Right. Moving on to Japan. In 2017, Comcast bought out the 49% stake that your former partners owned for $2.3 billion. You now have full ownership of Universal Japan, which as you just said measured by attendance is your single largest park. Attendance for the park was affected by the typhoon last year. Can you give us color on attendance trends in the park this year and what's your outlook moving forward for the next year or so?
Tom Williams
Yes. Year-over-year, it's been great because last year and of course in two months they had five typhoons, an earthquake and a heat wave. It was really rough. And this year, it's been great. Last year was a total abnormality. We have been open 16, 17 years and never had anything like that ever before. So it was a one-off deal. It was all over in a couple of months and we have fully recovered and we are up double digit, equivalent time period, we are way up.
So they are into Halloween now. They opened at the start of Halloween last week. We did a Sing attraction there based on Illumination Entertainment movie, Sing, which has gone over great, because it's a popular Western song. And it's a sing along kind of a show. So it's been done really well.
The employees there are super dedicated, super friendly I would really like to bottle them, so to speak, get all of our parks around the world because just culturally, they are very considerate, very considerate. When you see everybody walking around with a mask, because they don't want to give you their illness. And they don't want to get one either. But they are very considerate, very thoughtful and it's just a great environment.
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Is there anything you can talk about the economics of that park?
Tom Williams
It's very, very strong otherwise we wouldn't have bought it. We were an investment in that park when we first opened it back in 2001. I think we had a 24% stake and GE had to sell it. And when we started talking about international expansion after Comcast acquired us, so I kept telling to Steve, step one is we ought to buy back because we designed it, we staffed it. It was all our key management. We opened it. We marketed it. This is like our home week. This is our park. And I was pleased when there was agreement to do so.
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So in 2015, you signed a partnership with Nintendo and as you said before, this will be the first park to open a Super Nintendo World. I think the plan is to open in time for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. The total cost has been reported at between $350 million and $550 million. Are you on track for that opening? Are there any details you can provide on that?
{For Answer see Super Nintendo World Osaka thread}