Nintendo are teaming up with Universal Parks & Resorts to Create the World's First-Ever Theme Park Attractions Based on Nintendo's Beloved Games and Characters.

Nintendo and Universal Parks & Resorts today announced plans to bring the world of Nintendo to life at Universal theme parks – creating spectacular, dedicated experiences based on Nintendo's wildly popular games, characters and worlds.

The agreement brings two icons of entertainment together and represents a significant partnership for Nintendo as it expands the reach and popularity of its characters and intellectual property.
Universal theme parks offer incredibly popular, innovative themed family entertainment experiences based on compelling stories and characters – using powerful storytelling and innovative technology. Nintendo has created remarkable and imaginative worlds filled with captivating stories and beloved characters. Now, for the first time, those stories and characters will be brought to life in entirely new ways – only at Universal theme parks.

The immersive experiences will include major attractions at Universal's theme parks and will feature Nintendo's most famous characters and games. More details will be announced in the future, as the Nintendo and Universal creative teams work to create specific concepts.

Source: GBAtemp Inbox

 

[chartube12]

Nintendo, Jumping the Shark since November 19th, 2006.

 

[laudern]

Hopefully we'll get a sequel to the gcn launch title 'Universal studios'!!

 

[nxwing]

I hope the theme park has either Peach's Castle or Castle Town in it.

 

[FAST6191]

I know I am probably not the target market but this ranks very low on the list of tourist traps I am likely to partake in.

 

[Bladexdsl]

this is one of the attractions

 

[Cyan]

Few years ago I posted a theme park idea (should I sue them ? lol)
A Metroid game using virtual reality and augmented reality projection.
You move in a real environment build especially for it (alien planets, real round doors, etc.), wearing a full HUD helmet like Samus uses but instead of seeing only your life and weapon you also see enemies and all added element on it.

AR FPS already exists, but I don't know if it were developed more than university tests.
I know It looks like utopia, but how knows what could be done in few years with AR/Google glasses.

Nintendo: if you ever make this, please understand! invite me


edit:
Other people thought it would be good idea for a theme park too :

Also, Metroid augmented reality laser tag.
http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?StartRow=1&catid=7&threadid=137784

There are some good idea on that forum.
Mario kart (obviously!)
Star fox roller coaster
Luigi's mansion
A Zelda dungeon
etc.


Post your idea here too.
What do you think Nintendo will create?

 

[MarioFanatic64]

I'm just gonna throw this out there: Scale replicas of iconic Nintendo locations.

I would visit that shit.

 

[AlexaC]

Xenoblade is a must!

Earthbound and Animal Crossing too

 

[Deleted User]

Lemme guess Nintendo themed theme park = 55% Mario, 20% Pokémon, 15% Zelda, 10% Fire Emblem, Kirby and Pikmin and maybe, just maybe 1 person in a Samus suit.

...If we're lucky.

*Sigh* I wish they would do more with F-Zero, there is so much unexplored potential with that series. F-Zero has a sort of Marvel x Star Wars setting and I'd love to see an F-Zero game with a sandbox super hero game like story mode (with racing still heavily involved of course). Do we even know if Captain Falcon's gun shoots lasers or bullets? Or is it just a toy gun he carries around since he was a kid?

 

[FAST6191]

Xenoblade is a must!

If I wanted to be bored out of my skull I would visit whatever speciality museum there is in a given location.

 

[Deleted User]

So its like Nintendo Land except in real life ?

 

[Deleted User]

So its like Nintendo Land except in real life ?

And probably not as good

 

[Bimmel]

And probably not as good

But Nintendo Land was not even good. But that means the theme parks are gonna be.. giant Mario Party fields where you must roll the dice to move forward and collect shiny things from others so you can pay Nintendo for letting you out again!

 

[Xuman]

Fucking.
Mario Kart Themed Go-Karts.
And a Baby Park for kids.

 

[Deleted member 331788]

So ...another none Universal brand hitting their theme parks!!

So its like Nintendo Land except in real life ?

Hope it's not, Nintendo Land is awful!!

 

[Deleted User]

But Nintendo Land was not even good. But that means the theme parks are gonna be.. giant Mario Party fields where you must roll the dice to move forward and collect shiny things from others so you can pay Nintendo for letting you out again!

So ...another none Universal brand hitting their theme parks!!



Hope it's not, Nintendo Land is awful!!

What are you talking about? It's one of the best Wii U games.

 

[Terenigma]

I'm just gonna throw this out there: Scale replicas of iconic Nintendo locations.

I would visit that shit.

Me too! I really really would love if they made like a scale model of peach's castle from Mario 64. Doors with the number stars needed to go through it. Maybe turn it into a like a game and have each room have some arcade games or things to win tokens and the tokens are stars to unlock other rooms. Oh my god, im nearly 30 but i would still love that! LOL

 

[WiiCube_2013]

Would love to try it out if they'd have Mario Kart with items, i.e, the items would obviously be digital so no harm to the actual drivers.

What are you talking about? It's one of the best Wii U games.

You're really scrapping the bottom of the barrel. lol

 

[Lucifer666]

holy crap

I visited the Universal Studios theme park in Osaka, Japan and that shit was FUN and I can't imagine what it'd be like vamped up with nintendo attractions