This is what the first Super Nintendo World attraction looks like

This is something many Nintendo fans have been waiting for: the first images of the interior of the Nintendo World Theme Park, the long-awaited new section of the Universal Studios park in Osaka. In case we don’t already have enough reasons to want to visit Japan …

The Nintendo park was announced in 2015 and has been under construction ever since. It was supposed to open its doors this year, but the covid-19 pandemic has delayed its opening like so many other things. Today, Universal Studios Japan It has finally confirmed a new opening date (February 2021) and has provided us with a series of official images of the park’s interior, specifically of the Mario Kart attraction, whose name is Koopa’s challenge. It sounds unbelievable.

Universal Studios Japan also released a short promotional video, barely a minute long. Bloomberg reporter Kirumi Mori posted a Twitter thread with her first impressions of the attraction.One of the things she mentioned is that go-kart drivers wear goggles. of augmented reality that will allow them to throw turtle shells against their rivals on the track. They can also pick up items. [USJ]