Epic Video games is planning an enormous Father’s Day collaboration with Fox this 12 months that can carry characters from three of the community’s hottest animated sitcoms to Fortnite as skins. The particular skins, which can all land within the merchandise store on Friday, June 13, embody Hank Hill from King of the Hill, Cleveland Brown from Household Man, and Bob Belcher from Bob’s Burgers. No, there is not any Homer Simpson on this batch, however there could also be an excellent purpose for it that we’ll talk about additional down.
According to content creators who received the heads-up from Epic concerning the skins, Hank, Cleveland, and Bob will every be accompanied by a again bling, a pickaxe, and an emote, whereas Hank Hill and Bob Belcher may even get wraps. Every of the skins will value 1500 V-Bucks, they usually’ll all have bundles that value 2000. What there will not be is one giant bundle that features all three skins, so getting all these things will run you 6000 V-Bucks.
That is not going to be the one factor to blow your digital foreign money on in Fortnite this Father’s Day. The merchandise store may even have a brand new “Dad Essentials” bundle that features the existing lawn mower emote and new Nike Air Monarch IV kicks. So you possibly can go all the best way with that dad look in the event you actually need to.
Whereas it actually appears odd on its face for Fortnite to collaborate with Fox so as to add a bunch of cartoon dad skins whereas leaving out probably the most well-known of its fictional fathers, Homer Simpson, it is most likely simply because we’ll see him pop up later this 12 months. It is at the moment rumored that we’ll get one other mini-season within the fall, just like the Star Wars season that simply ended, centered on The Simpsons. The brand new collaboration with Fox will solely add gasoline to that rumor.