Comparing only what's missing from the Mushroom Kingdom would be a fairer comparison, but yeah, one look at the other two iterations and it's easy to see what's sorely missing.
Even taking DK out of the equation, there's still a ride, two snack stands, one and a half gift shops (Hollywood's 1-Up Factory is half the size of the one in Japan), and several side activities missing.
Out of all the Mario things we are missing out on, I agree this is at the top of my list as well
Locals won't go to Florida, but a lot of people who traveled to the park specifically to experience Nintendo will.
Well, just four years ago we all said this park will never get a major coaster and look what they're building.
I just don't know where they would put it. The only place to put a warp pipe to get backstage is below the ice area, but that's an emergency access road that needs to be open at all times. They COULD have put it inside Mount Beanpole, but that's all queue. And they won't tear anything down in a land that just opened, it would be a bad look. Unfortunately Super Nintendo World proper is boxed in and probably will always be boxed in. The only hope for more Nintendo is a separate land entirely.
That's not the problem. They already have the rest of their lower lot set aside for other expansion plans, and DKC doesnt fit any bill they see other than it being unnecessary. There's a reason it's going to Epic Universe and not USH.
I personally think this is a mistake. With Mummy getting axed, the park really needs just one more coaster that would be intermediate family coaster-level like maybe Hagrid’s or Florida’s Mummy. Having just Hippogriff and then jump right to F&F is going to be way too big of a leap. They need a coaster that’s in between. Not too intense but not to “meh”. Something an exhilarating, but not to the point to where you’re forced to put your phone and wallet in a locker.
You must be real fun at parties I see
Trust me I’ll lol when I’m wrong, but I genuinely think executives will want a more permanent presence of Pokémon whenever merchandise hits UOR or USH for it officially.
With the previous mention that we're not far off from Japan's Mushroom Kingdom footprint (IIRC), and that the other domestic SNW is setting in even more now, this just makes it so frustrating that we might not ever see more added to our SNW, which also just makes it easy to feel frustrated at the decision to not tear down Panda and Studio Cafe for the land and see it as the thing that ended up holding this land back. I know there's a camp that thinks they're fine, but now that the initial SNW hype has passed over for me, I think its shortcomings from what had to be excluded are becoming more apparent.
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