I managed to visit Super Nintendo World in Universal Studios Hollywood and while overall a positive experience, there are some negatives to discuss as well.
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I am so damn exhausted with everything in theme parks going to a reservation system
so empty, it's NEVER like that here at USJ.
They should make a real mario kart track with electric karts someday.
The problem with it being a game is that the actual game is way better. They were supposed to bring the game to reality, not make an inferior "best we could do" game. It's slow. So slow. They could have used smaller two-seaters on a slot track and done something better. When I first saw the tech for the Donkey coaster before it was announced, I thought for sure that was going to be for Mario Kart so they could give you the jump feeling. I understand that it really wasn't designed for my 46 year old ass, but I've literally grown up with Mario and that ride is a huge disappointment. Saying it's good because it has gameplay is like saying Fast & Furious is good because it's a movie and its IP is a movie. That probably sounds a bit more obnoxious than intended, but I had envisioned something so completely different that this is even more jarringly disappointing than that awful web-slingers ride.
Do you think that the Epic Universe rendition will be better? improve on anything you thought was poor?
Were those Pikmin in one of those clips? https://youtu.be/JnL-IAuYshA?t=981
Absolutely minor thing that annoys the living crap out of me:
USJ is in Osaka, not in Tokyo
So I work at USH and from what ive been told one of the main reasons they take so long to load the guests is because if they go fast and load everyone quickly what can happen is that a restraint is improperly secured and if that happens the rides safety system will kick in and not allow them to launch that vehicle. However this can cause a massive problem where if one of the vehicles refuses to launch but the rest of the vehicles are "launched" it causes everything to desync which then causes the whole ride to go down cause it thinks there is a major error and will basicly have the ride attempt to reboot itself which causes its only set of problems. The ride going out of sync is the number one reason why the ride goes down offten especially on busy days.
Was there a week and a half ago. A few points to add that I noticed:
Ride itself was fine. Not worth the 3 hour wait ever again, but fun. Issue i had was with the field of view with the AR. Looking straight ahead, I could see the edges of the projections which I found very distracting. Glasses needed to be slightly wider or more wrap around. Not sure if I just got a bad pair of glasses or if it was just me based on my one ride experience (nobody else on my group complained about characters getting cut off).
Land lacked places to explore, making it feel small. I felt like I saw most everything from the central courtyard. Compare that to Diagon which seemed huge on my first visit, mostly because I couldn't see the entire land from the moment I entered.
Maintenance seemed to be lacking already. I'm afraid to see this land in a year or two. Lots of the interactive bits for the power up bands weren't recognizing the bands. There were planters around Peach's Castle that were bare dirt or looked like a kid came through and ripped out the landscaping, then threw the uprooted plants back in. Stuff like that in the newest part of the park was disappointing.
Overall, fun part of the park but not without it's faults.
maybe not scripted but outlined in the future
Luigi Burger is a CHICKEN burger because Luigi is easily scared… he's a chicken! AH!
Space is ALWAYS going to be an issue with Universal Hollywood. Each specialized area (i.e. Wizarding World's Hogsmeade, Springfield, and now Super Mario Land) is always going to have the issue of them not reaching their full potential because there's just not enough space to fit exciting new things like coasters or a wide variety of interactive elements without taking something out.
I feel like if they had just got rid of the Transformers ride it would have given them more leeway to add more to the area (Transformers is my least favorite ride, so I wouldn't miss it if that meant a bigger area for the additional land. I would love to see the Wizarding World expand too, getting rid of the Waterworld stunt show and converting it into Diagon Ally would be great even if it's just a diet version compared to Florida's.
Universal Hollywood's compact shape is both a blessing and a curse to me. I love that I don't feel rushed to get a bunch of rides done with before they get to that 1 hour mark with wait times because there's only like 4 out of like 9 rides (not including attractions like the studio tour and all that) that I ALWAYS want to do anytime I visit. The lack of rides gives me time to go to the 3 Broomsticks and just chill and soak in the ambiance. I always feel relaxed after a visit to Universal, as opposed to Disneyland where I feel stressed out because there are a bunch of rides that are my go-to rides I want to get on and I have to rush to finish my list before the park closes leaving very little time to just sit down and take a breather.
It really isn’t great unfortunately it’s too small the interaction is too scripted and the attractions feel more like they’re a replacement for the Seuss rides than anything else which is unfortunate
eh, i support having to queue again if you fail at those mini games. otherwise, people would keep losing them on purpose just to be able to keep playing, which means the people behind them would have to wait even longer.
Something my sister mentioned when we were discussing Epic Universe is she felt super nintendo world wont look good.
I thought they did a great job making the place look like its right out of the games, to which she clarified, she didnt actually mean looking good now/on opening. Instead she meant in a couple years, the florida weather she felt would be a much more noticable effect on such massive heavily saturated cartoony colors. Which gotta say, she has a point, they will have to be up to date on the maintaining of it to keep that fresh cartoony look all the time.
I’ve never been super impressed by any food at Universal so I don’t expect to be blown away. But I want to try the cafe anyway. I really miss Wolfgang Pucks in Universal Citywalk.
One question, if you don’t have the band before you go into the land.. can you not get the reservation at all or can you also scan the barcode on your phone?
I went to Nintendo World at Universal Japan a few months ago and it was alright. It feels like you're in a mario level but I didn't like the rides.
Universal should buy and theme one of those Boston dynamics robots and have it jump around the facade
Great unscripted video! As always you bring up many excellent points positive and negative concerning Super Nintendo World in Universal Studios Hollywood. I think I like the fact they have slow moving rides and the biggest concern I have at this time is when I will be able to get to see both the Universal Hollywood and Florida Super Nintendo World.
I appreciate your thoughts! A lot of YouTubers have been blindly praising the land, which I understand since it does look very impressive and fun! But constructive criticism is important–especially when you're paying so much $$ going to Universal. Thanks for this!
I wish they made it more like the cars ride at dca. But I think belive it is a fun and in innovative ride.
I recently visited Universal Studios Japan (located in Osaka) and I do have to say it looks as if Super Nintendo World in California is definitely inferior. Of course space is a problem but hopefully it won’t affect attendance to Epic Universe
Just take a picture of the qr code for toadstool and reserve at home for a next day visit. That is a thing that is able to do, as I tried it when bringing some folks over. Got up from bed and around 8 scan the code and book a spot.
Seriously if you expect to experience this land the way it should, come during none peak seasons. Call off work, pull your kids from a school day, otherwise don't complain why it gets crazy when you decide to come during a time you feel is more appropriate.
Thank you for the comment about just being able to ride Mario Cart and film it like that. I have photosensitivity issues that would have made it impossible. This was the first video I've watched when I' e been able to see the ride.
And I get your point Hollywood didn't have a lot of space to do things and they created spaces they didn't do anything with.
Also, why hasn't a pipe slide play place for adults been created?
I would have rather they incorporated some real greenery / topiary and water features rather than have everything constructed in the same plastic feeling concrete. I just find it too harsh for the California/Florida sun and feel they could have still created immersion – even added more kinetic energy with some nice shaded shrubs and cool running streams
With the coin blocks, there should be a 30% chance at some point you could collect a power up to make more incentive to hit the blocks.
I went to Universal Studios Hollywood two weeks ago and my least favorite part of the trip was Nintendo World. It was crowded and chaotic and the only reason I even entered the land was to ride the Mario Kart attraction as part of my VIP tour. The ride was okay, but I simply wasn’t the key demographic for it. Jurassic World, Harry Potter, Earthquake on the tram tour were my jams. I was glad when I left Nintendo World! Later in the day I ran into a family from my tour and asked them if they’d gone back to ride Mario Kart again and, like me, they didn’t feel they needed to. I felt the land was too small to handle the crowds that wanted to see it, and that made it insanely unpleasant for those of us that just want to get in, experience the ride to say we have, and just get the hell out!
Something I learned on my tour that I thought was cool, the Bowser portrait in the queue was signed in the lower right corner by the creator of Mario!
The whole aesthetic and everything is really damn cool to me. But like the Disney marvel campus or whatever, they installed some incredibly mid rides
Please post these on a different channel. Dont wanna see them disappear because of the bad views on a main channel.
Hey Poseidon, I don’t want to be spoiled for Super Nintendo World so I need to skip over this video, but I didn’t want that to be interpreted as not liking the unscripted thoughts videos because I think they are great. Thanks for the content.
Haven’t listened to this yet, but just wanted to say that I really hope that they find a way to add in more Nintendo franchises instead of just being a Mario Land with a Pikmin Easter egg. Having franchises of various genres that appeal to age groups at their core will help broaden the appeal, imho. I’d hope they could give us some Metroid, F-Zero, Pokémon, Zelda, maybe even some Fire Emblem if they could figure out a good attraction for it (a show might be best in this case).
Just because some of their IPs aren’t as popular doesn’t mean they wouldn’t make for great thematic theme park material, if done well.
The problem I feel is there's no way Universal can do anything without Nintendo's go ahead. We all know how protective of their IP's they are. It would probably run a very close second to J.K Rowling's control over what ends up in the parks.
The super mario ride was what smuggler's run should've been
What it just opened I needs to be bigger a super fast Mario kart roller coaster