New Area "Universal Wonderland" To Be Opened on Friday, March

New Area "Universal Wonderland" To Be Opened
on Friday, March 16, 2012
⎯A total of 28 facilities in the cute and colorful new area featuring popular characters⎯
All family members from small children to adults can have super fun all day long!
Friday, December 16, 2011
Universal Studios Japan announces that it is determined that the new area "Universal
Wonderland," which is home to a total of 28 facilities including attractions, shops and
restaurants, will be opened on Friday, March 16, 2012. In the new area our guests - from
children to adults - can have super fun all day long.
The Universal Wonderland (total floor area: approx. 30,000 m2) will be home to
attractions, including those which children and adults can enjoy together like The Flying
Snoopy (see the center of the Entrance Image) and Elmo's Bubble Bubble, as well as
children-only ride attractions such as Elmo's little drive and Sesame's BIG DRIVE.
At Hello Kitty's Ribbon Collection, Hello Kitty welcomes guests as VIPs and extends
you warm hospitality, preparing a special time and space for you. At this attraction, not
only children but adults can also enjoy the stirring experience of being a child again.
Zones of respective characters are home to a variety of athletic facilities and playlands
that enable children to move their bodies to their hearts’ content. Beside such playlands,
benches and photo shooting spaces will be installed so that guests can take a rest in a
relaxing mood while watching or taking photos of their children playing.
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Diagram
↑ Image Diagram of Universal Wonderland Entrance
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Moreover, at restaurants in each zone, guests can savor snacks such as apple fries,
standard and popular sweets in the U.S., adorable-looking cupcakes, and Cookie Monster
Chief's homemade Sandwiches. Guests can enjoy shopping with their children at shops
offering
goods
featuring
popular
Universal Wonderland Map
characters. We hope that many guests
will be able to enjoy a great time with
their families at Universal Wonderland
Snoopy Studios™
↓
Sesame Street™ Fun
World
and create valuable memories.
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Universal Studios Japan is currently
holding a seasonal event, "Universal
Wonder
January
excluding
Christmas," every day until
9,
2012
(national
December
31,
holiday),
2011.
Hello Kitty Fashion
Avenue
The
Christmas tree, recognized as the world’s
No.1 in the Guinness Book of World Records*, floats on the lake located in the center of
the Park. Many guests admire or take photos of the breathtakingly beautiful sight every
day.
In the evening guests can enjoy the night fantasy Lagoon show "Forever Love
Christmas" on the floating stage with the brilliant world No. 1 Christmas tree in its
center. In the daytime, guests can have fun with the joyful Christmas show "Happy
Snow Party." Moreover, Santa Claus, officially certified by the government of Lapland
province of Finland, has been residing at the Park during the Christmas event period.
* The world’s No. 1 in terms of the number of Christmas illuminations decorated on an artificial Christmas
tree based on a fir or pine tree design
During its 10th anniversary event period, Universal Studios Japan will offer guests
the happiest feelings and wonderment beyond anything they have ever experienced or
imagined, helping create for them delightful and unforgettable memories.
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[Reference]
Universal Wonderland Facilities
- Snoopy Studios™ Zone
Concept: Movie studios where the movie director Snoopy shoots movies together with
guests.
Name
Type
The Flying Snoopy* Ride Attraction
Snoopy’s Great
Race™ (existing)
Ride Attraction
Peppermint Patty’s
Stunt Slide™
(existing)
Ride Attraction
Snoopy's Sound
Stage Adventure
(existing)
Playland
Snoopy™'s Backlot
Café (existing)
Restaurant
Snoopy Studios
Store (existing)
Shop
Features
Fly in the sky with Snoopy! Operate flying
Snoopy by yourself to fly around the Peanuts
characters. Fly high, low, and high again; enjoy a
floating feeling as if you were above the clouds.
Run around the course on a roller coaster created
based on the Soap Box Derby. Pass over the hill,
rush through the course watching a snowy
mountain, and rush into a cabin. Snoopy makes a
film of your adventure, with help from his
assistant, Woodstock.
Play the role of Peppermint Patty, who is a good
athlete like a professional baseball player and
now trying to perform a stunt in her movie in
which she's the main character. Slide down the
tube-shaped water slide on a raft.
An indoor attraction simulating a movie studio
where Snoopy and Peanuts characters make
movies. There are Lucy’s Preview Theatre,
Schroeder’s Sound Studio, Sally’s Art
Department, Spike’s Western Set, and Charlie
Brown’s neighborhood. Guests from small
children to adults can enjoy a variety of
experiences with Snoopy and his friends while
helping them create a movie.
A café featuring Snoopy and his friends, who are
loved by people all over the world. Immerse
yourself in the world of Peanuts while you enjoy
tasting foods and watching illustrations of
Peanuts characters.
A wide array of original goods featuring Snoopy
and Peanuts characters await you at Snoopy
Studios Store.
* The Flying Snoopy is a new attraction that will open concurrently with the opening of
the Universal Wonderland.
- Hello Kitty Fashion Avenue Zone
Concept: A ribbon-themed boutique opened by Hello Kitty, who has just returned from
Hollywood and loves ribbons very much.
Name
Hello Kitty's
Cupcake Dream
Type
Ride Attraction
Hello Kitty's Ribbon Meet & Greet
Collection
Slide
Hello Kitty’s
Cupcake Shop
Restaurant
Hello Kitty’s Apple
Fries
Food Cart
Hello Kitty’s Ribbon Shop
Boutique
-
Features
You are invited to Hello Kitty's cake party. Which
cake would you choose from a wide array of
colorful cupcakes? Cups rotate to the music.
You'll have more fun when you turn the steering
wheel.
Hello Kitty opened her boutique to receive
prestigious guests. Look at the latest fashion
items she has designed. Then wear the same
ribbons as Hello Kitty to take commemorative
photos with her in a private room!
A wide array of colorful stick-type cupcakes, Hello
Kitty's favorite! Choose your favorites from these
cakes that you can easily eat in one hand.
Taste nouvelle sweets made with apples, Hello
Kitty's favorite fruit! Why not try the freshly fried
apple dipped with lots of special sauce?
Hello Kitty's ribbon-themed shop filled with
dazzling fancy items!
Sesame Street™ Fun World Zone
This zone shares the largest space in the Universal Wonderland and is divided into one
indoor area and two outdoor areas.
[Sesame Street™ Plaza (outdoors)]
Name
Type
Big Bird’s Big Top
Circus
Ride Attraction
Elmo's little drive
Ride Attraction
Sesame Street™
Kids Store
Shop
Features
Rotate elegantly on the back of animals that are
stars of Big Bird's circus. Enjoy feeling as if you
were a member of the circus!
Children can enjoy driving slowly on the small
circuit course in a car illustrated with Elmo's
pretty face. Even 3-year-old children can fully
enjoy driving in the car.
Mainly targeting kids, this shop offers toys and
many other Sesame Street™-related goods that
will excite small children!
[Elmo's Imagination Playland (indoors)]
Name
Type
Elmo's Bubble
Bubble
Ride Attraction
Bert and Ernie's
Wonder – The Sea
Grover's
Construction
Company
Big Bird's Big Nest
Ball Pool, Slide
Playland
Athletics
Features
Ride on the back of Dorothy, Elmo's pet goldfish,
and enjoy traveling through the bubble-filled
stream. On your way you will be immersed in
soap bubbles made by Elmo and feel like you
were traveling through real bubbles.
Swim in a ball pool filled with lots and lots of
balls. Move your body to the fullest extent.
Use large blocks to build a castle, train or
anything you want by using your rich
imagination.
A huge net-shaped jungle gym that looks like Big
Moppy's Lucky
Dance Party
Abby's Magical
Party
Dance
Cookie Monster
Kitchen
Restaurant
Playland
Bird's nest. Move your body freely by going up
and down the jungle gym any way you like.
Enjoy dancing to happy music with a DJ. Dance
hard and you will get a small present at the end.
A playland where small children can fully play,
freely moving their body in the magical,
mysterious space
See Cookie Monster the big eater's kitchen. Many
adorable menu items are available like Cookie
Monster chef's sandwiches and cookies.
[Sesame Central Park (outdoors)]
Name
Sesame's BIG
DRIVE
Type
Ride Attraction
(available for
children only)
Big Bird's Climbing Jungle gym
Nest
Abby's Magical Tree Jungle gym
Abby's Magical
Playland
Garden
Water Garden
Water play
(provisional name)
Cookie Monster Slide Slide
Ernie's Rubber
Duckie Race
Water play
Features
A ride attraction mainly targeting elementary
school students. Guests can enjoy driving in a car
featuring Sesame Street™ characters the way
they want on a driving course that simulates the
real Central Park in New York City.
Have fun on the Big Bird-themed jungle gym.
Move your body freely and climb up and down!
Climb up and down the jungle gym in the hollow
of a tree. What can you see from the top of the
jungle gym!?
Play inside curiously-shaped vegetables and fruit
that were made by mistake by Abby's magic.
Play in the rhythmical spring water of a fountain
and small waterfall!
A huge slide in the shape of Cookie Monster.
Slide down from the big mouth of Cookie
Monster.
Float a rubber duck (Rubber Duckie, Ernie's
favorite) into the stream.