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@AtlanteanMan
Sir, this is a Wendy's.

@Chris55
Mario Kart will be that ride that you're hoping for with its AR elements that's never been done before along with all the interactivity points that require you to solve puzzles to get to the final boss compared to the comparatively simplistic wands that required you to do a motion and then a thing would happen.

Most theme park sections these days only open with one really big ride and one or two more simplistic rides. I. E Cars Land with Radiator Springs Racers and the two flat rides and Harry Potter with two decade old rollercoasters.

This is meant to be a sight seeing tour with no height limit that has very high capacity that gives some kinetic movement to the land. It's basically the Peoplemover, but with traditional Omnimover vehicles.

Mario Kart will be the real E Ticket if y'all don't want a kiddie ride. Or go on any of the other thrill rides like Forbidden Journey, Hollywood Dream The Ride, or the Flying Dinosaur.

If you just hate seeing this ride, Universal Hollywood will not have Yoshi, only Mario Kart Bowser's Challenge. They've already used the ride system for the Secret Lives of of Pets dark ride.

Also hopefully ride footage of Mario Kart Koopa's Challenge comes soon!

Neat how the wheelchair accessible vehicles are themed to Yoshi Eggs.

@rjejr
Definitely not an animatronic for either, there's pictures of Toad walking to his meet and greet spot with markers around him and being able to move around like any normal character. And Princess Peach has been shown to move around her gazebo and pose just like any person could.
Here's a gallery of pics:
https://www.themeparx.com/universal-studios-japan-expansion/?page=1

If these were animatronics they'd be bolted down to the ground with giant rails around them so people couldn't destroy the million dollar robots.

@nessisonett
Y can't banjo kazoo walk up slope?

"Hey Kazooie, I think we're on the wrong Nintendo console."
"What makes you think that, the Miiverse icon or the Pushmo World"
"Well..."

@PoorGeno
I'm guessing that the performer's head is actually in the cap with the red mushroom spot being what they look out of. Arms are controlled with sticks.

C'mon Nintendo stop being cowards, give Toad some legs like Hudson did!

I got deja vu from looking at this list and yep majority of the entries were on last year's list.

@matdub
Talking about those in particular who are on the Sega hate bandwagon until Nintendo sues/DMCAs something.

Hey look an article that will make Nintendo fans like Sega for like 10 minutes so that they can say Sonic Mania proves Sega is better than Nintendo or whatever.

And then proceed to buy 5 Nintendo games next year and ignore Sega's offerings.

@LilMuku
I'm not talking about Fortnite, Epic isn't just the Fortnite company after all.

TL;DR Epic's game store is not known for being pro-consumer. Thanks to paying for third party exclusives, always online DRM, and possibly even spyware injected in the program etc.

@LilMuku
Maybe Epic should try to be pro-consumer themselves on the Epic Game Store before trying to rally others against an "anti-consumer" cause?

Glad to not join the "Civil Rights March of our generation" as you call it, Tim Sweeney!

@HeyItsFlapjack
Could see AC replacing Snoopy or Sesame Street at the kid's zone for USJ, Universal Wonderland.

@Savino
Two rides:
Mario Kart Bowser's Challenge: the ride that Miyamoto was walking through the queue at the end of the presentation. Similar idea to RSR at California Adventure, but winning is based on using the items and drifting at the right time.

Yoshi's Adventure: An outdoor omnimover which has some dark ride scenes based on the Yoshi's Island games. Yellow pipe at the base of Beanpole Mountain that serves at the entrance can be seen behind Miyamoto plus the larger sized Yoshi ride vehicles can be seen too.

Donkey Kong has also started construction which will have a roller coaster where you "jump the tracks".

@Gerald
Very appropriate comment considering what came out of Star Wars today.
🤣

For anyone who's worried about the size, it should have around the same walkable area as Diagon Alley at Universal Orlando.

Especially helped by the retail space that is on the subterranean level (such as the Toad House restaurant and the POW/Question Block factory themed shop).

@Grumblevolcano
They were never going to announce new major games releasing months from now a week before Christmas.

Plus I wouldn't be surprised if this was set up contractually back in the Iwata era when there were much more directs per year.

@Rifuzilla
It will initially (other than possible Pikmin references?).

Likely if SNW is successful in Florida they'll have multiple areas in different parks similar to Harry Potter (Wizarding World, Diagon Alley, and if Epic Universe still happens Fantastic Beasts).

Zelda was rumored to replace Lost Continent and Pokémon Kidz Zone, but that was before COVID made everything messy.

@Anti-Matter
Here's a list of rumored Mario Kart locations represented in Mario kart: Koopa's Challenge
Bowser's Castle (Entrance and queue, Dungeon, and start line)
Some type of Canyon course (Bone Dry Dunes? Cheese Land?)
Piranha Plant Pipeline
Dolphin Shoals
Twisted Mansion
Grumble Volcano
Cloudtop Cruise
Rainbow Road

Sorry no Baby Park.

@Aslanmagic
They'll probably announce the speculative opening date for it at Universal Studios Hollywood with concept art and maybe the new plans for SNW at Orlando if it is really being moved inside the main studios park.

I know it says no game content, but Universal and Nintendo have been hyping the connectiveness between SNW and Nintendo's consoles for some time. I don't think it's coincidence that the SM3DW port is coming out the same time as this is opening at USJ when both have a ride/mode where Bowser is heavily prominent.

@nessisonett
To be fair, optimistically the one in Hollywood won't be open until after the vaccine is very widely distributed (winter 2021/ summer 2022).
Who knows when Florida will be open.
Plus Japan's doing pretty good last I heard when it comes to controlling COVID and they've had their theme parks open for months.

@Anti-Matter
As of right now the Switch's SNES emulator doesn't support 4 players which is a big part of that game.
Not that it couldn't be patched in.

EDIT: I guess it has been added in since one of the Japan exclusive games is 4 player!

@JaxonH
Even when the Nintwitter community isn't outraged about something, it's still not a pleasant to read. It's just the same memes reposted over and over time and begging for something else unrelated to the post.

There's honestly more insight in the average Nintendo video's comment section on Youtube and that's really sad.

Nintendo's Twitter account- giving the illusion of communication between Nintendo and its fans since 2007.

@TG16_IS_BAE
You don't see what the poor lower class rising up against a privileged richer class has anything to do with A. Racism and B. Modern American party lines vs. that of Twain's time?

Reason I bring those specific examples up, because both were very controversial statements Twain made in his day

Especially in his later part of his life, Twain was all for the underdog, those oppressed by the rich and powerful (sound familiar?) He often got labeled as a socialist, because of his firm belief in equality.

Other than some dated passages from books over a century old, what makes you think Twain wouldn't be considered a liberal today?

@TG16_IS_BAE
Do you think the majority of the American Conservatives today would agree that the peasants in the French Revolution did nothing wrong when they rose up against the rich or believe that Christian missionaries are just the first stage to bring imperialism to foreign countries?

@TG16_IS_BAE
Why would someone who was considered a very liberal progressive in his day be a white supremacist?

@nessisonett
I count at least four games in the trailer (1944, 19XX, Cyberbots, and Progear) from being post-1994.
While there's no way to be 100% certain, I think Darkstalkers has a high chance of being part of the initial lineup (assuming there'll be further packs down the line) and maybe one version of SF III.
If this gets future expansions, I could see them doing Marvel and Psikyo themed packs. SF III would be a definite if they do add ons.

@Kalmaro
Similar to Mega Man, he'd be a projectile heavy character. Specials would be based on the weapons you pick up (Bonfire, Crossbow, Triblade, Scythe would all be strong choices). Up recovery would be tough, but I'm sure Sakurai could think of something.

His standard attacks would include a few more weapon references (with his standard attack being the knife) along with some moves from the MvC series version of Arthur.

Final Smash would be the Golden suit.

Was hoping to see him in Smash, but this is very cool too.

@AlienX
Hard disagree about Capcom. IMO, there's at least another half dozen Capcom franchises that deserve character representation.

For everyone who acted like a Fortnite character being the next character was the surest thing that could happen:
https://youtu.be/qZHah1j2vqM

Start lickin' your download codes tonight, Fortnite fans.

Arthur would be cool just for the sake of having an awesome stage based on Ghouls N' Ghosts.

@Gus_Campos
I'm curious, is the lineup as terrible for the PS4/XBOX One in China (i.e less than 10 games on each)?

@May_Nyan
Hypothetically, imagine you're J.K Rowling in a world without copyright. You have written the first Harry Potter and (assuming contracts still work in this world somehow) you've gotten a publisher to publish the book without copying and ripping you off.

It's a success and Warner Bros. wants to make a movie version of it, but change several things that gets rid of the "spirit of Harry Potter". You of course reject, but you can't stop them because you don't actually have any exclusive right to the property.

Warner Bros. makes Harry Potter Meets the Care Bears and it's a huge box office success. You've been blacklisted in Hollywood, because you're seen as a trouble maker. All of Hollywood makes hit after hit on unofficial Harry Potter sequels while you're forced to work retail to make ends meet (despite creating the most famous character of all time) no one cares about the official Harry Potter sequels, because the movie Potter is now the "real Potter".

There's still plenty of ways for an individual artist to be screwed over by the big corporations. Sure artists work couldn't technically be taken away from them, but it could be stolen without even ever having worked for them because no one has a copyright.

Also on your last point, individual artists can exist right now without the backing of a large company. We live in a golden age of media that doesn't have to be overseen by corporates backer.

What stops from most directors like Christopher Nolan hopping ship even right now? It all boils down to money.

The big media empires, even in a world without copyright, would still have all the dough. A company like Disney or EA might even be richer as they don't have to buy companies anymore to get the games they can just release the stuff on their own.

It'd take years for an individual artist to make enough dough to fund a multi million picture in what would take a studio a day. Artists would still need to go through the mainstream entertainment industry to create art that can successfully grab people's attention through marketing, excellent production values, correct distribution, etc.

And no, abolishing companies and establishing communism wouldn't fix this problem. But that's a topic that really shouldn't be discussed here for the sake of moderators, like @Eel.

@May_Nyan
You said "support no companies" and I asked the obvious question that if you literally support no companies.

Have you looked into countries that consider themselves socialist that seems like one way to opt out of the capitalist system?

@May_Nyan
I assume you grow your own food and live under a roof you built yourself?

@EmmatheBest
Considering it's a holiday week where they're probably selling tons of Switches and games (as normally expected for any console maker in November-December) there's probably been plenty of worse weeks for Nintendo (like losing Iwata and the aftermath, announcement that the Wii U underperformed, E3 2003, etc.)

Maybe worse week for the PR of their legal team though. For good publicity they should C&D something relatively non-controversial like a fan game. LOL

@Agramonte
Not counting the Nintendo collaborations published by another company with the Pokémon Company and Koei Tecmo, there's 5 publishers represented on this list.

While in the US in October (the latest month that has sales data from the NPD) has 6 publishers represented. Not some huge difference.

Disney to their lawyers: "You may fire when ready."

#SaveCrashBash

@outsider83
Epic Universe would've been the third park at Universal Orlando. A clone of Super Nintendo World was confirmed for the park. It would've been 50/50 licensed properties (Nintendo and Fantastic Beasts) and in-house Universal properties (Monsters and How To Train Your Dragon).

With Epic Universe likely being indefinitely delayed, Universal is rumored to build SNW in one of its two existing Florida parks.

@outsider83
Zelda and Pokémon were both rumored as future expansions for Universal Orlando before COVID hit.

Now in the aftermath it's likely (due to Epic Universe being indefinitely delayed) that the focus is on finding a new place for the main Mario area.

@Eel
This is the way.

@n0v4
The Game & Watch has three games (Mario 1, Lost Levels, and Ball), though Ball is simple as they come so I wouldn't blame you for not counting it.
But still, it's not one game.

For anyone interested in this, Sam's Club in the US is also offering a Capcom cocktail table for $10 less with 12 games. Includes all the pre-SF Alpha SF games + Darkstalkers, 1944, Ghosts N' Goblins, etc.
IMO, much better deal for the price even if you lose Puzzle Fighter for the original SF, but I'd say the weakest part of the selection for the cocktail.