After a six month delay, Common Studios Japan’s Donkey Kong Nation themed Tremendous Nintendo World growth lastly has a gap date. It will be barrel-blasting open its doorways from eleventh December, and if you happen to’re curious to see what’s in retailer, now you can watch Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto take a tour of the world, with a short pause to bonk on some bongo drums.
A Donkey Kong themed growth to Common’s Tremendous Nintendo World theme park space was formally introduced in September 2021, simply months after the opening of its major Mushroom Kingdom-themed space (though it had been noticed on mock-ups lengthy earlier than). On the time, Common teased it will function “interactive experiences and themed merchandise and meals”, alongside a brand new coaster – and we have now had our greatest look but on the completed factor.
Miyamoto toured the Donkey Kong Nation growth in particular ten-minute-long Nintendo Direct, starting by whisking gamers by the now unsealed warp pipe towards the rear of the Mushroom Kingdom. As park guests navigate its size, its purple brick partitions transition to rocks earlier than the pipe opens out right into a jungle-themed expanse of swaying palms, fake picket walkways, and even Donkey Kong’s iconic treehouse. And looming over the entire space is its imposing centrepiece, the Golden Temple, housing a brand new coaster journey.
Earlier than attending to that, although, Miyamoto spent a while exhibiting off the world’s (admittedly not particularly enthralling) different options, together with the Jungle Beat Shakes store the place guests should buy hotdogs and different assorted meals; Funky’s Flay ‘n’ Purchase, the place a spread of Donkey Kong themed merchandise will be perused and bought, plus Donkey Kong’s Treehouse, the place patrons can seize their Donkey Kong photographs ops.
Moreover, there is a three-player bongo-themed rhythm recreation the place gamers should observe alongside to blinking lights as a way to rouse Rambi the rhinoceros from his slumber inside a crate. “If there is not a spot to play bongo drums,” Eurogamer’s Tom Phillips wrote again in 2021, “I will be disillusioned.” Tom’s bongo-based goals have lastly come true.
Elsewhere, Common’s Donkey Kong Nation space utilises the identical Energy Band system seen within the Mushroom Kingdom a part of the park, and band wearers can discover their environment looking for Donkey Kong’s acquainted orange letter blocks, amassing all of them within the Common app. All of which lastly took Miyamoto to the sprawling Golden Temple, the place – as detailed by a few Cranky Kong and Sqawks animatronics – guests can journey its Mine Cart Insanity coaster in a bid to assist shield the Golden Banana from Tiki Kong.
Sadly, right now’s Nintendo Direct did not present a lot of the coaster in any respect, past transient peek at its barrel-themed elevate hill, however we do know – thanks to varied theme park fan websites through the years – it contains a distinctive journey system designed to provide riders the phantasm their carts are leaping over sections of damaged monitor, whereas the actual monitor is hid under.
You possibly can take a digital tour of Common Studios Japan’s new Donkey Kong Nation growth in video above, and people in a position to attend in individual can accomplish that from eleventh December this 12 months. Alternatively, the world will likely be included as a part of Common’s new Epic Universe theme park in Florida, which opens on twenty second Might 2025.
