Nintendo Coming to Universal Parks

[JoeCamel]

I believe half of these may be correct. Nicely done. Although, a MK ride kinda writes itself. There’s some staples as well as fan favorites you gotta involve to make everyone happy.

And I believe it’ll be kinda like a “best of” type thing, but technically only one race... even though we pass through many locales.

Also, this is new:

As @chickenlilchip says "follow the poop"!

 

[Scott W.]

Every time I decide to catch up on this thread.

 

[GAcoaster]

Heard something weird today...

I had someone "in the know" tell me that Curious George is staying but just getting re-themed as Kirby.

 

[Mad Dog]

Every time I decide to catch up on this thread.

Heh, where did you get Universal's secret test video of the Yoshii omnimover ride?

 

[Scott W.]

Heh, where did you get Universal's secret test video of the Yoshii omnimover ride?

It was in the original pitch. :look:

 

[Alicia]

Heard something weird today...

I had someone "in the know" tell me that Curious George is staying but just getting re-themed as Kirby.

Not anything I’ve seen any evidence of. Donkey Kong be going there.

 

[JungleSkip]

Heard something weird today...

I had someone "in the know" tell me that Curious George is staying but just getting re-themed as Kirby.

Pretty sure that’s right in the middle of Donkey Kong, so I seriously doubt that

 

[GAcoaster]

I know, that's what I had seen/heard too, but someone else saw some plans that showed a re-theme instead.

 

[fryoj]

It should be "Super Nintendo World" just like Japan.

I think it's also very likely that we'll eventually have a similar naming scheme to the Wizarding World where the sections in the various parks have their own subtitles:
- "Super Nintendo World - Mushroom Kingdom"
- "Super Nintendo World - Zelda's Kingdom of Hyrule"
- "Super Nintendo World - Some Pokemon Crap"

I'd buy a "SNW - Some Pokemon Crap" shirt. Otherwise.... no.



And not to derail the thread thats already in the ditch more than it is, but how Ironic would a Roller Coaster Tycoon land in a theme park be?

 

[Alicia]

I know, that's what I had seen/heard too, but someone else saw some plans that showed a re-theme instead.

Thanks for relaying the info. I’ll keep my ears out. So far I’ve heard no mention of Kirby since the early pitch.

 

[Imperius]

I’ve never been to the ball factory but I know you shoot balls which could easily be switched to Kirby sucking up things and shooting them out.

 

[Mike S]

Pretty sure that’s right in the middle of Donkey Kong, so I seriously doubt that

Oh you just know Curious George is going to be hidden somewhere in Donkey Kong Country as a small nod. It wouldn’t exactly be out of place either. For those who don’t know it’s just a random monkey that’s not one of the main Kongs.

 

[Frank Drackman]

I'm going to ride MK on 2/1/??!!

 

[chickenlilchip]

Heard something weird today...

I had someone "in the know" tell me that Curious George is staying but just getting re-themed as Kirby.

That's entirely possible under the limited plans we've got so far, but I was thinking it was more likely that Fieval would be rethemed to Kirby because, and I don't remember why, I was under the impression the Kirby stuff was going to be a splash pad.

 

[jrn14]

I'd imagine they could reuse some pieces of the attractions here and there , but I feel like it would probably cost more to preserve and "retheme" a lot of that stuff considering most of it seems pretty specific to Curious George/Fivel. Plus I'm sure they would like to have full access to the whole zone for construction purposes rather than working around a giant jungle gym. It would just seem like more work than it's worth.

Seems like this would difficult to "retheme" and would it be worth it?

 

[Alicia]

I’ve not seen, nor heard, any indication that any play areas will be spared. As far as I’ve heard, the entire KidZone area will be flattened and started over.

 

[JungleSkip]

Keeping the play areas makes 0 sense. They're not saving much money by doing it, and they'd have to build around them.

Would be easier to just build new ones in the land, as they're probably doing with Donkey Kong.

 

[Legacy]

A Kirby splash pad would actually work well.

A Yoshi’s Island splash pad would work better.

 

[Parkscope Joe]

Keeping the play areas makes 0 sense.

Same. Why keep it? Cost savings? It’s like everyone saying DK would be a rethemed Woodie Woodpecker.

 

[DK745]

Same. Why keep it? Cost savings? It’s like everyone saying DK would be a rethemed Woodie Woodpecker.

They're going to level everything and build new attractions/themed area but they can't afford to take down the play area so they'll just re-use it...