Comments on: Paramount may build theme park in Osaka http://www.japanprobe.com/2008/12/01/paramount-may-build-theme-park-in-osaka/ Japan News Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Level3 http://www.japanprobe.com/2008/12/01/paramount-may-build-theme-park-in-osaka/comment-page-1/#comment-270504 Level3 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:49:54 +0000 http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=7565#comment-270504 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. 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.

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