Super Nintendo World Japan Set to Open in February 2022

Universal Studios Japan revealed that the hotly-anticipated opening of its Super Nintendo Globe park finally has a release date. The official Twitter business relationship for Universal Studios Japan made the proclamation, sending out four new promotional photos out with the date reveal.

Several members of the press were invited to the park for a sneak peek at what it would take to offer. Inside, attendees were treated to a wide variety of different Mario-themed attractions, complete with custom artwork, a reconstruction of Bowser'south Castle, and a massive staircase with a bronze statue of Bowser at the pinnacle.

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2月4日(木)オープン決定🎉

最新鋭技術で実現した「マリオカート」をはじめ、日本が世界に誇る、任天堂ゲームの世界が現実に✨

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— ユニバーサル・スタジオ・ジャパン公式 (@USJ_Official) Nov 30, 2020

Along the walls, as IGN reports, are portraits of Bowser as well as emblems from the Mario Kart serial. At that place'south more than of Bowser's bear on along the doors, where you see Bowser's silhouette looking downwards at y'all. It'south clear that Super Nintendo World is all nearly making you experience as though you've actually stepped into a Mario game.

Perhaps the nearly interesting of the attractions is the AR-based Mario Kart: Koopa'due south Challenge, which lets riders strap into special karts that bring Mario Kart into the real world, using projection mapping to brand it experience like yous're actually careening forth Rainbow Road to victory.

At Mario Kart Station, riders put on a special headset that looks like Mario's hat consummate with an AR screen, and they're sabbatum 4 to a kart. Each passenger has a steering wheel, though information technology's unclear if everyone will accept control of their own unique AR experience or if it will be a grouping experience. According to Mario Kart: Koopa's Challenge executive producer Thomas Geraghty, headsets will exist sanitized later every use, and as such there will be additional COVID-xix measures in place.

Geraghty showed visitors a new Power Upwards Band and headset and stated that the team volition "bring the [Mario] story to life with Nintendo'southward very compelling characters" and "immerse guests into the globe of Nintendo with [the] augmented reality headset." There will be several opportunities for attendees to feel every bit though they're really throwing shells and racing through the Mushroom Kingdom while at Super Nintendo Globe.

Previously, Super Nintendo Earth was delayed past its initial opening day before the 2020 Tokyo Olympics were scheduled to have place this summer. COVID-19 fouled up those plans, only it looks like things are running at full speed to arroyo some type of normalcy at the park in the well-nigh futurity. While foreign visitors are still unable to visit Japan at the moment, some business visitors and foreign residents may visit the park. If the pandemic tin be kept at bay long enough, the plan is for the Japanese authorities to reopen to tourists afterwards in 2021.

There'southward no set up appointment for the Super Nintendo Globe park to open up in the United States simply even so.