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7/18/2025, 8:05:52 PM
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Another thing kinda worth talking about is what reportedly happened behind the scenes regarding the Donkey Kong land at Universal.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/metroid-prime-4-beyond-first-trailer-releases-2025.904455/page-34
According to someone who worked on the Minecraft Universal Studios map and thus was able to talk to folk from Universal Creative, the latter actually wanted to incorporate K. Rool (they even tried to use Smash Ultimate to back up his popularity) and celebrate more of DK's history but were ultimately mandated by Nintendo to just stick to Tikis and Returns imagery in general. One thing that backs this up is the old leaked DKC land model concept that was leaked many years ago that was largely 1:1 with the land we got with one notable exception: Ellie the Elephant being plopped in there. He also mentions there were similar constraints with the Mario Land being primarily limited to 3D Land and World, though it was apparently slightly easier to use other stuff (i.e Yoshi's Island).
Now we know Bananza and thus K. Rool's return were planned shortly after Odyssey's release so in the case of this as well as Mario Strikers, there probably wasn't intended malice on Nintendo's part as they likely just figured it'd be better to reintroduce the Kremlings on their own terms in their core games as opposed to ancillary material, but yes.
Another thing kinda worth talking about is what reportedly happened behind the scenes regarding the Donkey Kong land at Universal.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/metroid-prime-4-beyond-first-trailer-releases-2025.904455/page-34
According to someone who worked on the Minecraft Universal Studios map and thus was able to talk to folk from Universal Creative, the latter actually wanted to incorporate K. Rool (they even tried to use Smash Ultimate to back up his popularity) and celebrate more of DK's history but were ultimately mandated by Nintendo to just stick to Tikis and Returns imagery in general. One thing that backs this up is the old leaked DKC land model concept that was leaked many years ago that was largely 1:1 with the land we got with one notable exception: Ellie the Elephant being plopped in there. He also mentions there were similar constraints with the Mario Land being primarily limited to 3D Land and World, though it was apparently slightly easier to use other stuff (i.e Yoshi's Island).
Now we know Bananza and thus K. Rool's return were planned shortly after Odyssey's release so in the case of this as well as Mario Strikers, there probably wasn't intended malice on Nintendo's part as they likely just figured it'd be better to reintroduce the Kremlings on their own terms in their core games as opposed to ancillary material, but yes.
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