If you haven't been to a theme park in a long time because, like me, you either feel like you've grown out of it or don't have your own family as an excuse for such a day out, then you might feel jaded by their utopian artifices masking their capitalist tendencies to gouge your wallet for all it's worth.
Yet it's easy to be taken in by the artifice when it's done well and also happens to align with your own interests. So it is that despite not having visited a theme park in over 15 years, I'm just as excited about the opening of Super Nintendo World in Hollywood this month. Or rather, I'm excited for all of you planning to go because I already had the pleasure of visiting it in Universal Studios Japan, which is essentially the same experience.
As far as theme parks go, there's a couple things to be prepared for before going to Super Nintendo World. For one, it's a smaller area located within the Universal Studios park, with the one in Japan also containing a Harry Potter Wizarding World, an area dedicated to the Peanuts characters, and even, hilariously next door to the Mushroom Kingdom, Waterworld.