Sonic Town Opens
Sonic Town Opens
Japanese schools may have experienced a high amount of truancy last Thursday, as Sonic Town, Sega Japan’s latest attempt at merging the realms of video games and theme parks, finally opened.
The town has a number of features to delight Sonic fans. The entrance houses a huge Sonic-shaped button, which when pressed causes Sonic to exclaim, “Welcome to Sonic Town!”. Visitors can talk back to their idol by using the many telephones that are placed around the town.
^ Sonic Team have supervised the design
On weekends Sonic and his pals take a break from battling Dr Eggman to star in a live stage show. Monitors are placed all over the town and provide visual entertainment for when the stage show isn’t running, with scenes from the Sonic games and Sonic X.
All visitors receive an exclusive Sonic Friend notebook. More Sonic merchandise can be earned by playing the UFO catcher games. The less adventurous can simply purchase Sonic items from the shopping areas.
^ The Sonic Town, in Koshien ban-cho, Nishinomiya-shi, Hyogo-ken
Full details can be found at the Sonic Town information page.
[Disclaimer: Information obtained through machine translation and so may be partly inaccurate]
The town has a number of features to delight Sonic fans. The entrance houses a huge Sonic-shaped button, which when pressed causes Sonic to exclaim, “Welcome to Sonic Town!”. Visitors can talk back to their idol by using the many telephones that are placed around the town.
^ Sonic Team have supervised the design
On weekends Sonic and his pals take a break from battling Dr Eggman to star in a live stage show. Monitors are placed all over the town and provide visual entertainment for when the stage show isn’t running, with scenes from the Sonic games and Sonic X.
All visitors receive an exclusive Sonic Friend notebook. More Sonic merchandise can be earned by playing the UFO catcher games. The less adventurous can simply purchase Sonic items from the shopping areas.
^ The Sonic Town, in Koshien ban-cho, Nishinomiya-shi, Hyogo-ken
Full details can be found at the Sonic Town information page.
[Disclaimer: Information obtained through machine translation and so may be partly inaccurate]
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chriscaffee wrote:I spend four years in their damn country and they open up this shit six months after I leave.
I'm going to take a guess and say probably T-Shirts and other apparel.GG! wrote:So does it have anything other than the merchandise shop that would appeal to a Sonic fan over the age of 10?
Odd that they didn't bother announcing any plans to open Sonic Town in the U.S. or the U.K. since the Sonic franchise is more popular there than in Japan. Well, it is at least in the U.K.
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I think he's being sarcastic Spazz.
Yeah, it's looking to be delightfully decadent. What with a PokeBall ferris wheel, a merry-go-round where you ride on Pikachu, and a water-slide with boats shaped like Mudkip. It's like the wet dream of every pathetic Bulbasaur addict ever.There's a Pokémon theme park? I just came.
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