GameCenter - April 2018 - 30

Labo fans looking
to add a little flair
to their Toy-Con
creations can do so
with the optional
Customization Set.
Containing personality-packed stencils,
stickers and colored
tape, the cosmetic
materials let fans add personal touches
- including a pair of peeping Mario
eyes - to their Toy-Con crafts.

The Nintendo Labo Variety and Robot kits
available at launch contain all the cardboard
sheets and interactive software needed to construct six cool Toy-Con, but these preconceived
projects barely scratch the surface of the two
sets' creative potential.
One of Labo's absolute coolest features,
dubbed the Toy-Con Garage, adds infinite
build-and-play possibilities to the platform.
Included in the kits' software, and accessed via
their menus on the Switch's display, the feature
encourages users to combine the power of
Labo - and their own imaginations - to create remixed Toy-Con contraptions.
Sporting an accessible, intuitive interface,
the Garage presents budding inventors with a
blank slate of sorts; using the software's simple
input and output commands, they can experiment with different Toy-Con combinations
to discover new ways in which the projects
can interact. Messing with the Motorbike and
RC Car functions, for example, reprograms

the former's handlebars to control the latter's
steering and acceleration.
Users can craft plenty of new gadgets just
by mixing and matching existing Toy-Con
projects in the Garage, but these Frankenstein
creations only hint at the feature's DIY depth.
Players who truly want to set their creative
spark ablaze can forgo the intended projects
altogether in favor of crafting their own ToyCons from scratch. With a fertile imagination,
a pair of scissors and some stray cardboard
boxes, they can leverage the software to make,
well, pretty much anything.
Nintendo's already shown off a few possible projects - like a working guitar made
from a broomstick and a coin-counting bank
constructed from a shipping box - that suggest the platform's infinite potential. While
these original Toy-Cons look like a great place
to start though, we can't wait to see what fans
come up with once they let their imaginations
run wild in Labo's Garage.

One of Labo's absolute
coolest features, dubbed
the Toy-Con Garage, adds
infinite build-and-play
possibilities to the platform.

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