Paramount is set to open a brand new theme park in China. Titled Paramount Park Kunming, the park will feature rides and areas based on many of Paramount's properties and brands, including Nickelodeon!
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| Nickelodeon Playtime entrance in Shenzhen. |
The major $8 billion (RMB51 billion) Paramount theme park resort and arts complex will be built on the shores of Dianchi Lake in southwestern Yunnan province’s capital city Kunming. The resort itself will span an area of 643 acres out of the broader Paramount-branded development project’s total 1,899 acres, making it Hollywood’s third largest theme resort in China, following Shanghai Disneyland, which clocks in at 963 acres, and the 990-acre Universal Beijing Resort.
Paramount Park Kunming will be divided up into six areas and a central lagoon.
One of the park's areas will be the Nickelodeon-branded "Nick Joy City", which will feature three of Nickelodeon's most popular properties: SpongeBob SquarePants, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and PAW Patrol.
According to a draft of the "Paramount Theme Park Construction Project Environmental Impact Report" shared online by the Kunming Dianchi National Tourism Resort Management Committee last year, Nick Joy City will boast:
- A SpongeBob ride called the 'Bikini Bottom Bubble Battle', which is possibly a Rafting Ride by abc rides. The ride's area is 3950 square meters;
- A ride named 'Fiery Fist O' Pain'. There are no ride details but it is assumed to be a wooden roller coaster based on the ride shown in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Roller Cowards".
- A SpongeBob-themed ride named 'Spinning Jellyfish', although no details are currently available;
- There also seems to be rides named 'Mrs. Puff's Boating School' and something that roughly translates to 'Mr. Krabs versus Plankton';
- 'Barg'N-Mart', which seems to be the SpongeBob gift shop;
- There's also a 'Glove World' kiosk, a SpongeBob show of some sort, and last but not least 'The Krusty Krab' is listed as a restaurant;
- For PAW Patrol fans, there's a bumper car ride, The Lookout, City Hall, a kiosk, a lake, and a show;
- For Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans, there's a show that roughly translates to 'Turtle Time is Up!' and a ride named 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Training Camp' that's 3190 square meters in size;
- Nick Joy City also has a general Nickelodeon 4D theater and store.
The Environmental Impact Report states that the total construction period for the theme park is 48 months, with plans to start construction in December 2023 and finish it in December 2027, and then open the theme park around February 2028.
"Nick Joy City" replaces "Peanuts Town", which what was originally planned for that area of the park. Based on the Peanuts comic strip, the area would have been named "Wonderland".
Paramount Park Kunming will also feature rides and attractions based on other Paramount favorites, such as Star Trek and Mission: Impossible.
Star Trek will have an entire zone that’s dedicated to the iconic franchise. It’s aptly called the Final Frontier, and will bear sci-fi attractions.
The details of the park are still scarce, but some of the placeholder names of the futuristic rides to get Trekkies all hyped up include the Warp Drive roller coaster, and the Space Dive drop towers.
There will also be a dedicated Adventure City full of callbacks to blockbuster thrillers like Mission: Impossible. There will also be an interactive IMF Spy Training Facility that’ll put the agility, flexibility, and determination of visitors to the test.
Other areas that are in the works include Dinotopia, a zone which is based on a book where humans coexist in harmony alongside intelligent dinosaurs. Visitors will also be able to splash down in water rides over at the Tomb Raider-inspired Lost Kingdom.
Back in November 2021, the Kunming Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning announced plans to revise the land where the theme park's located from being categorized as a heritage site to "recreational and sports land and commercial business land". Also, plans are underway to relocate the small village located on part of the theme park's land.
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| Final Frontier - based on "Star Trek" in which guests are recruited to "boldly go to places where no park guests have gone before" |
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| Lost Kingdom - features the "Tomb Raider" franchise and includes a water ride that takes place on the "Motagua River" and a coaster named "Escape from Emerald Mountain" |
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| The scrapped "Peanuts Town" |
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| Dinotopia - based on James Gurney's "Dinotopia" fantasy book series in which humans live in harmony alongside intelligent dinosaurs |
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| Paramount Boulevard - the park's Hollywood-themed "Main Street" entrance area with stores and restaurant |
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| Adventure City - features Paramount's action movies, such as "Mission: Impossible" and "The Italian Job" |
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Originally published: December 22, 2023.
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