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UNIVERSAL STUDIOS SINGAPORE
& Resorts World at Sentosa
Sentosa Island, Singapore
Genting International, Star Cruises, Universal Studios
 Resort News - (7/6/2026) The Sentosa Development Corporation has now unveiled the next phase of the Greater Sentosa Master Plan, that will re-imagine not only the Sentosa area, but the 120-hectare island of Pulau Brani as well, into a new “island playground”.
The new long term plan will integrate Sentosa with Brani, while adding new landmarks, new hotels and all new attractions. This includes a new “beacon and vantage point” at the top of Mount Imbiah, new nature based attractions such as a tree-top skywalk and elevated sheltered forest canopy walk experience. New landmark offerings are being planned to be added along the beachfront areas, including a floating boardwalk to connect some islets and more. Look for word on the new developments to begin sometime in the early 2030s.
In the meantime, it seems Disney Cruise Line is also preparing to launch a three-month festival at Sentosa as a promotion for the Cruise Line called “A Magical Island Adventure: Let’s Set Sail with Disney Cruise Line.” The concept will transform some areas of Sentosa’s into new temporary immersive experiences inspired by the seven themed areas on the Disney Adventure vessel. This includes giant topiary gardens, a Marvel themed experience in the “Palawan @ Sentosa” attraction area, giant Toy Story themed bath toys and inflatables at the Palawan beach as well as a San Fransokyo Street themed area being set up that will include a six meter tall Baymax inflatable and much more.
Also take a look at the latest updates for Super Nintendo World below!
(11/30/2025) A new interactive attraction named Dopamine Land is set to open at Resorts World Singapore on December 19th. The attraction is said to feature nine differently themed rooms that will offer visual, audio and tactile elements to entertain and stimulate the senses of the guests. According to this article similar Dopamine Land attraction have opened as temporary attractions in various locations across the world. It was previously in Madrid and London for a time, and currently has versions open in Dubai, Brazil, Australia and two in the US in Washington DC and New Jersey. The site also mentions that in addition to the new Singapore location, another location will soon open in Santiago, Chile.
(11/12/2025) Dejiki is back with a photo and video report from Universal Studios Singapore which has set up a huge assortment of characters and displays to celebrate the release of the new Wicked: For Good film, including a themed dining experience with all kinds of unique looking food and snack items to taste!
Halloween Horror Nights 14 - (6/28/2026) A social media post from Universal Studios Singapore is now hyping up the upcoming Halloween Horror Nights 14 event (Select nights Sept. 25 through Nov 1st, 2026) along with the text, “”Not all horror comes from faraway places. Some lurk in the stories we grew up hearing.” So look forward to HHN Singapore to continue their trend of bringing local and regional culture, lore, and urban legends to life as “familiar legends of local nightmares step out of the shadows.”
2030 - Super Nintendo World - Under Construction - (7/6/2026) I’ve seen a few reports this week claiming that the Super Mario World expansion for Universal Studios Singapore will be finished in 2030. While I haven’t quite seen an official announcement from Universal Studios Singapore claiming this yet, I thought it was worth pointing everyone to the latest construction photos of the site taken in May 2026 that you can find over at ThemeparX. As you can see the basic foundation is in place after clearing the site, which will hold Super Nintendo World as well as a replacement waterfront area outside of the park, as the old one was removed to make room for the theme park expansion.
It appears that the crews have also just started some early vertical construction on the site with pillars that will probably be for the massive MarioKart attraction building. So given the pace of how these lands went up previously in Japan and at the US parks, 2030 is sounding just about right. Maybe early 2030... we’ll just have to wait and see how it goes.
(12/7/2024) Following the opening of Minion Land we should start to see work begin for the upcoming Super Nintendo World, which will be built on a similar size and scale to the version that was added to Universal Studios Hollywood. To make room for Super Nintendo Land however, the park itself will be expanding outside of its traditional property boundary, under the Sentosa Express monorail station, with Super Nintendo World expected to take over the property between the monorail station and the SEA Aquarium structure. So if you visit, keep an eye on this section of the Sentosa resort property to look for any advanced signs of pending construction that would be required to clear things out for the makeover.
(11/7/2023) Based on some plans posted to Twitter, we now have a better idea of Universal Studios Singapore’s future plans, including exactly how they will expand to include their own version of Super Nintendo World. As previously mentioned, the Minions themed land that is already under construction is going to take up the space between the former Madagascar flume ride and the Shrek themed kingdom area. The future Super Nintendo World is now slated to not only take over the site of the large Madagascar ride building, but it will cross the the Sentosa Monorail tracks to also take over a section of land previously outside of the park boundary near the waterfront. In general, it looks like this waterfront area between Universal and the Singapore Oceanarium will undergo some heavy renovations as well along with other nearby areas.
(8/9/20) According to a post from Theme Park Insider, Resorts World is looking to either push back or possibly re-evaluate their future expansion plans for the Universal Studios Singapore theme park. Previously the group had announced extended future planning that would see a Minions Park land take over the current Madagascar themed area to be followed up by their own version of a Super Nintendo World themed land.
Due to losses caused by the pandemic, this isn’t surprising as the global situation has caused ever major theme park resort to take a moment to pause and re-evalaute what their future needs may actually be going forward from this point. It is just good business sense to do so, simply because the world as we know it will be changed for quite some time, especially in terms of how people vacation and spend their leisure time.
(4/20/20) I’m told that the version of Super Nintendo World coming to Universal Studios Sinagpore will be a copy of the version coming to the Hollywood park. This will include a more compact themed land than what we will see open in Japan and Orlando. In addition to the themed land with interactive features the only “ride” will be the MarioKart ride, alongside a themed restaurant experience and gift shops.
(4/6/19) With the announcement of two new lands (Minion Park & Super Nintendo World) coming to Universal Studios Singapore, the question of where they will put them has now come up. Disney & More put together some graphics to show off the park, which due to very limited expansion space, will have to remove attractions to make room for these new areas. We already know Minion Park will take over the former Madagascar attraction area, which if you follow the previous link, you will see that area of the park is quite large, with the attraction building itself taking up a lot of land, plus lots of outdoor jungle themed area around it.
While the Disney & More guess for the location of Super Nintendo World is to take over the site of the Waterworld show area, I have to disagree. While I’ve never been to USS myself, I’ve always heard that the Shrek themed land of Far Far Away just was not that popular with the guests as they would have hoped, and was lacking in attractions. Add in that it is right next to Madagascar, which is confirmed to get the axe, then it would be possible to use some of that excess property in Madagascar with the Far Far Away site.
Repurposing Far Far Away has one big advantage going for it… it already has a fully built castle structure on site, and we know from the concept artwork for Super Nintendo World that one of the main buildings will be Princess Peach’s castle, so from a cost savings point of view, it would make sense to repurpose this if possible. Plus I believe it is home to the indoor Magic Potion Spin mini carousel, which could also be given a new Nintendo themed make-over to fit in. Other attractions in the area are the Enchanted Airways family coaster (also easy to slap on a new theme) and then there is the Puss in Boots Giant Journey coaster.
With a little work, I do have to wonder if this unique slow-moving suspended coaster with an onboard audio could be rethemed, changing the medieval castle infrastructure to look more like jungle temple ruins, making it fit the Donkey Kong Country coaster theme instead. Just an idea… after all, while they said they were getting Super Nintendo World, no one said it would be exactly the same as the one they were building now in Japan, so anything is possible at this point. That said, I would still assume they would build a new Mario Kart attraction somewhere here as well.
(4/4/19) Big news from Universal Studios Singapore this week as it was announced that two new themed areas would soon be coming to the park.
First, the current Madagascar themed area and dark ride will be replaced by Minion Park, with a park-like area similar to the one that opened at Universal Studios Japan and anchored by the Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem simulator attraction.
Sometime after that the park will add a Super Nintendo World themed area, which I imagine will be similar to what is now under construction at Universal Studios Japan. Since we still dont’ know the details of exactly what will be included in the Japanese version, no further details were made here either other than that we can expect to see it finished by 2025.
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