Walkabout Mini Golf Plans Elvis Presley Course For 2025

Walkabout Mini Golf’s builders are planning a retro Las Vegas course impressed by Elvis Presley.

Mighty Coconut is planning to launch a course in 2025 impressed by Elvis Presley’s connection to the distinctive man-made escape from actuality inside the Nevada desert.

Referred to as Viva Las Elvis, Mighty Coconut is teaming with licensing companion Real Producers Group to convey the namesake’s Vegas interval into VR.

“We’d been looking for a way to make a retro Las Vegas course, and the pop-culture vibe of Elvis provided a singular methodology to come back on the world establishing and the gameplay mechanics,” talked about Lucas Martell, creator of Walkabout Mini Golf and head of Mighty Coconut, in a prepared assertion. “Real Producers Group has been a supportive companion in not solely imagining a totally fictional home for folk to mini golf and uncover in Elvis’ Vegas, however moreover to create custom-made Elvis avatars so avid gamers can start impersonating in-game. This kicks off a sequence of licensed avatar packs along with creatures from Henson’s Darkish Crystal and Fraggle Rock, along with a set from Exploding Kittens.”

The musical components of the upcoming course are nonetheless an open question, Martell instructed UploadVR. With many months left sooner than their launch objective in 2025 to work out a plan there, Walkabout’s Jim Henson-partnered Labyrinth course works even with out David Bowie’s music accompanying the maze. That’s on account of Walkabout is already outfitted with an ambiance-creating soundtrack from Chris Reyman, obtainable on streaming firms like Spotify and Apple Music. In present paid course releases, the studio moreover recreated the vibe of Venice or the Eiffel Tower as a result of it appeared at its opening in 1899 using Reyman’s sounds as background. So why not moreover the extreme lights of Las Vegas and iconography of Elvis Presley?

We met briefly with Martell inside the sport’s Welcome Island to hearken to regarding the plan.

The course matches proper right into a packed schedule for the occasion studio seeing new packages, avatar packs and choices filling out the schedule by way of 2025. Near time interval, the studio is releasing a gadget-filled course impressed by Wallace & Gromit, following a late 2023 partnership with art work collective Meow Wolf and 2022 partnerships with Jim Henson and Myst creator Cyan.

Mighty Coconut confirmed they’re planning in order so as to add $1.99 avatar packs for Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock and The Darkish Crystal, along with packs for Exploding Kittens and one for Elvis as successfully.