Warner Bros. and Universal Studios Japan announced that the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Osaka will be part of the first-ever Universal Spectacle Night Parade – Best of Hollywood, beginning in 2018. Details can be found below, though no specific dates have been announced for the celebration.

【世界初の新体感ナイト・パレード、2018年に誕生決定！】異なる 4 つの映画の世界観をリアルに再現！迫力あるフロートがプロジェクション・マッピングを引き連れて、あなたを 物語のど真ん中へ！完全次世代パレードにご期待下さい！ #USJhttps://t.co/NHiB9CcGwJ

— ユニバーサル・スタジオ・ジャパン公式 (@USJ_Official) October 30, 2017

In 2018, the world’s first* next-generation parade “Universal Spectacle Night Parade – Best of Hollywood”, which will revolutionize the traditional experience. Universal Studios Japan continues to invest in new experience to bring park guests innovative entertainment.

The “Universal Spectacle Night Parade – Best of Hollywood” will celebrate 4 of Hollywood’s most fan favorite films, including “Harry Potter” “Minions,” “Jurassic World”, and making their Park debut in the parade “Transformers”, the born-in-Japan entertainment brand with its popular toys, games, animation and feature films.
J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World and its captivating magic, the Illimination's “Minions” and their mayhem, the enormous robots “Transformers”, and the realism of the “Jurassic World” dinosaurs come together to be recreated in a continually changing entertainment spectacle. Park guests will be completely enveloped and fully immersed in this brand new and continually changing entertainment, which far surpasses the traditional theme park parade experience.

The impossible is made possible with perfect synchronization of projection mapping, which completely cover the surroundings, floats incorporating dynamic movements, high quality film lighting, sweeping cinematic score and performances by live entertainers through the use of “Show Orchestration,” an outstanding technology specially developed by Universal Creative.

Universal Studios Japan has recently accelerated its growth with the launch of world-class entertainment experiences with large scale projects such as Minion Park in 2017, “Universal Spectacle Night Parade” in 2018　and “Super Nintendo World” which will be open until the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.”

• Based on in-house research of world’s top 70 theme / amusement parks with most attendance with outdoor parades utilizing projection mapping visible to all guests along entire parade route (587m in total) and projection mapping also used on parade float itself.
• Based on in-house research of world’s top 70 theme / amusement parks with most attendance utilizing wireless technologies to time location of parade floats and elements within the parade in real time which synchronize visual and audio elements throughout the entire parade route.
• Based on in-house research of world’s top 70 theme / amusement parks with most attendance with permanent (over 1 year) installation of elements incorporating “transforming robots”.

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