The Super Nintendo World theme park in Orlando is almost ready to welcome visitors. Universal Orlando Resort will open its doors on May 22, 2025. That gives you more than six months to find the perfect Goomba costume to wear on opening day.
This is Nintendo's third theme park worldwide, following the Orlando and Japan locations. If the layout is anything like the other two parks, you should expect a large interactive area to explore, special themed attractions, and of course, all kinds of Nintendo-adjacent restaurants and shops. The original Japanese park, but it remains to be seen if it will make the jump to the United States.
This is part of a larger expansion of Universal Resort Orlando, called Universal Epic Universe. This includes five areas to explore. There's the aforementioned Super Nintendo World, but this expansion will also house the pre-existing Harry Potter attraction.
The area will house a theme park based on the How to Train Your Dragon franchise and another based on the Dark Universe franchise. The latter is quite strange to me, since the Dark Universe franchise peaked with a few middling horror films in the 2010s. Most of the planned films in this shared cinematic universe were scrapped after 2017. the mummy crashed and burned.
Finally, there is the Celestial Park. This seems to be a with a slight touch of science fiction. There are space-themed roller coasters and things like that.
