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1. It's relentlessly cheerful
2. It's full of small, unexpected details.
3. Mario has lots of new options
4. Its whimsy manages to be incredibly compelling.
5. It takes its cues from the best parts of the older Mario games.
6. It has airships.
7. It makes Bowser Jr. seem actually kind of... cool.
8. It's not just a lot of recycled content.
9. The new material is carefully designed to work with any number of players.
10. It makes tastefully restrained use of motion controls.
11. It has tons of hidden secrets.
12. It's seriously tough.

Next week, we’ll be at San Diego Comic Con 2010, in the PlayStation booth with your chance to play LittleBigPlanet 2. And if you’re at the convention, we’ll be giving away a small handful of these exclusive “Team Sackboy” shirts (we’ll have both girls and guy shirts. These are extremely limited, so keep watch on our PlayStation.Blog Twitter and we’ll let you know when/where/how to get your hands on these exclusive shirts – you may see something like this …

“LittleBigPlanet 2 @ SDCC: Want a Team Sackboy Vampire shirt? Come by the LBP2 area and show us a pic of Spider-Man Sackboy! First 25 ppl gets em!”

See you there!

We hope you’re enjoying last weeks LBP DLC. The PSP’s Heroes in Uniform pack has a great collection of goodies themed around the emergency services teams that make sure we’re safe every day. And on the PS3, we know many of you are enjoying the first two packs from Marvel – the Marvel Level Kit & Marvel Character Pack #1.

Next week (on July 20th), be sure to get your hands on the new Marvel Character Pack #2, featuring Spider-Man, Ghost Rider, Electra, Human Torch and Thor.

And for all you LBP PSP owners, be sure to download the free Fruit Salad Costume and check out the Fruit Salad Level Pack.