Is China Building a Warcraft and Starcraft Theme Park?

Tom Goldman

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Is China Building a Warcraft and Starcraft Theme Park?

Even if images of a Blizzard-themed Amusement park are fake, they're still pretty cool.

Instead of blasting through Space Mountain with Mickey Mouse at Disney World, imagine if you could sit next to Kerrigan while zooming around Starcraft: The Ride, or hang out with Thrall on the tea cups of Orgrimmar. This is evidently the basic idea behind some of the areas in China's upcoming Joyland Theme Park.

French gaming site GameBlog is reporting that Joyland, supposedly opening in March 2011, will feature areas such as the "Terrain of World of Warcraft [http://www.amazon.com/Warcraft-III-Battle-Chest-Pc/dp/B00009ECGK/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1297185406&sr=8-2] and those built by the Protoss.

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Joyland isn't entirely Blizzard-themed, with other areas that include "Moles World" and the "World of Legend." It'll also have a videogame museum and an area where park-goers can battle against each other in e-sports, presumably meaning Starcraft.

The appearances of Blizzard's properties in Joyland is a big surprise, raising questions if they're legal, were approved, or are even real. The Joyland website [http://joyland.ccjoy.com/main.html] seems genuine enough, but a Starcraft and Warcraft theme park seems too awesome to be in this plane of reality. Perhaps more information, and pictures, will come out after Joyland's grand opening.

Source: G4TV [http://www.gameblog.fr/news_20630_un-parc-d-attractions-world-of-warcraft-starcraft-en-mars]

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Zer_

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Amazing. That would be awesome. They need to do this! DO EET! NOW!
 

Aeshi

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Part of me kinda wants to see this built because it could be quite funny.

Another part wants to see this burn because it will probably be crap.


Atmos Duality said:
Oh grand.
Can't wait to get Zerg-rushed on the bumper cars.
Win
 

Eatspeeple

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I wonder if they will keep to the game and have the rollercoaster stop halfway round while a voice booms 'YOU MUST CONTRUCT ADITTIONAL PYLONS'

Atmos Duality said:
Oh grand.
Can't wait to get Zerg-rushed on the bumper cars.
They dont have bumper cars, they have bumper overlords
 

Zer_

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Eatspeeple said:
I wonder if they will keep to the game and have the rollercoaster stop halfway round while a voice booms 'YOU MUST CONTRUCT ADITTIONAL PYLONS'

Atmos Duality said:
Oh grand.
Can't wait to get Zerg-rushed on the bumper cars.
They dont have bumper cars, they have bumper overlords
And they make Overlord sounds.

"Breeeuueuueeeaararrrrph!"
 

Atmos Duality

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Zer_ said:
Eatspeeple said:
I wonder if they will keep to the game and have the rollercoaster stop halfway round while a voice booms 'YOU MUST CONTRUCT ADITTIONAL PYLONS'

They dont have bumper cars, they have bumper overlords
And they make Overlord sounds.

"Breeeuueuueeeaararrrrph!"
I've no idea why, but the original Overlord sounds always made me think of some mutated old guy who is in desperate need of a laxative.
Taking that into context of bumper cars paints an..."interesting" image in my mind's eye.
 

Otaku13

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I would love it if blizzard made a theme park. Hell the souvenirs alone would be epic.
 

Wolfram23

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Oh China. They are totally like this girl when it comes to legal stuff:
 

rsvp42

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They don't have nearly enough pylons for all that.

Though if it's true and not just another Adventure in Copyright Infringement, that would be amazing.
 

Daemascus

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Again with the copyright infriging themeparks china? Why cant you be orignal?
 

microhive

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Blizzard shouldn't do anything about this. It's major free advertisement on their part.
 

Cowabungaa

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Remake the major cities of WoW or don't bother at all. Oh what I wouldn't give to stroll through a real-sized Stormwind or Oggrimmar. Or oh boy what about Silvermoon? Including the Tauren Chieftans! Woohoo!

Well shame it won't be that awesome...ah well, a boy can dream.
 

RollForInitiative

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It's China, so I'm guessing it's not being done legally. Also, "Terrain" of Warcraft? Did they just Google for a synonym or what? Weak.
 

emeraldrafael

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Why does that gundam stint leave a bad taste in my mouth about the legality of this? Cuase I dont think China wants to battle Blizzard like that. Especially considering Blizzard could just BUY parts of China and call it Blizzard nation or whatever they want to call it.