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Dulfite said:

G2ThaUNiT said:

Nintendo denied Universal’s requests to use K. Rool in the Donkey Kong Country area of Super Nintendo World, according to this game designer who’s done theme park collaboration with Universal Creative. Caveat of this being a several-year-old decision aside…what the actual hell? pic.twitter.com/O0RkagzsDL

— Kremling Kampaigner (@KRoolKountry) June 23, 2024

This is greatly upsetting…….

This is like the Paper Mario restrictions that were in place for years. People can claim it was just a "suggestion" from up top, but who doesn't do what their bosses suggest to them? It's how we ended up with endless toads replacing everything.

I'm glad, based on the remakes of Super Mario RPG/PMTTYD, both of which involved very unique species and character models, and with the new M&L game creating new species/character models, that these dumb restrictions seem to be over. Hopefully whatever DK game comes out next can have more creative freedom as well.

This isn’t about the games though. This is about the theme parks. You don’t create new characters for a theme park. A theme park is supposed to be a celebration of all the things that are tied to the theme. The Kremlings and especially K Rool are such a major part of the popularity of Donkey Kong that it makes it such a weird decision by Nintendo to not include him in the Donkey Kong exhibit.