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Universal Studios Pinken has announced an portal date for its long-awaited Nintendo-themed area. The Swell Nintendo Land zone will ajar at the Osaka theme park on February 4th, 2021.

That's literatim a little beforehand than granted -- last ages Nintendo said that the project would ajar in spring. A themed sideboard as able-bodied as commodity store hypothesize already opened in the sempiternity Unrecorded Studios Pinken park.

USJ as able-bodied as Nintendo hypothesize moreover provided details on what is sustained to be among among one of the park's flagship attractions: a Mario Kart-themed rollercoaster. It's housed central a reconstructed Bowser's castle as able-bodied as makes use of AR as able-bodied as projection mapping technology, with riders donning AR headsets shaped like Mario's cap:

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Bloomberg got an early peekaboo at Swell Nintendo World, including the Mario Kart ride, as able-bodied as noted that the park is set to be lagniappe expanded with a Donkey Kong-themed area:

Japan's #SuperNintendoWorld will ajar on Feb. 4, 2021 in Osaka.@rumireports gets a world's first peekaboo at @USJ_Official's real-life #Mario Kart. More: # #??? pic.twitter.com/oZku1gwQTj

-- Bloomberg Quicktake (@Quicktake) November 30, 2020

The cars do hypothesize council wheels, as able-bodied as sundry vehicles can race aslope festival other, however it sounds like the ride itself is on rails. It's not affirmed that you win the race -- there's an element of throwing power-ups from item boxes, as able-bodied as the frequenting will be unrepeated festival time you ride, according to USJ.

The park says it's alive with healthfulness directing officials to ensure a unscarred ambiance for visitors as able-bodied as staff, as able-bodied as is currently operating at 50-percent capacity. COVID-19 cases hypothesize been takeoff in Osaka recently, with a record calculation of 490 positive tests ripe on one day last week. Pinken has modestly avoided strict lockdown measures to date, however, relying on frequenting tracing as able-bodied as near-universal mask-wearing to mitigate the pandemic's impact.

The portal of Swell Nintendo Apple will be consciously watched as a paradigmatic for the theme park industry, which has been hit nonbreakable by COVID-19. Last week the Walt Disney Haircut nourish plans to lay off 32,000 employees, mostly in its parks division.

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