Universal Studio Japan and Sesame Street

Universal Studio Japan has added their Sesame Street 4-D page on their web site.

http://www.usj.co.jp/studioguide/attraction/e_index.html?e_sesame.html

Yeah, they have Snoopy Studio down there. The Travel Channel going to do a specail on Universal Studio Japan this month. Who's know we might seen a quick peek at Sesame Street 4-D.

The Site also has a commerial with Sesame Street characters in it, here with the first one on the page,

http://www.usj.co.jp/news/tvcm/e_index.html

Here a description:

Land right in the middle of all the Sesame Street™ fun! Join Elmo, Cookie Monster, Big Bird, Bert and Ernie as they dive into the sea and soar up to the sky! With state-of-the-art 3-D plus a new dimension of surprises --- you'll not only see and hear the experience, but you'll actually feel the movie right from your own seat. You'll be amazed by these four dimensions of imaginative fun.

I live in Japan, and i been to Universal Studio Japan. But wahts strange is they have snoopy, WB, and now SS in this park!

The park By itself is really nice, but like Tokyo Disney land and Sea is tourist nightmare! Prices are high, quility of products are bad and the over rides and other events lack the carefree feeling of a friendly place to be. Adding the SS part is adding insult to a already over hyped or price park!

I hope they make one in the u.s

The show times for the "Inside Universal Studios Japan" on the Travel Channel are:

Mar 27 2003
7:00 PM EST

Mar 28 2003
2:00 AM EST

Just in case you want to check it out to see if they show a bit about the "Sesame Street" part. I'll be watching it looking for "Snoopy" stuff as well...

--Scott McGuire

SAd but true. I was washing to go back this year again, but I really did not feel like being disapointed again.

Ummmm... Why does Universal (US, Japan etc.) have WB, Nick, Snoopy, SS etc., in there parks and Universal DOESN'T even own some of them things!!

WB (AOL Waner Bros) owns Six Flags, thats why thay have Bug's (I HATE the Loony toons! ..... ) and Batman and Superman stuff at them 6 Flags too!

Six Flags is not owned by the WB anymore now it is owned by Premiere Parks. Premiere Parks licenceses the WB characters to be put in the park. Paramount Parks (Viacom) also licenceses the some AOL Time Warner characters (Hanna-Barbera) that have been at those parks before the WB even owned them especially Kings Island.

here in japan its a different world. there is all sort of strange combos of companies all together. They loan the rights (X -char) for a period of months or years for x- amount of money.

Here's a sypnopsis:

http://www.usj.co.jp/sesame4D/e_attraction.html

"Sesame Street 4-D Movie Magic," is a 20-minute, sensory filled experience exploring the magic of movie making with the world-renowned "Sesame Street" characters including Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Bert, Ernie, Oscar the Grouch, Grover and Prairie Dawn.

It is a busy day on "Sesame Street" as guests enter the pre-show area to find all the characters putting finishing touches on their movies. After guests finish watching only two movie previews, The Count's "Counting Cowboy"
and Prairie Dawn's "Space Ponies," the movie projector suddenly breaks. Brokenhearted, the "Sesame Street" characters are preparing to leave when Elmo has a brilliant idea and tells everyone that they do not need a projector to show their movies --all they need is their imagination. Elmo then invites guests into th main theater so that the movies can begin.

After putting on their requisite Hollywood sunglasses, guests are immersed in each of the character's "imaginary" movies filled with comedy, action and
suspense. But these are not just any ordinary movies, these movies seemingly jump off the screen and bombard all the guests' senses as they smell freshly baked chocolate chip cookies, feel the drip-drop of raindrops on their heads and even experience the thrill of traveling around the world as their seats propel them from arid deserts to snow-topped mountains and even into the murky depths of the sea. The whole experience becomes even more real when the movies end and Big Bird invites guests to step through the screen and join him on "Sesame Street," where they can find the familiar brownstone buildings and doors, Oscar's garbage can and the universally famous street sign.

I'm going to Japan this summer, so maybe there is a chance of me seeing this. And if I do, I'll post a thread telling you all about it.

Oh, and for those of you who saw the USJ special, did they show a sneak peek of SS 4-D?