Paramount to open theme park in Fukuoka, Japan

Posted | Contributed by Jeff

Paramount is planning to open a theme park in Fukuoka, Japan in 2008, with construction starting in 2005. The plan may include a hotel and other entertainment facilities, and will cost 120 billion yen to build.

Read more from The Mainichi Daily News.

If this park really does draw 5 million visitors, will it knock off PKI as Paramount's flagship?

I don't think so. It's a totally different market. I'm thinking that since it will get so many visitors that it will help other Paramount Parks get better rides.

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Joe Barnett
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How big is 50 hectares? I wonder if it will have an Eiffel Tower as well.

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Nashville needs a theme park!

Eiffel Tower? That'd be too close to actually having a theme. ;)

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"I go out at 3 o' clock for a quart of milk and come home to my son treating his body like an amusement park!" - Estelle Costanza

You do have to wonder how Paramount will do at park building. All of there other parks were established before Paramount purchased them.

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120 billion Yen equals 1,097,092,704 dollars. Dukeis#1, that is a very good point, and I am very curious, I guess we get 5 years to speculate. So much fun.

Thrillerman, 50 hectares is equal to about .2 square miles or 123 acres.

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I am glad they are building the park, I love Paramount Parks.

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