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Smurfs Theme Park Is Coming to China
by Mike Richard
Smurf Cooking © Mark Samsom
First, Chicago opens a “Back to the Future” coffeeshop. Now the Wall Street Journal is reporting that, after a 20 year hiatus, the Smurfs are Smurfing their Smurftastic way into China:
The beloved, animated blue creatures — famous for their white caps, cheery theme song, and proclivity for using the name of their race as a verb — are moving to Chengdu, where development firm Chengdu Teda Sino-Europe Construction and Smurf-brand owner IMPS plan to open a Smurf theme park.
With investment of 20 million yuan, or about $2.9 million, the theme park is set to open in three to five years.
Damn, I love the 80s.
China|Asia
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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person. Sometimes, he Tweets (@mikerichard).
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