The entire land becomes a living video game with the help of Power-Up Bands - wearable tech devices embedded with radio-frequency identification tags. SEE ALSO: How the Bob Iger era changed Disneyland forever Riders will take part in a treasure hunt looking for colored eggs along the route while riding high above Super Nintendo World. The five-minute Yoshi’s Adventure kiddie ride will use a Haunted Mansion-style Omnimover-type ride system that travels through indoor and outdoor sections of Super Nintendo World. AR headsets with visor screens designed to look like Mario’s distinctive cap will allow riders to see the video game-style action playing out against physical sets and projection screens.Įach passenger in the four-seat ride vehicle will each get a chance to “drive” during the five-minute experience, making their race cars drift or spin, according to Theme Park University. Riders will steer through familiar race courses and Mushroom Kingdom worlds while slinging Koopa shells at their opponents or objects along the route. The Mario Kart: Koopa’s Challenge augmented reality racing car ride will be housed inside Bowser’s Castle. You’re no longer just playing the video game. The big idea behind Super Nintendo World is that you become one of the characters in a living video game. SEE ALSO: Which Star Wars characters can - and can’t - appear in Disneyland’s Galaxy’s Edge Universal’s third Florida theme park reportedly would include an additional Donkey Kong roller coaster that’s also envisioned as a phase two expansion for the original Nintendo land in Japan.Ī fourth Nintendo land has been announced for Universal Studios Singapore - reportedly a copy of the smaller Hollywood land - but construction has not yet begun. The California Nintendo land will reportedly include the Mario Kart ride, restaurant and shop without the Yoshi ride.Ī larger version of Super Nintendo World was planned for Universal’s upcoming Epic Universe theme park - which has now been put on indefinite hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Universal Studios Hollywood will get a more compact version of Super Nintendo World - although an opening date has not been announced. Universal announced plans to build lands based on Nintendo video games and characters in 2016. SEE ALSO: Imagineer Joe Rohde reflects on 40 years of dreaming up Disney theme park attractions Throughout the land, visitors wearing Power-Up Bands can take part in game play inspired by Nintendo video games. Spinning gold coins, question mark boxes and other video game booty frame life-size versions of Peach’s Castle and Bowser’s Castle. Visitors will enter Super Nintendo World through a green warp tunnel that takes them into a compact and colorful landscape alive with animatronic scenery. Super Nintendo World will feature the Mario Kart: Koopa’s Challenge augmented reality racing car ride, Yoshi’s Adventure indoor-outdoor kiddie ride, Kinopio’s Cafe restaurant, Pit Stop Popcorn and Yoshi’s Snack Island food stands and 1Up Factory retail shop. The Japanese theme park outside Osaka reopened in June after an extended coronavirus closure. The new video game-inspired land was initially scheduled to open in July at Universal Studios Japan in time for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo - but that was before the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe.
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