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Nintendo’s Big Mario Kart Ride At Universal Can Only Be Ridden By Thin People​

Universal Studios Hollywood’s latest ride bars attendees with a waistline over 40 inches​

Super Nintendo World, the latest addition to Universal Hollywood’s theme park, is set to open in just a few weeks, giving Mario fans the opportunity to step into a vivid recreation of the Mushroom Kingdom, packed with sights and sounds they know and love. Not all of them, however, will be able to experience the featured attraction Mario Kart: Bowser’s Challenge, as it has a very specific requirement: Your waistline must not be 40 inches or larger.

An elaborate “3D and 4D ride,” according to the official page for Mario Kart: Bowser’s Challenge, the single-user ride takes attendees through a variety of Mario-themed settings brought to life with “cutting-edge technology.” On the ride, you’ll individually or collectively team up to foil Team Bowser’s plans to grab that golden cup before Mario and friends do. But as The Wall Street Journal observed in an article highlighting the limiting weight requirements, (which can be found on the official app for park navigation and line management) “Guests whose waistline is at least 40” or greater may not be accommodated on the ride.” The app’s copy indicates that there’s a test seat available to gauge whether or not an attendee meets these requirements. Given that the average waist circumference in the U.S. is just around 40 inches, this certainly seems likely to exclude a good number of folks.

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“Nothing but wonderful things to say about Super Nintendo World except this,” opens one tweet from YouTuber and “Food influencer,” Rocco Botte, “the body size limitations on the Mario Kart ride are absolutely ridiculous.

Another popular tweet calls out the absurdity of such a strict waist limitation. “A 40” waist line is about a [women’s] size 20.”

According to CDC statistics cited by Healthline, the average clothing size for adults assigned female at birth hovers between 18 to 20. As many replies to the tweet above indicate, a 40-inch waist is a “very normal and common size to be for many body types.” And Mario Kart: Bowser’s Challenge isn’t the only ride with such strict limitations. At least four other Universal Studios rides, including Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey and Revenge of the Mummy — the Ride also cite the same 40-inch limit, with suggestions that attendees ought to use the test seat to determine if the ride can accommodate them.

As The Wall Street Journal found out, such test seats are hardly accurate and aren’t terribly private. “Visitors say the tryouts can be awkward [and] less forgiving than the actual seats on the ride,” the paper reports.

The waistline requirement particularly stings as Mario Kart: Bowser’s Challenge is the only ride to be featured at Super Nintendo World, yet it’s not designed to accommodate average or plus size attendees’ physical dimensions.
Kotaku has reached out to Universal Studios Hollywood for comment.

https://kotaku.com/mario-kart-ride-nintendo-world-universal-hollywood-1850059007

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[Gar For Archer]

I find it hard to believe Disney would have designed a ride that excludes a significant percentage of the population. Doesn't any make sense from a business perspective.

They're probably taking the average rather than the median so the deathfats are distorting it. I think that's who's really bitching about this.

What likely happened is that they just built the same ride they had in Japan without accounting for the fact that Japanese people are short and skinny whereas Americans are tall and fat.

 

[Mothra1988]

Screen rides are not rides. God the amusement park industry has gone to shit.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

Moviebob takes yet another brutal fucking L in his life of brutal, fucking L's.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Universal the company that manages it according to wikipedia but I don't think it's surprising that a Japanese company designed a ride largely intended for Japanese people and didn't care about the extremely small percentage of foreigners that go there.

Japanese people generally are not obese for a number of reasons but one major one is because it's extremely looked down upon there. Like they have these mandatory annual physicals and if the doctor rates someone as obese they tell their employer and they start hounding them to lose weight.

Japan is a bit player in theme parks*, this was designed by Americans or Europeans, I forget who.

*They own, but do not operate S&S Sansei and have Togo, a company that only builds rides in Japan, that's it.

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

Well, yeah, it's a ride meant for children.

This is like getting mad about not fitting on those mechanical horse ride things that used to be outside of grocery stores and candy shops.

 

[Mayhem]

I remember the seethe when this happened on Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey more than a decade ago. The fact is that these rides need to be safe for both adults and children, and both adults and children will occupy the same seats and use the same restraints. A ride with a lot of movement can’t accommodate everyone - most rides have height requirements anyway, so the only reason to seethe over weight/body dimension requirements is that you feel entitled and think everything in the world must be suitable for you. Some fans used the fact that they were too fat to ride Forbidden Journey as an impetus to lose weight.

I also agree with the poster who wondered why this is posited as a women’s problem when there’s loads of fat men who can’t fit in the ride, either. Maybe it’s a warning to fat trannies — sorry, people assigned male at birth.

 

[TowinKarz]

What's sadder? Being too fat to fit in an amusement park ride? Or that it's a kid's ride?

 

[coof coof]

thins the herd.

Gave me a sensible chuckle. Every day we are closer to a WALL-E future with abandoned shopping malls and fast food restaurants everywhere and a space craft flying around filled with land whales (or I guess space whales).

 

[Watcher]

Basically every amusement park operates this way this article is retarded. If you go to any amusement park they'll kick you off if you can't fit into the ride.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

What do they want? They don't even say, they just complain. Do they want to be let on at risk of death? Do they want the ride to somehow be made to accommodate whales?

I'm sure they designed it to fit fatties on the best they could within the confines of physics but maybe not. Just let them sign a waiver and die I guess.

 

[Professor G. Raff]

They need a guy in a Waluigi costume to make fun of fat people who try to get on and make them leave crying.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Well, yeah, it's a ride meant for children.

This is like getting mad about not fitting on those mechanical horse ride things that used to be outside of grocery stores and candy shops.

It's only a matter of time until we see an article on how those rides are fatphobic and exclude adult fatties

 

[heathercho]

Are people really THIS fat on average? REALLY?

 

[CuzinEd]

I have to agree. This is pretty stupid. There are big people out there and they aren't fat. If this ride is in American park, it probably won't see many people riding it. Seems like they built it for small japs and chinks.

Anyway, sounds gay as fuck. I would rather just play Mario Kart then go to park full of a bunch rude ignorant normie dumb fuck and even worse probably niggers and faggots.

 

[Airbrushed Van Art]

Hahahah ahahha hahahahah ahahah

Nintendo subtly hinting that their video games are primarily for smaller people aka “children”, you adult mongoloid man-children. LMAO

 

[Product Placement]

“Food influencer,” Rocco Botte

 

[AGreatDipAtAFairPrice]

Sounds like a flat ride for children, not man babies, anyhow. Ride a rollercoaster, you pussies.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

There we go, fixed it.

Go heavier, I don't think people on the overweight spectrum will have a problem. There's probably many people at the lower end of obesity that wouldn't have much of a problem either. That's how retarded this article is.

 

[Dysnomia]

A 40 inch waist is fucking huge.

According to CDC statistics cited by Healthline, the average clothing size for adults assigned female at birth hovers between 18 to 20. As many replies to the tweet above indicate, a 40-inch waist is a “very normal and common size to be for many body types.”
Wut? Firstly WOMENWOMEN WIMEN WIMMIN YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKERS THEY ARE WOMEN. And secondly, the average is now an 18-20? I cannot believe that. I thought average was about a uk 14 which is a US 10-12? Are you telling me the average size of a woman in the states is now a uk 20-22? I just don’t believe that. Thats far above regular sizing, it has to be wrong
The only healthy people with a 40 inch waist are women who are pregnant and they’re not going on rides anyway.

I remember when they moved women's US size 14 to the regular size department. Because it was the average size. I remember that 16 became average a few years ago. I think that's with the regular sizes too. I'm not a pants person and only have one pair. So I haven't checked the jeans department in awhile. But I'm willing to bet that size 18 has moved out of the plus section now too and is being presented as a normal option for the average woman. And if it hasn't it will be soon. Horrifying.

So how big is the plus section going to be? I assume pretty soon we'll be seeing the sizes formerly only available in specialty sites and catalogs prominently on display at Target.

Anyway, if you can't fit the ride too bad. Remember that fat kid that died falling from a ride because the harness could not connect properly? He was really big. And even though they thought he was in the "fat seat" he should have been turned away by the operator.

There are safety protocols in place with rides. Which is why you can't get on some of them if you are too small, too large or pregnant. Lose some weight if you want to enjoy rides with everyone else. The amount of fatties I see jiggling everywhere is crazy now.

 

[Grundlejungle]

I highly approve of this. There needs to be strict weight limits for theme park rides.
Minor PL:
When I was 10 I went to universal with my cousin, and we were both skinny little kids. So we go and decide we want to ride Jurassic Park, which has a lap bar for the entire row as opposed to individual seat belts. We are sat in the same row as this lady who is so fat she took up three seats, and the lap bar doesn't even touch either of us. Everything's fine until the final drop when both of us damn near fly out of our seats. The fat lady actually saw us slipping and used her ham hocks hands to keep us from flying out (Thank you fat lady).
The park gave us each vouchers for a free meal and t shirt, in exchange for not sueing (I got a sick ass terminator shirt, and my cousin got a JP shirt).
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.