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This weekend I went to Universal Hollywood Studios with my family. We had a few things to do in Los Angeles, and we took this chance to take the kids to check out this park. The main attraction of the park currently is the recently opened Super Nintendo World. This attraction was built in the lower lot of the park. Universal Hollywood is divided in upper lot and lower lot, the lower lot is down below a big hill, and is conected to the upper lot with a some big escalators. The lower lot has Jurassic Park, Transformers, Revenge of the Mummy, and now Super Nintendo World. Here in the first pictures below you can see Super Nintendo World from above, this is the view from the upper lot.
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Neste fim de semana, fui ao Universal Hollywood Studios com minha família. Tínhamos algumas coisas para fazer em Los Angeles e aproveitamos a oportunidade para levar as crianças para conhecer o parque. A principal atração do parque atualmente é o recém-inaugurado Super Nintendo World. Essa atração foi construída no lote inferior do parque. O parque Universal Hollywood é dividido em um lote superior e um lote inferior. O lote inferior fica abaixo de uma grande colina e é conectado ao lote superior por algumas escadas rolantes grandes. O lote inferior tem o Jurassic Park, Transformers, Revenge of the Mummy e agora o Super Nintendo World. Nas primeiras fotos abaixo, você pode ver o Super Nintendo World de cima, essa é a vista do lote superior.
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When we got to the entrance of Super Nintendo World, there was a line to take pictures in pipes just like the ones in the game, and to get into this world, you have to walk thru one of these pipes. In the other end of the pipe is Princess Peach Castle. When you walk outside the castle you literally feel like you are inside the video game.
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Quando chegamos à entrada do Super Nintendo World, havia uma fila para tirar fotos em tubos iguais aos do jogo e, para entrar nesse mundo, você precisa passar por um desses tubos. Na outra extremidade do tubo está o Castelo da Princesa Peach. Ao sair do castelo, você sente literalmente como se estivesse dentro do videogame.
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The main ride of this part of the park is Mario Kart: Bowser's Challenge. In this ride you be in a kart with 4 other people, will use 3D glasses attached to a Mario hat, and you will use a steering wheel in front of you to help ride the kart and shoot other players with turtles. You need to collect >100 coins to get the trophy.
Inside this world there is also a restaurant, that I will talk about next, and a souvenier shop. But the most interesting thing in my opinion was the mini games. This made it feel even more like being inside a video game. The only catch is that you have to buy a bracelet called Power Up Band for U$40, this bracelet is one of those Amiibo devices used to unlock certain characters in game that you can also use with your Nintendo video games. In the park, you use the bracelet to collect coins all over the place, just by touching it to those "?" squares. There are also some hidden places where you touch it to get a stamp (collectible). And you have 5 games you can play, there are 4 key challenges and a final stage at Bowser's Castle. You had to collect at least 3 keys, by winning the challenges, to have access to Bowser's Castle. The games were pretty simple and fun, made in a way that people of any age can play. The final stage at the castle was a game where your shadow is projected in a wall of a video game and you can interact by moving your arms and body to hit items at Baby Bowser.
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A principal atração dessa parte do parque é o Mario Kart: Bowser's Challenge. Nessa atração, você estará em um kart com outras 4 pessoas, usará óculos 3D presos a um chapéu do Mario e usará um volante à sua frente para ajudar a pilotar o kart e atirar em outros jogadores com tartarugas. Você precisa coletar mais de 100 moedas para obter o troféu.
Dentro desse mundo, há também um restaurante, sobre o qual falarei a seguir, e uma loja de souvenirs. Mas o mais interessante, na minha opinião, foram os minijogos. Isso fez com que a sensação fosse ainda maior de estar dentro de um videogame. O único problema é que você tem que comprar uma pulseira chamada Power Up Band por US$ 40. Essa pulseira é um daqueles dispositivos Amiibo usados para desbloquear certos personagens em jogos que você pode usar nos videogames Nintendo. No parque, você usa a pulseira para coletar moedas em todos os lugares, bastando encostá-la nos quadrados "?". Há também alguns lugares escondidos onde você pode tocá-la para obter um selo (colecionável). E você tem 5 jogos que pode jogar, há 4 desafios de chaves e uma fase final no Bowser's Castle. Você tinha que coletar pelo menos 3 chaves, vencendo os desafios, para ter acesso ao Castelo do Bowser. Os jogos eram bem simples e divertidos, feitos de forma que pessoas de qualquer idade pudessem jogar. A fase final no castelo era um jogo em que sua sombra era projetada na parede de um videogame e você podia interagir com objetos movendo os braços e o corpo para acertar itens no Bebê Bowser.
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Another highlight of this area is the Toadstool Café, a restaurant with Mario theme plates. This restaurant needs a reservation, as it is always too crowded. They open the waitlist at 8am, and you can sign in online. Usually the restaurant is fully booked for the entire day before noon. Once you get in, the decoration is amazing, like everything else in Nintendo World, the windows are LED screens and the side ones show the Toads outside, the back window shows the Toads working on the restaurant kitchen. Every once in a while Bowser's ship arrives at the Toads land and the sky goes dark, the lights of the restaurant goes down and changes colors, and all Toads hide. There is a line once you get in and you order the food before you get seated. We ordered the Toadstool Cheesy Garlic Knots, a Piranha Plant Caprese, a Mario Burger, a Mario Mini Burger Adventure Set, a Chef Toad Short Rib Special, and a Princess Peach Cupcake. I took pictures of all plates except for the short rib, as my son started eating right away and didn't wait for me to get one. Check it out!
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Outro destaque dessa área é o Toadstool Café, um restaurante com pratos temáticos do Mario. Esse restaurante precisa de reserva, pois está sempre muito lotado. Eles abrem a lista de espera às 8h, e você pode se inscrever on-line. Normalmente as reservas para o dia todo acabam antes do meio-dia. Quando você entra, a decoração é incrível, como tudo no Nintendo World. As janelas são telas de LED e as laterais mostram os Toads do lado de fora, e a janela de trás mostra os Toads trabalhando na cozinha do restaurante. De vez em quando, a nave do Bowser chega à terra dos Toads e o céu escurece, as luzes do restaurante se diminuem e mudam de cor, e todos os Toads se escondem.
Há uma fila quando você entra e você pede a comida antes de se sentar. Pedimos Toadstool Cheesy Garlic Knots, Piranha Plant Caprese, Mario Burger, Mario Mini Burger Adventure Set, Chef Toad Short Rib Special e Princess Peach Cupcake. Tirei fotos de todos os pratos, exceto do short rib, pois meu filho começou a comer imediatamente e não esperou que eu tirasse uma. Olha só!
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We did check out some other attractions at Universal Studios before we got to Nintendo World, like Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, Minions, we had a Duff beer at Moe's bar in Springfield (Simpsons), but we spent most of the day at the Super Nintendo World area. It was a super fun day, and we left when it was getting dark, the view to the lower lot at sunset was amazing. My kids loved it, and my youngest was so tired that he passed out in the car, it was hard to get him up for dinner.
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Demos uma olhada em algumas outras atrações do Universal Studios antes de chegarmos ao Nintendo World, como Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, Minions, tomamos uma cerveja Duff no bar do Moe em Springfield (Simpsons), mas passamos a maior parte do dia na área do Super Nintendo World. Foi um dia superdivertido, e saímos quando já estava escurecendo, a vista do da parte inferior do parque ao pôr do sol era incrível. Meus filhos adoraram, e meu filho mais novo estava tão cansado que desmaiou no carro que foi difícil acordá-lo para o jantar.
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Parece ser um lugar muito maneiro. Espero visitar um dia! Ficou show o post!
É demais!! Muito legal!
Muita nostalgia! Parece que estou dentro do jogo só de olhar essas incríveis fotos.
Parabéns pelo post!
Pra gente é nostalgia total, mas continua super atual, com uma nova geração de fãs do Mario. Realmente é como estar dentro do jogo!
It must have really been a wonderful time
It really was wonderful!
Obviously
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I have this place on my bucket list! It looks amazing and I keep seeing it on social media. Looks like so much fun.
It is amazing! It exceeded my expectations, since I didn't know much about it before going, it really surprised me.
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woah this cool didn't even know this existed O.O and food looks amazing as well
Awesome! I will have to check that out! 😎
Ohh that was such a wonderful place it was like a disney land so I will add this to my travel goal list..
What a beautiful experience! Everything looks so spectacular, even the Mario themed burgers, I loved it all, thanks for sharing here, I hope you had a great time! 🤗
There’s also Super Nintendo World over there! I haven’t been to one here, and looks like it’s the same concept here with the bracelet. I never knew what the bracelet was for, now I know. It seems so fun! And the restaurant is not just an ordinary restaurant, it’s also an attraction of its kind with the toads hiding. 😄
It is super fun, you should go!!. It's interesting how these amusement parks reinvent themselves, the bracelet interacting with many parts of that area really makes you feel like you are inside the game.
Yeah the bracelet was the most interesting. Feels like it’s a game that you have to complete. There’s a lot of crowd here, and I heard over here it’s like first come first serve, limited access to the first XX people.
We went in a day that the park was not so crowded, but Nintendo World was crowded as you can see in the pictures. I imagine that they do the same here, where they limit the access on crowded days. I saw a lot of fences and park employees at the entrance controlling people getting in. There is only one way in and one way out, and letting too many people in there could be dangerous. I'm sure they would stop letting people in at some point.