario’s last big milestone. No new designs this time around, just another chance to buy t-shirts that have been discontinued.

12 of Uniqlo’s Mario designs will be revived this April - six for adults and six for kids. The adult designs being brought back via what Uniqlo dubs its UT archive include a t-shirt that has Mario’s original design using warp pipes, and another that features a more modern version of Mario in his kart being fished out of the water by Lakitu.

Uniqlo Is Reviving Some Of Its Mario Designs

Six For Kids And Six For Grown-Ups

There is no crossover between the adults and kids designs which means all six of the smaller t-shirts are entirely different from the ones that will be released in adult sizes. The smaller Mario fans in your life will have a green t-shirt featuring Yoshi lying on his stomach, a dark blue t-shirt that features a Bowser seemingly inspired by the villain’s design in Bowser’s Fury, and four other t-shirts.

The t-shirts are slated to be back up at Uniqlo in April withthe adult t-shirts priced at 1,500 yen ($11)andthe kid sizes costing 990 yen ($7) each. Only the Japanese site has listings for the t-shirts at the moment, but Uniqlo does tend to release its IP-based collections worldwide. The bad news is if and when the t-shirts are re-released in the US, they will almost certainly be more expensive.

Don’t worry too much, though. Even though they’ll be more expensive, Uniqlo’s officially licensed merch still tends to be reasonably pricedThe upcoming Pokemon collection, which was revealed earlier this year, has adult t-shirts for $24.90, and kids' t-shirts for $14.90. The Mario designs will likely be similarly priced, if not slightly cheaper since they’re revived designs and not brand new ones.