One character we weren't necessarily expecting to see in the latest Mario Movie trailer was the king of the jungle, Donkey Kong.

During the short Nintendo Direct, Shigeru Miyamoto introduced Donkey Kong's voice actor Seth Rogen and also mentioned how the character had a new look:!

Shigeru Miyamoto: "It's been over 40 years since the release of the original Donkey Kong game, which was also my debut title.

We've also changed his design for the first time since he became a 3D model in the original Donkey Kong Country game.

Some of you may have noticed, but for this movie, we seized the opportunity to give him a comical personality and design reminiscent of the original character.

So, what do you think of Donkey Kong's new look.

I would prefer the DKC look, but this definitely isn't bad.

It feels like a nice hybrid of his current look with some influence from Miyamoto's original design for DK.

I sort of prefer the one we have in the games over this one.

I definitely respect the efforts to modernize the ORIGINAL original design too, that’s pretty cool.

I /love/ his video game design and don't want to see this become the cross-genre norm.

I just hope he doesn't talk.

I like it.

The only thing that doesn't look good in the Mario movie is Mario.

I said in the other story, but this design makes me think of the costume for the American Super Smash Bros.

I like it.

Let's be real, it's not THAT different than the Donkey Kong Country DK.

It reminds me a lot of the Miyamoto design, but combined with the Country design.

I really like it, it would be weird to ditch the DKC design completely (unless the film featured a young Cranky, in which case reverting to the classic look would make sense), but I’ve always liked the older design, so this seems like a pretty decent mixture of the two.

I definitely prefer the Donkey Kong Country design, but considering the fact that every character has subtle changes, I think it’s fine.

but in the movie trailer, when he emotes during the fight against Mario, he looks closer to his game look.

I hope that they don't change how he or the other characters look in the games, but the movie has its own art style and I think he looks good in it.

People had the same concerns with the Sonic movie and that didn't really impact the Sonic games in the long run.

They should have resembled something closer to what they look like in the games, only with a little more detail.

I think it captures early doing Kong pretty well, and animated he looks even better!

I'm not really much of a Donkey Kong fan but I think it's a cool design for him.

I like it more than the Rare look.

I like that the movie designs are unique to differentiate it from the games.

I prefer a separate continuity and look, just like what the Sonic movies are doing?

@N00BiSH Just a little thing - the image you posted above is from the 1994 Donkey Kong for Game Boy; Miyamoto's artwork for the 1981 arcade game is this one, if I'm not mistaken:.

However, Rare used similar artwork as reference when they where redesigning DK for Donkey Kong Country:.

@Kyloctopus Heh, he didn't have it in the arcade games; he first started to wear it around 1994, when Donkey Kong for Game Boy and Donkey Kong Country were released..

(Well, he may not be the same character in DKC given that Cranky is said to be the Donkey Kong from the arcade games, but whatever...)

I really don't have any strong feelings for or against it though: it's just Donkey Kong

However, Rare used simian artwork as reference when they where redesigning DK for Donkey Kong Country:

I’m so happy that Miyamoto got to reclaim Donkey Kong’s design after nearly 30 years

I must be blind cause all I see is DKC design

My favorite rendition of Donkey Kong is his Super Smash Bros

He still has the same body type we're all familiar with that debuted with the Donkey Kong Country games

Hope to see that carried over in future games besides just Smash

Maybe in a diferent way than the DKC-DK but he looks just like he's gonna be a lot of fun and thats his whole purpose

I like it,but i can see why Nintendo doesn't allow animators to make his teeth show when his mouth is fully open

I love it but when are we getting a new mainline Donkey Kong game?

As long as the model is not based on the Donkey Kong Country TV series, I am happy with it

When I saw the trailer, I just thought he looked like in the DKC games

This movie just keeps looking better and better

It is looking like it was made by fans who know the games rather than Execs chasing cash

Not too bad, but I don't like it that they are making all of the characters we love into that generic design style of Dreamworks

I prefer the DKC design but I respect Miyamoto wanting to return DK to his original look to a degree

This will clearly just be exclusive to movie DK, not game DK

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