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Watching the non-AR version, I legit thought the lava Bowser projection was an animatronic. And that was after I knew it was a projection.
That’s a good problem to have.
That’s a good problem to have.
The obsession for this ride by some folks is something I don't get...but I also don't hate
It seems the fast paced simulation was abandoned intentionally somewhere in the process in favor of a more gentle all-ages rideI'm confused. Wasn't there a patent showing how transitions and a sense of speed would be created on Mario Kart despite the vehicles technically moving slowly? Was that just thrown in the garbage and replaced with a short section of projection mapping at the end? So we move at a crawl pace and then randomly go fast at the end of the ride? It looks spectacular but it is puzzling. Also has anyone mentioned whether this is truly a replica of the Cat in the Hat / Men in Black ride system with AR goggles? It truly looks identical which is strange considering the original location picked for the US version was next door to Men in Black.
Also, just because something is patented doesn't mean it's ever actually going to be used.
A few things. Wario only does that in Super Smash Bros. His Smash personality is a bizarro version of his character. Bowser is similar. He’s much more like Godzilla in those games. He doesn’t have a voice nor a personality. Donkey Kong sounds like an actual gorilla. Smash Bros was really inaccurate with Nintendo Character portrayals up until the Wii U version.As for the characters...
I think that you can justify Waluigi and Wario not being there because they seem to have their own alternate dimension to tend to (anyone else play WarioWare?) and Universal probably didn’t want to invite characters that would likely fart on you in a M&G. Rosalina doesn’t have time to be in the Mushroom Kingdom, she’s far too busy with the Lumas and actually taking care of her kingdom, which, you know, Daisy doesn’t because she’s the worst.
There, the story we all needed to justify it.
Watch Wario be an April fools only M&GA few things. Wario only does that in Super Smash Bros. His Smash personality is a bizarro version of his character. Bowser is similar. He’s much more like Godzilla in those games. He doesn’t have a voice nor a personality. Donkey Kong sounds like an actual gorilla. Smash Bros was really inaccurate with Nintendo Character portrayals up until the Wii U version.
I also don’t believe Wario and Waluigi live in an alternate dimension. Waluigi hasn’t even been in a Wario game oddly enough.
As for Rosalina, she doesn’t have a kingdom.I guess she does tend to the whole cosmos. But she’s in a picture on the App data mine, that has the 6 band characters and Toadette. I’d imagine they’ll do meet and greets.
The only reasoning behind character absences to me seems to be staggered rollout.
I swear, it’s all “only positive” or “only negative” with this one. I go on WDWMagic and I’m defending the ride from people who are complaining that it’s nothing like Mario Kart (it is). Then I come on here and lament that I would have liked a bit more and would have preferred to see my favourite characters and locations from the Mario games in a physical form, and I’m mocked for not being appreciative enough. I can’t win.
That wasn’t at all what I was getting at in my post. I’m not required to do anything. I’m only offering my opinions.This has been stuck in my head for a day now and I wanted to say something about this.
This is a multi-billion dollar company, you do not need to defend it or tie your self worth to it. You are more than a Nintendo character or a theme park attraction.
A few things. Wario only does that in Super Smash Bros. His Smash personality is a bizarro version of his character. Bowser is similar. He’s much more like Godzilla in those games. He doesn’t have a voice nor a personality. Donkey Kong sounds like an actual gorilla. Smash Bros was really inaccurate with Nintendo Character portrayals up until the Wii U version.
I also don’t believe Wario and Waluigi live in an alternate dimension. Waluigi hasn’t even been in a Wario game oddly enough.
As for Rosalina, she doesn’t have a kingdom.I guess she does tend to the whole cosmos. But she’s in a picture on the App data mine, that has the 6 band characters and Toadette. I’d imagine they’ll do meet and greets.
The only reasoning behind character absences to me seems to be staggered rollout.
It was a good post, but it didn’t really apply to what I was saying. My point was, I’m tired of seeing extremist opinions. You can like something and still have reservations about aspects of it.Oh, I'm not sure about that, Wario does a lot of heinous things in the WarioWare cut-scenes.I feel like he'd be a good pull for a Halloween event, he reminds me of a cross between Stitch and Jack the Clown. If we're gonna get technical, Wario lives in "Diamond City" and drools over money. As for Rosalina, I'd buy that she's busy tending to the planets, though I feel like she could be a Christmas character. I imagine she might appear for the Lunar Festival in Japan, that to me makes the most sense. I mean. Any character from the Mario franchise could appear in the parks in terms of "story" (as has been said, Mario and Baby Mario race against each other, though I DO think they'll not do this sort of double exposure in the parks, I think they will stick to some integrity). I'm just saying that this is story that a character attendant might tell a disappointed guest.
At the end of the day, these four are absolutely the correct characters to put on as meet-and-greets. While some might want to meet Bowser, I think that would necessitate an extra turret extension onto the Bowser's Castle set piece to have Bowser be a puppet on a throne for the same reasons Donkey and Ariel can't move. But I'd rather have the Bower Jr. Boss Battle.
I also want to shout out to Joe. Excellent post.
The mockery came from the focus on storyline and canon in the Mario universe as a foundation for a number of your criticisms about a kid-oriented theme park land. That’s not mocking you. It’s dismissing your critique because it’s coming from a such detail-focused level it reads like you can’t see the forest for the trees. Whether you actually can or not, from the way I read them, did not originally come across in your posts.It was a good post, but it didn’t really apply to what I was saying. My point was, I’m tired of seeing extremist opinions. You can like something and still have reservations about aspects of it.
I will be *shocked* if the reception of Mario Kart from people who ride it is anything but positive. There will be the “theme park fans” who whinge about it forever probably, because they don’t want to look “wrong”. But I don’t foresee this being anything close to a flop. It may not be the greatest ride ever, who knows. But it will be wildly popular.So do we really think there's going to be a massive dissonance between judgments from the POVs and from when people actually ride it? I'm in the relative minority who's pleased by what I've seen, but if the reviews from people who have ridden turn out to be like the impressions from the POVs, then would they have to consider this a flop? Once again I'm pretty happy with what I've seen, possibly because A) I follow this stuff heavily like a lot of you and therefore knew it would be slow B) I'm not a big Nintendo fan C) I'm just thankful there's a lot of practical sets.
Expectations are a b. Like, I dream of a clone of FD with a similar theme/plot as Bride of Frankenstein Lives ("Dracula: The Escape" or something like that) but I know that people would be expecting a dark ride and would get all pissy when it's not that.