Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Player Builds Incredible Race Car

A slick new race car is the latest creation to come from fans of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. Known for its simple to learn yet difficult to master crafting mechanic, Tears of the Kingdom encourages players to fit all sorts of items together to see what happens.

One of Link's new tools in Tears of the Kingdom is a special ability known as Ultrahand that has a myriad of uses, like manipulating objects and sticking them together to build new items, including vehicles. During the game, players gain access to specific mechanical devices and components that they can use to create far more complicated creations. The purpose is to help players find creative ways to solve shrine puzzles in Tears of the Kingdom and to make powerful weapons to defeat bosses, but Zelda fans have taken the open-endedness of the mechanic as a challenge to create some truly wild builds.

Enter Reddit user u/GentleJoh, who created an amazing race car using in-game materials. In a post to r/HyruleEngineers, GentleJoh says that the base design of the car was made with only 19 parts, two shy of the 21-part limit the game gives for player creations. The last two parts appear to be the spoilers on the rear of the car, so once players figure out how to replicate their own rig, they have the option to go with or without those pieces, depending on their taste. But what seems to be most eye-catching is the top of the car connected by a spring, which activates the car once it's pushed into place. It's certainly a unique detail, but emblematic of many other Tears of the Kingdom creations.

GentleJoh's fellow Hyrule Engineers seemed to be enthralled with the spring-top design, and some compared the look of the car to the real-life Datsun 240z (minus the spring). Others compared it to the legendary Mach 5 from Speed Racer. Many commenters are hoping for a build guide to make their own cars and perhaps outfit it with the appropriate weaponry.

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