Mario Kart: Bowser's Challenge (Main Feed)
Added 2023-03-03 07:59:00 +0000 UTCWe take a look at Universal Hollywood's new Mario Kart: Bowser's Challenge. Featuring augmented reality, a very detailed queue, and all of your Mushroom Kingdom friends.
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I haven't been on the ride yet, I'm going at the end of March and I'm very excited because there is nothing on this Earth I love more than Nintendo. In my opinion, what I think is happening is that Nintendo's design philosophies are clashing with theme park attraction philosophies. Nintendo's whole deal is innovation and fun above all else. I believe they've even said the reason this attraction doesn't go fast is because they valued the interactive elements more than the thrill level. They're a video game developer, afterall. Even the Yoshi ride has interactive gameplay elements and I wouldn't be surprised if the DK ride does in some capacity too. But it sounds to me like their need to do something unique and include that interactivity has come at the sacrifice of some of the theme park simplicity you would expect from a family ride like this. I think there's a way for them to have their cake and eat it too but they probably got too fixated on the AR elements. Nintendo is very often their own worst enemy and it sounds like that kind of happened here. This land is sure to be a huge success financially and we'll likely get a lot more Nintendo stuff. Rumors of Pokemon coming to Japan. DK in Hollywood. So hopefully this is proof of concept and they can better balance the theme park stuff with the video gamey stuff in future attractions.
Impish MATT
2023-03-07 22:07:58 +0000 UTCRocket pops!
Trevor Remen
2023-03-05 23:57:15 +0000 UTC
