

I’m significantly larger than a 40 (I’m not going to get specific, but, like, by a lot), and I had no problem fitting on the ride when I toured the land shortly before it opened. I skipped out on that initial wave of hubbub because I wanted to see for myself how restrictive the ride was before I wrote about it. When these articles ran in late January and early February, few people had actually ridden Mario Kart: Bowser’s Challenge yet and been able to put that size limit to the test. Outlets as disparate as the AV Club, Business Insider, Gizmodo and People ran with the story, and although it was all based on a size restriction notice in Universal’s official ride guidelines, it was still largely speculative.

Last month, shortly before the opening of Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Hollywood, a rash of articles claiming that people with a waistline bigger than 40 inches might not fit on the land’s Mario Kart ride spread across the internet.
