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Universal Studios Japan also gives hints about Yoshi ride, Bowser Jr. boss battle attraction, and punching park’s question mark blocks.
One of our own reporters has a go at making a personal Halloween-themed mask for USJ’s newest event.
Park finally has a timetable to let us start racing Mario Karts, punching question blocks, and eating Luigi’s hat.
How much longer are we going to have to wait for the world’s first Nintendo theme park zone?
Electropop outfit Galantis and pop singer Charli XCX made a Mario-influenced bop to promote USJ’s latest land!
Look forward to real-life takes on Peach and Bowser’s castles, Mario Kart themed attractions and more!
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Brand-new caper for anime’s greatest thief is latest installment of Universal Cool Japan project.
How could you when the haunted room is filled with bloodstains, cobwebs, severed limbs, and a hidden switch that’ll whisk you into a nightmare world?
There’s more to theme parks in Japan than just Disney Resort and Universal Studios; there’s also ninjas, go-karts and looking through your legs.
More information about the original story of the attraction was released as well as photos of some sweet limited-edition merchandise only available at this event!
Theme park lets us know what kind of attraction it’ll be, when we can experience it, and what special Sailor Moon food we can look forward to.
Set to open this winter, the ride takes fans on an adventure through multiple worlds from the Final Fantasy video game franchise.
Theme park announces its first-ever tie-up with the pair of massively popular anime, video game franchises.
First glimpse of theme park’s Nintendo World expansion looks as awesome as we’d hoped.
“Big” is looking to be the operative word for next year’s Japanese pop culture themed attractions.
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