The Marshmello Fortnite Item Shop skin is now available to purchase in the Fortnite Item Shop, along with the release of a new pickaxe, Mello Mallets.
Fortnite and Marshmello collaborated for an in-game live event at the end of January of this year. The collaboration also included a Fortnite skin, Marshmello, which was available to purchase in the Fortnite Item Shop. The skin was of Epic rarity and was available to purchase for 1,500 V-Bucks. The skin was first released on the 31st Jan/1st February and was available for three days in a row with the last shop appearing being 173 days ago.
Other Marshmello cosmetics that were available to purchase during the collaboration were the Mello Rider glider, which was uncommon and available for 500 V-Bucks, and the rare Marsh Walk emote, which was also available for 500 V-Bucks.
The collaboration also included challenges called “Showtime”. Players were able to receive free cosmetic rewards for completing these challenges. The rewards for the challenges were the rare Keep It Mello Emote, the Marshy Smasher Pickaxe, Mello Made It Right Spray, and the Showtime Banner Icon.
In the v9.40 update, the last major update for Fortnite Season 9, dataminers discovered a new encrypted pickaxe called “Mello Mallets”. Epic had tweeted out an image last night featuring the Marshmello skin, which hinted at the skins return.
The tweet seen above was then quote tweeted by Marshmello himself with the caption, “That’s a good looking skin”, accompanied by a thinking emoji.
The Mello Mallets are now available to purchase in the Item Shop for 800 V-Bucks and is of Rare rarity. You can see what the Mello Mallets look like below:
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