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Announced last year, Nintendo and Universal Parks & Resorts will be collaborating to create the world's first-ever theme park attractions based on Nintendo's games and characters. Little more was said other than the following:

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.

Now the first details have been revealed:

• According to Sankei News, forty billion yen (US$351 million) is being invested in this project with the deal getting finalized on Friday. The paper notes that this is similar to the large-scale investment Universal Studios made in the Harry Potter franchise with The Wizarding World of Harry Potter area.
• The Mario and co. themed area will be a healthy part of the park. Via Sankei News, the upcoming Nintendo-themed area is marked in red on the map below. The current Universal Studios Japan attractions areas are in green.

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Recently, Nintendo has been expressing its wants to expand its reach beyond consoles. The theme park appears to be one of the many plans the video game company has been working on. It should be noted that the first theme park is set to be built in Osaka, Japan. No word if it will come to Universal Studios elsewhere. But considering the interest it will garner, it won't be long before they announce plans to expand similar theme parks elsewhere.

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[pas7680]

a starfox 3d sim ride would be cool, a twin mario kart race coaster, Dk mine cart coaster, will be interesting to see what they come up with. Will give me a reason to finally go to USJ as i never have every time i'm in Osaka.

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a starfox 3d sim ride would be cool, a twin mario kart race coaster, Dk mine cart coaster, will be interesting to see what they come up with. Will give me a reason to finally go to USJ as i never have every time i'm in Osaka.

scratch that, just looked at google maps and the area marked is not very big at all. Will probably just be a mushroom kingdom area and that's all. Won't be many big rides.

 

[mashers]

Dk mine cart coaster

This would be amazing.

 

[Jiehfeng]

At least it won't be an illuminati owned park.

 

[DJPlace]

i hope we don't have some mascot saying the rides sold out only to find out we have to pick up banana peel's to pick a character hat for that ride other wise then that park would suck

 

[Taleweaver]

The green area is the "Main Attraction Area",　the little gap in the bottom center is the front gate, the orange area is the "new established" area, the platform all the way on the left is the "universal city station", the top platform is another station, the bottom where it says JR is the "sakura dream line"(?). I'm excited to see what they add in the new area.

It's the "amiibo owners only" part of the park.

(I couldn't resist)


Ahem...in all seriousness: a theme park is certainly a good idea, but I can't help thinking how LATE they are with it. Ten or twenty years ago, children would've committed murder to get to Real Life nintendo land. Nowadays...I don't know. They certainly have more hooks than the average theme park (I bet there'll be spotpasses and augmented reality stuff for 3DS owners to the point where it's not even funny anymore), but I kind of doubt the franchise still gets people to nag to their parents enough to go there.

 

[Dr.Hacknik]

CAUTION There will most likely be a Sonic Ride or Attraction, and I'll freak out if there will be. CAUTION

 

[lonzodavis]

I would like to see how these rides actually turn out.

 

[GuyInDogSuit]

If they only build one in Japan, they'll probably do well. I couldn't care less if they build one in the west, but if they do, good for them.

I just don't see the point.