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There's also Jungle Beat to consider. I think that Nintendo prefers working with their own characters at least their older devs did. The younger devs, (relatively speaking), seem a bit more open to the collaborations with outside influences. Also when you consider that Bananza has K Rool and the theme park has Tiki Tong, they could have easily had K Rool in the theme park instead as they had to be planning for K Rool a lot longer with these dev times. Nintendo is simply celebrating a lot more of DK now than before.