Minecraft Theme Park proposed for Binghamton NY

[GuyWithAStick]

http://nationalreport.net/minecraft-creator-buying-property-new-york-state-building-theme-park/

Apparently, the creator of the popular video game Minecraft will be building a new theme park in upstate New York. If the idea passes the City/State council- which it probably will, then we can see groundbreaking as early as August 2015, and opening by 2018. Not much information has been released, but here is what we know:

-There will be 3 areas: The Overworld, The Nether, and The End
-It will have a $290M Budget
-YouTuber Direwolf20 will be designing an on-sight hotel called "The Direwolf Inn", which will be "made" with life-sized Minecraft blocks(1 meter in length, width, and height)
-Freddie Wrong will be designing a ride.

That's it. It'll be interesting to see how this will all turn out.

Edited topic title - ECG

 

[Youngster Joey]

Re: Binghamton NY | unknown | Minecraft Theme Park

Having another park in New york can be nothing but a good thing. Hopefully it does well and isn't a piece of ****.

 

[ECG]

Re: Binghamton NY | unknown | Minecraft Theme Park

A $290 budget? You can't even buy a shed for that amount.

Binghamton is off of Hwy 17, I-81 and I-88, but it's not exactly a major destination. Don't see this lasting long, if it ever sees the light of day.

Moving this topic until we actually see some construction.

 

[Jordanovichy]

If this does get off the ground, this is a park that I'd really love to visit. I love Minecraft, I did think that a theme park might theme an area to the blocky world, but an entire theme park themed to it is aces in my book.

 

[PeskyTrimBrake]

Wait. Do Freddy Wong or Direwolf20 (what ever his name is) have any experience in this? As far as I know Freddy can do theming work since he is a VFX Artist and a film maker, but not an engineer. Not sure what Direwolf20 does.

Pretty neat idea but needs some tweaking.

 

[furie]

Does it matter? They'll be doing the design that architects and engineers will translate into actual things

I think it's got a lot of chance of being pulled off. It's not like Notch is short of a billion or two (thanks Microsoft :lol: ).

 

[Hyde]

Nonsense - Freddy has plenty of amusement park experience. :wink:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYDjV7ajuMo[/youtube]

Interesting concept. We will see if it can get off the ground!

 

[Youngster Joey]

ECG makes a good point. Why Binghamton. It's really a small college town

 

[Hyde]

I have two words for you.

Tax incentives.