The first US Super Nintendo World opens its doorways on February seventeenth

Nearly two years after Universal Studios opened its first Super Nintendo World park in Japan, the second will debut within the US as promised at Universal Studios Hollywood subsequent February. When it opens, there’ll solely be one trip, the augmented reality-enhanced Mario Kart: Bowser’s Challenge.

When we tried out the model within the Japan park, we skilled “an AR action game set on a go-kart track, where you’re drifting through the virtual course and firing virtual shells at virtual opponents — as the kart moves through the track in real life.”

According to Universal Studios, it’s constructed to be a repeatable trip with loads of interactivity and “a variety of outcomes.” It doesn’t seem that the opposite trip within the Japan park, a Yoshi’s Adventure prepare trip, will make the soar forward of this park’s opening.

Super Nintendo World™ takes you into the world of Super Mario™. Battle Team Bowser on the groundbreaking Mario Kart™ trip, dine at Toadstool Cafe™, and degree up with themed merch.

Other than Mario Kart, the park, like its Japanese counterpart, has one different essential hook: the Power-Up Bands attendees put on on their wrists to maintain observe of scores, both individually or as a part of groups, and unlock keys by finishing challenges within the park. There’s additionally Toadstool Cafe the place you may seize a Mario-themed chew to eat and different merchandising components centered round Bowser’s Castle, which accommodates the Mario Kart trip.

You can expertise all of it your self when it opens on Friday, February seventeenth.