Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo are now playable in Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles DLC pack launched on Tuesday, 28 July 2026, bringing the four brothers — styled after their designs from the Mutant Mayhem animated film — into SEGA's arcade racer.

The pack, available now on all platforms, adds more than just four new drivers. Players get the Pizzafire Van as a usable vehicle and a New York City track to race on. Each turtle comes with six emotes, and the pack includes new music tracks inspired by the TMNT franchise (VGC). A separate TMNT Festival event kicks off on 30 July 2026, according to the launch trailer posted on the official Sonic Facebook page.

The TMNT Pack costs US$5.99 on its own, or it can be accessed through the Season Pass at US$29.99 — the same pass bundled with the Digital Deluxe Edition of the game. This is the fifth of six DLC packs in the Season Pass, following earlier crossovers with Minecraft, SpongeBob SquarePants, Pac-Man, and Mega Man. The final pack, based on Avatar: The Last Airbender, adds Aang and Katara as playable characters and is set for release in October.

With the turtles now in, Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds has reached 55 total playable characters when counting unlockables, pre-order bonuses, and all DLC released so far. That roster has been growing on the free side too: SEGA has been adding monthly guest characters drawn from its own properties at no charge, including Hatsune Miku, Joker from Persona, Ichiban Kasuga and Goro Majima from Like a Dragon, NiGHTS, AiAi from Super Monkey Ball, Tangle and Whisper from the IDW Sonic comics, Red from Angry Birds, and Arle from Puyo Puyo. Classic Sonic has already been added as free DLC, with Axel from Crazy Taxi planned for August and Amigo from Samba de Amigo for September.

There is more on the horizon. SEGA confirmed during Summer Game Fest that CrossWorlds will receive a Year 2 pass, containing six additional DLC collaboration packs. The first two of those are based on Godzilla and Neon Genesis Evangelion, though release dates for the Year 2 content have not yet been specified.

For a game that already pits a hedgehog against an angry bird on a racetrack, adding four mutant turtles in a pizza van feels less like a surprise and more like the natural next step. The crossover logic is simple and relentless: if a character is recognisable, there is probably a kart with their name on it. Whether that formula holds through Godzilla and Evangelion — tonally a different animal entirely — is a question for later in the year.

For now, the turtles are here, the van runs, and the New York City track is open. Cowabunga, as the saying goes.