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30.03.2024 - 15:13 / gamerant.com / Jack Jaegar
The past five years have been great for anime and gaming fans when it comes to theme parks. First, in March 2021, the Nintendo World part of Universal Studios Japan opened, welcoming fans of Mario and more into a fun playground. Then, in November 2022, the Studio Ghibli theme park opened, letting fans of the beautiful movies step inside of them and experience them firsthand. Nintendo World is in Osaka, Japan, while the Studio Ghibli park in Aichi, Japan.
Now, as reported by the official Dragon Ball website, the next theme park to open for otaku will be a Dragon Ball park. Despite being a Japanese franchise, though, the park will not follow the pattern of other anime and gaming parks, and it will not open in Japan. Instead, it is going to open somewhere you may never have guessed — Saudi Arabia.
If we went into all the history of the Dragon Ball franchise, you would be reading for a while, so we are just going to go over the basics for anyone who needs to be brought up to speed. Currently, Dragon Ball has 6 anime series with another (Dragon Ball Daima) slated for 2024. There are also 21 movies, numerous video games, card games, and more. The first series, simply called Dragon Ball, aired from 1986 to 1989, and the franchise has been going strong ever since.
Because of its popularity and the sheer number of properties in the franchise, Dragon Ball is one of the highest-grossing franchises of all time. Its manga is also one of the best-selling, with over 420 million copies sold around the world. The franchise has been praised by critics around the world and has even been credited with helping bring anime to the world outside of Japan, and helping spread interest in manga and anime to international audiences due to its popularity and wide reach.
The news about the Dragon Ball theme park is still very new, so we do not have many details yet. However, the website has reported a few things to get our imaginations rolling. First, the park is being built by the Saudi Arabian company, Qiddiya Investment Company. It will be the first theme park in the world to be entirely for Dragon Ball, despite the franchise's long and beloved history internationally.
The Dragon Ball park will reportedly be over 500,000 square meters (around 123.5 acres) when it is completed, with seven different themed areas. To put that into perspective, Tokyo Disneyland is 115 acres, and Universal Studios Japan is 130 acres, of which Nintendo World is only a part. The Dragon Ball park is going to be huge, especially for a park focused on just one franchise!
The Dragon Ball theme park will feature recreations of some of the famous buildings and locations from the franchise, including the Kame House from Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, and the
Polish developer Warhorse Studios has revealed that Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is on the way, with a ballpark release window estimated for 2024.
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