Despite China's notorious aversion to video games, an amusement park devoted to World of Warcraft is currently under construction there.
In Wunjin district, workers are currently constructing an amusement park modeled entirely after Blizzard’s World of Warcraft and StarCraft games, reports the Huffington Post.
The park theme park called World Joyland will consist of five game-centric sections: Terrain of Warcraft, Universe of StarCraft, Island of Mystery, Moles World, and World of Legend. The park will reportedly offer visitors a number of thrill rides, including a double free-fall tower and three roller coasters. World Joyland will reportedly also have a video game museum and an e-sports centre.
The park was originally supposed to open this month but recent photos of the build site show that the park is nowhere near ready to open.
The company building the park is CCJoy, an internet portal company. CCJoy does not appear to have any official affiliation with Activision, Blizzard or WoW, and Blizzard has apparently not given its consent for the construction of the park.
News of the WoW park originally surfaced on February 7 on French website GameBlog, and many thought the place might be a hoax. But with Chinese news outlets reporting the build, as well as a number of photographs taken of the construction site, the place appears to be real.
