The positions in which players are in a race determine what kinds of items they will get. As seen in Toad's Factory in Mario Kart Wii, Item Boxes can be made out of Brick Blocks.
Fake Item Boxes appear as items from the real Item Boxes and can be used in a similar way to Bananas, but they have a bigger impact by making racers flip over instead of spinning out. They have appeared in all the Mario Kart games, except Super Mario Kart, where ? Panels are used instead. These blocks also appear in Mario Tennis and Mario Power Tennis. When a character passes through them, they get a random item. Item Boxes look like ? Blocks but are transparent and often multicolored, and in more recent games, they have an iridescent checkerboard pattern. Item Boxes (or item boxes) are boxes featured mainly in the Mario Kart series. The Item Box in its Mario Kart 8 appearance
