Long-rumored Zelda world at Universal Studios seems like a sure thing after a hastily deleted video of series producer Eiji Aonuma at the park
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A hastily deleted video posted to a Universal Studios Instagram account for employees shows Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma overseeing some sort of construction at the park, prompting a whole lot of speculation that the long-rumored Zelda expansion to Super Nintendo World is finally underway.
The video itself is long gone, but the image of Aonuma - standing right next to Zelda godfather Shigeru Miyamoto - at a construction site in safety gear was quicklypreserved online. There’s no context for the video now, but according to those who saw it before it disappeared, it’s about the construction of the upcoming Epic Universe expansion of the Universal Studios theme park in Orlando, Florida.
Epic Universe was already confirmed to be the site of the firstSuper Nintendo Worldattraction at Universal Studios Orlando, following its opening at the park’s Hollywood and Japan locations. Up to this point, Super Nintendo World has pretty much exclusively featured characters and locations from the Mario and Donkey Kong franchises, but rumors of additional areas based on series like Pokemon and Zelda have been cropping up from various theme park insiders for years.
In case you’re finding this all as confusing as I did while researching this news, let’s recap it in brief: The Orlando version of Super Nintendo World is set to open as part of the new Epic Universe expansion in that area. At the same time, construction at Universal Orlando’s current Lost Continent attraction is currently ongoing, and rumored to be the site of a Zelda world. With Aonuma’s appearance at an Orlando park construction site, speculation that a Zelda area will appear at one or both locations is going wild.
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