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Anyone who thinks they can do this AR Mario Kart ride at home is truly underestimating this ride
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This is a technology that is still in its infancy, and this is the MOST advanced use of it so far. Plus this will be the first time many people will experience true AR. I've put a HoloLens on before at demo's and that was nowhere near as impressive as what I'm seeing on a phone screen. More so than anything about this land the AR is what gets me excited. This theme park land is using technology that has never properly been mass-available like VR with The Void or an OCULUS, this is literally a huge technological advancement as a ride.
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AR isn't what I'm talking about
I'll bet a coke without riding the ride its fun but in now way as exciting as Mario Kart 8.
Once again, this would be like giving us a Link Crossbow training game and calming because its AR that makes it better. I'm sure its fun but in no way its it a Mario Kart ride to the fullest, that would coaster with AR tech that allows you to interact.
I know people like to be positive but as a fan of Mario Kart, I can tell you this is not what myself of fans of the game series for 20 years would have done with a ride. If non fans of the game don't care cool but as a fan of the series this looks like fun but didn't even need to be mario kart...could have been just a mario ride.
Reading the comments, because of the theming level, I was hoping rides were also just quality and weren't making excuses (the land is amazing and makes no excuses it just does what it needs to to look and feel mario)
I would have rather this been a Generic Mario ride and added a Mario Kart ride when they had the tech or money to do it 100% right.I guess they can only make you feel like your in the movie...but games are still out of there reach. Mario Kart in no way is like Mid way mania.
I'll bet a coke without riding the ride its fun but in now way as exciting as Mario Kart 8.
Once again, this would be like giving us a Link Crossbow training game and calming because its AR that makes it better. I'm sure its fun but in no way its it a Mario Kart ride to the fullest, that would coaster with AR tech that allows you to interact.
I know people like to be positive but as a fan of Mario Kart, I can tell you this is not what myself of fans of the game series for 20 years would have done with a ride. If non fans of the game don't care cool but as a fan of the series this looks like fun but didn't even need to be mario kart...could have been just a mario ride.
Just because they have not been done yet, doesn't mean they can't be.
Reading the comments, because of the theming level, I was hoping rides were also just quality and weren't making excuses (the land is amazing and makes no excuses it just does what it needs to to look and feel mario)
I would have rather this been a Generic Mario ride and added a Mario Kart ride when they had the tech or money to do it 100% right.I guess they can only make you feel like your in the movie...but games are still out of there reach. Mario Kart in no way is like Mid way mania.
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I will like to remind people they're basing this on mediocre footage of 1 minute of the ride, with part of that 1 minute being the part before unload.
Ahhhh, the internet. Home of the clueless angrylytical foamer.
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Mario Kart 8 is one of the best games in the series and very fun, but cannot be compared to this in any way other than theming and atmosphere imo.
And even then it looks really well-done for what we saw.
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Hold up. Changing my Twitter display name.
That's a decent comparison actually. Highly anticipated racing franchise put into a slow moving dark ride with effects to simulate speed.
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Mild spoiler based on the POV video:
I wonder if the "flying" portion of rainbow road will feel like you are floating through the air instead of just the same car on a track physical feeling? Or if the movement isn't any different, it's just the visuals of the screen to give the effect.
When I first heard they were developing the MK ride, my first thought was the long jump in Royal Raceway from MK64. How cool it would be to see a huge physical set and fly above it in a car. I guess the only way to pull that off is using screens and a dark race course like Rainbow Road. Which didn't look as bright and cheery of a rainbow as what I remember...but hopefully it's fun and you still feel like you are making a big jump.
I wonder if the "flying" portion of rainbow road will feel like you are floating through the air instead of just the same car on a track physical feeling? Or if the movement isn't any different, it's just the visuals of the screen to give the effect.
When I first heard they were developing the MK ride, my first thought was the long jump in Royal Raceway from MK64. How cool it would be to see a huge physical set and fly above it in a car. I guess the only way to pull that off is using screens and a dark race course like Rainbow Road. Which didn't look as bright and cheery of a rainbow as what I remember...but hopefully it's fun and you still feel like you are making a big jump.
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The big, high-tech ones of recent years are 100% Disney developed. Less complicated AAs are usually outsourced to Garner
I totally get what you are saying and agree to an extent, also as a fan of Mario Kart and Nintendo in general. I also wonder if they’d have been better off building an immersive Mario dark ride based around the games like Odyssey or Galaxy. An adventure to get the star and defeat bowser kind of thing.
Many will have an expectation and I fear this won’t quite fit it. But I am sure it will be great fun all the same.
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This is literally the chat that everyone on this site has prophesied for the past couple months. I can’t tell if it’s satire or not.
Anyway, I still have no idea on how that entire sequence at the end is pulled off. It’s mind blowing. Are the carts moving forward the entire time? Are there screens in front of us? Is it all AR? How does the finish line just morph into a set piece? Ahh!
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If people wanted ET’s adventure for this ride, you have Yoshi and eventually DK for your AA fetish, this seems to quite literally be the most immersive thing possibly out there, the ending is just unreal. The fact that people are complaining thinking it’s just a screen are underestimating the Augmented Reality part of this attraction.
Edit: Also there is like 10 other scenes, literally.
Edit: Also there is like 10 other scenes, literally.
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Legitimately the only people who would have wanted a passive dark ride experience over a highly interactive Mario Kart experience are posting on theme park forums.
Shooter rides are insanely popular and always rate highly on guest satisfaction. I will be amazed if this isn’t the highest rated ride at every resort it opens at
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Gonna Uni fan boy for a minute but hear me out:
Why I don’t want a “classic dark ride” for any of theseE tickets is that I feel I can get that at Disney. As I’ve said on here before, while Disney surely has their fair share of interactive rides, I find their rides are more “Look at this! Okay, next!” Where Univeral does such a better job putting you into the action of our favorite franchises.
So, for a video game about high speed racing, creating a land solely for familiea, while I couldn’t have come up with AR myself, it’s so beyond fitting now it’s just ridiculous. If these were all AAs I think we’d be bored. Didn’t people not enjoy the Yoshi POV? I’m not sure what people want sometimes.
Everyone wants a classic style dark ride until they’re at Islands and never ride Cat in the Hat.
