If you cast your mind back to last year, you might remember Nintendo and the Seattle Aquarium teaming up for an Animal Crossing: New Horizons event. Well, that very event is hitting the road as Nintendo has announced that the 'Animal Crossing Aquarium Tour' will be heading to seven different North American cities in the coming months.
The tour begins later this week, with the event kicking off in South Carolina from 14th June - 11th August. You can find the dates and locations for every leg of the tour below.
- Ripley’s Aquarium of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina - 14th June - 11th August
- Audubon Aquarium in New Orleans, Louisiana - 21st June - 14th September
- Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia - 1st August - 26th September
- Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, Oregon - 26th August - 20th October
- New England Aquarium in Boston, Massachusetts - 21st September - 14th December
- SEA LIFE Arizona Aquarium in Tempe, Arizona - 4th October - 17th November
- Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga, Tennessee - 21st December - 28th February
Anyone in attendance on one of the tour dates can get involved with Animal Crossing-themed photo opportunities, read up on the wildlife thanks to handy signage from Blathers and redeem Platinum Points from Nintendo kiosks.
If you're really lucky, you might even have the chance to meet and greet Isabelle, Tom Nook, or K.K. Slider who will be at certain legs of the tour on select days.
Event tickets will be included in the price of general admission for each stop and can be purchased from the respective aquarium on the day.
We swung by the Seattle Aquarium for a look at its Animal Crossing event last year and were pleasantly surprised by the cuteness of it all. Of course, there's no guarantee that this tour will be exactly the same (we'd imagine it will be near-enough identical, mind) but you can read about our Seattle experience below.
Are you heading to any stops on the Animal Crossing Aquarium Tour this year? Dive into the comments and let us know.
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Nice, happy for those of you in the US who will be able to attend it!
I'll give the dead horse another good thrashing:
Funny how they do all sorts of stuff involving "Animal crossing", except support the actual game!
Would be nice if I was in the same hemisphere as one of these. Oh well, gotta take the rough with the smooth
@MysticX I genuinely don't get why people think the game is dead due to lack of support. I guess it's a testament to how inferior the title is in comparison to other Animal Crossing titles- but the series has always had more of a singleplayer lean. New Horizons updates were less "support," and more fixing the game because it launched with less content than the previous installments in the series.
Most of the content updates were basically just the team attempting to play catch-up with themselves, and even then the game still lacks a ton of core components that made up the rest of the series.
2.0 was made very clear that it was going to be the final content update- but people still act like Nintendo outright abandoned the game out of no-where for some reason (not saying you do, but that's what I've seen people say online at times).
Was hoping it'd be at the Shedd Aquarium since I'm close enough to Chicago to make day trips there but guess too bad.
It’s going to be at home for my birthday, but I’ll be overseas until December🥲 Maybe my friends can go enjoy it for me
If only they could have been arsed to support it properly the past few years, eh. Bit late now.
Neat, it's coming to the New England Aquarium. I remember seeing this old commercial of it on TV during the 1980s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddBt5p-Uqew
Oh snap it’s gonna be near me. Guess I am going!
I wasn’t impressed by what I saw online in Seattle last year but I may use this as an excuse to go back to the NE Aquarium, either for my kid’s birthday or our anniversary. Gotta see if my other kid will be mad about us going w/o them first. I also have family near there, can make a nice weekend of it, maybe for Columbus Day?🤷🏻♂️
Cute. I'll need to look this up and see if I'm interested in going, since I'm going to be near the New England aquarium.
@MysticX I mean, the team are probably working on the next one now. They don't have the time, and its probably not worth the money, to update nh, especially with the new console right around the corner. Wouldn't be surprised if animal crossing is a year 1 title if I'm honest, would be perfect
Ah, if only they gave as much care to New Horizons than they do these glorified snoozefests.
Seriously, New Horizons died for this and some mobile slop game? Give me a big ol' break.
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