Rumour: Report Suggests That A Pokémon Theme Park Is Coming To Universal Studios In 2020

I am already saving to take the family to Nintendo Land Tokyo, can.t wait!

I want to add that Universal's fourth gate will not be solely Nintendo themed. It is rumoured now that this fourth park will be anchored by four properties: Harry Potter, Jurrasic World, Lord of the Rings and Nintendo. Harry Potter will have an area in each park, while Jurrasic Park/World and Nintendo will have an area in both this new park and Island of Adventures.

Perhaps I’ve misread something in the article, or made some other mistake, but Universal studios Japan is in Osaka. I thought that was where ‘Super Nintendo World’ was being built?

I think it should be noted that Universal Studios Japan is in Osaka, not in Tokyo. Can't wait for Super Nintendo World! Will defintley be there in 2020!

@luke88 Osaka is getting Super Nintendo World first, Orlando and Hollywood down the line in some kind of form.

Pokémon-themed roller coaster: Pika-Puke!

@dew12333 It's also coming to the US.

@iMarkU First I've heard of LotR, thanks. My family just watched all 6 films. We were already excited for Nintendo Land. Now they just need to build these things before I'm taking my grandkids rather than my kids. 😆

I'm really excited to see we're actually gonna get a Pokemon section in the Universal Studios section of the park! I don't believe the article stated this, but it was also mentioned that the now larger Mario and Donkey Kong areas will be located in the 4th Universal park which is estimated for a 2023 opening date. So now we gotta wait for some of the classic Nintendo goodness but this is probably for the best.

That this hasn't happened sooner is actually a bit surprising. But I think Pokemon is at the point, like Mario, Star Wars, and Harry Potter, where, barring some catastrophic mistake, the series is here to stay. So that might be why they are finally doing it.

Just change the MIB ride into a Metroid ride and I’ll die happy

That takes care of needing a Pokemon attraction in the Nintendo park, I guess.

Universal needs to do something to keep up with Disney, Harry Potter isn't enough anymore now that Disney continues to add.

@ThanosReXXX: I will be sorely disappointed if there isn't a Pyukumuku reference on any Pokemon 'coaster.

Rayquayza roller coaster sounds baller

@Tyranexx I wonder if they'll also give you a disposable Pokéball instead of a paper bag to ralph in...

@rjejr All six of 'em? In how many days? That must have been some movie marathon. Depending on which versions you watched, it could add up to over 3 hour per movie...

@ThanosReXXX 1 a weekend for the past 6 weekends. Hobbit movies were theater cuts so about 3 hours each, LotR were the extended editions so we watched the first 2 over 2 days, 2 hours a day, then this past Sunday we pushed through 2 hours before dinner and 2 hours after. I'm movied out until Avengers. Though my wife needs to watch GotG2 and Dr. Strange first.

My sons high school robotics team finished 2nd in their regional competition yesterday so they qualified as a wildcard for the championship in Detroit in 2 weeks. Nobody expected us to finish 2nd out of 35, we were 40th out of 50 our previous tournament, so now we're all scrambling figuring out how to pull this off. Some sponsor is paying our entrance fee, it's $7,500, and paying to ship our robot to Detroit, so I hope the school figures out how to make it work. I'm not optimistic our team will be invited to a championship again in the next 2 years and it looks like a lot of fun and an unforgettable experience for the kids.

https://www.firstchampionship.org/plan-your-visit-detroit

@rjejr Haha, I can imagine being movied out. Me and a couple of friends once went to a special event of The Mummy, in which they played the first two movies back to back, then a short break, and then the third one. I believe it was from 8pm until 2am.

Came out of the cinema pretty beat, was glad that I got a ride home, so I could go to bed.

That is some story about your kids, congrats! Sponsor money like that is only given to technical universities over here, such as for the World Solar Challenge, which you might have heard of. Weird-shaped cars running on nothing but solar energy racing across Australia. Happens every other year, the last one being in 2017, so the next one will be in 2019, giving all the teams plenty of time to come up with either a new vehicle, or improve the one they already have.

Anyway, have fun, it sounds like something to remember, so needless to say, you might want to take plenty of photos/video while you're there. Chances are it isn't going to happen again soon.

@ThanosReXXX

Pika-puke! XD

@Tempestryke You're welcome...

@ThanosReXXX "given to technical universities over here"

Funny thing, the robot that kicked our butt was from a high school in Istanbul, Turkey. Every other robot looks like it was made by HS kids form erector sets, there's looked like the giant robot rig Sigourney Weaver wore to defeat the alien queen at the end of Aliens.

The thing was programmed so well - the first 15 seconds are autonomous - their robot could almost do more by itself than most others could do even being controlled.

Today isn't going so well, we're 33rd out of 44. When you have 3 random teams per team it's just the luck of the draw.

If you're really bored and interested here's the live Twitch feed.

https://www.thebluealliance.com/gameday#chat=firstupdatesnow&layout=1&view_0=2018nyli2-0&view_1=2018nyli2-1