User blog comment:Bradstormer/The summer event in a nutshell/@comment-31322722-20170704153418

I don't think you realize how hard making Karts actually is. It's not lazy at all that they use the same base.

The creators will never create a kart where you need Hot Dog, because every Fourth of July, there's an event, and each time, they have hot dogs.

Gus only collects Hotdogs for this event, not any others though.

and besides, what good is "an excuse to repaint karts" going to do for PBS KIDS? NOTHING!!! This game is FREE!!! And they're not even repainted because they have a different texture to them. The creators could just repaint the karts in their own time if they really wanted to.