Paramount may build theme park in Osaka
Paramount has been talking with the Osaka city government about turning the old abandoned Expoland amusement park (shown on the map above) into a theme park that would rival the city’s other Hollywood studio-owned theme park:
A Japanese Paramount Pictures park would join Disneyland and Universal Studio resorts in the world’s second-largest economy. Attendance at Tokyo’s two Disney parks, operated under license by Oriental Land Co., is forecast to reach a record 26.5 million this year, even as the economy enters a recession and households pare spending.
Paramount Pictures approached the Osaka government about redeveloping the 20-hectare Expoland site in August, the Daily Yomiuri newspaper reported today. The operator of Expoland has filed for bankruptcy protection, the report said.
Apparently Paramount had a similar plan to build a theme park in Fukuoka a few years ago, but the plan was ultimately given up because the estimated cost of building it was too high.
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Disney has Mickey etc.
USJ has ET and got rights to Snoopy.
What is Paramount’s “cute” icon?
They controlled Dreamworks, but Dreamworks just moved under the Universal umbrella.
In the States, the Paramount park I went to did trump Disney and Universal on one point, they had a lot of pretty good roller coasters. But is there any real giant trill-ride centered amusement park in Japan at all? If not, why not?
Local amusements could do well in an economic downturn if people are turning international trips into domestic trips. but I don’t think your going to get a lot of the 50+ crowd, or even the 40+ crowd, going to a roller coaster park.