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I’m a Universal Studios Hollywood regular, and Bowser’s Challenge is its best ride yet

Universal Studios Hollywood's knocked it out of the park with Super Nintendo World and its latest ride: Bowser’s Challenge.

TechRadar

The happiest place on earth: hitting the heights in Orlando

The Floridian city does thrills and theme parks like nowhere else — and Lucy Tobin and family find plenty to enjoy in its foodie neighbourhoods and quieter attractions too

Evening Standard

Universal Hollywood Super Nintendo World is a hit, a good sign for Epic Universe

From the moment she walked through the green warp pipe into Universal Studios Hollywood’s Super Nintendo World, Ashlei Hartford felt transported back to her childhood video games.

Orlando Sentinel

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How one studio is reverse engineering a video game using TikTok

Whether it's a hit TV show like HBO's "The Last of Us" or an interactive theme park land like Universal Studios' Super Nintendo World, video games are ripe for adaptation and reinterpretation.

Los Angeles Times

Are you too fat for Universal’s new Mario Kart ride? The average American guy is

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Critics are blasting the new Super Nintendo attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood as “blatantly fatphobic” because the augmented reality dark ride has a size restriction that will leave many Americans with larger waistlines on the sidelines.

The Orange County Register

Universal's Super Nintendo World is the play-focused theme park land for our times

LOS ANGELES — A credit list into the hundreds — likely thousands — helped bring Universal Studios' Super Nintendo World to life. And the details show it.

Los Angeles Times

Universal Studios expanding regional theme park concepts in US and worldwide

Universal Studios has big plans to take on regional amusement park chains in the United States and around the globe with a pair of smaller scale and lower cost theme park concepts aimed at families with young kids and horror movie fans.

The Orange County Register

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Super Nintendo World’s new Mario Kart ride accused of excluding plus size visitors

Ride has a waist circumference limit of 40 inches

The Independent UK

‘Like eating one of Mario’s magic mushrooms’: inside California’s new Super Nintendo World

Bringing the iconic video games into reality, Super Nintendo World is a spectacular feat of design that will overload your senses faster than it empties your wallet

The Guardian - UK

5 things to know about Universal Studios as park makes Texas debut

Universal Studios is bringing its next theme park to Frisco, Texas, its third location in the U.S. as the chain continues to expand worldwide.

Tribune News Service

Amusement park lovers react as Universal Studios announces new theme park in Texas

‘As a resident of North Texas, I’m excited about this!’

The Independent UK

Theme parks 2023: Fresh rides coming, but it’s end of the track for a few

ORLANDO, Fla. — We have the makings of a busy theme park calendar in 2023, with long-awaited projects (hopefully) reaching completion, new events debuting and a few favorites bowing out.

Orlando Sentinel

Universal Studios sets February opening date for Super Nintendo World

LOS ANGELES — The transformation of the American theme park as a palace for thrills and passive rides to locations centered around active play will continue on Feb. 17 when Universal Studios Hollywood opens its Super Nintendo World.

Los Angeles Times

Oppenheimer: the film telling the true story of the man who invented the atom bomb

In his new film, Christopher Nolan will explore the life of the scientist dubbed “the father of the atomic bomb”

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Los Angeles Times

Legal fight over 'Back to the Future' car the DeLorean revs up

The DeLorean, the time traveling vehicle that Michael J. Fox's character Marty McFly rode into the future (and the past) in "Back to the Future," was among the most famous cars in movie history.

Orlando Sentinel

Orlando Epic Universe work is ‘right on track,’ executive says

As enthusiasts spot roller coaster track at the construction site of Universal’s upcoming theme park Epic Universe, NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell said the Orlando attraction is “right on track” to open by summer 2025.

Belfast Live

East Belfast film studios expansion gets green light

Loop studios is responsible for The Fall and the Universal Studios production Dracula: Untold

Daily Mirror

'Universal Studios' new horror house by The Weeknd is pulse-racing, flashback-inducing stuff'

Halloween Horror Nights at Orlando are back, with horror favourites including the Wolfman, Dracula and The Mummy, as well as Michael Myers and the popstar The Weeknd

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Daily Mirror

Jamie Lee Curtis' $30m Halloween Ends film earns $13m less than predicted on first weekend

Slasher film Halloween Ends fell short in its opening weekend, earning much less than expected, despite having a $30 million budget and featuring Hollywood star Jamie Lee Curtis

Asharq Al-Awsat

Possible Human Skeleton Found Outside Japan's Universal Studios

An entire human skeleton has been found outside Universal Studios Japan theme park, police said Saturday, after conducting a search following the discovery of a skull suspected to be part of it. On Wednesday, a Universal Studios staff member found what appeared to be a human skull and an upper…

Los Angeles Times

Halloween costs are rising. Will that frighten away haunt fans?

Sean Nyberg is a professional investor who has been keeping track of the rising cost of attending Disneyland Resort's annual Halloween celebration.

Tom’s Guide

Peacock TV: Cost, app, shows and more NBC streaming service details

Everything to know about NBC's Peacock TV streaming service, including plan prices, ads, apps and devices.

The Guardian - UK

How pound slump could spark £3bn film and TV investment boom

UK production industry could record extra-boost from US companies seeking overseas filming locations and production facilities

WEKU

Spanish 'Dracula' finds new blood, more than 90 years after its release

In 1931, an entire new cast and crew reshot Dracula into Spanish on the Universal Studios lot.

The Orange County Register

Halloween Horror Nights 2022: A look inside the expanded event at Universal Studios Hollywood

Bloody guts dangle from the ceiling, swaying as we make our way through a maze filled with bodies, scarecrows and towering corn stalks. Through the darkness, beams of sunlight creep in. It’s an unnerving scene, even though it’s daylight outside.

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