Located inside Bowser’s Castle, the attraction starts setting the scene as soon as you enter its gates. Against that backdrop, let’s roll into our ride review! Mario Kart is an actual video game franchise with one of the world’s most recognizable characters by a beloved studio with an ardent fanbase. The stakes are much higher here than with Toy Story game rides. Without question, Mario Kart is Super Nintendo World’s main draw–and a ride that’ll be endlessly scrutinized by theme park and video game fans for not comporting with their exact expectations and preconceived notions. Honestly, it’s not really a racer, either. Ironically enough, the Mario Kart ride is not a glorified Nintendo Switch game. For all of our criticism, we also do them a lot. With these harsh assessments, we also recognize that gamified rides are incredibly popular with guests. For our part, we’ve called Toy Story Mania a glorified Wii game and Web Slingers: A Spider-Man Adventure a glorified Xbox Kinect attraction. As a general matter, it seems that these rides are graded on a curve by casual guests and overly-harshly by hardcore fans. Then there are the interactive rides that are actual games, which have been even more successful. Going back even further, the case could be made that Peter Pan’s Flight has enduring popularity for some of the same reasons. Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance is largely successful for the way it puts guests in the center of the action, having an engaging and dynamic quality unlike most passive attractions. Not always in the “gamified” sense of the term, either. One thing of which I’ve become acutely aware thanks to this site and reader feedback is that the future of theme parks is interactive. As part of Team Mario, guests steer through a sampling of courses from Mario Kart’s 30-year history to compete for the Golden Cup while collecting coins and defeating enemies to beat Team Bowser. The premise of Mario Kart: Bowser’s Challenge is simple but challenging, appealing to guests of all ages regardless of gaming experience, according to Universal. Set against a multi-sensory backdrop of color, sound and movement, guests are seated in stadium-style, four-seat vehicles as they navigate familiar courses with the integration of head-mounted AR goggles. Universal describes Mario Kart: Bowser’s Challenge as an all-new, technologically-advanced ride that seamlessly fuses cutting-edge augmented reality (AR) with projection mapping technology and actual set pieces along a moving ride track.
This spoiler-free ride review offers our assessment, how it compares to other video game shooters and racers, and other thoughts & commentary. Mario Kart: Bowser’s Challenge is an attraction in Super Nintendo World coming to Universal Studios Hollywood and Epic Universe in Orlando, and now open as Koopa’s Challenge in Japan.
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