KYOTO, Japan and ORLANDO, Florida (May 7, 2015) – 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.
About Universal Parks & Resorts
Universal Parks & Resorts, a unit of Comcast NBCUniversal, offers guests around the globe today’s most relevant and popular entertainment experiences. With three-time Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg as creative consultant, its theme parks are known for immersive experiences that feature some of the world’s most thrilling and technologically advanced film- and television-based attractions. Comcast NBCUniversal is a global media and technology company that owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news, sports and entertainment networks; Universal Pictures, a premier motion picture company; significant television production operations; a leading television stations group; and world-renowned theme parks.
Comcast NBCUniversal wholly owns Universal Studios Hollywood, which includes Universal CityWalk Hollywood. It also owns Universal Orlando Resort, a world-class destination resort featuring two theme parks (Universal Studios Florida and Universal’s Islands of Adventure), four resort hotels, and Universal CityWalk Orlando. Comcast NBCUniversal also has license agreements with Universal Studios Japan in Osaka, Japan and Universal Studios Singapore at Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore. In addition, Comcast NBCUniversal has recently announced plans for a theme park in Beijing and an indoor theme park to be developed as part of the Galactica Park project in Moscow.
About Nintendo
The worldwide pioneer in the creation of interactive entertainment, Nintendo Co., Ltd., of Kyoto, Japan, manufactures and markets hardware and software for its Wii U™ and Wii™ home consoles, and Nintendo 3DS™ and Nintendo DS™ families of portable systems. Since 1983, when it launched the Nintendo Entertainment System™, Nintendo has sold more than 4.3 billion video games and more than 680 million hardware units globally, including the current-generation Wii U, Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo 3DS XL, as well as the Game Boy™, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DSi™ and Nintendo DSi XL™, Super NES™, Nintendo 64™, Nintendo GameCube™ and Wii systems. It has also created industry icons that have become well-known, household names such as Mario™, Donkey Kong™, Metroid™, Zelda™ and Pokémon™.
A wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc., based in Redmond, Wash., serves as headquarters for Nintendo's operations in the Western Hemisphere. For more information about Nintendo, visit the company's website at http://www.nintendo.com.
EDITOR'S
HYPERBOLE NOTE: This is great! I want an Animal Crossing themed
area with shops and places to eat. I want a store based on Style Savvy,
a roller coaster based on F-Zero or Star Fox, I want Spinning Mushrooms
and Donkey Kong's Super Splash Summit. I want Nintendo characters
wandering the parks and I want Zelda's Castle. But I don't want a
Rainbow Road Roller Coaster. Because Rainbow Road is where you go when
you die.
On a side note, I would love a concert area based on Jam With The Band. Or they could have a long area based on Gaur Plains from Xenoblade Chronicles. Yup. They could populate it with mean, hungry, real animals like lions, tigers, bears, and elephants. The basic idea is that they lock you into it and you have to walk across the expanse with nothing but a fake plastic sword to protect yourself. Pretty much, it would be a realistic depiction of that game. Especially when I'm like. level 15 and I'm seeing giant creatures that are level 70 that I have to tip toe around. That game... that game...
Okay, it's a missed opportunity if there isn't a Kirby themed sweet shop. - Philip Wesley (Main Editor)
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DMG Ice.On a side note, I would love a concert area based on Jam With The Band. Or they could have a long area based on Gaur Plains from Xenoblade Chronicles. Yup. They could populate it with mean, hungry, real animals like lions, tigers, bears, and elephants. The basic idea is that they lock you into it and you have to walk across the expanse with nothing but a fake plastic sword to protect yourself. Pretty much, it would be a realistic depiction of that game. Especially when I'm like. level 15 and I'm seeing giant creatures that are level 70 that I have to tip toe around. That game... that game...
Okay, it's a missed opportunity if there isn't a Kirby themed sweet shop. - Philip Wesley (Main Editor)
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