Nintendo Labo Vehicle Kit Wrap-Up

On 12/25/2018 at 07:41 PM by Cary Woodham

This week at GamerDad we’ve looked at the three main things you can build with the Nintendo Labo Vehicle Kit. So now I’ll wrap things up with links to all three articles so you can view them more conveniently, as well as some conclusions on the set as a whole.

Nintendo Labo Vehicle Kit: Car

For the car you need to both build a cardboard gas pedal and steering wheel to put the JoyCons in. Then you can drive the car around in some race and battle modes, and also on the Island in Adventure Mode. The car is the only vehicle that can tow large objects, too.

Nintendo Labo Vehicle Kit: Submarine

When you want to go underwater on the island in Adventure Mode, just switch to the submarine controls you can build. I don’t think I can describe the controller very well, but you use it to rotate two propellers, one on each side of the sub, and use the gas pedal to make them spin so you move. It’s kind of like tank controls, but in 3-D space. It’s a little tricky to get used to, but you probably won’t use the sub as much as the other vehicles.

Nintendo Labo Vehicle Kit: Airplane

The last thing you build is a cardboard flight stick for the airplane. It’s a lot of fun to fly around the island in Adventure Mode, but the disadvantage is the plane runs out of fuel very quickly. In this article I also talked about some other small things you can build, like a cardboard spray paint can for coloring and customizing your vehicles in the game!

And that’s all for the Nintendo Labo Vehicle Kit! This is definitely the most complicated of the sets to build, so if you are new to Labo, you may want to start with one of the other sets, which I’ve provided links to below as well. But the good thing is the Vehicle Kit also has the most game content of all the sets. Overall I’ve been very impressed with Labo this year, and I imagine it’ll get high marks when I do my Game of the Year 2018 awards blog sometime in January.

Nintendo Labo Wrap-Up

Earlier this year Nintendo released the first two Labo sets, a Variety Kit and a Robot Kit. This wrap-up combines all the articles I wrote on the Variety Kit, where you could build things like a fishing pole, motorcycle handlebars, and a piano, and play games with them.

Nintendo Labo Robot Kit

The Robot Kit was released at the same time as the Variety Kit, but I didn’t write about it until a couple of months later because it took so long to build and E3 got in the way, too. You just build a backpack and visor with other items to make something you can wear and can control a giant robot onscreen as it punches buildings and such.

KnightDriver

12/25/2018 at 10:01 PM

Very cool. I like all those vehicles, especially the submarine.

Cary Woodham

12/26/2018 at 10:16 AM

The sub is the hardest to control and you use it the least amount, though.

12/26/2018 at 11:00 PM

Oh well. Guess I gotta make my own sub game.

12/27/2018 at 09:52 AM

I can't think of too many submarine games. Nintendo had Steel Diver on the 3DS. There was an arcade shooter called In the Hunt. And I can't remember if Seaquest on the 2600 had subs or scuba divers.

12/27/2018 at 10:58 PM

I just played one on Atari Flashback Classics vol. 3, Destroyer, an arcade game. There used to be bunch of arcade sub games like Sub Hunt. I played one on Xbox 360 called Battlestations Pacific. There was a pretty involved sub battle simulation in it. Oh, and there is that underwater vehicle for Skylanders Superchargers. It was Eyebrawl's deep sea diver craft thing. I'd like more of them, especially an exploration one would be cool.

12/27/2018 at 11:23 PM

Yeah I don't think I got any of the water vehicles in Superchargers.

12/27/2018 at 11:43 PM

Eye Brawl is one of my favorite characters across all the Skylanders games. His vehicle was Dive-Clops. I love the names for these things.

12/28/2018 at 10:25 AM

Yeah the Skylanders have always had good designs and names. The toys just scream "play with me!"

Matt Snee Staff Writer

12/26/2018 at 03:42 PM

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Cary!!!

12/27/2018 at 09:53 AM

You, too! Thanks for reading!

goaztecs

12/28/2018 at 12:12 PM

I like the Labo concept but are the sets sturdy enough to keep up with kids? I have younger cousins that I think they would enjoy the building of the sets but I'm unsure that the actual sets can take the beating that little kids can unleash.

12/29/2018 at 08:59 AM

One thing I omitted from this version of my blog was the "Kid Factor" that I put in the GamerDad.com version of this wrap-up. Anyway, while Labo is great for kids, it's really beter for older kids. The cardboard is very sturdy, but it's still cardboard. Just ask yourself this: Are your cousins mature and responsible enough to keep up with and take care of their toys and game controllers? If the answer is 'yes' then they're probably ready for Labo.

PixlBit