{"id":2340401,"date":"2026-03-21T23:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2340401"},"modified":"2026-03-21T23:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:39:12","slug":"minecraft-world-opening-2027-first-look-at-70-million-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/minecraft-world-opening-2027-first-look-at-70-million-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft World Opening 2027, First Look at $70 Million Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tTheme park lovers who yearn for the mines will have their wish granted in 2027 with the debut of Minecraft<\/a> World.<\/p>\n

\n\tA $70 million project opening within Chessington World Adventures in the UK from Microsoft<\/a>-owned \u201cMinecraft\u201d maker Mojang Studios and theme park giant Merlin Entertainments (the owner of the Legoland theme parks), the attraction will mark the first-ever theme park based on the popular building video game.<\/p>\n

\n\tPer the two companies\u2019 description for Minecraft World<\/a> at Chessington, which is accessible from London by a 35-minute direct train ride, \u201cInspired by the game\u2019s most iconic biomes, mobs, and items, Minecraft World will bring the best-selling game of all time into the physical world for the very first time at a major theme park. The land will feature new Minecraft-themed attractions, including a thrilling world first coaster, interactive adventures, epic block built playscapes, and themed retail and dining.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAhead of announcing the Minecraft World news during the Minecraft LIVE presentation Saturday, Microsoft Gaming\u2019s head of Mojang Studios and franchise development Kayleen Walters and Merlin Entertainments\u2019 senior vice president of global brand marketing Angela Jobson broke down their new partnership in an interview with Variety.<\/em><\/p>\n

\n\tFirst off, the execs clarified that Minecraft World isn\u2019t going to be a theme-park adaptation of the blockbusters hit \u201cA Minecraft Movie\u201d \u2014 or its upcoming 2027 sequel \u2014 brought into real life. It\u2019s going to be based on how you play the game \u201cMinecraft.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWhen a player joins \u2018Minecraft\u2019 and plays, it\u2019s their own completely new experience,\u201d Walters said. \u201cThey have the agency, they choose how to play. So every time you hit play, it\u2019s a different experience for you, and that\u2019s how we think about broadening beyond the game, too. We want the players to have the agency; we want our fans and our community to have the agency and the experience. So we\u2019ve been thinking about immersive experiences in its own space, not in the movie IP space. This is really its own unique Minecraft experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWalters continued: \u201cSo they haven\u2019t taken the sets from the movie or that sort of thing. But what the Merlin team did so well is they worked really closely with the Mojang creative team, and they designed together, and they actually designed using the game, too, which was really great. So they would actually think about what it would look like in game, and then what that player mode is like in real life. And so I think what you\u2019ll really discover is a unique, immersive experience that brings to life what you would want to see if you were to actually get to step into a real \u2018Minecraft\u2019 world and get to experience the gravity and the physics and the smell of the different biomes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJobson says Mojang and Merlin Entertainments see the need for Minecraft World to balance between \u201ccommitment to delivering real emotion and making it really believable\u201d and \u201cthis sense of epicness.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThere are some features in that land that I\u2019m still not quite sure how we\u2019re even doing it from an engineering perspective,\u201d Jobson said. \u201cThere\u2019s a giant floating island in the middle of it, and that we held on to from one of our initial visuals. And sometimes you go really big with your creative vision, but somehow we put our arms around it. I\u2019ll never know. But we all believe that we really need to have this feature in it. It\u2019s going to look quite spectacular.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJobson notes that along with the world\u2019s first \u201cMinecraft\u201d rollercoaster and the world\u2019s biggest \u201cMinecraft\u201d retail store, the park will have \u201cMinecraft\u201d-themed dining, \u201cwhich has led to some very interesting conversations.\u201d \u201cLike, what can you eat? What do you want<\/em> to eat from the Minecraft world? Because clearly, we want it to be appetizing,\u201d Jobson said.<\/p>\n

\n\tWalters says following the massive success of 2025\u2019s \u201cA Minecraft Movie,\u201d it was clear to Microsoft Gaming \u201chow excited people were just to be engaging in a different way with what they know and love within \u2018Minecraft,’\u201d and that response inspired the collaboration on Minecraft World.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe natural evolution is to make in-real-life immersive experiences,\u201d Walters said. \u201cAnd I think it\u2019s going to be really successful. Just that idea of sharing what you play every day with people who don\u2019t play every day, but know it\u2019s really important to you, and now they can bring their whole family or their friends to see what \u2018Minecraft\u2019 is like in real life. And I think it\u2019ll get people understanding more around what \u2018Minecraft\u2019 is, and will bring people into the game even more. There is that kind of connected ecosystem where we engage in it in one way and it reminds you about a world you built five years ago that you might want to play again, so it brings players back into the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMojang and Merlin Entertainments note the project will also include collaboration with\u00a0\u201ca selection\u00a0of iconic \u2018Minecraft\u2019 creators to help bring the\u202funiverse\u202fto life in the most authentic way possible\u202ffor\u202fthe\u202fgame\u2019s\u202fglobal\u202fcommunity of fans.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSee below for images of the Minecraft World concept art provided by Merlin Entertainment<\/a> and Microsoft.<\/p>\n

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