Following its previous aquarium tours in the US and Japan, Nintendo has now announced that it is collaborating with Sea Life on a new Animal Crossing: New Horizons tour event in the UK.
Kicking off on 8th February 2025, the event will take place across five different locations across the UK (well, England specifically) for roughly one month at a time until 31st August 2025. Attendees can expect a themed tour guide that will showcase a wide, diverse range of sea creatures, while Animal Crossing characters such as Aurora, Octavian, and Gulliver will also appear in unique scenarios.
Collectible character stamps will be available within each location, along with the opportunity to meet Tom Nook and Isabelle. Finally, merchandise stores will include a range of Animal Crossing-themed items alongside the usual cuddly toys, mugs, and what have you.
Here's a look at the upcoming tour dates:
- SEA LIFE Manchester: 8th February – 9th March 2025
- SEA LIFE Birmingham: 12th April – 11th May 2025
- SEA LIFE Brighton: 24th May – 15th June 2025
- SEA LIFE London: 30th June – 27th July 2025
- SEA LIFE Chessington World of Adventures: 1st August – 31st August 2025
To give you a flavour of what you could potentially expect to see during these events, we actually attended Seattle Aquarium's equivalent back in 2024, finding it to be a nice surprise for Animal Crossing fans and sea life enthusiasts alike.
In light of this new collaboration between Nintendo and Sea Life, will you be attending one of the aforementioned tour dates? Let us know with a comment in the usual spot.
[source nintendo.com]
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I swear, anytime stuff like this happens in the UK, it's always England and only England.
What a surprise; England only.
You know you can drive to these places from Scotland and Wales.
I will not be responsible for my actions if I see a seabass...
@Erigen Bassed response.
I remember taking a school trip to the Sea Life centre in (I think) Hunstanton as part of two day stay. Unfortunately, I can't say if it's a nice place to visit because I had an anxiety attack near the start.
@SwitchplayerJohn It’s not really viable (time/value/cost) to drive a minimum of 4 hours just for a SeaLife centre.
Disappointing.
Happy for those interested in going who will be in those cities during the specified periods!
You'll take Manchester, and you'll enjoy it.
Nice. Fun trip with the family
Eh, feels a few years too late now all the hype for Animal Crossing New Horizons has died down. Obviously they couldn't have done it in 2020 when we were in lockdown though!
Shouldn't be called UK then since it's England only, it's an English tour!!!!!!
Ah, they did this a while back in the Netherlands, but it was like... Nook was definitely behind the admission cost.
As usual nothing north of the border, not much of a 'UK' tour is it 🙄
I just visited Adventure Aquarium in Camden NJ, US this past 1/12/25 and they also have an Animal Crossing event going on.
https://www.adventureaquarium.com/explore/special-events/animal-crossing/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social_paid-aaq&utm_campaign=winter25-animal_crossing&utm_content=aaq-250106-core-prospecting-animal_crossing
Next we'll hear Anime Life Sim will have an event called Anime Sea Life.
Only thing I'd add is the Sea Life places are pretty expensive, though they sometimes have admissions discounts if you are travelling on National Rail, so worth checking if travelling to one for a visit.
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