▼ The entrance to the underground level–the wall at the far end is a touchscreen where you can pick up a fire flower from the block and shoot at some koopa paratroopas. The best example can be found in the underground level, where the design does an amazingly good job of simulating getting hit by a bob-omb and shrinking down to non-supersize.
However, video game elements are here too and Super Nintendo World makes frequent use of projection mapping, touch screens, and good old fashioned practical effects. The staff here don’t refer to these as games, but “activities” because rather than feed into the stereotype that video games are just people sitting on their butts, most of the attractions here involve a lot of moving around. Here, players must race around the many clocks and stop their alarms so that the plant goes to sleep. got his first key, but two more would be needed to enter the castle of Bowser Jr.Īnother key was gotten by facing off against the giant piranha plant. If you can time your chain reaction so that the final POW block sends the shell through the vertical pipe and into the blue POW block, the key is yours. At the same time, a koopa shell is sliding back and forth through the green pipe. In this one, people with a Power Up Band can punch the POW block in the foreground which will create a chain reaction with the other two blocks. ▼ USJ doesn’t want us to spoil all the fun of finding and solving these activities, so we’ll just show you a couple. More important than that are they keys, which can be acquired by completing certain activities. Coins are just one of the things you can collect in various parts of this area. It’s not just sound either, as each time a coin is popped it gets registered on your smartphone profile. You probably noticed some question mark blocks and brick blocks in the photos above, and those all actually work! Those with a wrist band can try their luck and give one a good old-fashioned Mario jump punch in the hopes a coin sound will ring. However, if you don’t have a band, you’ll just get a disappointing buzzer sound. Some attractions might have robot characters like a pirate unrealistically swinging his sword back and forth to infinity.īut when it comes to Mario, moving back and forth is exactly what these creatures and objects are supposed to do, so it makes perfect sense! That’s when this amusement park fusion with a video game really dawned on me as something clever. However, these pictures don’t really do justice to the fact that most things you see are moving. Blocks hover here and there and an assortment of goombas, koopas, and even Pokey the cactus thing from Super Mario World was there too. You’ll be pleased to hear that USJ really went all out in creating the Mario atmosphere. ▼ And yes, the pipe does make the sound effect when you walk throughĪfter getting dropped off in the lobby of Princess Peach’s castle, we emerge to get an eyeful of the entire world. First, let’s step through the pipe and enter Super Nintendo World! You can choose your avatar’s pose and enter your name, but we’ll explain more about what it does later. The bands sync up with your smartphone using the Universal Studios app so you can keep track of your progress in the sections. They come in styles based on all the major Mario protagonists, and while they aren’t necessary to enjoy the area, they do add a lot to the experience. These are the Power Up Bands that can be purchased at the entrance or inside the section for 3,200 yen (US$29). You might notice the band on the wrist of P.K. This was to be a two-player tour with myself and our resident Pok émon expert P.K. games into reality, and USJ has been kind enough to invite SoraNews24 for an intimate look at this colorful new world. This section promises a way to bring all the fun of the Super Mario Bros. It’s been a long hard road, but the highly anticipated Super Nintendo World section of Universal Studios Japan has been set to finally open on 18 March. Blow your warp whistle and hop on this whirlwind tour of all that Universal Studios Japan’s newest section has to offer.
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