Mojang Studios and Merlin Leisure are teaming as much as open an official Minecraft theme park, which they’ve appropriately named Minecraft World. Introduced earlier as we speak throughout the Minecraft Stay showcase, Minecraft World is tentatively set to open its doorways sooner or later in 2027 and can seemingly be fused with the preexisting Chessington World of Adventures theme park in Better London. It’ll even have its personal curler coaster
In response to the official assertion on Merlin Leisure’s web site, Minecraft World will value £50 million (simply shy of $70 million) to develop and can characteristic “a world-first Minecraft coaster, themed retail and eating, plus a number of fan favourites and ridiculous enjoyable from the Minecraft universe.” Based mostly on the mock-up photos in Merlin Leisure’s press launch, the theme park continues to be very a lot within the planning part. Minecraft World can even apparently be designed in “collaboration with a collection of iconic Minecraft creators to assist convey the universe to life in essentially the most genuine manner attainable,” though no particular “creators” have been introduced at the moment.
Minecraft World isn’t the primary online game theme park to open up prior to now decade, because the likes of PokéPark Kanto in Japan and Tremendous Nintendo World in Orlando’s Common Studios opened up prior to now few years. It’s, nevertheless, the primary online game theme park primarily based on an official IP to open up in the UK.
Personally, as somebody from the UK, I’d have a lot moderately most well-liked the Pokémon or Mario theme parks myself, however hey, I’m certain there are tens of hundreds of Brits who’re thrilled to listen to this information. Gonna be a nightmare driving up the M25 if this coincides with the discharge of the second Minecraft film although.
