Super Nintendo World’s New Donkey Kong Land Looks Like a Wild Ride

We’ve known for a portion that Universal was getting acceptable to grow its tiny but palmy collaboration with Nintendo to bring the Mushroom Kingdom to beingness successful Super Nintendo World—and that Mario’s simian frenemy Donkey Kong would beryllium the star. But present we’ve got an adjacent amended representation of what to expect from the caller park’s expansion, which is opening successful Japan precise soon.

In today’s variation of “Nintendo volition announce literally anything alternatively of the Switch 2,” gaming fable Shigeru Miyamoto walked fans done Donkey Kong Country arsenic portion of a peculiar caller Nintendo Direct, giving a sensation of what to expect from the enlargement up of its motorboat adjacent period successful Japan. Journeying from the Mushroom Kingdom done a monolithic tunnel, parkgoers volition find themselves transplanted to a verdant jungle that faithfully brings the aesthetics of Donkey King’s 40 years of crippled appearances to life. Which means barrels. Lots of barrels.

Miyamoto highlighted the myriad caller additions coming successful this conception of Super Nintendo World, including not conscionable the architectural additions similar Donkey Kong’s location oregon a store inspired by Funky Kong, but a bid of minigames radical volition beryllium capable to play passim the area. There’s a euphony bushed crippled inspired by Donkey Konga, and the quality to usage Super Nintendo World’s NFC wristbands to cod hidden letters littered crossed the park. Of course, there’s besides themed food, similar a sundae inspired by DK’s smashing barrels, and a questionable-looking blistery dog, but it each climaxes successful 1 large caller thrust addition: the Golden Temple, itself inspired by the celebrated excavation cart racing levels from the Donkey Kong Country games.

Although the preview of the thrust stops conscionable up of teasing it, we’d antecedently learned that the thrust volition simulate having thrust vehicles “leap” disconnected way arsenic they leap gaps and swap rails. It’s each handled safely with a secondary coaster way hidden conscionable underneath, truthful you’re not relying connected momentum and reckless wantonness to halt you from plummeting to your doom portion connected vacation—but it’s inactive comic to spot Miyamoto pleasantly anticipation that adjacent radical frightened of taxable parkland rollercoasters volition bask the caller thrust knowing that.

Donkey Kong Country volition unfastened astatine Universal Studios Japan connected December 11, 2024—and portion it won’t beryllium added to the condensed signifier of Super Nintendo World astatine Universal Studios Hollywood successful California, it volition beryllium included from the leap astatine the mentation of the onshore successful Universal’s Epic Universe successful Orlando erstwhile it opens May 22, 2025.

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