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Park News - (12/8/11) Universal Studios Japan is currently showing off a special temporary exhibit about K-ON! to promote a new Japanese Anime film based on a former TV series. You can read more about it here.
    (3/17/11) With all of the problems facing Tokyo Disneyland at the moment many of you have wondered how Universal Studios Japan is holding up. According to the park’s official website, the park still fully operational. “Universal Studios Japan is open and operating under thorough safety management. You are safe and free of worries when you visit our Park as you planned.”

2012 - Universal Wonderland / New Land - (7/25/11) Blooloop reports that Universal Studios Japan will open a new themed area called Universal Wonderland, themed as a town where the Snoopy, Hello Kitty, Elmo and other park characters will reside. The report also says a new family friendly ried attraction will be added as well as a soft blocks play area, character greeting areas as well as a restaurant and shops.
    The new land will be made up from three zones, the existing Snoopy Studios (which will get the new ride), Hello Kitty Fashion Avenue and Sesame Friendly Town. The later of which will offer both indoor and outdoor spaces and attractions. The new areas under construction will take up the site of the former Land of Oz area, and merge it with Snoopy Studios which will close temporarily in January 2012.
    (12/15/10) Screamscape sources tell us that the new family friendly expansion coming to Universal Studios Japan could very well be themed to Sesame Street. Apparently some suits from Japan were seen scooping out the new Safari of Fun kids area at Busch Gardens Tampa and taking notes on what they liked. It’s worth noting that Universal Japan also already has a Sesame Street 4D theater attraction as well as live entertainment, so this would make sense.
    (12/13/10) Universal Studios Japan will open a new land in early 2012 that has been described as something enjoyable for “all family members”. This new land will actually serve as a replacement for an departing area of the park, the current Land of Oz area that contains the Wicked stage show and other surrounding areas. Wicked will end it’s run at the park on Jan 11th, 2011 and the rest of the area will close down February 15th, 2011. The new land is part of the park’s plans for a 10th anniversary celebration and they will hold off on making the detailed announcement until sometime in 2011 when they begin the year long anniversary event.  Now anyone know what the theme of this area will be?

2013/2014 - Rumor - Transformers - (5/7/10) Is Univesal Studios Japan looking to get in on the Transformers ride action? According to a mystery e-mail I got today, the park may be looking into closing their Terminator 2/3-D attraction in the future to may way for a Transformers ride as early as 2013. After all, we know the Japanese love giant robots. My only concern however is that the Transformers ride is supposed to be fairly similar, technology wise, to the Spiderman ride, and at Universal Studios Japan, Spiderman is virtually next door to T2/3D.

???? - Back To The Future Replacement - Rumor - (8/23/09) This rumor may be a bit ahead of it’s time, but one source suggests that Universal Japan is ready to retire their version of Back To The Future as well by 2011/2012.  As The Simpon’s are not really hugely well known characters in Japan as they are in America, porting in a clone of the same Simpsons ride is not an option.  However the rumor we’ve heard is a bit of a stunner, as our source claims that they may be looking an at option to license Batman from WB to create new simulator ride themed to The Dark Knight. DeLorean… meet The Tumbler.  Now of course the really odd question is... can Spiderman and Batman co-exist in the same park, being from two different comic book companies? Maybe not in the USA, but I do think it would work in Japan where they are both viewed as just American Superhero comics. Plus we know that at one point in time Universal was attempting to build a Batman themed attraction for Islands of Adventure when the park was first just a concept.